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WANT TO CONTACT OUR CLUB? GO TO
MaryAnneDonat @sbcglobal.com
Personally, I am very delighted to return to our routine of sharing our time the third Wednesday each month. Mary Anne and I have been able to obtain interesting people to tell us what is going on not only in California but elsewhere as well.
After a short business meeting, Assemblyman Cameron Smyth will bring us up to date on affairs in Sacramento.
We are also fortunate to welcome Jarod Meszaros, former Army Intelligence Officer, who will share the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba prisoner affair.
After lunch, Clark Baker, retired LAPD officer, will share his decision to effect change in Sacramento by being Republican candidate for the 42nd Assembly District in the 2010 election.
Make your reservation today!
GENERAL MEETING
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. Gather and social
10:30 a.m. Business Meeting and program starts promptly – all are invited to attend
12:00 p.m. Luncheon
1:00 p.m. Program
Location: Radisson Hotel in Chatsworth
9777 Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Chatsworth
Cost: $20.00 per person
Menu: Rosemary Chicken and Chocolate Cake for dessert
or
Cobb Salad and chocolate cake
Let Andria know your choice when you make your reservation
Bring your own box if you want to take any of your leftover lunch home.
Reservations:
Contact Andria Page at 894-1081
by Sunday, September 13, 2009
If you make a reservation and cannot attend, be sure to cancel your reservation; or you will be responsible for the cost. Remember, Board members and committee chairpersons have standing reservations for the general meeting.
USED BOOK SALE Bring a bag full of your used books to the meeting for others to take. The club is using this as a fundraiser, charging $1 for hard cover and 50 cents for paperback. Take back home with you any books that remain.
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Dear members, friends and all !
I hope this message finds you all well and in good spirit, in preparation for the upcoming busy fall season. I also hope that the summer has been well on you and gave you the satisfaction of a good break.
Lots has been going on in the county, state and country, as well as world wide. And, though we may be a smaller group of precious ladies (and gentlemen, young, middle aged and elderly), please remember that we MAKE a difference with all our activities, participation and enthusiasm that we share as we are loyal to our club and Federation, not to mention to our country. We all love the USA We stand by it, support its cause and protect it through at all times!
Come our September meeting, I wish to invite all of you to join us on the 16th to be part of a great program we have put together. At this meeting we will also work on electing delegates to attend the upcoming conventions:
1. The 36th CFRW Biennial Convention October 16-18 2009 to be held at the Ontario Airport Marriott.
2. The 43rd Biennial Convention of the CFRW, Southern Division, November 13 and 14, 2009 to be held at the Double Tree Hotel in Anaheim.
At both of these conventions, election and installation of officers will be taken place.
At the CFRW Southern Division convention, President Dawn Wetzel will be honored. Fine guest speakers will be participating including the three major Republican candidates running for Governor. Workshops will be held; and, overall, this will be a very educational and special convention.
Also, at our September 16, 2009, General Meeting, we will need to elect our own nominating committee - 2 members from the board and 3 members from the general membership. They will prepare the slate of officers for the next year 2010!
Don’t be shy. Come prepared to volunteer to be on the Nominating Committee. And please let the Nominating Committee know if you wish to be considered for a Board position.
Our club takes a lot of pride in our activities; and, with all of us helping, together we can build a lot and make a great deal of difference. We form a fine club and are much appreciated.
Since last year, I have initiated that September is to also be the month of “Member Recognition “. Well, lets see what this year will bring about to our special members ?
This may be a good time for many of us to view our scrapbook. So, I ask again that those who may have photos from before, please bring them along so that we can continue with our scrapbook and pass on so much we have been doing, and will continue to do so.
I look forward to revisit with all of you, as well as perhaps get to meet new potential members, and certainly guests.
MaryAnne
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We now have 72 members and 20 associate members.
We welcome Mariana Salinas and Mary K. Horey as new members.
WANT TO JOIN?
CONTACT MARYANNE DONAT AT maryAnneDonat@sbcglobal.net
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“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it”
--Albert Einstein
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For my article on legislation this month, I felt the following op-ed expressed best the fundamental flaw of HR 3200 health care reform. The smallest minority IS the individual. Any legislation which threatens the individual's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is unconstitutional. It's that simple. And it's personal.
