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April 19 - 25, 2013 TAFT INDEPENDENT
April 19 - 25, 2013 • Volume 7 Issue www.Taftindependent.com“Serving the West Kern County Communities of Taft, South Taft, Ford City, Maricopa, Fellows, McKittrick, Derby Acres, Dustin Acres, and the Cuyama Valley”
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Moron Golf Tournament August 10th The Taft Union High School support golf tournament, The Moron Invita-tional, has been scheduled for August 10, 2013. We’ve had a great 10 year run with $25,000.00 in direct donation to their golf program. Thanks go out to all our supporters and participants that have made this a fun day in the sun and you can count on plenty of sun! Thank you for your continued support of our very successful raffle and try to set something aside, it is always greatly appreciated. I nvitations will be sent at a later date. Go Wildcats!
Baldock Golf Tourney April 19 The Taft College Foundation’s annual Al Baldock Memorial Athletic Golf Classic has been scheduled for April 19 at the Mifflin-Buena Vista Golf Course.Tourney chairman Brock McMurray said the event, held in memory of the leg-endary Cougar football coach, raises money for the college’s athletic program.It is sponsored by AP Architects. Cash prizes based on net score will be awarded to the top four teams -- $1,200 for first, $800 for second, $600 for third and $400 for fourth.Other prizes include $10,000 cash for a hole-in-one on No. 2 and No. 13 spon-sored by Roger Miller Insurance Agency, $5,000 for hole-in-one on No. 6 and No. 17 sponsored by Dr. Loretta Garcia Lipscomb, $100 for closest to the hole on each par-3 sponsored by Dr. Charles Walker, and $100 longest drive (men and women) on the seventh hole. Registration for the four-person scramble tournament begins at 11 a.m. with the shotgun start scheduled for 12:30 p.m. The fee is $100 per player ($400 per team) and includes green fees, cart, on-course beverages, dinner and tee prizes. The Taft College Alumni Association is sponsoring a dinner following the tournament. Cooper’s True Value Home and Garden Center is sponsoring the drawings for prizes. For more information call Sheri Black at 763-7746.
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Taft\Westside Cleanup Day April 27th On Saturday, April 27, Wood Street, from Highway 33 to Tenth Street will be slated for a Community Cleanup. The effort is co-sponsored by the City and the County, with a contribution by Westside Waste Management, who will be providing four large dumpsters along Wood Street for people to use, free of charge. All are invited to volunteer to help with cleanup, beginning 7:30 a.m., and ending at 3 p.m. Lunch will be provided to all volunteer workers. Wood Street was selected because it is an entrance to the city. If there are sufficient numbers of volunteers, we also will tackle the Harrison Street entrance to Taft.
Taft High Scholarships To Presented April 22nd Taft Union High School seniors will receive more than $175,000 in college scholarships at Honors Night from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 22. Private individuals and representatives from businesses and foundations will hand deliver the scholarships to more than 75 students. The event will be held in the high school auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
Phi Theta Kappa Relay For Life Car Wash Saturday April 20th Phi Theta Kappa will be holding their annual Relay for Life car wash this saturday April 20, 2013 at the 7- Eleven located on sixth street in Taft. A minimum $5.00 donation is being requsted. If you are in need of a ticket for this special event please contact 293-0099.
By John Swearengin
The Alpha House BBQ and Auction is Saturday April 20th, at 5pm at the Westside Rec Auditorium. The Alpha House is a 24 hour women’s shelter that runs solely on grants, donations, and fundraisers. Most of the women there are victims of domestic violence and many of them come with nothing but the clothes on their back. The Alpha House keeps them safe, helps with counseling, and finds programs to assist with their current and future finances, and so much more. Please attend this great fundraiser. Adult tickets $10, Children $5. Call the Alpha House at 763-4357 for tickets, donations, and info.
Every Wednesday is Bike Night at Chilled n Grilled. Every Thursday is “Last Chance Showing” at the Taft Fox Theatre.
