What is at Stake in the 2018 elections

Here is a list of who’s at stake in the upcoming 2018 mid term elections

U.S. Senate– 35 of 100 Senate seats are up for grabs

U.S. House of Representatives– All 435 House seats are up for grabs

Governors– 36 of 50 States

State Legislators- 82% of positions, totaling 6,070 seats in 67 legislative chambers.

City Governments-Mayors of 26 of America’s 100 largest cities.

State Judges Nearly 300 state appellate judges, including 71 state supreme court justices

WHO’S RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN 2018?

Here is a list of Republican Candidates running for office in California in 2018. More information to follow later about each candidate

 

GOVERNOR

1. TRAVIS ALLEN
2. STASYI BARTH
3. JOHN H COX

 

1. Lt. GOVERNOR

 

1. DAVID FENNELL
2. DAVID HERNANDEZ

 

SENATE

 

1. TIMOTHY CHARLES KALEMKARIAN
2. CAREN LANCONA
3. JAZMINA SAAVEDRA
4. STEPHEN JAMES SCHRADER

 

CONGRESS

 

1. CA-26 ANTONIO SABATO JR
2. CA-28 JOHNNY NALBANDIAN
3. CA-43 CANDACE CAMPER
4. CA-43 EDWIN DUTERTE
5. CA-43 OMAR NAVARRO

NEW LAWS FOR CALIFORNIA FOR 2013

NEW LAWS FOR CALIFORNIA FOR 2013

As 2012 is coming to and end new laws will take effect for California residents in 2013. Here are just some of the new laws that will go into effect on January 1, 2013:

GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION LAW This law encourages people to call 911 and seek medical help for someone who experiences a drug or alcohol overdose without fear or being prosecution for minor drug crimes.

MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS

Amber Alert for Seniors: Similar to Amber Alert, the CHP would activitate a silver alert upon request if a person, age 65n or older, is reported missing to a law enforcement agencies and that agency determines that certain criteria is met.

D.U.I.: A person who has been arrested and is suspected of driving while under the influence of a DUI of drugs, no longer has the option of a urine test. Prior to this changing a person had the option of submitting to either a urine or blood test to determine the drug content of the blood. Now the driver will only be able to submit to a blood test.

New California Laws for 2013 Affecting REALTORS

Landlord Must Disclose Notice of Default to Prospective Tenants: Starting January 1, 2013, every landlord who offers for rent a residential property containing one-to-four units must disclose in writing to any prospective tenant the receipt of a notice of default that has not been rescinded. This disclosure must be made before executing a lease agreement. If a landlord violates this law, the tenant can elect to void the lease and recover one month’s rent or twice the amount of actual damages, whichever is greater, plus all prepaid rent. If the lease is not voided and the foreclosure sale has not occurred, the tenant may deduct one month’s rent from future amounts owed. The written disclosure notice as provided by statute must be in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean. A property manager will not be held liable for failing to provide the written disclosure notice unless the landlord has given the property manager written instructions to deliver the written disclosure to the tenant. This law will expire on January 1, 2018

Landlord May Dispose Abandoned Personal Property Less Than $700: Commencing January 1, 2013, the total resale value of personal property left behind by a tenant after termination of a tenancy that the landlord must sell at a public auction (rather than dispose of or retain for his or her own use), has been increased from $300 to $700, if certain procedures are followed. This law, however, also prohibits a landlord from assessing any storage cost if the tenant reclaims personal property within 2 days of vacating the premises. The statutory notices of Right to Reclaim Abandoned Property have been revised to reflect these changes. Furthermore, a landlord’s notices of termination of tenancy and pre-move out inspection must contain specified language that former tenants may reclaim abandoned personal property left on the premises, subject to certain conditions.