Healthcare Rationing: Real Scary
By: Newt Gingrich
LA Times and the Atlanta Journal Constitution
August 16, 2009
Concerns about government bureaucracies gaining oversight of your treatment are not misplaced. We need reforms, but the answer is not central planning.
When Sarah Palin said that the emerging healthcare reform legislation would lead to “death panels” and government rationing of care, her language was explosive, but her premise about rationing was not.
The most critical test of any reform proposal is whether it will empower individuals or impose on them. It is a fact that the leading bills in Congress would increase the power of government and decrease individual freedom. You cannot spend an additional $1 trillion of taxpayer money and reduce the role of government. You will get new bureaucracies, more regulation, more complexity. That means you will have less control of your healthcare.
Disagree? Just read the versions of healthcare legislation:H.R.3200 in the House. One key proposal is to mandate an “essential benefit package” for every private insurance policy sold in the United States. Currently, individuals and employers usually make these coverage decisions. This legislation creates a new federal Health Benefits Advisory Committee that would decide instead. For example, if you are a single male with no children, the legislation still requires you to have maternity benefits and well-baby and well-child care coverage. You don’t want or don’t need that coverage? Sorry, you have to pay for it anyway.
Other planned agencies would give the federal government unprecedented and unaccountable control over your healthcare. The so-called Health Choices Administration and the National Health Insurance Exchange would set various standards for all health insurance policies. The president is also pushing for another new agency called the Independent Medicare Advisory Council. Described as a cost-control initiative,it would be made up of five government appointees who would, by determining Medicare reimbursement amounts, in essence decide what would be covered and what would not. The fear of government rationing is based on the premise that once government has such power, especially the ability to control what is covered by your private insurance policy, it also has the power to deny and restrict.
Those defending the House legislation claim rationing is not in any of its versions, and though that is technically true—no one wants rationing—the unprecedented power this legislation would grant to virtually unaccountable government agencies is all but certain to lead to rationing.
Consider Medicare, which is projected to go broke within the decade. As the baby-boom generation ages, it will put only more stress on the system. With more than 25% of all Medicare costs generated in the last two months of life, government already has the motive to ration care to the elderly. If the House legislation were to become law, these new government bureaucracies would then also potentially have the power. Are we supposed to trust that they won’t use it?
If such rationing occurs, rules will be needed to determine whether to spend federal healthcare dollars on a given individual. What might those rules look like? Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is a key healthcare advisor to President Obama and the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He co-wrote an academic article(09)60137- in January exploring the ethical challenges of valuing an individual’s life in the context of allocating medical resources that are very scarce, such as organs or vaccines.
As an example, he and his coauthors proposed a system of valuation that could take into account that “[a] young person with a poor prognosis has had few life-years but lacks the potential to live a complete life. Considering prognosis forestalls the concern that disproportionately large amounts of resources will be directed to young people with poor prognoses.”
In a 1996 article in another journal, Dr. Emanuel similarly hypothesized that “services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
Dr. Emanuel contends that he was exploring what rules might be used to ration care, not specifically prescribing policy. But isn’t that the point? What we see at town hall meetings are Americans who legitimately believe it would be fundamentally unjust for government panels to make these kind of ethical decisions instead of individuals, loved ones and doctors.
To be clear, the healthcare system is in need of reform, particularly health insurance. But the answer is not central planning. The answer is more market competition—giving consumers more choices, more information and more control.
Here is one example. There are more than 1,300 health insurance companies in this country, but currently, consumers can buy only a product licensed in each individual state. Creating a nationwide health insurance market where any individual or group can shop for less expensive coverage from another state would provide more choices, forcing private plans to create better products, improve services and lower prices.
We must also equip individuals with information on healthcare cost and quality. Releasing the Medicare-claims history of doctors and hospitals (with patients’ personal information removed) would give Americans more knowledge to choose the most efficient institutions, practitioners and the most effective treatments. Inexplicably, this taxpayer-funded data remain locked away.
Of course, some Americans also need financial resources to pay for their healthcare choices. Tax credits are one way to help consumers purchase private healthcare coverage, or we could allow individuals to deduct the cost of insurance they purchase, just as employers do now. These are just some solutions to create competition to drive down costs while increasing quality.
