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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
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 YOU GOTTA READ THIS STUFF October 20, 2007 The Sabatino Report The Week in Review It happened Former Mayor Carmen Sabatino called for the resignation of City Clerk Jean Morris during the Friday Morning Mayor Show on KMPH 840 AM at 10. The City Clerk perjured herself during the former Mayors trial. How can we trust that City Council minutes are accurately recorded? Is it proper for the Clerk to swear in new council members or be the City Auditor? On Friday afternoon the City Clerk resigned. On Saturday the Modesto Bee reported the resignation as a paragraph in Community Briefing. This insures that a majority of readers will not know that the City Clerk resigned much less know why she resigned. The City Clerk will leave office in December. Perhaps the Bee will report any large settlement she might receive or maybe not. Gallo Center for the Arts paid for by County General Fund County officials would have you believe that the Gallo Arts Center is paying for itself. Nothing could be further from the truth. The County budget reveals several payments made from the General Fund, that total $1,836,951 for this fiscal year! The County CEO and the Supervisors have authorized these payments, some of which are directly related to the general operations of the Center. This Report suspects that additional expenditures are being made for consultants and unadmitted costs. This Report believes that the Center was never intended to be self-supporting. Even the Modesto Bee reported that this year, only 46% of the total Center’s expenses would be paid for by ticket and concession sales. The Center has a budget of about $6.5 Million dollars. Thus, your taxes will pay for half of that. Apparently, the County has millions to spend on the Arts, but nothing to spend on thousands of sick children and seniors languishing in our very poor County. Geragos asks court to dismiss the D.A. Defense Attorney Geragos asks that the State Attorney General’s Office take over the case of a young lady accused of using credit cards in the name of Supervisor Jim DeMartini. Geragos argues that because DeMartini controls the District Attorneys budget it creates a conflict. DeMartini threatened to cut the District Attorneys budget if former Mayor Sabatino was not fully and aggressively prosecuted. This is a losing issue for DeMartini even if the young lady is convicted. Developer Kamilos who asked County Counsel Michael Krausnick to silence DeMartini criticism of his project will surely spin the case to defeat DeMartini in the next election. A Kamilos lawyer was present in the courtroom The one comment posted on the Modesto Bee story is provided below. The famous author is Opus Huff! | 
| | Geragos must have learned his law from the Molesto Bee. Months ago it was obliquely reported that our former mayor, Carmen Sabatino, was losing his public defender attorney, when his attorney was about to present evidence that the mayor’s troubles were generated in lofty governmental palaces. The county public defender removed his attorney, who had built a strong defense exposing the political vendetta against Mayor Sabatino. The public defender advised the court the public defender’s office had a conflict because it received its revenue from the board of stupidvisors. Apparently, someone didn’t like being subpoenaed from and employee. In earlier stories, the Bee reported that the board had threatened the Stanislaus county District Attorney’s Office budget and that the board members interjected themselves in the prosecution of Mayor Sabatino. We never got to see how the charges were trumped up because the public defender declared the conflict at the last minute. If it were truly a conflict, the public defender’s office should never have accepted its appointment in Mayor Sabatino’s trumped up prosecution/persecution.
It looks like this judge has a double standard. It is okay to conflict in the mayor’s case because of a public lawyer’s source of income-the board, but not okay to conflict in the “savor the moment” supervisor, the money source for the prosecution. Isn’t this supervisor the one who wanted to savor the moment of the mayor’s conviction, so much so he entered the sanctuary reserved for attorneys and litigants in the trial court upon the reading of the verdict? When will the Bee report the facts without omission of major components of a story?
Opus Huff | 10.20.07 - 11:33 am | |
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
The Sabatino Report Initiative Measure to be submitted to the voters. After reading, send comments to
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Proposed version by former Mayor Carmen Sabatino Modesto Bee has kept it a secret! ___________________________________________________________________________ SECTION ONE: Declaration of Findings and Intent A. This initiative shall be known as the “Election Reform Act of 2008 Proposed by Former Mayor Carmen Sabatino” B. The stated intent of the initiative is to reform the City of Modesto’s election system by creating city council districts that will make elected officials more accountable to the citizens they serve, and reduce the impact of special interest money on elections. The stated intent of the initiative is reform the City of Modesto's election system by forming six (6) representative districts. SECTION TWO: Charter Amendments SECTION 501 MANNER OF ELECTION The mayor shall be elected from the city at large at the times and in the manner provided in this charter. The council members shall be elected by district at the times and in the manner provided by this charter. SECTION 503 DESIGNATIONS OF COUNCILMEMBERS FOR ELECTION As to council members there shall be deemed to be six (6) separate offices to be filled, one of which shall be designated as District 1, another as District 2, another as District 3, another as District 4, another as District 5, and another as District 6. The city clerk pursuant to Section 700 of this Charter has previously designated the six (6) separate councilmember offices as chairs 1 through 6 when the city clerk initially establishes district boundaries pursuant to Section 505 of this charter, the council member previously elected to a numerically designated chair shall be deemed to be the representative of the district with the same numerical designation. No candidate shall file for more than one (1) elective office. Such designation shall be used on all nomination papers, certificates of election and all election papers referring to the office.