Saturday April 20th:Rotary Health Fair and BVHS Book Fair at Buena Vista High School from 8am - noon.
Taft High Track Meet at the Taft High Track
Taft Lions Club BBQ and Bake Sale at Waldrops Auto Parts at 6th and Kern Street. Cuyama Car Show at Cuyama High School.
Wednesday April 24th:Ardor Day Tree Planting by the City of Taft at the Taft Community Garden across from True Value.
Thursday April 25th:State of the City Luncheon in the OT banquet room, starts at noon. Contact the Taft Chamber for more info. Friday April 26th:Taft Petroleum Club last Friday of the Month Chicken or Steak Dinner. Drink Specials and Music.
Saturday April 27th: Taft Community Clean up. 8am-noon. Meet at Veterans Park (Police Park) at 8am. Gloves, water, and LUNCH provided afterwards.Taft High Hall of Fame Dinner at Taft High. Tickets $40. Contact Taft High for more info.
Relay for Life Bunco Fundraiser at the Taft Veterans Hall at 218 Taylor Street. $20. Contact Chrissy Rodart @ 577-6833.The Cuyama Booster Club is teaming up with Pizza Factory and Pizza Factory Alumni from 4-9pm. A percentage of their profit will go to Relay for Life.Spring into Gardening at the Taft Community Garden, 9am-noon. Pumpkin Planting Kits available for the first 100 kids.
Monday April 29th:The Rad Naz Crew Relay for Life Team will be working at Black Gold Deli from 5-8pm. All their tips will go to Relay for Life. Reservations can be made by call-ing Black Gold.
The Westside Recreation and Park District has a great new Building at 500 Cascade Place. The building has Bowling, Weight Room, Volleyball, Basketball, meeting and party rooms, and a beautiful grass area outside. Stop by and check it out! Shop Taft!
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Dear Taft Friends:
I wanted to give you an update/results on our Taft inspections during the period of March 27-29th regarding Code Compliance Cases in the greater Taft Area. The eradication of blight is a big concern of your Supervisor David Couch. Residential and com-mercial eyesores lower property values, are not fair to citizens who keep their properties clean, and often pose public health and safety problems for the community. 42 - 30 Day Notice and Orders issued (or in the process w/clerical) 4 - Issued citations at $250 each 17 - closed cases 3 - Extensions of time issued (1 of the three has complied prior to extension date given) 1 - Case in the process of being prepared to go before the BOS for demolition 5 - Follow up inspections on cases sent to the BOS regarding demolitions which will be forthcoming. We have about 35 plus additional cases for Taft and the surround-ing areas, i.e., Valley Acres, Dustin Acres and Derby Acres that we will processing soon. Our Code Compliance Officer will get back out to Taft next week to finish up and then we will start on Bakersfield complaints. I will try to give you a weekly or bi-weekly account of work being done in the 4th District.
Mark SalvaggioOffice of Supervisor David Couch
Caltrans Installing New Signs Statewide to Remind Motorists to“Move Over” for Law Enforce-ment and Highway WorkersSACRAMENTO – Caltrans workers and the California High-way Patrol will be out in force today on highways throughout the state, installing “Move Over” signs intended to help save lives and increase safety for motorists, highway workers, CHP officers, and other law enforcement.
“Every day, highway workers put their lives in danger just by going to work,” said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. “We’re ask-ing motorists to slow down, watch out for highway workers and CHP, and safely move over a lane when they see flashing amber lights on Caltrans or other emergency vehicles.”
The new signs will display the messages, “Move Over or Slow for Stopped Emergency and Maintenance Vehicles” and “Move Over or Slow When Amber Lights Flashing.” In addition, more than 700 existing electronic highway message signs statewide will display, “Move Over or Slow for Workers, It’s the Law.”
“Every year, a growing number of law enforcement, emergency personnel, and highway workers are killed or injured along Cali-fornia’s roadways,” said California Highway Patrol Commissioner Joe Farrow. “One way to help minimize the risk for these workers is for the motoring public to do their part by paying attention and exercising caution on the road. If you see emergency lights on the shoulder ahead, the law requires you to move over or slow down.”
