Posted on 06/04/2017 12:03:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At the rate his team is going, Fresno Mayor Lee Brand might have to raise his job-creation goals.
The first-year mayor has said at several public events recently that he wants to bring 10,000 permanent, new jobs to the city. Those jobs, in turn, would produce a ripple effect leading to the creation of 10,000 more jobs in the local economy.
What would Fresno and surrounding cities look like with 20,000 people who are now unemployed going to work?
Significantly better. General funds would rise. There would be more revenue for public safety, road maintenance and parks. Families would prosper, and community pride would increase.
Following Friday’s announcement that Fresno will be home to an Amazon order fulfillment center, it appears that the Brand administration is well on its way to significantly lowering our county’s chronically high unemployment rate....
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
He appears to be a Republican. From Ballotpedia:
Lee Brand is the current mayor of Fresno, California. He won the seat in the general election on November 8, 2016. Brand identifies as a Republican, though Fresno’s municipal elections are nonpartisan.[1]
If Fresno is home to you best to take a long hard investigative look into those rosey claims The Fresno Bee/ Mayor Brand is shoveling out. With serious money being dumped out to maintain illegals through a policy known as sanctuary state Where are those jobs the proposed Amazon distribution going to go to ?
Amazon fulfillment center jobs are pretty low-level, but at least they are jobs.
Fresno is not a typical California city. Central Valley is red...(there are sane people in California, not enough, thou.)
I consider Fresno to be part of Mexico.
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