SECTION 504: TERM OF OFFICE.
A. Except as otherwise provided in this charter, the terms of elective offices shall be four (4) years. B. In 2009 and every fourth (4th) year thereafter, the offices of council members designated as District 2, District 4, and District 5 shall be filled at the general municipal election held in November, or at such other time as provided in this charter. In 2011 and every fourth (4th) year thereafter, the offices of mayor and council members designated as District 1, District 3, and District 6 shall be filled at the general municipal election held in November, or at such other time as provided in this charter. SECTION 505: ELIGIBILITY, DISTRICT ELECTIONS A. Commencing with the 2009 general municipal election, no person shall be eligible to hold elective office as a council member unless that person is, and has been for a period of at least one hundred eighty (180) days immediately preceding the filing of nomination papers for such office or appointment to such office, a resident within the council district corresponding in number to the office to which that person is elected or appointed. Each council member shall, during the 2009 general municipal election; the incumbents in District 2, 4, and 5 shall be subject to the residency requirements of this section. B. The initial boundaries of such districts shall be determined by the city clerk no later than July 1, 2008 and shall be predetermined by the City Clerk not later than one hundred eighty (180) days following the publication of each federal census thereafter. The city clerk recommendations shall be subject to judicial review. The district boundaries shall be determined or redetermined in conformance with the following standards: a) The territory comprising each District shall be contiguous and as nearly compact in shape as possible. b) The district should be as nearly equal in population as possible according to the latest Federal Decennial Census. c) District boundaries shall not cross census tract lines, except to the extent necessary to ensure that the districts are as nearly equal in population as may be according to the latest Federal Decennial Census. d) The six (6) districts shall be formed by dividing the City into six (6) geographic areas that split the city evenly into thirds from west to east, and again in half from north to south, thereby creating a northwestern, Midwestern, southwestern, northeastern, mid-eastern, and southeastern districts, consistent with the other standards listed below. e) Consistent with Section 505 (d) above, District 1 shall be composed of the Northwestern-most census tracts in the city that contain one-sixth of the population of the city. For purposes of this section, a census tract shall be considered to be to the northwest of other census tracts if it contains any area that is farther to the north and the west than all areas contained within the other census tracts. In the event that two or more census tracts are equally northern by this definition, the city clerk shall select the western-most Census tract. f) Consistent with Section 505 (d) above, District 2 shall be composed of the Northeastern-most census tracts in the city that contain one-sixth of the population of the city. g) Consistent with Section 505 (d) above, District 3 shall be composed of the mid-western most census tracts in the city that contains one-sixth of the population of the city. h) Consistent with Section 505 (d) above, District 4 shall be composed of the mid-eastern most census tracts in the city that contains one-sixth of the population of the city. i) Consistent with Section 505 (d) above, District 5 shall be composed of the Southwestern-most census tracts in the city that contain one-sixth of the population of the city. j) Consistent with Section 505 (d) above, District 6 shall be composed of the southeastern-most census tracts in the city that contain one-sixth of the population of the city. k) If at any time between each Federal Decennial Census, the city annexes territory, the city clerk shall adjust the boundaries of any or all the districts of the city so that the districts shall be nearly equal in population as may be according to the latest Federal Decennial Census. SECTION THREE: Severability If any provision of this measure or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or application and to this end the provisions are severable.
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
| | October 15, 2007 The Sabatino Report Some heard it first on the Morning Mayor Show on KMPH 840 AM at 10. The U.S. Supreme Court tosses out City Council appeal After seven years and the spending of over $2 million in taxpayer money, we will have district elections. The question is will it be the Sabatino proposal or the Zagaris plan. Below is an excerpt from the Modesto Bee in April of 2000 on the first 100 days of Mayor Carmen Sabatino’s administration. ”Already, he has begun to steer public policy in wholly new directions. The most striking example, perhaps, is his pursuit of district elections and term limits for council members (another of his campaign promises). The transformation of how, and for how long, council members are elected would require Modestans to approve a change in the City Charter.
With Lang as mayor, the issue wouldn't have seen the light of a public vote. Last year, a committee appointed to review the City Charter essentially sidestepped the question of whether to elect council members by geographic districts. Political insiders of all stripes believe the committee was carefully stacked against consensus for such sweeping changes to the status quo.
