This is the real Scott Weiner.  A few years ago he used “new Math” for his legislation.  If you had one million photos of child pornography on a single disk, you could only be charged for ONE picture.  He currently is trying to legalize dangerous drugs in California.  Weiner believes that children, like in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, are OWNED by the State.

“Wiener authored another bill in 2020, A.B. 145, that exempts certain persons convicted of sex crimes against minors, who were less than 10 years younger than them at the time, from being put on the sex offender registry. He characterized the backlash as part of the QAnon conspiracy movement, and said that those people think everything is a “conspiracy to molest children,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Wiener responded to backlash to the bill, saying the bill “ends discrimination against LGBTQ people on the sex offender registry.”

You read that right, protecting children from molesters is a conspiracy! We are a sick State with people like Weiner in office.

Meet The Dem Lawmaker At The Center Of California’s War On Parental Rights

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BRANDON POULTER, Daily Caller,  9/27/23  https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/27/california-wiener-parental-rights-gender/

Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener is the driving force behind a series of recent bills targeting parental rights and promoting gender ideology that have become central to a cultural debate in California schools.

Wiener, working with activist groups and fellow members of the California LGBTQ caucus, has helped introduce several pieces of legislation that could transform California’s approach to LGBTQ issues. Since taking his seat in the California Senate, Wiener has spearheaded bills establishing guidance for judges to make custody decisions based on which parent “affirms” their child’s “gender identity,” requiring trainings for teachers to “identify” and support LGBTQ students and allowing children to be placed in state residential housing without parental consent at age 12.

The conflict between parental rights groups and Democratic lawmakers has proven to be a significant cultural flashpoint in reliably Democratic California, with several school boards rebelling against guidance from California state authorities aimed at limiting parental rights.

The backlash to the promotion of gender ideology by California elected officials has led one parental rights group, Protect Kids California, to create a statewide ballot initiative combatting it. The group wants laws banning child sex change surgeries, men in women’s locker rooms and a law to require schools to notify parents of student “gender transitions.”

“I think the struggle with parents is getting them to understand what’s happening in California. When you talk to people about these things, they think you’re joking,” Republican California Assemblyman Bill Essayli told the DCNF.

Wiener, as the co-author of several significant pieces of legislation on LGBTQ issues that implicate children, has been at the center of the storm.

Wiener gained national notoriety among conservatives in 2017 when he authored Senate Bill 239, which lowers the punishment for persons who willingly transmit HIV to another person. The legislation lowers the penalty from a felony to a misdemeanor and from a maximum prison sentence of 8 years down to six months. The California governor at the time, Democrat Jerry Brown, signed the bill into law.

The bill was cosponsored by LGBTQ activist groups Equality California and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California. Wiener often works with Equality California, which has supported many of the bills Wiener has co-authored.

“These groups are pulling the strings behind the scenes,” Essayli told the DCNF.

In the 2022-2023 legislative session, Wiener was the architect of several pieces of far-reaching legislation parental rights activists say are intended to force gender ideology into: A.B. 5 and A.B. 665.

“He’s strategic in his bills,” Erin Friday, a parental rights activist in the state, told the DCNF.

A.B. 5 requires teachers to be trained to “identify” children who may be LGBTQ. It also requires teachers to be up to date on LGBTQ issues and to be taught to identify LGBTQ children whose parents might not accept their children’s sexuality.

“So now you have teachers that are on the lookout for LGBTQ kids and on the lookout for those kids who aren’t being supported by their parents,’” Friday said.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed A.B. 5 Saturday, according to California’s legislative website.

AB. 665 would allow children aged 12 and older to check into government-run residential shelters without the consent of their parents.

“The authors want to change the law to let a 12 year old opt out of their home on a whim, invoking parental separation and emancipation of minors without any claim of danger or parental consent,” said Nicole Pearson, an attorney opposing the bill. “This is child emancipation.”

Wiener also authored A.B. 957, which was vetoed by Newsom on Friday.

A.B. 957 would have mandated custody judges to consider a parent’s “affirmation” for their child’s “gender identity” when deciding how to award custody and visitation rights.

At a hearing for A.B. 957 in June, Republican California state Sen. Scott Wilk said, “if you love your children, you need to flee California,” according to the Washington Times.

Wiener is the Chair of the Senate Housing Committee in California, as well as a member of the LGBTQ caucus, and focuses on housing issues and gender ideology.

Wiener authored another bill in 2020, A.B. 145, that exempts certain persons convicted of sex crimes against minors, who were less than 10 years younger than them at the time, from being put on the sex offender registry. He characterized the backlash as part of the QAnon conspiracy movement, and said that those people think everything is a “conspiracy to molest children,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Wiener responded to backlash to the bill, saying the bill “ends discrimination against LGBTQ people on the sex offender registry,” according to ABC 10 News. This bill was also cosponsored by Equality California and the ACLU of California, according to Wiener’s website.

