Initial Values

By Jack L Harrison, Esq

Remove abusive restrictions as we work to eliminate crime through obtaining material justice FOR ALL.

I would vigorously seek out the answer to why Californians pay so much more than people who live in other states for gasoline and other energy costs. If what I expect proves true, the office would proceed both civilly and criminally against the corporate criminals involved.

The weak record of this office on environmental issues would be rapidly reversed and I would personally and vigorously protect our rapidly deteriorating natural environment.

In the recent flurry of attention about the danger of levee failures in the delta area threatening the water supply of the state few noticed that counties in the threatened area continued to crank out building permits for large developments in floodplains, depending on stampeding the public to approve bond issues that would mortgage their children's future to build levees around privately owned, artificially formed islands at public expense, and reinforcing levees to protect private flood plain lands so that speculators and large corporations can build on them... and enrich themselves.

It has often been said that in California real estate developers finance the Democrats and agribusiness finances the Republicans. Here the two parties join together to benefit their friends by passing a bloated measure that our grandchildren will be struggling to repay along with that other sacred cow of both parties, the California prison complex, which, thanks to the Three Strikes law, has been growing and growing and growing leaving us with a large population of aging prisoners with increasing health problems that the system did not occur until a Federal court took away our control of the health services.

These expenses drain the state budget pauperizing our public health care system and educational systems, which are approaching the worst in the nation.

IMMIGRATION is another hot button fear issue. Immigrants contribute to California's economy, and productivity working hard and adding vitality to our shared life.

Then why the hullabaloo? In 2004 there were four prosecutions of employers who knowingly employed undocumented workers on a large scale. This tells us that what the corporations really want is a docile low waged workforce that can be disposed of by a phone call to the INS if they show any sign of organizing for better working conditions or a living wage.