Yet in February, Sabatino forced a council vote on his vision of district elections (six districts with a citywide mayor) and term limits (eight years). The council rebuffed him 4-3 (and we, too, opposed the proposal), but Sabatino generated enough momentum that his supporters soon will circulate petitions to put the issue on the November ballot.” From today’s Modesto Bee “Now the fight gets tossed back into the Stanislaus County courtroom of Superior Court Judge Roger Beauchesne. Beauchesne in March 2005 had originally ruled the voting rights act violated constitutional equal protection guarantees.” JudgeBeauchesne signed the Search Warrant for the charges filed against Mayor Carmen Sabatino. | |
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
Please read this  SWEET POISON... A MUST READ... In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick.she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22 nd. On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment. I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda!
I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.
My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death. When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery.
And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life. If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant.
I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in er ror. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is! Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.
During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!" People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?" Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin andis used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens." Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body! Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet products" and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period. Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the bloodsugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrierand it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage. Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis with the very foods that were "better for them than sugar." It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome. Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison." Herein lies the problem:
There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!
There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a "piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians? This has been recently exposed in the New York Times.
These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products. Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.
The bill was killed. It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW! Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends. They have a right to know too...
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
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October 8, 2007 The Sabatino Report 1. West side developer sends letter to County Counsel Krausnick asking him to keep Supervisor Jim DeMartini from being critical of his project. The Bee newspaper does not think you should know about the story. How do feel about that? 2. How do you feel about redevelopment in Stanislaus County and the nine cities? Following article is just a reminder…call The Morning Mayor Show daily from 10-11 on KMPH 840 AM Government and developers divert your tax dollars to their bottom profit line. June 28, 2004 Locals need to remember real purpose of redevelopment By Dan Walters -- Bee Political Columnist
Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Every once in a while, we need to remind politicians that "redevelopment" is supposed to be a tool for cleaning up blighted urban neighborhoods and improving the quantity and quality of housing - not a conduit for siphoning money from the public treasury into developers' pockets.
The reminder is necessary because local government officials, civic boosters and subsidy-seeking developers so often forget it. The misuse of redevelopment powers to underwrite shopping centers, auto malls, big-box retailers and other projects became rampant after voters enacted Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes, in 1978. Faced with a severe loss of property tax revenues, local governments encouraged sales tax-generating retail businesses and increasingly used redevelopment to subsidize such projects, often luring them away from nearby cities. Although redevelopment law required areas to be declared as "blighted" to qualify for special treatment, local officials stretched the definition to ludicrous lengths. One city even declared unoccupied, undeveloped marshland to be "blighted" because it was subject to periodic flooding. Redevelopment abuses became even more widespread after the state, in the midst of a severe budget crisis, shifted even more property taxes from local governments to schools. And in 1993, the Legislature significantly tightened the law, attempting to limit local redevelopment projects to truly blighted neighborhoods. The Legislature has more than an academic interest in the creative uses of redevelopment by cities and counties. Redevelopment law allows local governments to retain the extra property taxes that their projects generate - which means the state must make up the loss of property taxes to schools under an education finance law that voters enacted in 1988. It is estimated, in fact, that the state treasury is being tapped for an extra $1.5 billion a year in such school payments - money that, in part, flows into the pockets of those who financially benefit from redevelopment projects. Local officials don't like the 1993 reforms for obvious reasons. And now Los Angeles wants to undermine them directly to attract a new National Football League team. The Los Angeles Rams played in the state-owned, 1930s-vintage Memorial Coliseum for many decades, then decamped for Orange County and later moved to St. Louis. The Raiders shifted from Oakland to the Memorial Coliseum in the 1980s, then were enticed back to Oakland. Los Angeles boosters have kicked around several sites but seem to have settled on reconstructing the Coliseum to make it suitable for a new team (perhaps the Raiders again), with a half-billion-dollar price tag. And Los Angeles Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas is carrying legislation that would change redevelopment law to allow subsidies to private investment in the stadium. Since 1966, the Hoover Redevelopment Project has encompassed the area around the Coliseum south of downtown Los Angeles. The Ridley-Thomas bill would loosen the state restrictions on extending the project's life and exempt it from the 1993 restrictions on declaring an area "blighted." The state, of course, would be on the hook for property taxes that the plan would divert from schools. The bill has cleared the Assembly and faces a vote in the Senate Local Government Committee. A critical committee analysis points out that, if approved, the measure would allow the Hoover project to be extended until 2051, nearly a century since its creation. "Legislators know that rehabilitation of blighted neighborhoods takes time and demands policy-makers' patience," the analysis continues. "But the committee may wish to consider why it should take Los Angeles officials a century to redevelop the Hoover neighborhood. How long is long enough?" The measure, of course, has nothing to do with blight. It's all about tapping the state treasury to subsidize private development - exactly what the 1993 reforms were trying to curb. And if Los Angeles succeeds in undermining those reforms, other cities will quickly demand parity for their shopping centers, auto malls - and sports arenas. Sacramento, for one, is trying to find a financial vehicle for building a new basketball arena in its downtown area.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/9660681p-10584012c.html
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