There is no doubt that we badly need to improve our healthcare system. I welcome the comprehensive debate now taking place across the country on how to accomplish this goal. But reform must empower individuals, not government.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is founder of the Center for Health Transformation.
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Are you carrying a voter registration form with you? You should be. The forms are updated periodically, but old forms are just as useable as the new ones.
It’s looking good for the Republicans. With all the protest over the proposed Health Care legislation, it is time to get the disillusioned Democrats to switch parties.
While we are not getting any bounty money for registering voters this year, it is still important to keep registering AND to save the information about each person registered.
The California Republican Party gives the Republican Women delegate seats at their convention based upon the number of voters we register.
Don’t forget, we will be registering at the Republican Booth at the Los Angeles County Fair – September 17 and October 1.
Need any information or forms? Call me
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Saturday, 15 August 2009
LA Community Policing announced Friday in a press release that it will be holding several meetings to allow for public comment and input during the process of selecting a replacement for Chief William Bratton. The following is directly from the LACP's website:
LA Community Policing to carefully follow the process of selecting a new LAPD Chief, just as we did in 2002 when William Bratton was chosen. To see how we covered things back then simply click here: Choosing A Chief - 2002.
Below you'll find the just released schedule of community meetings, four this time, designed to help the Police Commission determine what it is the public wishes to see in it's next Chief of Police.
The meetings are as follows:
September 2, 2009 - 6:30pm ?Friendship Auditorium ?3201 Riverside Drive ?Los Angeles, California 90027
September 3, 2009 - 6:00pm ?Department of Water and Power ?Community Auditorium ?4030 Crenshaw Boulevard ?Los Angeles, California 90008
September 9, 2009 - 6:30pm? Felicia Mahood Senior Center ?11338 Santa Monica Boulevard ?Los Angeles, California 90025
September 10, 2009 - 6:30pm? One Generation ?18255 Victory Boulevard?Reseda, California 91335
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Chiang: IOUs to end on Sept. 4
State Controller John Chiang today announced he will stop issuing IOUs to private vendors and others on Sept. 4, a month earlier than previously projected, after a review of projected state cash flow.
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Date: July 29, 2009
Dear California friends,
I want to call your attention to a statewide initiative that is being undertaken to advance the debate on the automatic citizenship that is given to children born to illegal aliens and foreign visitors in the United States.
The initiative --- The California Taxpayer Protection Act -- is now collecting signatures to qualify for the June 2010 California ballot.
Initiative Background
The initiative is sponsored by Taxpayer Revolution and authored by Ted Hilton, who long has been deeply involved in the study of birthright citizenship and the Constitution’s 14th Amendment which many mistakenly cite as the reason for birthright citizenship.
The initiative has three major provisions that would:
• Create a California birth certificate with "foreign parent" designation for children born to illegal aliens and others who are not citizens or permanent resident aliens. Issuance of the primary certificate would be limited to children with at least one parent who submits an affidavit stating that he or she is a citizen or a permanent resident alien (verified through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program);
• Restrict illegal-alien parents from applying for child-only CalWORKS benefits (TANF) for their U.S. born child by requiring lawful presence of all applicants; and
• Limit public benefits to only lawful residents by requiring a signed affidavit under penalty of perjury that an applicant is a citizen or qualified alien resident, and using the SAVE Program to verify legal residency.
Birth mothers who are not citizens or legal residents would be required to: apply in person for a certificate designated for foreign parent; pay an additional fee; provide any public-funded costs of that birth; and submit official government-issued identification with photograph and fingerprint, all of which is transmitted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Qualifying the Initiative
Although the initiative requires about 420,000 signatures to qualify, proponents are seeking a total of 600,000 for insurance in the event that some signatures are disqualified. The last day to turn in signatures is November 16, 2009.
Reasons to Support
NumbersUSA has long supported ending the automatic granting of U.S. citizenship to children born here to illegal aliens, finally righting a misguided federal policy. We continue to promote passage of bills in Congress to this end. This California initiative opens up a new battle front.
