(This is near San Diego, btw)
ENCINITAS -- Francine Busby says she will demand an explanation from the Sheriff's Department about deputies breaking up a fundraising party held for her in Cardiff and arresting the host.
The party was Friday night in the 1300 block of Rubenstein Avenue, the home of Shari Barman, a Busby supporter. I guess you could count on someone named "barman" to throw a wild party.
It ended with Barman, 60, being arrested and jailed on suspicion of battery on a peace officer, and resisting, delaying and obstructing a peace officer. Pam Morgan, 62, a Rancho Santa Fe resident and one of the guests, also was arrested and taken to the Encinitas Sheriff's Station, where she was cited for resisting, delaying and obstructing a peace officer.
Other partygoers were doused with pepper spray, and seven deputies, a sergeant and a helicopter were dispatched to the neighborhood of expensive homes. "Here, ya' old hippy, this'll sober ya' up!"
Busby, Barman, guests at the party and a Sheriff's Department spokesman provided varying accounts of what happened. No doubt.
Busby, 58, a Democrat seeking the 50th Congressional District seat in 2010, said she will meet with Sheriff Department officials today to find out who made what she called a "phony" noise complaint.
The Sheriff's Department received the complaint at 9:33 p.m. from a man who said someone was talking on a loudspeaker and a crowd was cheering, keeping him awake. From about 8 to 8:30 p.m., Busby said, she used an amplified microphone to talk to guests, whom she described as middle-aged supporters. Yep, old hippies. Probably hard of hearing from listening to the Dead at max volume for so many years.
During Busby's speech, Barman said in a statement yesterday, a man on the property behind her house shouted "disparaging remarks" about Busby and gay people. Barman lives in the house with her partner, Jane Stratton, 55. After her talk, Busby said, people chatted. "It was a quiet home reception, disrupted by a vulgar person shouting obscenities from behind the bushes," Busby said.
Neighbors on three sides of the house said yesterday there wasn't much noise from the party. One man said he slept through it. "We didn't hear anything until the sheriff came, with eight patrol cars and a helicopter," said Natasha Cortina, 43, who said she and her two children were home with the windows open. Hugh Elliott, 53, who lives closest to the house, said he heard a deputy's radio, then arguing, coughing, crying and finally everyone spilling outside as the smell of pepper spray drifted over his back fence.
Deputy Marshall Abbott, who has worked for the department for about two years, was sent in response to the noise complaint, said Sgt. Thomas Yancey of the Encinitas station, which serves Cardiff. A member of the department's psychiatric emergency response team, who was riding with Abbott that day, went with him. Abbott could not be reached for comment. Right person for the job.
While trying to deal with the complaint, guests at the party surrounded Abbott and he felt threatened, Yancey said. "We don't like people standing behind us -- we have Tasers, guns, clubs," he said.
Busby said no more than 30 people were still at the party. Yancey said deputies' reports indicate there could have been as many as 50.
When Abbott arrived, Yancey said, he told Barman about the complaint, and she uttered an expletive about a neighbor. Abbott asked Barman for her birth date so he could issue a noise warning, but Barman refused to give it, he said. Power game, you lose, lady.
Barman tried to walk away, Yancey said, and Abbott grabbed her. The guests took Barman away, and Abbott used pepper spray on them. In the chaos, someone kicked the emergency response team member, a woman who is 5-foot-2, Yancey said. "He was pepper-spraying the faces of anyone who tried to talk to him," Busby said. "People were stunned. It was something that none of us has experienced."
In her statement, Barman said she asked the deputy why he needed her birth date, because he knew her name and where she lived. "He told me I was under arrest, grabbed my right arm, twisted it behind me and threw me on the ground," she said. When Stratton asked the deputy to be careful because Barman had shoulder surgery recently, the deputy "knocked her to the ground," Barman said.
After the pepper spray was used, the crowded backed off, and Abbott saw Barman in the kitchen and grabbed her, Yancey said. A man held on to Barman's foot to prevent her from being taken out of the room, and she fell to the floor. Abbott took out his Taser, the man backed off, and Barman was arrested, he said. Good. Grief.
