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Loose Cheeks: Anna Caballero's staff

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Several years ago, a young man new to Merced but active in local politics at the time, asked a Badlands Journal reporter, “What is Diana Westmoreland Pedrozo saying? I can’t understand a word she says.” Pedrozo was the executive director of the county Farm Bureau and president of the California Women for Agriculture at the time.

Badlands, SJRRC, POW, CVSEN and San Joaquin et al position on Measure C

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 1 November 2010

The Badlands editorial board, including members of the San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center, Protect Our Water (POW), Central Valley Safe Environment Network and San Joaquin et al,  have in the last five months discussed very thoroughly Measure C, the development—plebiscite initiative in Merced County. We have extensive experience reading land-use and environmental documents, laws, legal briefs and court decisions.

Lents defense

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 25 October 2010

If, as Balzac said, behind every great fortune there is a crime, what lies behind a plutocracy? The corruption of an entire political-economic system?
As some may notice, the foreclosure story is growing larger, not smaller, with time.
Badlands Journal editorial board
10-21-10
Bloomberg.com
How Joseph Lents Dodged Foreclosure for Eight Years and Started a Movement
By Peter Coy, Paul M. Barrett and Chad Terhune

Private fraud, public force

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 21 October 2010

It's a win-win/public-private partnership.
In our attempt to keep focused on the real issue as the airwaves and the postlady's pouch are filled with distractions and irritations, the bad mortgage undertow is getting stronger with time. Will the elections matter on this issue? According to Open Secrets, the Republican candidate for the 18th congressional district also received a nice, fat check from the National Association of Realtors ($10,800).
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"It's called plutocracy"

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Karl Rove visited UC Merced recently, at the invitation of the campus Republicans. It is hard enough to imagine a UC student as completely subsidized as these are by the faded ideals of a once proud, rich and generous state being so ignorant and stupid that they would make such an idiotic invitation. But, on the other hand, UC is no longer, strictly speaking, that great product of those great, faded ideals, which last saw the light of day when Jerry Brown's father was governor. Today, UC has been absorbed by corporations.

Pimlico Kid -- the realtors' own

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sunday, 17 October 2010

 
...at least the part not already owned by bankers, sugar-beet growers, dairy processors, etc.
10-16-10
Merced Sun-Star
$ 600,000 donated to Cardoza...MICHAEL DOYLE, Sun-Star Washington Bureau
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/10/16/v-print/1613029/600000-donated-to-cardoza.html
WASHINGTON -- Real estate and hospital interests are pouring more than $600,000 into a campaign to re-elect Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced.

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