Wiener did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

This is the Platform of the Nationalist Socialist Party:

Government only health care, education, use of tax dollars to promote racism and sexual grooming.  They want your car, use tax dollars to build housing for government employees.  They do not believe in stopping crime, nor do they believe in borders.

They believe children belong to the government.  Your job is controlled by government—wages, benefits and working conditions.  They want to force you to pay bribes to unions if you want to work.

Even when science proves different, they want you to close you schools, businesses and churches.  Then is you want to keep you job or be in public, you must wear a worthless mask—and take a dangerous drug, that is a KNOWN killer—but not allow you to take the drugs that save your life.

This is American Socialism, Democrat Party style.  Oh, and government tells the media and social media which is allowed to be told the public and to censor science and facts.

SOCIALISM AMERICAN STYLE

By Richard Colman, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views,  10/2/23   www.capoliticalreview.com

Could America be on the verge of a socialist movement?

Generally, socialism means that government controls a nation’s means of production, distribution, and the exchange of goods and services.

In Great Britain in 1900, the Labor Party was founded.  (In British usage, “labor” is spelled “labour.”)

The British Labor Party was an outgrowth of the trade union movement and the socialist parties of the 19^th century.  In the 1920’s, the British Labor Party overtook the Liberal Party and became the main opponent of Britain’s other major party, the Conservative Party (also known as the Tories).

On Sept. 26, 2023, America’s Democratic president, Joseph Biden, visited the picket lines of striking auto workers in Michigan.

On the next day, Sept. 27, 2023, the leading Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, also gave a speech to auto workers in Michigan.  Trump spoke at a location near where Biden appeared.

With both Biden and Trump appearing before auto workers, one can ask:  Does America now have two candidates who support auto workers and the possible socialist platforms that accompany trade unionism?

From 1945 to 1951, the British Labor Party had a huge majority in the British parliament.  Under Prime Minister Clement Attlee, according to an internet article, presided “over a policy of nationalizing major industries and utilities including the Bank of England, coal mining, the steel industry, electricity, has, and inland transport (including railways, road haulage, and canals).”

The article continued, saying that “it [the Labor Party] developed and implemented the ‘cradle to grave” welfare state . . .”

No one knows if Biden or Trump would do what the Attlee government in Britain did.  But the sympathies of both Biden and Trump for auto workers might mean that government could play a larger role in American life.

Nationalizing major parts of the American economy would require congressional approval –- something that is not certain.

Labor unions in the United States (and elsewhere) have a tendency to support restrictions on international trade.  The goal of such restrictions is to protect domestic jobs.  Both Trump and Biden have protectionist tendencies.  In the case of Trump, he supports, if he wins the 2024 presidential election, a 10 percent tariff on imports.  Biden has also supported protectionist policies.

The problem with protectionism is that foreign nations can -– and will — retaliate by establishing tariffs on American exports.

The big question for Americans is this:  Are both Trump and Biden incorporating into their respective presidential campaigns support for the policies of labor unions and the protectionism associated with the trade-union movement?

Like the gestapo, the FBI is hiding facts about corrupt.  Why?  Because they are part of the corruption.  We have seen it in their handling of Trump and Joe Biden.  We have seen it in their lies about the Hunter Biden laptop—and use of the agency to get Facebook and others to lie about it.

Now, we have what appears to be corrupt elections—massive vote fraud, interstate movement of ballots, use of mail and phones to corrupt the election process—and the FBI is hiding the evidence

Then, like in the Hunter Biden tax issues, being an unlicensed foreign agent, the FBI will let the Statue of Limitations to run out, so those that committed election fraud are not brought to justice.

This is how a government run by a National Socialist Democrat Party is run.  We the people are only the pawns of a totalitarian government.

FBI refuses to release documents in probe into possible nationwide voter registration fraud

Bureau responds to Just the News FOIA request by suggesting the investigation is still ongoing.

By Natalia Mittelstadt, Just the News,  9/26/23  https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/fbi-denies-foia-request-docs-investigation-possible-nationwide-voter

The FBI took over a 2020 probe into voter registration fraud that began in Michigan but has denied a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the investigation, citing an exemption in that law regarding ongoing investigations.

According to the dozens of pages of police reports from the Muskegon Police Department and Michigan State Police, a firm called GBI Strategies was under scrutiny as an organization central to alleged voter registration fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The matter was initially investigated by city and state authorities before the FBI took over. 

Contacts between local law enforcement and the FBI continued into 2022 but there is no evidence of what happened after that in the memos obtained by Just the News through requests made under Michigan’s own Freedom of Information Act.