At some point Abbott called for backup and six deputies and a sergeant responded, Yancey said. Deputy Derek Sanders arrested Morgan, he said. There were no reported injuries.
Reports from deputies at the scene do not mention alcohol, Yancey said, which indicates people at the party were not suspected of being drunk. Just really mean and stupid.
"The place got out of hand," he said. "If Francine Busby was there, why not take a leadership role, step up, and nip this thing in the bud?"
Busby said she couldn't intervene because the deputy was using pepper spray on people indiscriminately. No he wasn't. He was only using it on the party-goers.
Barman was booked into jail at 2 a.m. Saturday and released on her own recognizance at 11 a.m., a jail official said. She is scheduled to appear in Vista Superior Court on Aug. 11 on the two misdemeanor counts.
Morgan could not be reached for comment.
Busby had sought the 50th Congressional District seat in 2006, but was defeated by Brian Bilbray, 53 percent to 44 percent. The seat was vacated by former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who is in federal prison after pleading guilty in a corruption scandal. Ok, was Rove in San Diego recently?
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This is what happens when you resist the police. Stupid rich liberals think they don't have to behave the same way as everyone else...surprise surprise they do.
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Barman tried to walk away, Yancey said, and Abbott grabbed her. The guests took Barman away, and Abbott used pepper spray on them. In the chaos, someone kicked the emergency response team member...
Sounds like refusal to show ID to a Peace Officer, Interference and Assault to me.
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Busby, 58, a Democrat seeking the 50th Congressional District seat in 2010, said she will meet with Sheriff Department officials today to find out who made what she called a "phony" noise complaint.
That's right. Play the victim. Blame it on the poor old guy who was trying to get some sleep so he could get up and go to work in the morning.
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Francine's "friend" is a long-time L*sbian assaultist. Sounds like a strong case of Democrat elitism, L*sbian politics, and aggressive "do you know who I am". She's a nice face on a fanatical bunch of bitches
Busby's already played the "Right-Wing-target" card. Next she can play the "people don't know who I really am" card
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The next person who calls this a 'coup' gets a poke in the nose. I mean it! The Honduran President made an illegal power grab and got smacked down. The system there seems to be working as designed. Leave 'em alone.
ST. PAUL, Minn. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race.
The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose options for regaining the Senate seat are dwindling.
Justices said Franken is entitled to the election certificate he needs to assume office. With Franken and the usual backing of two independents, Democrats will have a big enough majority to overcome Republican filibusters.
Coleman hasn't ruled out seeking federal court intervention.
Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said the earliest Franken would be seated is next week because the Senate is out of session for the July 4th holiday.
Coleman's appeal hinged largely on whether thousands of absentee votes had been unfairly rejected by local election officials around the state.
The unanimous court wrote that "because the legislature established absentee voting as an optional method of voting, voters choosing to use that method are required to comply with the statutory provisions."
They went on to say that "because strict compliance with the statutory requirements for absentee voting is, and always has been required, there is no basis on which voters could have reasonably believed that anything less than strict compliance would suffice."
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Congratulations Minnesotans! You now have the leadership you overwhelmingly ask for and so richly deserve. Let's not have any bitc*ing or whining now. Enjoy the day and his entire tenure in office.
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To jog memories, Coleman led Franken by 215 votes election night. Then selective counting happened: Case in point: the panel's dismal handling of absentee ballots. Early in the recount, the Franken team howled that some absentee votes had been erroneously rejected by local officials. We warned at the time that this was dangerous territory, designed to pressure election officials into accepting rejected ballots after the fact.
Yet instead of shutting this Franken request down, or early on issuing a clear set of rules as to which absentees were valid, the state Supreme Court and the canvassing board oversaw a haphazard process by which some counties submitted new batches to be included in the tally, while other counties did not. The resulting additional 933 ballots were largely responsible for Mr. Franken's narrow lead.
