As if the Ramos family hasn’t been kicked around enough by the federal government, now their youngest son has been denied emergency room treatment for a serious kidney ailment. Funny how the illegal aliens get FREE care whenever they show up at the ER, and let’s not forget about the free medical treatment we gave to the illegal alien drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila! If you would like to send a card to Jacob Ramos, you can send it to:
Monica Ramos
P.O. Box 972925
El Paso, TX 79997
And if you would like to donate to the Ramos/Compean defense fund, send a check to:
BPA Legal Defense Fund
P.O. Box 47208
Tampa, FL 33647
All donations that are designated for Agents Ramos and Compean will be used to fund their legal defense and assist their families in their hour of need.
Foundation for Jamiel Shaw II
1025 W. 34th Street
King Hall, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Perata pulls plug on Denham recall
Senate leader Don Perata announced late Wednesday that he was dropping the recall campaign of Sen. Jeff Denham, due to his “best judgment about how to stop the long, slow slide into another long stalemate” on the budget.
Perata had initiated the recall last summer, after Denham, R-Atwater, sided with the majority of Senate Republicans in blocking passage of the budget during a 52-day standoff.
A campaign committee linked to Perata, D-Oakland, and the Democratic Party spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the recall campaign.
At a late afternoon news conference on the steps of the Capitol, Perata said he decided not to pursue the recall after meeting Wednesday with Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill. . .
Federal prosecutors want Carona trial to stay in O.C.
Carona’s lawyers, who filed for a change of venue last month, can not prove that comments on “The John and Ken Show” on KFI-AM, (640) and other pretrial publicity has prejudiced Carona’s right to a fair trial in Orange County, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Sagel argued in a 23-page brief.
And even if some jurors are swayed by remarks from talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou – who have told listeners that they think Carona is guilty and that their fans should lie to get on the jury to convict – there are other alternatives to insure a fair trial. . .
Crowing roosters ruffle feathers
If the City Council gets its way, Angelenos can still have chickens come home to roost – but only one of them can be a rooster.
Cock-a-doodle-do-ing in the wee hours of the morning, illegal backyard cockfighting and odors have led to a surge in neighborhood complaints from the northeast San Fernando Valley to Compton.
But the city has nothing on the books to control its noisy fowl problem.
“We deal with barking dogs, why can’t we deal with crowing roosters?” asked Janice Hahn, the councilwoman who proposed Wednesday limiting roosters to one per household.
Now, most Los Angeles residents can have only three cats and three dogs. But the sky is the limit on roosters. . .
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Don Perata and teacher union thugs say the schools don’t have any money, yet they found some for this hunk of junk outside of the LA Unified Arts High School. Cost? A mere $230 million!
Clinton Pledges to Fight On Despite Split Primary Result
With her hopes for fresh political momentum deflated by Tuesday night’s primary results and with signs of mounting financial problems, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton nonetheless vowed on Wednesday to fight on. She began her campaign for the May 13 primary in West Virginia while her advisers huddled privately to assess her options.
Highlighting the difficulties Mrs. Clinton has had in financing her high-spending battle against Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, officials from her campaign disclosed on Wednesday that she had lent her campaign more than $6 million over the last month. She did so, they said, in three installments: $5 million on April 11, $1 million on May 1, and $425,000 on May 5.
Mrs. Clinton is willing to put more money into her campaign going forward, said Terry McAuliffe, her campaign’s chairman. “Senator Clinton has anted up and is fighting on,” he said. . .
SAN DIEGO — U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they’re catching them on the way out.
At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting up checkpoints, boarding buses destined for Mexico and pulling off people who don’t have proper documentation.
The operation appears to be an expansion of a broader federal crackdown targeting illegal immigrants in jails, airports and workplaces across the country.
The checkpoints, which are not announced in advance, are set up on southbound Interstate 5 about 100 yards north of the border. Vehicles in all lanes must stop. . .
New Assembly speaker wants tax code review
SACRAMENTO – Incoming state Assembly Speaker Karen Bass on Tuesday said one way to solve California’s continual budget mess is to revamp the state’s tax code, possibly raising income taxes on the wealthy, levying sales taxes on services and closing tax loopholes.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the Los Angeles Democrat said she wants a bipartisan panel to examine the code and recommend ways to change it.
“The state of California is in a crisis,” Bass said. “I want to set up a commission outside of the Legislature that will look at more long-term solutions and evaluate whether the tax structure we have now makes sense given that it was devised in the 1930s when we had an entirely different economy. . .
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
L.A. Unified officials knew of molestation allegations against principal
Senior Los Angeles school officials, including the district’s police chief and its former chief operating officer, knew of sex allegations against a school administrator months before he was transferred to a Watts middle school, where he allegedly molested two students, officials said Monday.
District officials have been heavily criticized for allowing former Assistant Principal Steve Thomas Rooney back into a school after he had been accused of sexual contact with a student. Until now, however, it was unclear how much school officials knew about the original allegations, how early they knew about them or how broadly that knowledge spread through the district’s bureaucracy.
Statements on Monday by Dan Isaacs, who retired last year as the district’s chief operating officer, and Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Charlie Beck make clear that the knowledge reached the highest echelons of the Los Angeles Unified School District. . .
Vegetable oil fuels cars—and tax bills
Dave Eck, a Half Moon Bay mechanic, had attracted a media spotlight with his fleet of vehicles fueled by used fryer grease from a local chowder house. So when Sacramento called, he figured officials wanted advice on promoting alternative fuels.
Not at all. The government rang to notify Eck that he was a tax cheat. He was scolded for failing to get a “diesel fuel supplier’s license,” reporting quarterly how many gallons of grease he burns, and paying a tax on each gallon.
“All of a sudden they nailed me for a road tax,” said Eck, who drives a Hummer converted to run on vegetable oil. “I said, ‘Not a problem. I’ll do my part. But what do I get? At least let me into the carpool lane. . .
Study: 25% of LA’s Welfare Goes to Undocumented Immigrants
L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich says the county spends more than $1 billion a year on benefits to undocumented immigrants.
According to new data from the Department of Public Social Services, nearly twenty five percent of Los Angeles County ’s welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of undocumented immigrants, at a cost of $36 million a month—for a projected annual cost of $432 million.
“The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education,” said Antonovich. . .
