Say No to Bono Mack

On October 10th, 2010, Steve Pougnet, the Congressional candidate for the 45th district came out to Menifee to "meet and greet" some of the constituents in the area. Steve Pougnet is running against Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack who hasn't come out to Menifee area during this campaign. Steve Pougnet answered questions forthright from the issues of economic recovery, public education, senior and health care concerns, to what to do with the current immigration situation. His responses were enthusiastically embraced by the attendees who see a candidate that is in touch with voters' issues and listens, will address these concerns truthfully and most importantly, act upon them. Steve Pougnet won the votes of attendee, Susan Stever, PSEA president of the Perris Union High School District, Dr. Resa Rosenstein, State Senate candidate Paul Clay, and many others. Let's get a Congressman in the 45th District, like Steve Pougnet, who will actually do something for us!

Murrieta Measures C D E

Measure C sets term limits for Council members in Murrieta. It takes away your constitutional right to choose the candidate of your choice. Many times there are only a few candidates running and not much of a field to choose from. If there was someone on the Council who had been doing a great job, had a proven track record and was the best candidate but their two terms were up, you would have to vote for someone else - a novice less qualified or perhaps a candidate with a hidden agenda. Your freedom to choose has been effectively denied you. Vote NO on Measure C.

Measure D addresses payments made to City Council members, and here, both the written proposed Measure and recent newspaper comments are not half-truths but outright lies. The proponents say that Measure D will keep Murrieta from becoming another "City of Bell." Apples to oranges: Murrieta is a general law city and Bell is a charter city. The state and federal governments control stipends and other benefits paid to general law City councils, in a charter city the council members can set their own payments. We are not a charter city, we cannot become a Bell. In addition, the stipend paid to our Council members is $600 [per month], equating to an hourly wage of $3.75 - no one is getting rich here. There are no "Club" memberships, and here again the implication is directly misleading to the voters. Our council members represent us on interagency Committees with other cities or with the County - they are paid a set fee to attend the meetings, and that fee is not set at the local level. Their representation ensures that Murrieta gets their fair share of state and county funds for road improvements and other capital improvements - and we could not exist and grow without that interaction. The proponents want to stop the memberships, if that happens, it will shut down our City and we will die on the vine while other cities in the County will thrive and move forward. Vote NO on Measure D to keep our City on the forward track!

Measure E - the most far fetched and most damaging of all, the limiting of the salary of our City Manager and thereby limiting the salary of all of his/her direct reports including the Chief of Police and the Fire Chief. We live in a market-driven society, and the proponents are using an average salary based on City Manager salaries throughout the US. A City Manager in my home town of Sterling, IL will never make the salaries paid in CA. There is a vast difference in the salaries across our nation - we need to look at what is paid in our area. Out of 41 cities of the same size as Murrieta, our City Manger is 28th on the list. You get what you pay for, and we need to make sure we have a highly qualified person to lead us into the future; limit the pay at the top of the grapevine, it will eventually dwindle down the grapevine to departments like police and fire, and Murrieta will die on the vine. We cannot attract and keep well qualified personnel without proper compensation. The proponents had no idea of the salary system set up in Murrieta, all of the City manager's direct reports make 5% less than he does, and that keeps trickling down. If our current City Manager chooses to leave in two years when his salary goes down, the next City Manager will be paid $141,000 based on the proponents formula. That means when a new Police or Fire chief is hired their salaries would be 5% lower at $137,000. We are creating a glass ceiling as all of our highly qualified captains, lieutenants, corporals, etc. in the PD and FD already make more money than that and would have to take pay cuts to get promoted! They will leave Murrieta in droves and go elsewhere for promotion opportunities. With that trickle down effect, we will lose our position as the 2nd safest city in our nation as we will no longer attract the most highly qualified candidates to Murrieta. Measure E is another non-solution. Vote No on Measures C, D, and E. Contributed by Barbara Nugent, Murrieta

Deceptive Campaigns/Politicians

The following candidates have been identified with using voter deception tactics:

Kevin Jeffries: Running for his third term as State Assemblyman admits he won many elections as a water district director using "Fireman" as his profession. In fact, he was finally successfully sued in 2006 by the California Department of Forestry for this false claim. They said, "We cannot stand for voter deception". His most notorious voter deception tactic was using his subordinate, staffer Dave Everett at the Riverside County Republican Party, to fool the voters of Murrieta into the deception that Jeffries had nothing to do with the mail piece that was sent to voters opposing the 2005 Murrieta Recall Measure. He had indeed made a quid-pro-quo deal with Dan Stephenson of Rancon in order to advance his political career to the State Assembly. Full story and documents available in The Community Bugle "Archives" menu item by clicking August 2010. The story begins on the front page and carries over to page 2 with the quid-pro-quo payoff evidence, signed by Dan Stephenson, on page 9.