Tenant Entitled to a 90-Day Notice to Terminate After Foreclosure: Effective January 1, 2013, a month-to-month tenant in possession of a rental housing unit at the time the property is foreclosed must be given a 90-day written notice to terminate under California law. For a fixed-term residential lease, the tenant can generally remain until the end of the lease term, and all rights and obligations under the lease shall survive foreclosure, including the tenant’s obligation to pay rent. However, the landlord can give a 90-day written notice to terminate a fixed-term lease after foreclosure under any of the following four circumstances: (1) the purchaser or successor-in-interest will occupy the property as a primary residence; (2) the tenant is the borrower or the borrower’s child, spouse, or parent; (3) the lease was not the result of an arms’ length transaction; or (4) the lease requires rent that is substantially below fair market rent (except if under rent control or government subsidy). The purchaser or successor-in-interest bears the burden of proving that one of the four exceptions has been met. This law does not apply if a borrower stays in the property as a tenant, subtenant, or occupant, or if the property is subject to just cause rent control. This law will expire on December 31, 2019. This new California law is similar, but not identical, to the 90-day termination notice requirement under the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (12 U.S.C. § 5201, et seq.) (as extended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act), which is set to expire on December 31, 2014.

New California Employment Laws to Take Effect in 2013

• A.B. 1844 states employers cannot fire, threaten to fire, discipline or retaliate against employees for not disclosing a username or password for accessing a personal social media website.
• A.B. 2674 requires employers to maintain personnel records for at least three years after termination and to provide current and former employees (or their representatives) the opportunity to inspect their records within 30 days of the request, except when a lawsuit relating to a personnel matter is pending.
A.B. 1964 amends the Federal Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) to include a religious dress practice or grooming practice as a belief of observance covered by protections against religious discrimination. However, if a person’s religions practice requires him or her to be segregated from the public or other employees, that is not considered to be a “reasonable accommodation” under the law.

RECENT COLD CASES THAT WERE SOLVED IN CALIFORNIA

RECENT COLD CASES THAT WERE SOLVED IN CALIFORNIA

April 28, 2012

On April 20, 2012, a 51 year old Northern California man allegedly linked to the 1981 rape-murder cold case of a Whittier women is expected was arraigned in court.

Joseph Allen Thornton of Auburn, California was charged with one count of murder with special circumstance allegation of rape.

The defendant was arrested by the Whittier PD on April 18^th, 2012, at his residence, is accused of raping and killing Blanca Stella Negrete, 21, on June 27, 1981.

Whittier police department re-opened the 30 year old cold case in May of 2010 and identified the defendant through a DNA hit on the Combined DNA Index System, the statewide DNA database.

Joseph Allen Thornton is being held without bail.  If convicted as charged, he faces life in prison without parole or the death penalty.  The DA office will announce at a later date whether it will seek the death penalty against the defendant.

CALIFORNIA DEATH ROW INMATE PLEADS TO 1989 LONG BEACH WILSON HIGH MURDER

On April 18, 2012 a California death row inmate pleaded guilty to the 1989 strangulation of a 15 year old Wilson High School sophomore.

Royal Clark, 50, will be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.  Clark pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of Danielle Marie Haddon on October 30, 1989, and admitted that he used an electric cord to strangle her to death. He admitted the special circumstance of prior murder conviction.  In exchange for his plea, prosecution agreed not seek the death penalty.

Prosecutors say that on the night of October 29, 1989, Haddon was alone in the apartment that she shared with her grandmother and was talking on the phone with a friend when she said she had to answer a knock on the door.

Her body was discovered inside the apartment in the 1000 block of Coronado Avenue early the next morning after her grandmother returned home from work. DNA collected from her body at the time was matched to Clark’s DNA.

Los Angeles Man charged in Fatal shooting in 1990 Cold Case Murder.

Michael James Tharrington  is charged with one count of capital murder, one count of attempted murder and two counts of second-degree robbery.  The felony complaint includes the special circumstance that he committed the murder during a robbery.

Michael Tharrington is charged with fatally shooting Ann Yao, 31, on Feb 10, 1990. Yao was sitting in her car parked on Lucernce Avenue south of Wilshire Blvd.   when she was shot once in the head.  Tharrington also is charged with shooting the male passenger sitting in her car  and stealing his car that was parked nearby.

 

I will keep you up to date on other cold case files that are closed.

NEW CALIFORNIA LAWS FOR 2012

By: Frank Osekowsky

12/19/2012

As 2011 is near an end, I decided to take a look at some of the new laws that will take effect for California in 2012.