During the contest trial, the Coleman team presented evidence of a further 6,500 absentees that it felt deserved to be included under the process that had produced the prior 933. The three judges then finally defined what constituted a "legal" absentee ballot. Countable ballots, for instance, had to contain the signature of the voter, complete registration information, and proper witness credentials.
But the panel only applied these standards going forward, severely reducing the universe of additional absentees that the Coleman team could hope to have included. In the end, the three judges allowed only about 350 additional absentees to be counted. The panel also did nothing about the hundreds, possibly thousands, of absentees that have already been legally included, yet are now "illegal" according to the panel's own ex-post definition.
The 2000 Bush-Gore election should have drilled into every Repub skull to never give an inch to Dem selective counting schemes. And make sure all ballots are guarded around the clock lest overwhelmingly Dem ballots are "found" in filing cabinets.
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I am the Senator Landslide Franken,
I will make worse what's already achin',
Don't blame me for Minnesotans voting,
I do my best work to help them counting,
O marvelous me, o marvelous me,
I am a Senator for all to see.
Only an idiot would vote for me,
That's a large part of the voters you see,
O marvelous me, O marvelous me,
I am a Senator for all to see.
Last year South Carolina Rep. James E. Clyburn was expected to stay neutral in the long, bitter Democratic presidential primary struggle between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
An influential endorsement from Clyburn, a civil rights hero and top member of the House Democratic leadership, would have been welcomed by former President Clinton, who worked closely with him in the 1990s and thought they were close friends.
But the down-South campaigning got a little rough and, as The Ticket noted here, Clyburn didn't help his old ally. In fact, he started to quietly tilt toward Obama, whom he eventually endorsed after the primary. And Clyburn and the ex-president are not talking much anymore.
Last week, tucked inside a short announcement of White House nominations being sent to the Senate for confirmation was a little-noticed line: "Mignon L. Clyburn, of South Carolina, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years."
Clyburn is the eldest daughter of James Clyburn and a member of South Carolina's Public Service Commission. She's also a former weekly newspaper publisher. Now, the nation's first African American president has nominated someone who would become the nation's first African American female member of the FCC.
But there's probably no connection with last year's maneuvering.
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get it as corrupt as possible so it shall be easier for me to decide.
Congress has yet to come up with a clear prescription for the nation's health care system. But some state legislators are already urging voters not to take the medicine.
Under Arizona's Health Care Freedom Act, which was passed by the state legislature this week, a voting initiative will be placed on the 2010 ballot that, if passed, will allow the state to opt out of any federal health care plan. Five other states -- Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming -- are considering similar initiatives for their 2010 ballots.
"Our health care freedoms are very much at risk by health care reforms proposed in Washington, D.C.," said Arizona state Rep. Nancy Barto, the Republican legislator who sponsored the measure. "We needed to act as a state to protect our citizens and ensure that they will always be able to buy their own health care and not be forced into a plan they don't want."
But an opponent of the bill, state Rep. Phil Lopes, says the measure has less to do with individual freedom and more to do with the protecting the status quo. "The proponents of this are saying the system we have now works and we don't want any kind of reform," the Democratic legislator said. "This flies in the face of what the public tells us they want."
Not so, says Christine Herrera, director of the Health and Human Services Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The group's 1,800 state legislator members have endorsed a resolution opposing a Medicare-modeled federal health plan and a national health insurance exchange, two concepts that are gaining ground in Washington.
"Our state legislatures are looking at what's going on in Washington as trampling state's rights," Herrera says.
Some state legislators say they worry that a government-mandated program will effectively eliminate their traditional role in regulating health insurers -- an important power base. Others raise constitutional concerns. "The real goal of national health insurance exchange isn't competition -- it's a federal power grab that flies in the face of the Tenth Amendment," says Wisconsin state Rep. Leah Vukmir, a Republican.
The Tenth Amendment ensures that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It's the same constitutional roadblock Franklin D. Roosevelt ran into during the Great Depression when he tried to ram through the first round of recovery programs under the New Deal. In a series of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court found the National Recovery Act, the Agricultural Adjustment Act and several other recovery programs unconstitutional.