The Move Over law, which took effect in 2007, was amended in 2009 to add Caltrans vehicles displaying flashing amber warning lights to the list of vehicles for which motorists must move over if safe to do so, or slow down.
Highway construction and maintenance work is one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States. Since the 1920s, 178 Caltrans employees have died while on the job.
Annual State of the City Luncheon Plans Complete Sharon Hill, President of the Kiwanis Club of Taft, and Kathy Orrin, Chamber Executive Director, have announced the annual State of the City Luncheon traditionally held during an April meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Taft. The luncheon is sched-uled from noon to 1:30 p.m., on Thursday, April 25, at the OT Cookhouse banquet room. Tickets are $15, and reservations are appreciated. “The Kiwanis Club is proud to sponsor this luncheon because it is important for our citizens to have access to the community leaders who are making decisions for our future,” stated Kiwanis President Hill. Hill also reminded us that this is the third such luncheon in as many years. The line-up of speakers this year is especially important, accord-ing to Dr. Kathy Orrin of the Taft Chamber. “We have invited Taft Mayor Paul Linder, City Manager Craig Jones, Don Koenig (Director of the West Side Recreation and Parks District), Chuck Hagstrom (President of the Board of the West Side Healthcare District), Dr. Dena Maloney (President of the West Kern Com-munity College District—Taft College), and Terry McNally, CEO of the Kern County Courts to speak about the issues facing our community from their perspective.” It is traditional to hear from City leadership, but the Chamber reserves the right to invite representatives from other organiza-tions they deem also timely and newsworthy. “The ‘Rec’ is at the forefront of providing programs for our community, and they seem to be responding instantaneously to the demands of their clientele,” stated Orrin. “So, too, with Taft College and the Healthcare District.” Terry McNally has been invited to provide information about the recent decision to shut down the Taft Municipal Court for four out of five days per week, making the Taft Court operational only on Thursdays. This decision is slated to go into effect in September of this year. Reservations may be made by calling the Chamber at 765-2165 by Tuesday, April 23. The cost is $15 per person.
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Letters to the Editor Senator Pavley Promoting New Fracking Regulations, New Permits Could Be DelayedSACRAMENTO–Senator Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, today announced several key amend-ments to her bill to regulate the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for oil and gas within California. The changes come in the wake of extensive input from stakeholder groups and the public, as well as analysis of other states’ policies. On Feb. 12, Senator Pavley led a nearly six-hour informa-tional hearing on fracking which included detailed testimony from state agencies, industry and environmental groups. The legislation, Senate Bill 4, is motivated by the public’s right to know about fracking. It requires companies to obtain a state-issued permit to frack, and to notify neighboring property owners 30 days ahead of time. It also says they must disclose to the state all of the chemicals they use to frack in a particular location. The bill allows industry to claim trade secret protection for chemicals under specific circumstances. “There is an emerging national consensus on the basic assurances the public needs around fracking operations,” said Senator Pavley. “From chemical disclosure, to notification, to water quality monitoring and an independent health study, this legislation brings the transparency and accountability needed in order to protect our air and water supply.” The draft fracking regulations delivered by the administration’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) on December 18 represent a step in the right direction. They provide for advance public notice, and significant rules to enhance monitoring of wells both before and after fracking. These are the first systematic fracking-specific regulations developed by an administration in California history. The initial version of SB 4 was introduced before these draft regulations came out. However, some other states have gone even further. For instance, on December 20, the state of Alaska issued their own proposed regulations, requiring pre-approval of fracking operations, notification of nearby landowners and well operators, and substantial groundwater monitoring. “The public demands the right to know where fracking is occurring and what chemicals are being used,” said Ventura Supervisor Steve Bennett, who also testified at the hearing. “I applaud Senator Pavley’s leadership on restoring the public’s confidence in government by mandating fracking disclosure and assuring that new state regulations on fracking are adopted.”