 

DUI  CHECKPOINT LAW

Unlicensed but sober drivers stopped at DUI checkpoints across the state will no longer face an automatic impounding of their vehicles.  They will still face a fine for driving without a license, but they will have the option of relinquishing control of their vehicle to a licensed driver avoid having it towed and impounded.

EMPLOYMENT CREDIT CHECK LAW

Employer’s will longer be able to request credit reports for new employees, unless they are applying or working in a financial inst, law enforcement or the justice department.

This law also exempts workers who have (1) has access to people’s bank or credit card, social security numbers and date of birth; (2) has access to an employer’s proprietary information or trade secrets;(3) signs a check, credit cared, financial contract, or transfers money for an employer and (4) has access to more than $10,000 cash or (5) is a manger in certain industries.   This law will take effect on January 1, 2012.

GAY BULLYING LAW ALSO CALLED SETH’S LAW

This law will require that all public schools to have a uniform process dealing with gay bullying complaints.  Mandates that school personnel intervene if they witness gay bullying.  This law takes effect on January 1, 2012.

LGBT EQUALITY AND EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION LAW

State Univ. and colleges must create and enforce campus policies protecting LGBT from harassment and appoint employee contact persons to address on campus LGBT matters. 

PROTECTION OF PARENT CHILD RELATIONSHIP LAW

This law will allow courts to consider the relationship between a child and a non biological parent when considering child rights cases involving birth parents, adoptive parents, and gay or lesbian parents.

GAY DIVORCE LAWS

This law provides that if a gay couple gets married in California but lives in a state that will not grant them a divorce, the California courts will have jurisdiction to grant them a legal action.  The case will be filed in the county where the gay couple were married.  This law takes effect January 1, 2012.

CALIFORNIA GAY HISTORY LAW

In 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed the Gay History Law, which mandates that school textbooks and social studies include gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender accomplishments.

PREGNANCY DISABILITY LAW

This law prohibits employers from refusing to maintain and pay for group health insurance coverage for the duration of pregnancy disability leave, up to four months in a 12-month period.

E VERIFY SYSTEM

This law provides that state agencies, cities, and counties cannot require private employers to use the federal E-Verify system to confirm the legal immigration status of workers they hire, except when required by federal law or as a condition of receiving federal funds.

E-Verify is a computerized system maintained and operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the Social Security Administration. E-Verify allows employers to use the program, on a voluntary basis, to verify that the employees they hire are authorized to work in the United States

These are just some of the 700 laws that will take effect in 2012

IS MERVYNS MAKING A COMEBACK IN CALIFORNIA

May 22, 2011

In 2009, the retail store Mervyns closed all of its doors after it filed for Bankruptcy.

But we fast forward to 2011.  Not only has Mervyns been out of business for over two years but it has been announced that John Morris, the son of the Department store chain founder Mervin Morris, along with his two brothers have agreed to re-buy the Mervyns name and its internet- related intellectual properties.

“Its great to have it back in our family after 31 years said Mr. Morris, principal of Morris Management a private-equity and real-estate Investment Company”. We strongly believed we have a very strong, loyal base of families in the Western States that would support Mervyns.

The brothers have yet to decide how they are going to proceed with the re-opening of Mervyns.  They may either re-open it as retail stores or as an on-line website only.

Being a former employee it was a sad day when Mervyns went out of business.  I am happy to see that the Mervyns name is back with the family were it belongs.  I hope that the brothers can make this store what it used to be.  Hopefully they can succeed.  I wish them good luck.  As soon as I hear any other news I will make it know.

NEW LAWS THAT WILL TAKE EFFECT IN CALIFORNIA IN 2011.

HERE IS A LIST OF JUST SOME OF THE NEW LAWS THAT WILL BE GOING INTO EFFECT IN CALIFORNIA IN 2011.

 Possession of up to one once of marijuana becomes an infraction. No more serious than a speeding ticket.  Reducing the crime from a misdeameanor to an infraction means you can no longer worry about being arrested, have a criminal record or having to appear in court.