But constitutional scholars say it's unlikely history will repeat itself with health care reform efforts. "It's hard to imagine Congress passing anything that would be plausibly challengeable under the Tenth Amendment, but it's certainly theoretically possible," said Paul Bender, professor of constitutional law at Arizona State University. He said Congress has broad powers to regulate interstate commerce, which would include something as big as health care.
But Bender also said he sees a striking similarity between the current makeup of the Supreme Court and the "Nine Old Men" who stymied FDR's sweeping reform efforts in the 1930s. "Both sets of jurists seem to share a belief that the balance of power has shifted too far in favor of Congress at the expense of the states," Bender said.
Some state lawmakers who oppose President Obama's efforts to implement a national health care plan say the inevitable result will be socialized medicine. "The public plan and national health insurance exchange will squeeze out private insurance and put us on the road to single-payer health care," warns Georgia state Sen. Judson Hill, a Republican.
"Having the public plan now will mean socialized medicine later," he said.
Hill and other state legislators expressed concerns that millions of people will drop their private coverage if there is political pressure to keep a public plan's premiums low and benefits high. And if private insurers leave the market, they say, consumers will essentially be left with no choice of plans and no control over how their health care dollars are spent.
"Pure speculation," says Lopes. "In 1964 this was the same argument insurance companies made with President Lyndon Johnson when he proposed Medicare. Medicare did not do away with private insurance companies. They did very well."
"Protecting the rights of individuals to be in control of their health and health care must be a fundamental component of health care reform," says Dr. Erick Novack, chairman of Arizonans for Health Care Freedom, which promoted the state's ballot measure. "We are confident that the people of Arizona will vote to ensure their own rights."
With a constitutional challenge to health care reform problematic at best, that vote may turn out to be largely symbolic. But for now, that doesn't seem to be stopping other states from following Arizona's lead.
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State Lawmakers Considering Move to Opt Out of Federal Health Care
If it can be done GOOD.
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Gov. sanford tried something like that in SC and got shot down by the courts.
And no doubt Congress will sneek in some poison-pill language that will deny Medicare reimbursements in the state if they don't play nice with Team Barry.
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He said Congress has broad powers to regulate interstate commerce, which would include something as big as health care.
This is going to be a huge battle. Every State has its own, unique, statutes regarding Health Insurance. And demographics based on geography are the key to proportionate premiums. A One size fits all option will defiantly result in a winners and losers scenario. Surprise...surprise...the NE region will be on the winners side.
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Tick off enough states, get a Constitutional Convention. People will be surprised how much local interests can trump party affiliation when its an issue of power, particularly under the long yoke of unfunded Federal mandates which have effectively stolen state budgets. All of the sudden those lower on the hierarchical chart are equal or great in power than those in the Beltway.
California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red.
Once the USs richest state, California now has the dubious distinction of having the worst credit rating in the country. It is facing a budget deficit of $24bn (17bn, £14.5bn) yet Arnold Schwarzenegger, its governor, and the state assembly cannot agree on a budget that would address the shortfall.
Californias fiscal year ends on Wednesday but as the states cash reserves are empty, IOUs will be issued to a range of creditors, including contractors, such as information technology companies and the food service groups that cater for prisons.
On Wednesday we start a fiscal year with a massively unbalanced spending plan and a cash shortfall not seen since the Great Depression, said John Chiang, the state controller. Unfortunately, the states inability to balance its chequebook will now mean short-changing taxpayers, local governments and small businesses.
The state is also likely to issue IOUs to the US government. California currently contributes funding for government-run programmes for elderly and developmentally disabled people but is considering issuing IOUs to cover its contributions because of the lack of cash. Education funding is protected under the states constitution while payments on the states bond debt are also guaranteed under state law.
Democrats and Republicans in the state government last week struck an agreement on a range of money-saving measures. However, Mr Schwarzenegger has threatened to veto the plan on the grounds that it was a piecemeal solution to Californias budgetary woes.