Last week, the FBI denied a Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts request from Just the News regarding records from the investigation into GBI Strategies.

The request sought “copies of all reports, documents, and records about GBI Strategies, including all communication and correspondence regarding investigations of GBI Strategies with Michigan government officials, city and state law enforcement agencies in Michigan, and all other state government officials and law enforcement agencies involved in investigations of GBI Strategies.”

The FBI’s response partially reads: “The material you requested is located in an investigative file which is exempt from disclosure.”

The FBI cited 5 U.S. Code § 552(b)(7)(A) for exempting disclosure of the records, specifically, “records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information … could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

The agency’s response continued: “The records responsive to your request are law enforcement records; there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records, and release of the information could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

Police from Michigan interviewed GBI Strategies employees in 2020 and cited specific instances of registrations that appeared suspicious or fraudulent, the previously obtained memos show. A Michigan State Police memo described the possible crime being investigated as “Election Fraud by Forgery.”

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The Michigan attorney general’s office confirmed last month that there was a state investigation into thousands of suspected fraudulent voter registrations, which was referred to the FBI, the Bridge Michigan reported. 

Danny Wimmer, press secretary for the State Attorney General, told Just the News in August that among 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration forms that were submitted to the Muskegon clerk before the 2020 general election, some were suspected to be fraudulent. 

“An organization turned in some thousands of voter registrations throughout the fall of 2020, estimated on the high end to be cumulatively 8-10,000, and some within those batches were found to be suspicious or fraudulent,” Wimmer said.

There were legitimate registrations within the batches. The city clerk receiving the batches alerted authorities when she began noticing irregularities. 

“None of the fraudulent material was incorporated into the state’s qualified voter file, and this had no effect on any ballot requests or associated processes. This attempted fraud was detected because the system worked,” Wimmer added.

Wimmer explained to The Detroit News last month that state officials referred the unresolved investigation to the FBI because it has national jurisdiction. He independently confirmed to Just the News that “The case was referred to the FBI in March of 2021.” 

When Just the News first asked about the investigation on Aug. 9, the FBI National Press Office said the following day that their “standard practice [is] to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.” The Muskegon Police Department also declined to comment on the investigation “because this matter is possibly an active investigation by our law enforcement partners.” 

According to a Michigan State Police report, in March 2021, “D/SGT. PONZETTI … STATES FBI TASK FORCE SHE IS ASSIGNED TO HAS POSSIBLE INVESTIGATION REGARDING [redacted] IN OTHER STATES. REQUESTED MSP, AG AND MPD REPORTS FOR REVIEW.”

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On a supplemental police report dated May 28, 2021, it reads, “Case will remain open as FBI has opened an investigation on the nation wide organization.”

The latest dates on the report are Aug. 19, 2022, where it reads, “STILL MAINTAINING EVIDENCE FOR FBI,” and Sept. 20, 2022, which reads, “Six month supp.,” and that the status of the investigation is “open.”

According to the Muskegon police report, the FBI visited the Muskegon Police Department in May 2021 to examine the voter registration applications. 

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In March 2022, the Muskegon police department received a call from an FBI agent “request[ing] random copies of some of the voter applications,” according to the report. The agent also spoke with the Muskegon city clerk, who told him “there was another box of applications with thousands of applications that were turned in after the deadline thus never examined. He requested that these be retained by the police department pending further investigation.” 

There is a business listing for GBI Strategies in Cordova, Tenn., but at least during the 2020 election, the company had a Philadelphia office, employees from Atlanta working in Michigan, and a supervisor in New York for Michigan workers, according to the memos. 

Wimmer told The Detroit News that GBI Strategies conducts voter registration drives and is headquartered in Tennessee.

Just The News is weighing its legal options regarding a challenge to the FBI’s denial of the FOIA request

Ojai, the Ventura County city known locally as “NO-HI”) just auditioned to write skits for Saturday Night Live.  Yup, the city council has decided that animals are the same as humans (why not the Board of Supervisors have spent millions on animal bridges over freeways on the basis that a mountain lion is literate enough to read a sign “animals, this way”)

“The Ojai City Council voted to adopt the ordinance introduced by Councilmember Leslie Rule (District 1) and developed with the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) by a vote of 4-1 on Tuesday night. 

The ordinance defines and protects elephants’ rights to liberty, NhRP said in a press release. 

