Posted on 06/03/2011 8:14:59 AM PDT by SmithL
While state legislators pay lip service to local decision-making, they also claim a divine right to intervene in local conflicts by siding with one faction or the other, even when it means overturning ordinary governmental and legal processes.
Sen. Juan Vargas, who made it back into the Legislature last year by the skin of his teeth, embraces that dubious, time-dishonored practice with measures that would intervene in two local development flaps.
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Meanwhile, another Vargas bill, SB 469, inserts the state into a long-running controversy in San Diego over development of "superstores" by Wal-Mart and other big retailers, taking the side of grocery store unions and Wal-Mart's competitors who were losing at the local level.
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There is no free enterprise in California. This State is about as communists controlled as any foreign Country.
Not sure I disagree with Sen. Juan Vargas on his senate bill 833. It looks as if that bill stopped a landfill in Gregory Canyon.
http://www.savegregorycanyon.org/
The other Vargas bill 469 requires a economic impact report when a big box retailer want to move into a town. I would imagine the local florist, tire shop, nursury and grocerty stores are not unhappy with Vargas.
On 469 though, it will just end up being more paperwork. If a city council is so inclined to bring in a Walmart, they will just cook the study in favor of Walmart so this one seems an exercise in futility.
...as for local governement vs. the state legislature, nobody should think the governmental problems in California are limited only to the legislature. Local government has its share of bad government too.
Probably Vargas was participating in voter fraud, involving illegals not eligible to vote. Keep in mind illegals usually create several identities (and every one of them votes).
FREEPERS, GET THIS VOTER FRAUD INITIATIVE STARTED IN YOUR STATE: Send letters to names on the voter rolls in Vargas' district---requesting proof of citizenship. Letter specifies that those who do not provide proof are stricken from the rolls.
Usually each state's Secy of State handles voter irregularities.
The wal marts here in my area, have smaller stores surrounding them, that are all doing well... and would not survive in a small center without wal mart..Var gas just got a bunch of loot from the unions again yesterday.and as a union whore,he would try and block a non union store, .. unions are killing California..The economy is so bad in california, people flock to the super walmarts.to get lower prices the one near me u can hardly find a place to park,
Psrt time legislature needs to happen..
it may cut the rate of nannyesque legislation slightly,, now it’s the little fishies
from last night and the La Latrine.. uhh Times
State Assembly votes to protect little fish to sustain wildlife
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/06/state-assembly-votes-to-protect-little-fish-to-feed-wildlife.html
The state Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would enact new protections for small ocean fish at the lower end of the food chain by placing a value on leaving them in the water.
The bill by Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), approved on a 44-23 vote, would require state wildlife regulators crafting Fishery Management Plans to consider how many small forage fish such as sardines, anchovies, herring and market squid should be left in the ocean to sustain wildlife.
The California Department of Fish and Game traditionally has managed fish species by dividing the catch among recreational and commercial and fishing groups, with no share assigned to marine wildlife that eat them. The bill would require the agency to factor in “ecological services rendered” by small fish, including their role in feeding natural predators.
The union thugs and their whores like Wan Bargas want to do to San Diego what they did to Los Angeles.
That's always been the aim and the effect it had here in San Diego and other places it's been tried. Vargas knows precisely what he's doing and that's protecting union jobs and forcing higher food prices.
See what Mickey "The Bat" Kasparian of the local UFCW 135 says about SB469.
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