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Key changes to SB 4 include:
• Authorization. Drillers must obtain a permit for fracking a well. The permit application will include information about the planned fracking job including the chemicals and amount of water to be used.
• Notice. Along with the right to be notified 30 days in advance, property owners can have regional water boards test well and surface water before and after fracking.
• Public safety. The state must complete an independent scientific study on fracking by January 1, 2015. This report must include assessments of public and environmental health and safety. No fracking permits could be approved after this date if the scientific study is not completed.
• Transparency. Requires the state to develop its own web-site for fracking fluid reporting by January 1, 2016. Until then, the Fracfocus.org web-site could be used, as specified in DOGGR’s draft regulations.
• Monitoring. The existing industry production fee on drilling operations would be modified to specifically include costs associated with fracking, including air and water quality monitoring, as well as the scientific study. Regulators would be required to perform spot checks to ensure that the fracking information provided by companies is accurate. By January 1, 2015, the administra-tion would also be required to issue its final regulations, and to enter into formal agreements with water boards and other regulators in order to specify responsibilities around air and water monitoring.
• The revised bill retains reporting requirements to ensure the state gathers sufficient informa-tion in order to understand the scope and extent of fracking in California, including the amount of water used and waste disposal methods. It also keeps provisions allowing for health profession-als and others to obtain trade secret information if necessary.
“The rules within SB 4 are merely the kind of common-sense protections needed for any potentially hazardous industrial activity, let alone one that is rapidly expanding in our state,” said Senator Pavley. “While the industry correctly notes that fracking has been going on in California for 60 years, many of the techniques and chemicals are new, as is the immense scale of many of these operations.”
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Taft High STAR Testing Taft Union High School students will show what they’ve learned when they take the state-mandated STAR (Standard-ized Testing And Reporting) test over the next two weeks. Testing began Wednesday April 10 and Thursday April 11 with sophomores taking the science tests and juniors taking the social science tests, but testing did not affect the school schedule. Next week, April 15-19, school will begin at the regular time, 7:45, but get out earlier as students take the English and mathematics portions of the test. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors will take the English tests Monday and Tuesday and the math portion on Wednesday and Thursday, all in their Period 1 classes. School will get out at 12:55 those days, with busses run-ning 10 minutes later and sports practices running immediately after school lets out. Friday, April 19, will be a makeup day with school getting out at 2:10. Seniors are scheduled to go to Magic Mountain on Wednes-day, April 17. The third week, April 22-26, will be a regular bell schedule, 7:45-2:55, and students will take science and social science tests.The high school is providing free breakfast during STAR test-ing.Superintendent Blanca Cavazos said students should be well rested for the tests. Test results are an important measure of student progress. Results are used to place students in the correct class and to measure the progress of Taft High against others in the state. Students should do well on these tests as a matter of personal, school and community pride, she said.
Taft Volunteer Clean Up Day Saturday April 27th On Saturday, April 27th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, Kern County Supervisor David Couch is joining efforts with the City of Taft, the Taft Chamber of Commerce and Taft Col-lege to help clean up the Taft community through the Keep Kern Clean Program. This clean-up day is being organized to improve the image of the Taft community.
A call for volunteers is being made to help clean up trash & litter on various vacant lots and along Wood Street from Hwy 119 to S. 10th Street. Volunteers will meet at 8:00 a.m. at Veterans Park on Kern Street and be dispatched to their clean-up area. Trash bags, gloves and bottled water will be provided for the volunteers. Volunteers should wear work clothes, closed toed shoes and a desire to “Clean up OUR Community”. To volunteer call Christy Lowe at 763-1222 ext. 34.
A thank you lunch will be provided to volunteers at Veterans Park after the clean-up at 12 noon. Lunch is being sponsored by Occidental, Vintage Production of California, Albertsons, Fastenal & Dreyer’s.
Westside Waste Management, Inc. will provide several 40 cubic-yard containers for collection and transportation of the trash. The Kern County Waste Management Department will provide a fee waiver for disposal at the Taft Landfill.
