City of Sacramento

Not saying the Kings don't deserve some help for a new arena, but KJ is making a huge mistake with these sharks

Related: Why are Financial Terrorists (JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley...etc.) getting away with attacking America?

Sucker city

Team K.J. sent out another “rules of the game” communiqué last week, announcing that investment bank Goldman Sachs had accepted the mayor’s invitation to evaluate proposals for, and possibly help finance, a new Kings arena.

“Anybody who knows anything about the financial world knows what it means to have Goldman Sachs on your side,” Mayor Kevin Johnson wrote. “Simply put, Goldman is one of the largest, most influential and important investment organizations in the world.”

Let's take a look at Goldman Sachs

Sac State Students Tape Mouths In Protest

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Students protested Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez Thursday during his spring address at the university.

The protesters, who were seen wearing tape over their mouths, staged a silent and peaceful protest.

Students carried signs that protested fee increases, and another that had a message that students have no confidence in Gonzalez' leadership.

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Taser abuse videos

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=police+taser+abuse&search_ty...
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Federal appellate court limits cops' use of Tasers

A federal appeals court on Monday issued one of the most comprehensive rulings yet limiting police use of Tasers against low-level offenders who seem to pose little threat and may be mentally ill.

In a case out of San Diego County, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals criticized an officer who, without warning, shot an emotionally troubled man with a Taser when he was unarmed, yards away, and neither fleeing nor advancing on the officer.

Sold as a nonlethal alternative to guns, Tasers deliver an electrical jolt meant to subdue a subject. The stun guns have become a common and increasingly controversial tool used by law enforcement.

There have been at least nine Taser-related fatalities in the Sacramento region, including the death earlier this month of Paul Martinez Jr., an inmate shot with a stun gun while allegedly resisting officers at the Roseville jail.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2425481.html
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Sacramento Sheriff McGinness defends Taser use after ruling

http://www.sacbee.com/crime/story/2427227.html
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Why Are Cops Tasering Grandmothers, Pregnant Women and Kids?

http://www.aclusac.org/node/196
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Death reignites Taser debate

Over the weekend, a Sacramento man joined the growing tally of people who have died after police attempted to subdue them with Tasers.

Maybe that's a bit of a stretch and she would have gone after them anyway, but it seems awful coincidental when she was the only DA in the room for Ahnold's grandstanding of this issue last Summer.

I'll skip to the relevant section in this report

IHSS fraud in Sacramento County was highlighted in a critical grand jury report in May. Problems statewide led to legislation this year that requires background checks of providers and unannounced visits.

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On to this report in the Bee from July

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At a news conference Monday with district attorneys who support his IHSS changes, the governor repeated again that "some people say that there is 25 percent fraud. That would be over a billion dollars right there."

Who exactly are some people? We'll find out

Good for SMUD!

These thieves have been getting away with stealing from unwitting municipalities for years. As a refresher click here to read how JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley deceived city leaders and school boards in Pennsylvania since at least 2003. And the luxury jets JPMorgan Chase bought after receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds And this warning of the coming recession from two years ago

Bank of America, UBS, JPMorgan Sued Over Derivatives

By Joel Rosenblatt

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., UBS AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. were sued by a California public utility over claims they rigged sales of municipal derivatives and shared illegal profits through kickbacks.

The lawsuit, filed by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, is based on federal and state antitrust claims. It alleges Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America and more than a dozen other banks conspired to pre-select winners of municipal derivative auctions, coordinated their pricing, and accepted kickbacks disguised as fees from co-conspirators.

SAVE Sacramento launched to Support Accountability, community Voice and Ethics in our City Government

A coalition of business and community leaders, Labor, and the Democratic Party of Sacramento County announced today that they are joining together to preserve and protect Sacramento’s community-oriented government structure and stop the poorly-drafted, so called Strong-Mayor initiative that, if passed, would give Sacramento a Boss instead of a mayor. The coalition will use the name SAVE Sacramento, an acronym for Support Accountability, Voice, and Ethics in Sacramento.

SAVE Sacramento launched its new website, www.bossmayor.com, on Sept. 15th. It will enable Sacramentans to learn the truth about the initiative drafted in secret by the attorneys for Sacramentans for Accountable Government. This Boss Mayor Initiative, put on the ballot by SAG’s paid petition-gatherers, would give Sacramento’s mayor more power than any mayor in the country. Among its many deficiencies, the initiative does not include common accountability provisions like term limits or an ethics commission. The initiative would also give a Boss mayor power to hire and fire any of 5,000 city employees at any time, for any reason.