“It’s indisputable that elephants suffer when deprived of their freedom and that animal welfare laws can’t end their suffering,” said NhRP Director of Government Relations and Campaigns Courtney Fern. “For elephants and the nonhuman animal rights movement, we are proud to support this first-of-its-kind ordinance

• Oh, as best as I know there are NO elephants or zoo’s in Ojai—or in the surrounding valleys and mountains.  I have called County Animal Control and no agent could remember an elephant sighting in Ventura County—maybe they move to Kern or Santa Barbara Counties?  Did not know the welfare of elephants was an issue in Ojai or in Ventura County.Contests
• LA Unscripted
• Southern California city becomes first in nation to recognize legal rights of nonhuman animals

by: Will Conybeare, KTLA,  9/27/23  https://ktla.com/news/local-news/southern-california-city-becomes-first-in-nation-to-recognize-legal-rights-of-nonhuman-animals/SHARE

The City of Ojai is now the first city in America to recognize the legal rights of a nonhuman animal. 

The Ojai City Council voted to adopt the ordinance introduced by Councilmember Leslie Rule (District 1) and developed with the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) by a vote of 4-1 on Tuesday night. 

The ordinance defines and protects elephants’ rights to liberty, NhRP said in a press release. 

“It’s indisputable that elephants suffer when deprived of their freedom and that animal welfare laws can’t end their suffering,” said NhRP Director of Government Relations and Campaigns Courtney Fern. “For elephants and the nonhuman animal rights movement, we are proud to support this first-of-its-kind ordinance and we commend the Ojai City Council for standing up for what is necessary and just.” 

Elephants have been found to be quite similar to humans; they are cognitively, emotionally and socially complex and are capable of suffering trauma and brain damage if they aren’t allowed to roam freely or interact with other elephants, the NhRP release said. 

“We have known for some time that elephants have strong empathetic responses to one another’s condition,” said Mark Scott, Interim Ojai City Manager. “I am glad that we are able to make this statement supporting the place of these noble creatures in our world.” 

Read this carefully—not only will petty criminals immediately be released from custody without cash bail, but VICIOUS criminals will also be released without cash bail.

““A person’s ability to pay a large sum of money should not be the determining factor in deciding whether that person, who is presumed innocent, stays in jail before trial or is released,” Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner said at the time.

Those arrested for more serious crimes will go before a magistrate, who will determine “appropriate non-financial pre-arraignment release terms,” the news release stated.

“Non-financial pre-arraignment release terms” is what the Judge has announced.  In other words, rape, agree not to do it again while waiting for trial—as if you would show up—and you can go about your business.  This is how a war zone is created—by the Judges refusing to protect the community—and not even caring.

LAPD chief expresses concern about ‘book and release’ plan under new zero bail policy

by: Tony Kurzweil, KTLA,  9/27/23  https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-chief-shares-book-and-release-concerns-as-new-bail-system-is-set-to-begin/ ARE

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore is expressing concern about the county’s new zero bail policy that is set to take effect this weekend which will allow some criminal suspects to be cited and released when they would have previously been held on bond.

The new Pre-Arraignment Release Protocols are designed to rely less on the arrestee’s ability to pay and more on their risk to the public or victim, Los Angeles County Superior Court stated following a July decision to institute the system on Oct. 1.

According to the protocols, those arrested for low-level, non-violent offenses will be released at the location of arrest or booked and then released with a promise to appear at arraignment.

“A person’s ability to pay a large sum of money should not be the determining factor in deciding whether that person, who is presumed innocent, stays in jail before trial or is released,” Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner said at the time.

Those arrested for more serious crimes will go before a magistrate, who will determine “appropriate non-financial pre-arraignment release terms,” the news release stated.

Additionally, anyone charged with capital offenses or felonies that are eligible for the death penalty will not be eligible for the pre-arraignment release, officials indicated.

Examples given for possible conditions of release of more serious offenders include prohibitions against engaging in illegal conduct, check-ins with court staff, text reminders about court appearances, home supervision and electronic monitoring.

In a statement Tuesday, Moore expressed his concern that the zero bail policy will compromise law enforcement’s ability to effectively fight crime.

“Law enforcement is averse to the list of ‘book and release’ offenses because that approach offers little to no deterrence to those involved in a range of serious criminal offenses,” Moore said.

He believes that removing the safeguards provided by the current bail system puts the public in danger.

“We are asking the court to not release individuals who pose risks to the community safety, including those with repeated instances of prior serious offenses,” Moore said.

The new protocols will be tested quickly as Los Angeles has dealt with a recent increase in thefts and robberies, some of which have involved mobs of people ransacking high-end department and jewelry stores in broad daylight.

Each city that is a member of the League of California Cities, most cities are members, pay dues.  The dues come from YOUR tax dollars.  Now, this tax funded agency is using YOUR tax dollars to campaign against you—to take MORE money from you.