Kelly Bennett: Running for Murrieta City Council is not an elected Mayor. Don't be deceived by this ballot designation. The position of mayor is just a figurehead in Murrieta and is a rotated position to give every council member a chance to chair the council meetings. Using this title is a deceptive practice when you are not elected to the position. In fact, there are no mayors in our region that are elected by their constituents as all of the cities in our region are general law cities. Mayors are only elected in Charter cities.

When does life begin?

Does life begin at conception because that is when chemical processes in the cells begin? Consider for a moment that chemistry does not stop at death. Muscle chemistry continues for hours after death and hair and fingernails are reported to continue to get longer even as chemical processes decompose the body. Chemistry then cannot be our indicator of life. Secondly, life in the womb is referenced in the Bible but conception occurs in the fallopian tube - not in the womb. Compare the embryo to a pollinated plant seed blowing in the wind. Neither will develop into a life until it takes up root in the ground or womb as the case may be. All religions teach that our soul leaves the body after the heart stops. Human life then, must begin when the heart beats and God gives us our soul.

Sandra wrote:
Many thoughts in today's time has perverted ideas of "life" or may we say "viable life". So, to effectively address the question, let's ask each other this; When did my child's life begin or when did my own life begin? Without conception and the fertilized egg, none of us would exist. Life begins with conception. Shouldn't the question be - At what point should we respect life or not respect life? Or, when is life viable. As, for me I consider all life valuable even at the most vulnerable embryonic stage.

Requested: Interview with a Christ

By Linda Joy Crutcher
What is your name and what is the purpose of this interview? My name is Light on All Levels. The purpose for this interview is to educate and help people understand the whys of being.
Are you like Jesus Christ? I am like Jesus the Christ, as we all are. I am not demonstrating that likeness, as I am still seeking to manifest the perfection that I am. The Christ level of consciousness is inherent to all men. Some are more aware of this connection than others.
How would you explain your human expression? My physical self is one dimension of the god that I am. I am focusing my awareness in the frequency of the third dimension, or physical plane, and experiencing myself as a physical being. You have heard it before; I am spirit playing at being human.
Why be human? Being human teaches us more of what God is. In this experience of physical awareness, we completely separate the consciousness from our Source, creating duality. The experience is one of integrating our consciousness of physical separateness with God and creating heaven on earth. Christ Jesus, the man, lived on earth in the consciousness or dimension of the Christ. He was the God Man. The Christ is a level of consciousness inherent to all of mankind. Even the Bible tells us, "Ye are Christs."
Do you know the purpose of this planet – I mean what are we doing here? This is a new and awesome experiment in the Cosmos. We are here to experience physical God. We are here to emotionalize, or feel, God’s energy. We get to have free will and be physical gods. We can create or destroy. We can empower God’s energy in any way we want. We get to choose. The greatest gift we have is bringing the vibrations from the mental, or thought realm of God into an emotional reality to experience the feeling of love. Love is the foundation for the planet. Jesus came to help us find our way to holiness, love and forgiveness. You see, what goes in MUST come out. It’s the law of circulation. We are receivers of light (energy), and the nature of God is motion. We seem to have a hard time letting go of everything from each other to stuff. The objective is to learn how to let go – keep a constant state of forgiveness – this is the Christ consciousness. Our mutual goal is to find God right here, right now, in everything we see. We must believe that we are Christs and can demonstrate that reality here on earth, just as Jesus did. To unconditionally love from every level of being is being a Christ.
Do you fear God? Yes, thank God. As God is infinite, I can never know all that I am in God. Fear of God is really fear of judgment. Fear of judgment keeps man focused in pursuing his path.
What would you like to say as a parting gift? Love. It is the key, simple but true. Love unconditionally. Find a way to see that behind every demonstration is a cause, a reason. Let go and let the god that you are deal with the resistance, the struggle. You can make this happen by checking every thought, every feeling and every action emanating from your space. Beware and aware of yourselves. You create your heaven and your hell. Love who you are, you are so beautiful. (author's website listenwithlinda.com)

April 2008 Requested Submission and comments

Do Rancon Profits Take High Priority Over Winchester Rd Traffic Fatalities?
By Robert Peel
I was alarmed to read the Press Enterprise report on Temecula Council members profiting from ties to developers [Cashing In On Growth, December 2007]. More alarming is the shift in road priorities from the very dangerous Winchester Road to Newport Road. Is it mere happenstance that the Rancon controlled elected officials in our region assisted in the approval process for the extension of Newport Road? How would a road to nowhere benefit the area especially when Winchester Road had two deaths reported in January 2001 in separate traffic accidents?

According to reports from 1999 to 2001 police officers had investigated in excess of 100 crashes along a seven mile section of Winchester Road from Temecula’s city limits to Scott Road in Menifee. According to the California Highway Patrol, most of the traffic accidents along Winchester Road occur when the road is one lane in each direction. And since 2001, there have been more Winchester Road traffic fatalities. How then, did Newport Road become the County’s top road priority?