The Amber Alert notification system can be used when there is an attack on a law enforcement officer and the suspect has fled.

 Anyone under 21 who wants to drive a motorcycle must complete a safety course before being issued an instruction permit.

 Impersonating someone online through fake social network pages, texting, or emails becomes a misdemeanor punishable by fine of up to $1,000.00 and a year in jail.

 Automakers and owners can place video recording devices on their vehicles which will monitor when there is a crash or unusual vehicle motion.

 Courts can seize property used in human trafficking and traffickers can face civil penalties up to $25,000

 State prison inmates who are incapacitated by health problems can shift some of their cost of care to the federal government.

 Plaintiff/Defendants can agree to one-day expediate jury trials.

 Foster youths are eligible to state service until they are 21.

 Restaurants/Vendors can again sell Asian rice noodles at room temp.

 Landlords will not be allowed to evict tenants who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.

 California’s “Chelsea’s Law” authored by Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, R-San Diego increases penalties for forcible sex acts against minors, creates a penalty of life without the possibility of parole for specific sex acts against minors, creates safe zones around parks, and mandates lifetime parole for certain sex offenders.

 Anti Paparazzi law will provide for liability under the civil invasion of privacy statute along with other damages and remedies. It’s suppose purpose is to crack down on those who falsely imprison celebrities by driving recklessly or blocking sidewalks in order to take photographs or make recordings of the “stars”.

  Under California’s new truancy law, parents of K-8 children who miss more than 10 percent of the school year without a valid excuse can be charged with a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.  The bill also authorizes local districts to require whatever family services are needed to get the children back to school.

 These are just some of the laws that will be taken into effect in California in 2011.

Republican Party v. Democrat Party

October 8, 2010

For those people that are Independent, For those people that have a tough time choosing between the Republican party or Democratic party I have put together some issues and where each party stands on these issues.

 Taxes

 Republicans support making it easier for families to make it in California by reducing  the taxes on income, savings, and purchasing the every day goods families needs.  California suffers from the highest tax burden in the west.  Republicans believes in lower taxes, the Democrats believe in raising taxes every chance the get.

 The Democrats consistently promote higher taxes on income and savings while also supporting hidden taxes like those in your telephone bills or electric bills.

 Freedom

 Republicans support maximizing personal freedoms by limiting how much government can tell California, how to live and work.  Republicans want to make it easier to create jobs in California by doing away with unnecessary paperwork for business.

 The Democratic party consistently working to make government bigger and more intrusive, telling California’s even what kind of light bulbs and TV they can have.

 Crime

 Republicans support policies that recognizes people are responsible for their own actions.  Republicans hold criminal responsible for the crimes they commit and support tough measures to keep those who commit crimes off our streets and away from our schools.

 Democrats are always looking for ways to blame “society” for the actions of those who commit crimes and are constantly looking for ways to reduce the tough measures that have brought crime down in California and protected hundreds of thousands of citizens from criminals.

 Terrorism and National Defense

 Republicans support the building and maintaining a powerful national defense and keeping America on offense in the global war on terror.  Terror groups around the world must be confronted and defeated before they have the opportunity to hurt Americans here at home.

 Democrats gave gone back to the pre 9/11 days of treating terrorism like a law enforcement problem.

 The Republican party believes in Less Taxes, More Freedom, Tough on Crime and More Homeland Defense.

 The Democratic party believes in More Taxes, Less Freedom, Soft on Crime, Less Home Defense.  

This election lets chose the right party lets chose the Republican Party

Seven Reasons why Senator Boxer should not be re-elected in 2010

Here are seven reasons why Senator Boxer should not be re-elected in 2010.

1.  Senator Boxer supports the Health Care bill which will increase our taxes

2. Senator Boxer is a strong advocate for climate change laws that will hurt California business.

3.  She is fiscally irresponsible

4.  Senator Boxer has caused the loss of 60,000-80,000 jobs in the central valley area

5. Senator Boxer is the most liberal proponent of abortion rights. Her voting record has been the most liberal in the senate

6.  She is an ineffective senator

7.  And, is a supporter of earmarks,but does not get any for California