“The League of California Cities Executive Director and CEO Carolyn Coleman issued the below statement:

“Cal Cities supports the Governor and Legislature in defending the fundamental governing structure and the foundational power of state and local governments by filing this petition requesting a pre-election review of the validity of the measure.

Cal Cities agrees that this review by the Court is warranted now given the measure’s far-reaching impact on local revenue streams and fiscal planning. This existential threat to government operations and the reliable functioning of California cities — the engines of our economy and home to 80% of the state’s population — cannot be overstated.”

At the same time Biden, Pelosi, Newsom and the National Socialist Party are screaming we need to “save” democracy”, they refuse to allow us to vote to save our heard earned dollars.  That is how the old Soviet Union and Germany was run.

Cal Cities supports legal challenge against “taxpayer protection” ballot measure

Public CEO, 9.28/23  https://www.publicceo.com/2023/09/cal-cities-supports-legal-challenge-against-taxpayer-protection-ballot-measure/

Yesterday, the California Legislature, Gov. Gavin Newsom, and a voter, John Burton, filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court of California seeking to remove the “Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act” initiative from the November 2024 ballot.

The League of California Cities Executive Director and CEO Carolyn Coleman issued the below statement:

“Cal Cities supports the Governor and Legislature in defending the fundamental governing structure and the foundational power of state and local governments by filing this petition requesting a pre-election review of the validity of the measure.

Cal Cities agrees that this review by the Court is warranted now given the measure’s far-reaching impact on local revenue streams and fiscal planning. This existential threat to government operations and the reliable functioning of California cities — the engines of our economy and home to 80% of the state’s population — cannot be overstated.

If this measure passes, it will upend and jeopardize City revenue streams needed to provide essential local services. Our residents expect and rely upon fire, police, and a wide range of other services — including shelter for those experiencing homelessness, safe streets and roads, the maintenance of playgrounds and sidewalks, and garbage removal. But with this measure, residents will get less.

Given what’s at stake, our cities deserve clarity sooner rather than later regarding the validity of this measure. That’s why Cal Cities will be filing an amicus letter with the California Supreme Court supporting the Legislature and the Governor’s request for a pre-election review of this dangerous measure.”

About Cal Cities

Established in 1898, the League of California Cities is a nonprofit statewide association that advocates for cities with the state and federal governments and provides education and training services to elected and appointed City officials.

I guess this is Politicos attempt to run a Babylon Bee style satirical story.

San Fran Mayor London Breed has allowed drugs to be sold openly on the streets.  Does nothing to stop smash and grab criminals and does not push for the arrest of all criminals.  She is running a deficit of over $700 million, shortly to reach one billion dollars.  At the same time, she has closed off streets to cars, making it difficult for downtown, Market Street businesses to get clients and customers.  Her COVID policies has killed off the world famous skyscrapers of San Fran—most losing more than 2/3 of their value—and forcing employees to stay home.

Breed has run the city like a Bolshevik.  Now according to Politico she is a mere Menshevik, hence, going to the right.  Does not matter, San Fran has collapse into a chaotic war zone—ten minutes in town and expect to be mugged or robbed.  Go to the grocery store and expect to see shoplifting and employees not allowed to stop it.

Sad to see Politico trying to compete with Babylon Bee.

A seismic shift to the right in San Francisco

The Democratic mayor is proposing the city require all recipients of county-funded welfare to undergo drug screening.

By DUSTIN GARDINER, Politico,  9/27/23   https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/27/a-seismic-shift-to-the-right-in-san-francisco-00118391

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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor London Breed is apparently doubting voters’ progressive mood so much that she’s banking her reelection on a shift to the right.

The Democratic mayor is proposing the city require all recipients of county-funded welfare to undergo drug screening — and treatment, if needed — in order to be eligible for cash assistance.

Breed defended her proposal during a news conference at City Hall, where she talked about the need to make subsidies contingent on personal responsibility. Progressive critics were quick to compare her comments to Republican welfare policies.

“No more anything goes without accountability. No more handouts without accountability,” Breed said on Tuesday.

It was a striking moment for the mayor of San Francisco, long an ultra-liberal bastion of Democratic politics. It illustrated how homelessness and fentanyl addiction have frustrated residents and upended political norms. Breed has increasingly leaned into tough-on-crime rhetoric in recent months as she faces a growing field of challengers.

Critics framed Breed’s proposal as an expedient shift as she runs for reelection. She announced the effort on the same morning that Daniel Lurie, a nonprofit executive and Levi Strauss heir, announced that he will challenge her in next year’s election.

Lurie, speaking to supporters a few miles away in Potrero Hill, said he would seek to dramatically increase San Francisco’s police force. He vowed to “slam the door shut on the era of open-air drug markets and end the perception that lawlessness is an acceptable part of life in San Francisco.”