Passing an initiative in California requiring the issuance of two types of birth certificates will ignite the national debate needed as a precursor to ending automatic citizenship. Success in California will set the stage for other states to follow and likely prompt litigation that could give the U.S. Supreme Court an opportunity to rule. The high court has never decided a citizenship case for children of temporary residents or those here illegally. We are confident such a case would finally end this misbegotten policy.
The initiative has already been endorsed by Representatives Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.; Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus Chair) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), Ward Connerly (proponent of English language and other initiatives), Peter Nunez (former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury), the California American Legion, Americans for Legal Immigration, and others.
How You Can Help
The proponents at Taxpayer Revolution are seeking petition signatures and other assistance. A copy of the petition may be downloaded .
The web site with full information on supporting the campaign is: [lhttp://www.taxpayerrevolution.org/>http://www.taxpayerrevolution.org.
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Environmental Leader Daily June 17, 2009
Advocacy groups representing utilities, industry, agriculture and landowners are mounting an offensive against the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act, which is coming up for committee vote in the Senate.
The act, S 787, would broaden regulation of the nation’s waterways, most notably removing the requirement that regulated waterways be “navigable.” In so doing, the government would essentially be able to regulate everything from standing water in floodplains to creeks that run behind business and residences.
In a letter to Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer and ranking member James Inhofe, the American Farm Bureau Federation said that the proposed law would “extend to all water — anywhere from farm ponds, to storm water retention basins, to roadside ditches, to desert washes, to streets and gutters, even to a puddle of rainwater,” stated the letter. “For the first time in the 36-year history of the act, activities that have no impact on actual rivers and lakes would be subject to full federal regulation.”
Agricultural operations would be subject to civil lawsuits that currently are not possible, the Farm Bureau stated. If un-navigable waterways are added, businesses and farms would be subject to civil lawsuits from organizations and individuals who don’t like the way the business or farm is using property, reports Wilson County News.
The Heritage Foundation calls the act “troubled waters for property owners.” The foundation says, “The CWRA is an invitation for federal regulators (or environmental organizations filing lawsuits) to shut down any use of land that they don’t like so long as there is a little water somewhere in the vicinity. If the past is any guide, this law will be used to stop a tremendous amount of economic activity.”
The act has the support of conservation groups including Ducks Unlimited, the National Wildlife Federation, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and Trout Unlimited, states Ammoland.com.
The Clean Water Restoration Act calls for regulation over “all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams),” including “mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds….”
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INTERNAL MEMO CONFIRMS BIG GIVEAWAYS IN WHITE HOUSE DEAL WITH BIG PHARMA
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post August 13, 2009
A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week.
The memo, which according to a knowledgeable health care lobbyist was prepared by a person directly involved in the negotiations, lists exactly what the White House gave up, and what it got in return.
It says the White House agreed to oppose any congressional efforts to use the government's leverage to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada -- and also agreed not to pursue Medicare rebates or shift some drugs from Medicare Part B to Medicare Part D, which would cost Big Pharma billions in reduced reimbursements.
In exchange, the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA) agreed to cut $80 billion in projected costs to taxpayers and senior citizens over ten years. Or, as the memo says: "Commitment of up to $80 billion, but not more than $80 billion."
PhRMA senior vice president Ken Johnson said that the outline "is simply not accurate." "This memo isn't accurate and does not reflect the agreement with the drug companies," said White House spokesman Reid Cherlin. Stories in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times last week indicated that the administration was confirming that such a deal had been made.
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CBS Highlights AARP Losing Members Over ObamaCare
By: Brad Wilmouth August 18, 2009 11:41 ET
On Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Sharyl Attkisson filed a report highlighting the recent defections of thousands of AARP members to the more conservative American Seniors Association (ASA), because of the perceived support by the AARP for ObamaCare. The report recounted that Obama recently had to correct a claim that the AARP supports his plan, while some are suspicious that the group may support the President privately, but are unwilling to admit to doing so publicly.
Substitute anchor Maggie Rodriguez noted that Obama had to backtrack on claiming AARP support as she introduced the story: "President Obama once thought he had the AARP on board, as he put it, on his plan for health care reform, but he has since had to back off on that claim."
Attkisson started by relating that many AARP members have recently left the group, with a considerable number flocking to the ASA: "CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP membership since July 1 angered over the group's position on health care. ... Many are switching to the American Seniors Association, a group that calls itself the conservative alternative."