If you follow the money trail it ends up at Rancon headquarters in Murrieta. In 2003, Temecula council member Comerchero accepted a full time employment position with Rancon. He was charged with the responsibility of making a development project east of Menifee a reality. Getting roads at the taxpayer’s expense would allow Rancon to convert this raw Menifee farm land into a financial windfall. “This road creates access that is needed for us to sell our lots to merchant builders,” Stephenson wrote to his investors. Stephenson described the advantages of financing through a CFD that made the investors responsible for the bond debt for only a short time before it would be passed on to builders and later to homeowners. Stephenson wrote, “It means that a tremendous amount of development around our property will be accomplished at very little cost to us.” Plus, in the Press Enterprise report it was noted that County attorneys had written that issuing the bonds and building the road were“integral” to settling the lawsuit - filed by the City of Temecula in November 2003! Cashing in on growth indeed.

Comerchero, a former toy salesman, says it best, “Dan Stephenson and I had an immediate understanding of what we could do for each other. That’s what led me to being named President of Rancon”.

Political corruption has been good for many of our elected officials, but at what cost to the public? The lives of the families who lost their loved ones will never be the same. I for one am contacting the FBI for a full investigation and I encourage you to do the same.
FBI Riverside Resident Agency
3480 Vine Street Suite 200
Riverside, CA 92507
(951)-686-0335

Clinton, Nader,Bloomberg Link by Mason Weaver

HOPE!

Bill Clinton claimed to be from Hope, Arkansas, Jessie Jackson wants to “Keep Hope Alive,” and Obama has the “Audacity of Hope“. Has anyone noticed the call for hope, but not for experience?

Obama is a very Junior Senator who only qualifies for the Presidency by being “hopeful.“ And Hillary Clinton’s experience came from sleeping with Bill Clinton in the White House; well, who hasn’t? This political season has sparked new interest from all kinds of people across the board, so the political novice may not have noticed the prospects of the third party spoilers on the horizon. I wanted to make an observation about the effects the third party candidates will have on this election.

It is clear that New York City Mayor Bloomberg and Green Peace Party candidate Ralph Nader will change the political prospects for both the Democratic and Republican parties, but how, and for whom?

Today, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he would not seek the Presidency after two years of widespread speculation - this came on the heels of Ralph Nader’s announcement two days ago that he would seek the Presidency as a Green Party Candidate. IS THERE A LINK? Yes, there is!

Michael Bloomberg is a Democrat who changed party affiliations to run for mayor of the city of New York. He could not win as a Democrat, and he knew that his billionaire status would please the Republican Party, who develops a rash every time they need to raise cash for a strong candidate. The party leaders would sleep with a dead camel if the camel could raise his own money.

Bloomberg’s liberal policies and governmental style have not surprised most political observers; Michael Bloomberg is still a Democrat, and Senator Hillary Clinton is from New York; she loves third party candidates.

Her husband, President Bill Clinton, won his first term because of the third party candidacy of Ross Perot. The Clinton’s have never won a national election with over 50% of the votes. Hillary would need a third party candidate to help overcome her very high negatives in the polls. She would need a strong third party candidate with the resources to get on ballots in all fifty states and the money to compete in those states. This candidate would not be able to raise money from traditional donors because of the negative effect the campaign would have for the party. Mayor Bloomberg is a billionaire and would have no problem in doing both.

As long as Hillary Clinton was presumed the nominee, Mayor Bloomberg was moving closer and closer to running as a third party candidate. His potential run would certainly take votes away from the Republicans, especially if the candidate was a moderate like John McCain. Bloomberg’s run would certainly bleed support away from the Republicans and strengthen Hillary Clinton’s enough to overcome her negatives.

But as her campaign weakens and the nomination drifts out of her reach, the probability of another Democrat winning the nomination appears likely. So, the politically wise and very patient Hillary begins to look towards 2012 for a re-run to the nomination. If Barack Hussein Obama wins the Democratic nomination but loses the general election, she would be the front runner again for 2012. The weak candidacies of Edwards, Biden, and the others would fail as they have always failed. It would take another unknown candidate (perhaps another person so obscure the Clinton’s did not include them in the hundreds of FBI files they supposedly obtained on allies and rivals) to run against her.

If Obama wins, he will also run for reelection in 2012, and Senator Clinton would then need to wait until 2016 for another run, surely against Obama’s Vice President. As I have said, she is wise. What Senator Clinton needs now is not Mayor Bloomberg, because he would only help Obama win. She needs someone to help the Republicans win so she can run again in 2012. Enter stage far left, Ralph Nader.

Think about what a Ralph Nader candidacy would do to this race. He can criticize Barack Hussein Obama in ways Hillary could not. Already he has begun to take real shots at his policy. He can attack him on his liberal agenda in ways Hillary cannot touch. He does not have to apologize to the media for being insensitive; everyone knows Ralph Nader is insensitive. He also has his loyal followers who are as fanatical about their beliefs as Barack Hussein Obama’s followers are about this Utopia called “HOPE”.

Ralph Nader’s run for the Presidency only benefits one person; Hillary Clinton. Maybe she is the smartest woman in America.

Mason Weaver is a Motivational Authors & Speaker http://masonweaver.wordpress.com/