Posted on 05/08/2006 1:17:55 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
The four candidates running for state controller. What a controller does (PDF) Ask the average Californian what the state controller does, and you’ll likely hear, "What’s that?" says state Sen. Joe Dunn, who wants the job. But Dunn and his opponents know better.
"You’re the CFO for the sixth-largest economy in the world," says John Chiang, also a candidate for state controller on the June 6 ballot.
Chiang and Dunn are opposing each other on the Democratic ballot for the powerful position. Assemblyman Tony Strickland and state Sen. Abel Maldonado — whose district includes San Luis Obispo County — are running for the Republican nomination. There are three less well-known candidates on the Republican ballot, as well as candidates representing third parties.
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(Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...
A former state assemblyman from Camarillo, Strickland says the first thing he would do if elected is audit the Los Angeles Unified School District. In doing so, he would thrust the state Controller’s Office into the thicket of school and city politics already entangling the district.
Nevertheless, he said, 40 percent of state funding goes into education, and the public deserves an accounting. He would look at other school districts as well, he said.
Strickland also intends to abolish the state sales tax on gasoline.
"Taxes make up more than 50 cents per gallon of gas," he said. "Gas prices are too high and families shouldn’t have to pick between a gallon of milk and a gallon of gasoline."
Repealing the tax will end a double taxation on gas. That "is a policy we should have never allowed," Strickland said in a press release. "This will put more than $600 million in the pockets of Californians."
Claiming a record of fiscal conservatism, Strickland says he would push to abolish wasteful state boards and commissions, such as the Integrated Waste Management Board, which he considers dumping grounds for termed-out politicians. He says he will reinvest in the state’s infrastructure.
Strickland also has been taking shots at Maldonado, calling him a flip-flopper and criticizing his support for a raise in the minimum wage. Strickland opposed the May 1 walkout, during which millions of illegal immigrants and their supporters left work and school to protest efforts under way in Congress to tighten immigration rules.
"Controller"? Isn't it "COMPtroller"?
Both are acceptable. Controller is what they call it here.
The workers whose pensions have been invested in Yucaipa are getting a terrible deal.
According to CALSTARS, California teachers have already committed $61.9 million of the $150 million that they promised Yucaipa. As of last March 31, three years after the venture started, they'd seen a grand total of $837 come back to them.
Overall, the rate of return since the funds launched have been a loss of 12.1 percent.
CALPERS has not done much better. After pouring more than $116 million into various Yucaipa ventures since 2002, it's seen a return of $55,963.
AT the same time, Yucaipa is also collecting hefty fees for managing the pension funds' investments — more than $3 million a year from CALPERS...
The hundreds of millions flowing from California retirement funds come courtesy of California Treasurer Phil Angelides...
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/61087.htm
Why is the media ignoring what Yucaipa are doing with hundreds of millions in pension money?
*BUMP for Strickland*
Abel Maldonado seems fine to me. And it wouldn't hurt to have a fairly conservative Hispanic holding statewide office in CA.
Ron Burkle - Yucaipa robbing CalSTRS ping.
I forgot the thread, but we vetted Maldonado, and he was a 100% RINO dud, and his positions were virtually indistinguishable from the 'Rat candidates. Strickland is the only one with real Conservative principles. I'd like to see a Conservative GOP Hispanic, too, but this ain't the guy.
Ah, found the thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1612909/posts
A guy who doesn't even understand basic economics has no business in any elective office, let alone getting a GOP nomination to higher office.
Audra Strickland a poster child for corruption. Hiring each other, Tony and Audra, with campaign funds.
Lets not forget about taking 26,600 from State Republicans to give to her husbands group: The California Club for Growth. Only that money was then used by DMH printing in Irvine to send attack mailers against Nicole Parra in the Central Valley (all a violation of proposition 34's rules on independent expenditures). One day the FPPC and good ole boy, Ventura D.A. Totten, might actually slam the two shysters over it...
Go back to your Dis-abled Moldynado rock, troll
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