Murkowski vs. Palin -- Alaskan saloon brawl
12/09/2010
If Sarah Palin runs for President in 2012, she will be competing against at least five Republican men. The only candidate with a chance of beating her for the nomination may have to be another woman.
I nominate U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
The difference between Murkowski and Palin is that Murkowski, who, by 2012, will have been in the Senate for 10 years, has more national political experience than Palin, whose only official national political role was for three months in 2008 as Sen. John McCain’s running mate.
But they are similar in at least four respects: they are both women political leaders; they are both Alaskan; they are both Republican; and they both loathe each other.
If they were to compete in 2012, what an Alaskan saloon brawl that would be.
Clive Leeman
Ojai
How Pedro failed
I noticed in Pedro Nava’s glowing tribute to himself (Power to speak, 11/24), he failed to mention that he was part of the legislative team that drove California off a financial cliff from which it will most likely never recover. He also neglected to mention his part in chasing jobs out of California and raising energy prices with his constant war against oil drilling. He talked at length about green jobs. The only problem is that there aren’t any.
Even if there were, they would be in China, thanks to the high taxes, burdensome environmental regulations, union labor extortion and worker’s compensation fraud here in California. Mr. Nava also must have forgotten his role in exacerbating the housing crisis by forcing banks not to foreclose on homeowners who did not pay their mortgages.
He used condor junk science to pass a ban on lead bullets, an anti-hunting ploy that has left California littered with crippled and dying game animals since copper does not make a clean kill as lead does. He has done nothing to control illegal immigration. He has done nothing to create jobs. He is a failed career politician who tried unsuccessfully to install his wife in his seat when he term-limited out. The voters of the 35th district should be ashamed to have elected this charlatan. I’m just glad he lost his bid to become attorney general.
Forrest Mize
Ventura
In the dark of the night
For small business owners in Ventura, it is hard to ignore the growing number of massage parlors in our town. In fact, I pass six each day on my way to work where I share a wall with one. When I look out my door, I see another in each direction. We rented our storefront believing the front part of the building was a “spa.” The landlord assured us it was a legitimate business. However, it wasn’t long before we realized this was nothing more then a modern-day cat house, and they weren’t even discreet about it!
A quick Google search revealed a website called www.worldsexguide.com. Review after review was listed for the parlor next to us, describing the sexual encounters men were receiving, right down to the prices and rating for sexual performance. Pictures of our building were included. Lots of other parlors around town were also listed and reviewed.
The women next to us live inside the building, and it appears to be open 24 hours day. While we work hard for an honest day’s living, we hear noises though the wall, have dealt with inappropriate behavior in the shared parking lot and found “personal products” in our trash can. A steady flow of strictly male customers dart in the side door and into the dark back rooms. I catch glimpses of them hurrying back to their cars. We can’t help but think it’s bad for our business. We can understand the city’s dilemma. Our town is peppered with empty store fronts. I’m sure any tax revenue is needed, but I wonder at what cost to our community, at what cost to legitimate small business? We have called the police, talked to our landlord and written letters time and time again, but we are ignored.
Why is this being allowed to go on in such a large scale and organized manner I wonder?
Don’t you?
Veronica Rooks
Business owner on East Main Street
Ventura
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Re: What’s wrong with California? Right Persuasion, 11/18
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Cindy Gregory
Camarillo
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To: Olive Leeman, of Ojai
I live in Ventura and grew up in Alaska. When Alaska became a state (1959), each Indian, Eskimo village was set up as a corporation ( this was viewed as very enlightened at the time ), with each member of each tribe a stockholding member of the tribal corporation ( for their lifetime only - shares cannot be inherited ). When one starts looking at the fine print as to how these tribal corporations are set up, you discover that the tribal members are getting screwed ( they get only a few shares good only during their lifetime ) and the guys running the corporations for the Eskimos/Indians are being granted no-bid contracts from the US government and making millions on the strength of the fact that the Indians / Eskimos are a "minority". One village tribe ( in the village of Kotzebue on the Bering Sea ), has a company in South Carolina which will gross $125,000,000.00 this year for installing Israeli-made anti-rocket devices on four Air Force planes ( read the annual reports online for all these corporations ) - on just one of the many companies they 'own'. The villagers will get their $5000.00-8000.00 share each annually while the managers are cleaning up. Murkowski represents the people who run the corporations for the tribes and want to perpetuate the no-bid contract. They ponied up $1,500,000.00 to defeat her opponent in the write-in election with a very small population. Notarized affidavits submitted indicate massive voter fraud on the part of Murkowski's team. A ballot box at Sand Lake Middle School in Anchorage, for example, was pre-filled before the polls opened with a stack of Murkowski "write-in" ballots 4-5 inches high - this affidavit was submitted by a woman who was 7th in line when the polls opened at 7:00 AM. The Alaska appellate courts in the subsequent litigation both commented that the law as written was very confusing and should be re-drafted.
Murkowski, thank god, finally passed the Alaska bar examination on her fifth attempt. I would suggest, Olive, you might give some consideration to the natives of Alaska who are being manipulated by Murkowski and listen to what Sarah Palin and Joe Miller have been saying. Joe Miller, who actually passed the Alaska bar exam the first time, is a West Point grad ( with honors ), a Yale Law School alum, a decorated tank commander in the Gulf War and later earned a Master in Economics from the University of Alaska, knows what is really going on in that state - and so does Sarah.