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Paying for demonstrators to support health care plan. Ad in LA Slimes From: James Pavik SFVRC
Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 10:38 AM
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Buy 'Em!
Proving that the President "can buy me love," the blog of the Los Angeles Times has uncovered a web ad that shows how desperate the Left is for support. The Fund for the Public Interest is actually offering to pay "volunteers" to support the President's takeover. "Work to pass Obama's health care plan and get paid to do it! $10-15 hr!"
The ad promises anywhere from $400-$600 a week to people who agree to rally on the administration's behalf, presumably at townhall meetings. Maybe the slogan should be "Work for change--and make some too!" Not everyone has pure motives, but it's somewhat ironic that the Left blames conservatives for "manufacturing" anger when their groups are hiring it!
People have plenty of concerns, particularly as old quotes surface from the President's health care "czar," the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. In the past, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel advocated a health care system in which services "should not be guaranteed" to anyone whose circumstances or conditions "[prevent them] from being or becoming participating citizens."
(The Hastings Center Report, November-December 1996). He also said it should give priority to those who are "between roughly 15 and 40 years..." The question then becomes who--and what--defines a "participating citizen"? Would older or disabled Americans be excluded from care because they aren't perceived by Washington as contributing members to society? Emanuel also writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association (June 18, 2009) that "Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously...." When it comes to doing "no harm," this is one patient who's grateful they do!
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From the September 2009 issue of the CFRW Southern Division Newsletter
Seven months after being in charge, we have a clearer
view now of what the Obama Administration is doing to carry out its immigration policy. We know that President Obama plays identity politics very well (c.f. his defense of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates).
He has promised pro-immigration and ethnic groups comprehensive immigration reform that will include amnesty for illegal immigrants and has appointed people in his administration to aid him in achieving this: Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary, Thomas Perez as head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, Esther Olavarria as deputy assistant secretary of DHS.
And, of course, he has Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and
the Democrat dominated Congress as his allies-in-waiting.
But first the administration must undo the progress
that DHS under Secretary Michael Chertoff had accom-
plished - worksite enforcement and speedy deportations.
In late March, Napolitano signaled that the arrest of illegal alien workers would be abandoned in favor of going
after employers only. DHS released 27 illegal aliens arrested in a Bellingham raid and instead of deporting them,
issued work permits and the right to remain in the country
for an indefinite period of time. Since then nonenforcement has been the government‘s policy. Everything has been watered down.
Congress has not installed permanent E-Verify data-
based system that would help employers identify the legality of workers they hire with 99% accuracy, and ICE has literally dropped worksite raids, making employer
sanctions moot. Deportations are laughable.
In Alabama a judge set a $20,000 cash bond for a
Mexican citizen who reportedly had been deported from
the U.S. twenty-eight times. The President‘s own aunt,
Zeituni Oyango, has successfully defied her deportation
orders for seven years and lives in public housing while
awaiting yet another appeal hearing! And her case is not
unusual.
The border remains at risk with more desperate drug
and human smuggling. A Border Patrol agent was just
recently murdered (the second that I know of), and gov-
ernment agents are frantically seeking the perpetrator who
has $100.000 reward now on his head. [Read Pat Shuff‘s
article following]
In Congress efforts to strengthen enforcement have
been thwarted, and the Dream Act that would grant in-
state tuition to illegal alien students nation wide has been
reintroduced.
At the height of the Health Care Reform bill
(H.R.3200) debate, an amendment by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) to help ensure that illegal aliens would not receive taxpayer-funded health care benefits was rejected by party line.
Illegal alien health care costs the nation
about $11 billion and extending it officially to them will create an entitlement which is yet another major entice-
ment for coming to this country, when we are wrestling over how we can afford the trillion dollar costs to cover
our own citizens. (70% of births in many hospitals are to illegal alien mothers). Then will come another attempt at passing a comprehensive immigration reform which will
include amnesty for maybe 20 million or more. What a
disaster and debacle it will be!