Keep Kern Clean is a part of a county-wide program of the Kern County Waste Management Department designed to eradicate illegal dumping in Kern County. In addition to or-ganizing community clean ups, the program informs residents about materials accepted at landfills, locations and hours of landfills, proper disposal of household hazardous waste and bulky waste materials, recycling centers, code enforcement policies and school education programs. The Keep Kern Clean program is on-going.
Nina Burt Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi Nina Burt of Taft, majoring in Occupational Safety, is one of 85 Eastern Kentucky University juniors, seniors and gradu-ate students who were inducted into the EKU chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi during a special ceremony on April 5. Burt is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society. The Society has chapters on more than 300 cam-puses in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.Membership in Phi Kappa Phi is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction. Since its founding, more than 1 million members have been initiated. Some of the organization’s more notable members include former President Jimmy Carter, NASA Astronaut Wendy Lawrence, Baylor University head women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson, writer John Grisham and Netscape founder James Barksdale. The Society has awarded ap-proximately $11.5 million in fellowships and scholarships since the inception of its awards program in 1932. Today, more than $800,000 is awarded annually to qualifying members and non-members through graduate fellowships, undergraduate study abroad scholarships, member and chapter awards and grants for local and national literacy initiatives. The Society’s mission is “To recognize and promote aca-demic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”
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April 19 - 25, 2013 TAFT INDEPENDENT Downtown Group Meets with City Staff The downtown committee of the Taft Chamber of Com-merce met this week with City Manager Craig Jones, Police Chief Ed Whiting, Enterprise Zone Manager Debra Elliott, City Planner Mike Waisciz, Code Enforcement official Jill Gibson, Christy Lowe and Tom Ebersole for presenting the Downtown Business Committee with some answers and com-ments to items of interest to the downtown businesses. Here is a recap of the meeting: The City has already been working to resolve some smaller achievable goals including: Added the alley ways to the street sweeping schedule. Made up and will be installing “No Skateboard” signs on Center Street. Working on changing municipal codes and to add infraction fees, annual inspections and fees for vacant buildings. Applied for money from Cal Trans for repaving Center Street In addition, the group discussed: A Vision/Mission for downtown business areas. Creating a Business Improvement District similar to an
SoCal Gas To Begin Installing Advanced Meters in Kern CountyNew System Safely Offers Benefits to Cus-tomers, Community & Environment Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) customers will soon be able to view their daily gas usage information on-line as SoCalGas begins installing advanced meters in western Kern County. The SoCalGas upgrade to its natural gas meter-ing system involves adding a small battery-powered commu-nication device on existing residential and business customers’ meters starting mid-April in Bakersfield, Delano, Wasco, Taft, Frazier Park, Arvin, Tehachapi and other nearby communities. The installations will continue through December 2013. The new device only turns on for a fraction of a second a day - a total of less than two minutes a year - to securely and safely send natural gas usage data from a customer’s home or business to SoCalGas customer centers. SoCalGas will make the usage information available for the customer to view online the next business day. “SoCalGas is continually innovating and looking for ways to better serve our customers. We believe our advanced meter system will offer benefits for our customers, community and environment,” said Patrick Petersilia, director of the advanced meter project at SoCalGas. “Advanced meters will help custom-ers monitor and adjust gas usage, helping families and local businesses save energy and money. They will also help reduce some 140,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year as we take service vehicles off the road every day.” The detailed information advanced meters provide will help customers better understand and manage gas use and costs, enabling them to quickly identify and respond to sudden usage spikes and take steps to conserve. Later this year, customers will be able to sign-up for weekly alerts and get up-to-date informa-tion on usage and billing status via text or email messages. Cus-tomers will also enjoy greater privacy and security, no longer having to provide physical access to their property for monthly meter reading. Installations will take about 15 minutes and be completed by SoCalGas energy