Breed also faces a tough road getting the progressive-leaning Board of Supervisors to go along with her proposal. Several were swift to call her plan inhumane and politically motivated.

Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a progressive and potential rival in the mayoral race, said Breed has failed to work with police to close open-air drug markets. “We need serious ideas, not politicians desperately grasping for a political lifeline.”

The flurry of startled reactions reverberated through San Francisco political circles. Honey Mahogany, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and a progressive, framed Breed’s proposal as a political gambit that could push people out of their homes.

“Perhaps she thinks this will differentiate her by moving more to the right,” Mahogany said. “But it might be at the cost of seeing homelessness increase.”

Breed was already facing a mayoral opponent in Ahsha Safaí, a moderate on the Board of Supervisors. Breed is likely to face as much — if not more — incoming criticism from moderates as she does progressives.

Maggie Muir, Breed’s campaign consultant, said the mayor’s proposal is about responding to a crisis, not her reelection strategy. “Whatever the progressives are offering, it’s just not working. People are dying every day on the street,” Muir said.

We know how this ends.  Mayor Breed says that addicts need to get treatment if they want to receive government handouts.  The ACLU sues, on the basis that the City does not provide the required treatment centers.  A judge says, keep paying till EVERYONE can be treated.  That will not happen.

Finally, Mayor Breed will blame the courts—for what she has caused.

“The city’s largest contracted withdrawal management clinic, run by the nonprofit HealthRight 360, admitted between 45% and 55% of individuals seeking treatment between February and May, according to a Sept. 5 letter from San Francisco Behavioral Health Director Hillary Kunins.

The new data shared by the San Francisco Department of Public Health in response to an inquiry from supervisors Catherine Stefani and Rafael Mandelman raises questions about the city’s ability to provide drug treatment as an average of two people die every day from drug overdoses, according to this year’s preliminary data. 

Mandelman said Kunins’ estimate runs in stark contrast with prior data from the health department, which claimed in October 2022 that the average wait time for drug detox in the city was approximately one day.” 

Were the 2022 data lies?  Or did the collapse of San Fran also hit the drug treatment centers.  Either way, more proof that this once great city is in a death spiral—literally.

Half of San Francisco Drug Users Seeking Treatment Weren’t Admitted, Data Shows: ‘It’s Scandalous’

Written by David Sjostedt, SF Standard,  9/27/23  https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/27/half-of-san-francisco-drug-users-seeking-treatment-werent-admitted-data-shows-its-scandalous/

Amid an overdose epidemic on pace to claim a record number of lives this year, a top San Francisco public health official said fewer than half the people who sought help from the city’s biggest drug detox center this past spring were admitted for treatment. 

The city’s largest contracted withdrawal management clinic, run by the nonprofit HealthRight 360, admitted between 45% and 55% of individuals seeking treatment between February and May, according to a Sept. 5 letter from San Francisco Behavioral Health Director Hillary Kunins.

The new data shared by the San Francisco Department of Public Health in response to an inquiry from supervisors Catherine Stefani and Rafael Mandelman raises questions about the city’s ability to provide drug treatment as an average of two people die every day from drug overdoses, according to this year’s preliminary data. 

Mandelman said Kunins’ estimate runs in stark contrast with prior data from the health department, which claimed in October 2022 that the average wait time for drug detox in the city was approximately one day. 

“It’s kind of scandalous,” Mandelman said. “It’s a big problem when you can’t get these agencies to be honest about what they’re failing to do.”

Mandelman’s doubts line up with accounts of people who said they were unable to get themselves or their loved ones into treatment. 

A 32-year-old woman named Shahada Hull tried to enter HealthRight 360’s drug detox earlier this month but was turned away due to a Covid outbreak, her godfather Franzo King told The Standard. Another detox clinic run by the Salvation Army was unable to take her because of her mental illness, an advocate working with her said.

Just a few days after she was denied treatment from the programs, Hull went back to the streets while suffering from psychosis and infections on her legs, according to King. He said Hull has since been hospitalized, but it’s unclear whether a detox bed will become available before her Friday discharge date. 

“They told me they were going to let her in. … She’s down to skin and bones,” King said. “Who’s playing God around here … choosing who’s going to live or die?” 

Detox intakes are sometimes thwarted because the programs aren’t allowed to accept people who are intoxicated or suffering from medical or psychiatric issues, according to Kunins’ letter. The department said they try to find alternative placements when programs are full or people are ineligible for same-day access to the city’s detox services. 

Other prospective patients may leave before the intake is completed. 

HealthRight 360 CEO Vitka Eisen said patients who leave before finalizing intake account for the majority of the treatment gap described by Kunins’ estimate. Eisen said she’s applying for funding in hopes of hiring people who can help patients navigate the oft-lengthy admission process.

