>From: Crvzito Herrera Crvz
>Sent: Mar 27, 2011 10:47 AM
>To: kate , Larry Mendoza
>Subject: De: Re: Political Cronyism and Hypocracy:...
Good Morning Kate and Larry:
i have bad news to bear, the system has me in thier legal web.
Thursday nite coming home from East Lost Angeles. Three Blocks Away from
home i got stopped and arrested for a DUI. They understood i was a medical patient and disregard my medical recommendation and really wanted to pick-a-fight more that anything, however, calm and collective throughout the entire arrest.
THEY forced blood from me against my will and on the threats of violence,
possibly tasing me to the force blood out of me, no way on hell was i going to get electrocuted with alot of voltage which is cruel and usual
punsihement when i am supposedly innocent until proven guilty. Here goes the legal wrangling.
Spent Thursday and most of Friday afternoon in County Jail.
Here goes the melodrama and the adherence to constitutional principles and one's personal right to not have evasive and most sacred of one's essennce's is thier life water blood. Not fair, but now they have picked a fight with me.
Time will tell. Pray for me.
In service
cruzito cruz
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Waite" ; "John Jensen" ; "Teresa
>Hernandez" ; "Dr. Karen"
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>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 7:29 AM
>Subject: Political Cronyism and Hypocracy: Washington Post's Ezra Klein
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WE NEED TO WRITE UP A SIMLAR ARTICLE ON SB COE "BILL CIRONE AND HIS
CRONIES"---The "RETIREMENT" of CASTON, SARVIS, McClish et al; the accolades and cover-up of criminals; the funding of croney consultants and the obscene benefit packages....
The Sad, Hypocritical Retirement of Evan Bayh
by Ezra Klein
Washington Post blog, March 15, 2011
Evan Bayh wasn’t a particularly distinguished senator. You’ll not find much major legislation with his name on it, or a particularly coherent philosophy laced through his votes. He was a popular Democrat in a red state, and most of his efforts seemed to be devoted to keeping it that way. In practice,that meant talking a lot about the deficit, taking occasional potshots as liberals and avoiding any overly courageous legislative stands. “An ordinary politician,” I wrote when he retired.
But he was a very interesting near-retiree. When he decided not to seek
reelection in 2010, he published a precise and devastating broadside againstthe institution in which he and his father had served. Instead of merely condemning the bitter partisanship of the place, he proposed to close the loopholes that had enabled polarization to metastasize in paralysis.
“Filibusters should require 35 senators to … make a commitment to
continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory,” he wrote. And “the number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.” Strong stuff. He then went after money in politics, calling for“legislation to enhance disclosure requirements, require corporate donors to appear in the political ads they finance and prohibit government contractors or bailout beneficiaries from spending money on political campaigns,” not to mention “public matching funds for smaller contributions. Bayh had no record of leadership on any of these topics. But, in part for that reason, it was particularly potent to hear him speaking out on them.
An acknowledged moderate who’d taken on these crusades wouldn’t have just
been a good senator. He’d have been a great one. This new incarnation of
Evan Bayh, I wrote, should stay in the Senate, where he could do some good.
But he didn’t want to stay in the Senate, he told me in subsequent
interviews. He waxed rhapsodic over his time teaching at Indiana University’s Graduate School of Business. “It was real, it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day,” he said. He wanted that feeling again. He wanted to come home at night, he told me, and say, “Dear, do you know what we got done today? I’ve got this really bright kid in my class, and do you know what he asked me, and here’s what I told him, and I think I saw a litle epiphany moment go off in his mind.” For a United States senator to explain his retirement by saying, “I want to be engaged in an honorable line of work,” was the single most persuasive and devastating critique I’d ever seen of the Senate as an institution.
But Bayh did not return to Indiana to teach. He did not, as he said he was thinking of doing, join a foundation. Rather, he went to the massive law firm McGuire Woods. And who does McGuire Woods work for? “Principal clients served from our Washington office include national energy companies, foreign countries, international manufacturing companies, trade associations and local and national businesses,” reads the company’s Web site. He followed that up by signing on as a senior adviser to Apollo Management Group, a giant public-equity firm. And, finally, this week, he joined Fox News as a contributor. It’s as if he’s systematically ticking off every poison he identified in the body politic and rushing to dump more of it into the water supply.
The “corrosive system of campaign financing” that Bayh considered such a
threat? He’s being paid by both McGuire Woods and Apollo Global Management to act as a corroding agent on their behalf. The “strident partisanship” and “unyielding ideology” he complained was ruining the Senate? At Fox News, he’ll be right there on set while it gets cooked up. His warning that “what is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest” sounds, in retrospect, like a joke. Evan Bayh doing performance art as Evan Bayh.
Exactly which of these new positions would Bayh say is against his
self-interest, or in promotion of the general welfare?
I should say, for the record, that I got in touch with McGuire Woods to give Bayh an opportunity to comment, or offer an alternative interpretation of his career decisions. I didn’t hear from them, but I got a call back from a PR person at Fox News. “I’m going to decline the interview for Mr. Bayh,” the flack said. And I guess I’m not surprised:
It’s one thing to take the positions Bayh took without much of a record on them. It’s a whole other to try to sustain them when his paychecks are being signed by people who profit from the very forces he lamented.
In our last interview, Bayh complained of the poor opinion the public had of him and his colleagues. “They look at us like we’re worse than used-car salesmen.” Yes. They do. And this is why.
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“The Sad, Hypocritical Retirement of Evan Bayh: Ezra Klein”
Prof. Duane Whittier Says:
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>March 26th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
>A most insightful article here. Well worth reading. Thank you for bringing >it to our attention.
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>sharon kerley Says:
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>March 27th, 2011 at 2:56 am
>It is so sad when we really find out that we are not the country we thought we were. Who does really run our country, it becomes more and more evident that there are people behind the scene who run the show. The book that really showed the truth was Confessions of an economic hit man.
I had always thought that we were the best, we sent food, missionaries,
clothes etc. Then I find out that what we really were doing is gettin other countries tied up with interrest payments which went or goes to European Bankers. Do we even have an honest upright person to be our next president????The Haiti situation, and also the New Orleans situation only gives u s a glimpse of the magnitude of it all. There is a lot more.
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>March 27th, 2011 at 8:17 am
“Truth Will Out, Justice Prevails, and Love Conquers All in an Eternal
Conflict against Humorless Arrogance, Illusory Prestige, Brute Force and
Primeval Stupidity.” Santa Barbara is the Perfect Storm of Injustice; “WE,the People” are calling for PRACTICAL WISDOM, COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITY and RESTORATIVE JUSTICE—and we’re demanding a Federal Grand Jury to EXPOSE corruption, incarcerate the Education-Politico-Industrial Complex (EPIC)—Good Ol’ Boys SBCOE Bill Cirone and His Cronies. It is up to US to RESTORE JUSTICE and DEMOCRACY to our schools and communities.; social change is messy but inevitable….
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