technicians during business hours. In most cases, customers will not need to be present and natural gas service won’t be interrupted. Natural gas bills will continue to be based on a monthly read of usage. The advanced meter device cannot communicate with appli-ances inside the home, turn on or turn off gas service and will only be active for a fraction of a second each day to read and send gas usage data. No personal information will be sent and usage data will be encrypted for added security. The battery life of the device is expected to be 20 years, with SoCalGas provid-ing any needed maintenance. SoCalGas expects the advanced meter system will enable operational and environmental savings over its life-savings that will be passed along to customers in reduced overall rates. In all, SoCalGas is planning to upgrade approximately six million natural gas meters with the new communication device, installing them throughout the SoCalGas service territory through 2017. SoCalGas is conducting a comprehensive in-formation campaign, starting with notifying customers several weeks before installations begin. SoCalGas works closely with local community-based organizations to help customers learn about the project. In Kern County these include Arts Council of Kern, Community Action Partnership of Kern (CAPK), Kern Green, Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce, Housing and Opportunity Foundation of Kern, Kern County Black Chamber of Commerce, Kern County His-panic Chamber of Commerce, Kern Economic Development Corporation, Mexican American Opportunity Foundation, North of the River Chamber of Commerce, Proteus, Inc., and Radio Bilingue. Customers can also visit SoCalGas’ website, socalgas.com/advanced or call toll-free at (800) 427-2200 or (800) 342-4545 in Spanish for more information. A SoCalGas advanced meter installation video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI04jL12qC4.
association for downtown businesses to contribute and control the money to be spent on revitalization. Getting on the same page with the City representatives, planning commission, and businesses. If Center Street is to be one way, there must be a public hear-ing before the city council to make the decision. Is this still an item of interest? If so, it needs to be addressed now, before the Cal Trans repaving occurs. The Downtown businesses need to work together to come up with color scheme, landscaping, etc and take it to the City leaders before anything can be done. The next meeting of the Downtown Business Committee on Wednesday, May 1 at 5 pm with the meeting location to be announced.
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The Supreme Court may yet rule Obamacare unconstitutional! By Dr. Harold Pease Many may not be familiar with Article I, Section 7 of the U. S. Constitution that requires that “all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” This means that any law, which extracts money from the American people, can only come from the House. The problem is The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, originated in the U.S. Senate not in the House as constitutionally required. The Pacific Legal Foundation, a Sacramento, California based foundation, is pursuing the matter before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. So why does this matter, a tax is a tax? For thousands of years governments taxed their citizens with no limits. Rulers lived lavishly off the wealth extracted from their poor subjects with little or no mercy toward them—lavish physical structures and frivolous wars of conquest were too often the norm. The Founders wisely took this power from the rich and gave it to the poor themselves by requiring that the poor, then the major-ity, had to consent to any taxation over them. The power to tax is the only constitutional power exclusively given to the masses. The House of Representatives was the only branch of govern-ment designed to actually represent them as it is based upon population. The Senate was to represent the states, the people only indirectly. As far as I know the United States is the first, possibly the only, country in world history that puts its tax base with the masses who pay the taxes. It is a priceless freedom. If we are over-taxed in the United States we have chosen to be and one body alone is responsible—The House of Representatives. No tax can constitutionally originate with the President or the Supreme Court, (even if Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. says that it is okay), not even the Senate, although it can modify as on other bills once originated by the House. The House is also in charge of spending. We must not let this freedom dwindle or allow the line between the two legislative branches to be blurred into oblivion. In the Supreme Court’s decision of June 2012, it took great pains to establish that Obamacare is not a law passed under the Commerce Clause; this is a tax they ruled. Whether a fine, as the Administration argued throughout the case, or a