On the bright side, the SAVE (Secure America
through Verification and Enforcement) Act has been reintroduced. The SAVE Act, if passed, will secure America‘s borders with fencing, technology and additional manpower, will end unlawful employment through E-Verify, and will enhance interior enforcement. Call our senators (Boxer 1-202-224-3553; Feinstein 1-202-224-3841) to support the SAVE Act (S.1505) and our congressmen to support H.R.3308!
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From the September 2009 issue of the CFRW Southern Division Newsletter
My husband was last at the border July 2-5 in the area
at which Border Patrol agent Rosas was killed by smug-
glers. He gets reports about three times a week from a
volunteer who is at the border every day. His friend says,
referring to illegal aliens, "They're still coming and
they're not going home." I have gathered information
from various sources to give you a look at what is going
on at the border.
If only our government had a desire to
actually protect our sovereign nation from invasion, the
odds are that Agent Rosas would still be alive to help
raise his two small children.
The fence which was approved but not funded two years ago is still not built, and much of the fence at the Mexico-California border is simply landing pads from a long-ago war. As it is, invaders can go under, over or around the old fence in the Tecate-Campo area.
The double fence which separates western
San Diego county from Mexico does work, but it doesn‘t
extend far enough east to shut out invaders. The smug-
glers are getting desperate because the Border Patrol, with
the help of patriotic citizens, has made the trip north
much more dangerous.
The following is from a conversation a Minuteman
had with a senior Border Patrol agent on July 24, the day
after Border Patrol agent Richard Rosas was killed: The
group (of illegal aliens) was initially spotted by an agent
in a scope truck. The agent called for assistance. When
the other BP agents arrived, the group scattered in differ-
ent directions, with the agents going in different direc-
tions chasing them. This was around sunset. Agent
Rosas was found and officially pronounced dead by the
Fire Department EMTs at 9:15 p.m.
From one of the Fire Department EMTs that was first
on the scene (a local): A struggle had clearly taken place.
The killer took the agent's gun and radio. It is surmised
(from the scene) that although the agent had been over-
powered and no longer an immediate physical threat to
the killer, the killer did not want to be identified later by
the agent, so the killer coldly and deliberately shot the
agent "execution style."
The BP agent also said to me, "On behalf of me and
the other BP agents, we thank all of you that come down
and help us out in the field."
The following report is from U.S. Evolutions, a volunteer organization which has installed extensive, donated fencing at the border to supplement the government's ineffective landing mat fencing.
Saturday 7-25-09 - Sunday 7-26-09
We decided to check fences and set up a brief observation in our area Saturday through Sunday. Saturday
night there was heavy Border Patrol presence with large
military planes circling overhead, flying ovals on both
sides of the border. BP set up on the two major high
points in our area and had sign cut and response units as
well as near-constant helicopter coverage. Agents are
now finally working in two-man teams armed with M-4s,
some even equipped with night sights and tactical
lights. A short scan with our thermal imaging system
showed nothing staging or moving.
After hiking back to pick up our own patrol vehicle, we dragged roads (to detect by footprints whether or not anyone crosses in that area) and checked fences from midnight shift to swing shift the next day. A freshly cut hole was found in our fence just after morning shift/swing shift change.
We showed to USBP agents the breach but were not immediately sure if anyone crossed. The Agents zip tied the
small hole shut to prevent anyone from returning back
south, and they called ahead by radio to search for anyone
who may have crossed.
Results of that search are unknown at this time. Fencing makes it far more difficult on smugglers who must quickly move their groups or loads north, leaving as little sign as possible. Cutting a hole through chain link that is regularly patrolled is not very subtle. Moving narcotics through that hole and attempting to stash them nearby for days or weeks until they can be driven out is just stupid. This fence has
greatly reduced the amount and frequency of narcotics
smuggling in our area.