“A lot of people have second thoughts,” Eisen said. “People want what they think is their last high, and I’m so terribly terrified of them dying in that moment.”

Eisen said the nonprofit’s staffing shortage hampers its ability to complete intakes later in the day and on weekends. The program also halted intakes for two weeks in late August due to a Covid outbreak among medical staff. But Eisen contended that many of the people who weren’t initially admitted into the program were transported to other facilities or left on their own accord. 

The city’s budget for behavioral health services sits at $592 million, according to a January presentation. The health department employs over 7,000 people and relies on nonprofits such as HealthRight 360 to administer many treatment services. Mandelman said he thinks the department is too large to recognize systemic issues with its programs. 

“It seems like there’s giant holes here that need to be filled,” he told The Standard. “These bureaucracies are so vast that the people who are telling us that everything’s fine may not even themselves know the extent to which things are not fine.” 

San Francisco voters passed a law in 2008 known as Treatment on Demand that required the city to provide treatment to those who need it at a moment’s notice.

However, the city’s service providers say they’re struggling to meet that demand, thanks to a nationwide behavioral health worker shortage as well as other complications that arise during intake. A treatment dashboard operated by the city shows there are zero detox beds available for men and nine available for women at the time this story was published. 

Stefani called for an audit of HealthRight 360 earlier this month after she caught wind that the nonprofit closed intakes to the detox due to a Covid outbreak in August.

Mandelman said the nonprofit’s inability to sometimes provide services should ultimately be blamed on the city, however. He and Stefani have called for a hearing to probe the city’s treatment gaps that will take place either in late October or early November. 

Here is another joke by a city.  Culver City, in L.A. County, is a total of 5.14 square miles, per Wikipedia.  The city council decided to be virtue seeking—so they bought the location of a CLOSED gun shop—for the purpose of stopping another gun shop to open.  Even on bicycle I bet it is no more than twenty minutes to a gun shop in other surrounding cities.  I bet that within ten miles there are a dozen gun shops.  What a waste of tax dollars!

“After public comment ended, the council unanimously voted in favor of purchasing the property for $6.5 million. But despite the unanimous support from the council, not all in Culver City were encouraged by the sale.

Gary Zeiss, a Culver City resident who called into oppose the purchase, raised concerns about the overall cost of the property, which he said was significantly above market value.”

This purchase was NOT about guns—it is about corruption.  Watch who gets to use this property that the Council overpaid for.

Culver City purchases closing gun store to prevent another from opening

by: Travis Schlepp

A soon-to-be vacant gun store in Culver City has a new owner: the city itself.

Earlier this month, Culver City announced plans to purchase the Martin B. Retting Gun Store on Washington Boulevard for a price tag of more than $6 million.

The gunshop was a mainstay in Culver City for more than six decades, but in July, its longtime owners announced the store would be closing shop.

After 65 years in business, with the company staying in the hands of various members of the Retting family throughout, retirement beckoned its current owners.

“Despite having overcome and flourished after everything the firearms industry could throw at us, it turns out that the one thing we can’t defeat is the inevitable march of time,” store management wrote in a note to customers posted on its website.

The store became the subject of public ire in recent years due to its close proximity to La Ballona Elementary School.

It was also listed in a 2022 report by the California Department of Justice identifying it as one of the state’s top sources of guns that were illegally possessed, were used in the commission of a crime, or were suspected of having been used in a crime.

Years ago, Culver City passed an ordinance that prohibits gun sellers from operating businesses near schools, but the gun store received leniency due to its longtime residency and was allowed to keep doing business.

But those rights were transferrable, officials said, meaning if the storefront were to ever be sold, a new one could quickly take its place.

Yasmine Imani-McMorrin, the city’s vice mayor, said the city listened to input from the community and determined many were worried about public safety if a new store were to open.

“They had concerns about their families’ well-being,” Imani-Mcmorrin told KTLA’s Rachel Menitoff.

At a Sept. 11 city council meeting, the council met to discuss the sale and listen to feedback from the community. A crowd of mostly supporters gathered in the chambers to urge councilmembers to vote in support of the city’s purchase.

“Ending gun sales in our school zones will have an impact on our children and families that will be felt for generations,” said Melody Hanson, a mother and member of Culver 878, a local gun safety advocacy group.

After public comment ended, the council unanimously voted in favor of purchasing the property for $6.5 million. But despite the unanimous support from the council, not all in Culver City were encouraged by the sale.

Gary Zeiss, a Culver City resident who called into oppose the purchase, raised concerns about the overall cost of the property, which he said was significantly above market value.