tax as Roberts insisted, it is an extraction of money from the masses and therefore a tax and therefore must originate from the House, not the Senate. The philosophical switch created by Roberts made the constitutional error far more glaring. By letting origin slide the House looses its clear distinction on the origin of taxes and the people their right of first approval of taxation or generations yet unborn and probably forever. What is worse it smacks of a sloppy cover-up by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Now that the Supreme Court made healthcare constitutional by deeming it a tax, it mandated a House of Representative origin rather than the Senate. A House version HR 3200 was available but Reid did not like it favoring his own HR 3962, The Patient Protection and Af-fordable Health Choices Act. Prior to the Supreme Courts tax ruling the tax was called a fine, not a tax, so he reasoned that it did not make any difference which legislative body originated the fine. The ruling necessitated resurrecting a bill that had passed the House first but had not been acted upon in the Sen-ate, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 HR 3590, deleting its contents and pasting in the contents of the Senates bill HR 3962. The Home Ownership Tax Act was a tax providing a first time home buyer’s credit to members of the Armed Services, never mind that it had nothing to do with healthcare and now, after being deleted leaving only the empty shell, had nothing to do with the Armed Services or home buying either. The only thing that Reid kept was the original date, September 17, 2009, which now deceptively confirmed that it preceded Senate action. Accomplices to Reid were the original authors of the deleted bill: Congressman Charlie Rangel of NY, and Senator Clare McCaskill of MO. This is the kind of morphing that reeks of illegitimacy and fraudulency (“Lawsuit to test Origina-tion clause,” The Washington Times, April 8, 2013, p. 12. See Also www.Patriot Guardian.org). What is even worse. If Reid had indeed simply pasted in his own bill into the dead Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act, as believed, this tax bill HR 3962, the one that became Obamacare, has never actually been before the House of Repre-sentatives, the only body actually authorized to originate a tax. Obamacare may be the only revenue-raising bill in American history originated, processed, and implemented by the Senate alone. Nothing could be more unconstitutional!! If left unchallenged Obamacare severely damages Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution. As an accomplice, the Senate is unlikely to sympathize but you should find a friend in your Congressperson and governor. Each should have a vested inter-est in this power shift. Contact them with your own summa-tion of the problem or send them a copy of this article. Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Consti-tution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Shannon Grove Measure To Ex-pand Military Voting Rights Clears First CommitteeAB 269 would ease restrictions on individuals cast-ing ballots abroad SACRAMENTO – A measure that expands voting rights to overseas military personnel, authored by Assembly-woman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), was approved by the Assembly Elections Committee today with unanimous bipartisan support. Assembly Bill 269 would allow the ballots of military service members and other Californians living abroad to be counted up to three days after Election Day, so long as the ballots are postmarked by that day. “Californians in our nation’s military serve and sacrifice to ensure that their family, friends, and neighbors maintain the right to free and open elections. These selfless men and women deserve to have their voices heard at the ballot box,” said Shannon Grove of the measure. Current California law requires that mailed ballots be received by county election officials no later than close of Election Day. But those in the military face inconsistent conditions from day-to-day, which often causes slow mail service. These circumstances make it more difficult for their ballots to be counted. The measure would also ease restric-tions on other Californians living abroad, including those engaged in business ventures, serving on religious missions, or performing humanitarian efforts. “It is absolutely necessary that the votes of patriots serv-ing in our armed forces be counted,” stated Grove. “This is a simple measure that will enable them to do so, and I am pleased that my colleagues recognize the importance of making sure these individuals are not disenfranchised.” As-semblywoman Shannon Grove is a veteran of the U.S. Army and was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. Grove authored the measure with Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno) and Assemblywoman Susan Eggman (D-Stockton), who also served in the U.S. Army. It now moves on to be heard in the Assembly Veterans Commit-tee, of which Grove is a member. AB 269 is supported by AMVETS-Department of California and the Vietnam Veterans of America-California State Council.