Mr Schwarzenegger said he would veto any bills that raised taxes without reforming the states government. I will veto any majority vote tax increase bill that punishes taxpayers for Sacramentos failure to live within its means, he said. The legislature will have a difficult time explaining to Californians why they are running floor drills the day before our budget deadline. We do not have time for any more floor drills or partial solutions. Its time for the legislature to send me a budget that solves our entire deficit without raising taxes.
Could have been this all along, Arnie; instead you allowed state spending to jump out of control these last few years, and now you're paying for it.
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Time to issue the politicians IOU instead of votes and paychecks.
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Print all the cash you need, Oblahblahblah's doing it.
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Will California ex-pats all over the western states finally stop with the "we're so much better and smarter in the Golden State than you idiotic peasants" crap?
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One can read opinions of Californians moving to other states and bringing their ruinous politics with them. These Californians who spread their disastrous liberal politics to their new states are being compared to a Biblical plague of locusts.
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Lagom is right. I live in the Land of the Locusts. Locally, we have 15% unemployment and due to our progressive politics, our future looks ever downward.
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One can read opinions of Californians moving to other states and bringing their ruinous politics with them.
Same thing that's happening to NH with the influx of so many Massholes.
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Will California ex-pats all over the western states finally stop with the "we're so much better and smarter in the Golden State than you idiotic peasants" crap?
Yes, Blondie. I've learned humility. But, OTOH, and as I've said before, a whole lot of your so called "California ex-pats" were not born in California. The ones who are natives are probably fleeing the over crowding because people have been flooding into this state from all over the U.S. and from all over the whole, wide world. Yes, we ruined this state but we had a lot of help. There are millions of current California residents who speak with New York and New Jersey accents. There are millions more who speak with Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese and English accents. Yes, we are the New Yorkers of the West but a lot of us were actually born in New York. Believe it or not, there are a whole helluva lot of transplanted mid-westerners living here. They came from places like Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Michigan and Texas. I myself was a Navy brat whose father was stationed here in 1954. Maybe you could just call me an American. There used to be a saying about someone tilting the United States on one end so that all the loose fruits and nuts rolled into California. So don't blame me if some of us are rolling back in your direction.
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Mirroring the above, I've been in California since 1976, originally from DC. It was paradise when the USMC first put me here, and I've watched it peak and settle in the ooze of overcrowding and fiscal imprudence. The state is now run by people who haven't a clue about how to govern, only how to buy votes through bread and circus tactics. They keep bringing foreign born here, (currently over 25% of the people in California were born in a foreign country) to stack the political deck for more of the same. The exfiltration of the actual economic producers (business, people of means, retirees) is ongoing and increasing. Now the water crisis brought to us by the Endanged Species Act has destroyed central valley agriculture, further weakening tax revenue. SO what do the idiots do here in Sacramento, fight to raise more taxes, further speeding the bleedout, with not a clue that they are circling the drain with the state.
Tragic end of the slippery slope of inattention we all ignored while we trusted the elected ones to do our business, and the schools to actually educate our kids, and frankly, the slide is beyond repair. Tragic and sad....
feels like Rome circa 410 AD....
California native ('59). I believe more of our residents came from your other states (and Mexico) than are native-born. Ergo: kiss my ass.
I've voted against every whackjob proposition and state candidate outside my San Diego County residence (and those within). My representatives to DC (Duncan Hunter, Duncan Duane Hunter, USMC) and CA (various, but Rep., Conservative) have nothing to apologize for. I STRONGLY object to your slurs and would note that I am not alone. You have a LARGE military presence (especially in my county), are they all drooling socialist morons? Knee-jerk labels are fun, but I'll kick your ass if we meet in a bar and you question my patriotism
/end rant, dammit
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A thought occurs to me. Maybe, just maybe, if Bambi keeps alienating his core supporters we might only have to put up with him until 2012; assuming we still have a country then.
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"I am your champion, my friends. And I'll keep on fighting till the end (cough of 2012 cough). You have brought me fame and fortune, and I thank you all."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red.