“I am not a Second Amendment proponent by any stretch of the imagination, however I am a proponent of good government,” Zeiss said. “There’s no evidence that the value of the property is in any way proportional to the value of other properties in the area.”

Zeiss also questioned why the property was being purchased without any definitive plans on how it will be used.

In a statement provided to KTLA Wednesday, Mayor Albert Vera confirmed that there was no immediate plan for the property, but said it will eventually serve the community as a whole.

“The City’s decision to purchase the building is in large part from listening to the community and its desire to have a different use for that location. It will be an involved process with the community on the next steps for that building and what it ultimately will become,” the statement reads.

The Martin B. Retting Gun Store initially planned to shutter its doors at the end of July, but it remained open as recently as early September. Despite the retirement of its owners, guns and other merchandise were being sold at their original prices because the business closure was “not a liquidation, clearance or distress sale.”

The store’s phone number has since been disconnected.

Yes, we are out of the drought.  We are not out of the lack of water.  While nature filled up our water facilities, in the past year Newsom started the process of tearing down FOUR dams—with no replacement for the lost water.  California has more of a problem this year, even with the heavy rains of the past year.  Why?  Newsom is trying to raise the cost of water and to eliminate any economic growth.

No water, no jobs, no homes for families.

More than 90% of California out of historic drought as water year ends

While California experienced multiple destructive floods in 2023, experts say the water year also ended on a high note with most counties completely free of drought.

NATALIE HANSON, Courthouse news,  9/25/23    https://www.courthousenews.com/more-than-90-of-california-out-of-historic-drought-as-water-year-ends/

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Less than one week until California’s new water year begins, experts say the state is nearly free of drought — but there is no guarantee that another wet winter is soon to arrive. 

The state, according to the Sept. 19 U.S. Drought Monitor, is 93% free of drought, a big improvement since measuring at 72% drought-free three months ago. 

Only small regions of drought remain along the state’s southeast corner bordering Arizona and in the northernmost region at the Oregon border. 

A Sept. 19 map shows much of California now being free of drought conditions. (U.S. Drought Monitor via Courthouse News)

However, experts warn the full scope of recovery from several years of drought will not be known until a report in early April to assess the 2023-2024 snowpack. 

Daniel McEvoy, associate researcher at the Western Regional Climate Center’s Desert Research Institute, said in a webinar Monday that while it is good to see much of the western U.S. out of drought, the coming winter will be key to see if that progress holds.

“There isn’t really a clear signal yet as to what this coming wet season will do in terms of going into or staying out of drought,” McEvoy said. 

He said after the wet winter, drought conditions returned in early summer only to be done in by sudden late summer storms like Hurricane Hilary, causing some regions such as Southern California to record the wettest summer on record. 

The late-season storms also helped keep soil moisture at record high levels in areas that really needed it. This bonus combined with the help of lower evaporative demand — which means less moisture lost as water evaporates into the atmosphere, thanks to lower temperatures, high humidities and more cloud cover this year. 

Those conditions mean that “the weather and climate have been in our favor for a quiet fire season,” he said. The only exception so far has been the Smith River Complex, which has burned more than 94,000 acres but is 85% contained. 

More good news: McEvoy said that all major reservoirs, outside of the Colorado River and Lake Mead, are in good shape thanks to the winter’s deep snowpack. 

In California, the only basin of some concern is Trinity Lake in Northern California, which is at 85% of average and 53% of capacity and should be monitored. And it will take multiple years of very wet conditions to improve the deeply strained Colorado River basin system, he said. 

Scientists are also warning that El Niño may contribute to a rise in global land and ocean surface temperatures. El Niño is a naturally occurring weather phenomenon that oscillates with its opposite, La Niña. El Niño periods can last several years and are associated with heat and unpredictable weather.

The NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s director David Dewitt said El Niño may help drive above-normal precipitation in the southwestern U.S., and peaking sea surface temperatures. That in turn could mean increasing global land temperatures — a bad sign when global temperatures have already broken records this year. The planet saw its warmest three-month period on record after El Niño emerged and injected even more heat into the warming planet’s atmosphere, the European Union’s climate agency said this month. 

Dewitt said El Niño is likely to keep affecting the globe through next spring, and temperatures are expected to stay above normal on the West Coast and the country’s northernmost states from October through January. The southernmost third of the country has a “modest chance” of seeing more precipitation than normal, including in Arizona and Southern California. 

“Every El Niño has been different,” Dewitt said. 

Dry weather is expected throughout much of Northern California for the next week, though forecasters said in a discussion released Monday that precipitation is expected in the Sierra Nevada mountain range by the weekend.

“This precipitation is expected to be a mix of rain and snow, with snow falling above 8,000 feet, and rain falling below 8,000 feet,” the forecasters said.