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It’s Time For Politics To Legalize Economics By Robert Bradley Jr. President Obama recently nominated Sally Jewell to head the Department of Interior. Her bona fides include growing Rec-reational Equipment Inc. (REI) to nearly $2 billion in revenue last year. But in her new job, the question is whether she’ll grow America’s untapped energy resources. Jewell is now at the gulf between what is and what could be. The Interior Department is responsible for oil and natural gas drilling off our coast - or rather, the absence of new drilling. Consider ExxonMobil’s $14 billion plan to develop one of the largest oil fields in the North Atlantic. That drilling will be off Canada’s Newfoundland. But the Hebron oil field is believed to extend southward into U.S. waters with its billion-barrel potential. Unfortunately, the United States won’t see a drop of it -- unless Secretary Jewell and others in the Obama hierarchy open it up. Simple permission is all that is required. The United States could become the world’s largest producer of oil by 2017, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). By 2035, the United States will be nearly energy self-sufficient. The prospect of U.S. self-sufficiency overturns a half-century of conventional wisdom. Oil and gas critics have long warned of “peak” supply - the point at which extraction is at its highest pos-sible rate. At this “peak,” wells will start running dry for good. But this theory is nothing more than a myth-and scare tactic by those favoring subsidized energies such as ethanol, wind, and solar. Today, according to both the IEA and the U.S. Department of Energy, America has an astounding 1.4 trillion barrels of recover-able oil, the majority of which is oil shale in the Rocky Mountain
West. Large crude oil deposits are also offshore in portions of Alas-ka. When combined with the recoverable oil reserves of Canada and Mexico, North America has more than 1.7 trillion barrels of oil - more oil than the world has used since the first oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania 150 years ago. There’s no guarantee all these reserves can be developed. But if American energy producers can tap into even a fraction of this supply, our domestic energy production could well outstrip that of Saudi Arabia. Already, U.S. oil production has surged to its highest level in a decade. And that’s with minimal access to federal resources, cur-rently closed to exploration. Between 2007 and 2012, 96 percent of increased domestic oil production was driven by development on state and private lands. And with these prospects, estimates of U.S. oil reserves will certainly increase. Domestic supplies of tech-nically recoverable oil could fuel 200 years of usage at current consumption rates. America’s natural gas bounty also defies naysayers. The U.S. En-ergy Information Administration estimates the United States has approximately 318 trillion cubic feet of extraction-ready natural gas reserves. Estimated total reserves have increased annually for the past 12 years. Approximately 2.7 quadrillion cubic feet of gas reserves are recoverable -- enough to supply the United States for 110 years at current rates of consumption. Opening federal lands has another reward: $36 billion in annual new revenue (not to mention a $127 billion boost to GDP) over the next seven years, according to a new study. This would close more than three percent of the current annual federal deficit. The United States is at the center of the oil, gas, and coal world. The sooner federal officials relent, the sooner jobs and needed revenue can flow. It is a win-win-win for producers, consumers, and taxpayers at a most opportune time. It’s past time for politics to legalize economics. Robert L. Bradley is CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and author of seven books on energy.
BLM Advisory Council Plans Meeting in Visalia Land management issues for Central California will be on the agenda when the Bureau of Land Management’s Central Califor-nia Resource Advisory Council meets in Visalia on May 9-11. A business meeting will be held Friday, May 10, at the Anthony Community Center, N. Jacob and W. Center streets, beginning at 8 a.m., followed by a field trip that afternoon to BLM lands in the Case Mountain area. Members of the public are welcome to attend the field trip and meeting. Field trip participants must provide their own transpor-tation and lunch. On May 11, the meeting will resume at 8 a.m. at the Anthony Community Center. Time for public comment is reserved from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. On May 9, there will be a meeting of the RAC Off-Highway Ve-hicle Subgroup at the community center from noon to 1:30 p.m. and an orientation for RAC members from 2 to 4 p.m. Both are open to the public. “The advisory council provides a valuable forum for BLM and the public to exchange views on management of public lands,” said Este Stifel, Central California District manager. For more information, contact David Christy, BLM Central Cali-fornia District public affairs officer, at (916) 941-3146.The 12-member council, one of 24 such advisory councils in the western states, is comprised of members who represent broad natu-ral resource interests including livestock grazing, environmental groups, recreation, wild horse and burro management, history and archaeology, the academic sector, local government and the public at large.
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