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UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington D.C. 20500
(202) 456-1414 Comments at (202) 456-1111 fax at (202 456-2461
www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (213) 897-0322
State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814 fax (213) .897-0319
governor@governor.gov
U.S. SENATORS
Diane Feinstein (D) (310) 914-7300
11111 Santa Monica Blvd #915, Los Angeles, CA 90025
331Hart Senate Office Building, Washington D.C. 20510 202) 224-3841
www.Feinstein.senate.gov
Barbara Boxer (D) (213) 894-5000
312 N, Spring St., Ste 1748, Los Angeles, CA 90012 fax (213) 894-5012
112 Hart Senate Office Bldg, Washington D.C. 20514 (202) 224-3553
www.boxer.senate.gov
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
27th Brad Sherman (D) (818)501-9200
5000Van Nuys Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
sherman.personal@mail.house.gov
www.BradSherman.house.gov
28thHoward Berman(D) (818) 891-0543
10200 Sepulveda Blvd., #300, Mission Hills, CA 91345
Howard.Berman@mail.house.gov
30th Henry Waxman (D)………………………………………...(818) 878-7400
8436 W. Third St. #600, Los Angeles, CA 90048
www.house.gov/waxman/
CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE
17th George Runner (R) …………………….……………………..….(661) 729-6232
848 W. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster, CA 93534
19th Tony Strickland (R) (805 494-8808
223 E Thousand Oaks Blvd., Ste 400, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
State Capitol Room 3070, Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 445-8873
20th Alex Padilla (D) (818) 901-5588
6150 Van Nuys Blvd., 400, Van Nuys, CA 91401
23rd Fran Pavley (D) (310) 441-9084
10951 W. Pico Blvd. #202, Los Angeles, CA 90064
State Capitol, Room 4032, Sacramento, CA 95814. (916) 445-1353
CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY
37th Audra Strickland (R)…………….………………………………..(805) 230-9167
2659 Townsgate Road, #236, Westlake Village, CA 91361
38th Cameron Smyth (R) (661) 286-1565
23734 Valencia Blvd., #303, Santa Cclarita,CA 91355 State Capitol, Room 4153, Sacramento, CA 95814 …..916) 319-2038
40 Bob Blumenfield (D) (818) 904-3840
6150 Van Nuys Blvd., #300, Van Nuys, Ca 91401
State Capitol, Room 6011, Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 319-2040
41st Julia Brownley (D) (818) 596-4141
6355 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Ste. 205, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
State Capitol, room 5144, Sacramento, CA 94249 (916) 319-2041
LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Central Office, 500 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
3rdZev Yaroslavsky(D) (818) 880-9416
26500 W. Agoura R., Calabasas, CA 91302
5th Michael D. Antonovich ( R )…………….………………………. (818) 993-5170
…………21943 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311
fifthdistrict@lacbos.org
LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL
City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
3rdDennis Zine(R) (818) 756-8848
19040 Vanowen St., Reseda, CA 91335
counvilmember.zine@lacity.org
12thGreig Smith (R) (818) 886-5210
18917 Nordhoff St., #18, Northridge, CA 91324
councilmember.smith@lacity.org
LOS ANGELES CITY MAYOR
Antonio Villaraigosa (D) (818) 778-4990
City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street,, Room 303, Los Angeles, CA 90012
City Hall, 14410 Sylvan Street, Van Nuys, CA 91411
Julyor@lacity.org
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY
1903 w. Magnolia Blvd. Burbank, CA 91506 (818) 841-5210
alternate phone (714) 893-8004
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN (LACFRW)
NANCY EISENHART, PRESIDENT………………….(818) 389-0423
P.O. BOX 8995, CALABASAS, CA 91372-8995
newrepublicanwoman@yahoo.com
Join LACFRW on Facebook. We've started a new group which can be found at www.facebook.com Please invite your Republican friends to join, be they Federated or not, If you are not already on FACEBOOK, you will need to register, a simple process. Join in the conversation.
California Federation of Republican Women Southern Division
www.cfrwsoutherndivision.org
User name: sodiv Password: sunny
California Federation of Republican Women
www.cfrw.org
User name: cfrw Password: ULC2hK
National Federation of Republican Women
www.nfrw.org
User name: federation Password: 1938nfrw
NFRW Summer 2009 magazine now on-line
WEBSITES FOR CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION
www.ReaganAction.com
www.majoritynext.org
www.OurLA.org
The 60 Plus Association is a non-partisan seniors advocacy group with a free enterprise, less government, less taxes approach to seniors issues. 60 Plus has set ending the federal estate tax and saving Social Security for the young as its top priorities. 60 Plus is often viewed as the conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Check them out at www.60plus.org
Want to know where the stimulus money is going? Check the website…. http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state
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