I read in the Sacramento Bee where the undocumented are crying that they might get caught and sent back home. We know the numbers higher, but even if we do get rid of 1.8 million in California it’s a good start.
Last week’s U.S. Border Patrol operation in Kern County offered a preview of what could come. The enforcement activity, which immigration advocates said was the largest in the Central Valley in years, sent panic across California. The arrests signaled that not even California and its progressive policies would be safe from Trump’s vow of mass deportations.
In his post, Joe Hoft stated: “We don’t know if there is a legitimate reason for the worker’s actions.”
The answer is “Yes.” This video shows an Orange County election worker scanning a batch of ballots three times, but only saving the batch once.
This is shown at the 1:25 mark of the video Mr. Hoft posted when following her third scan of the batch of ballots, a batch report printed from the printer at the end of the table, which she then attached to the top of the batch of ballots. This batch report did not print the first two times she scanned the batch of ballots, meaning she did not save those scans.
She likely scanned the batch of ballots twice and then cleaned the scanner before scanning the batch of ballots a third time because during the first two scans some of the ballots were rejected by the scanner. Given the large number of vote-by-mail ballots we must scan during an election, we must regularly clean the scanners.
We complete quality checks and audits to ensure ballots are only counted once and accurately, including:
Other Orange County election workers later quality checked the batch of ballots in this video two additional times, making sure the ballots in the batch match the information printed on the report. We do not upload any batch of ballots into the tally until these two reviews are completed.
Before I certified the results of the election, we audited the results of each of the 171 contests on the ballot. The audit was conducted by randomly selecting one percent of the precincts in the county (23) and then selecting additional precincts (62) until every contest was included. Then four-person audit teams hand counted every ballot in those selected precincts. Our audit teams hand counted about 40,000 ballots for this election. These hand-counted results were compared to the voting system tally, finding that the results of each contest was correct. You can review information about these audits on our website at ocvote.gov/audit.
We are finally seeing the Border Patrol doing what they were hired to do. 80 migrant arrests. The arrests included several sex offenders, some with existing criminal warrants and others involved in drug trafficking.
On Friday, Customs and Border Protection provided a statement that read, Border Patrol Agents with the El Centro Sector Border Patrol conducted an operation in and around the Bakersfield area in Kern County. Our operation focused on interdicting those who have broken U.S. federal law, trafficking of dangerous substances, non-citizen criminals, and disrupting the transportation routes used by Transnational Criminal Organizations. The U.S. Border Patrol is no stranger to operations in places like Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, and Sacramento, as the now-closed Livermore Border Patrol Sector regularly conducted enforcement operations over this area up to the mid-2000s.
Be it disaster relief, or anything else, the Trump administration needs to attach conditions to all federal dollars. That goes for other blue state and cities also.
No federal dollars for environmental studies, or education for the undocumented. No disaster relief until plans are given on how the deforestation will take place. The freeride stops January 20th.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., on Sunday told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he expected to see “strings attached to money that is ultimately approved, and it has to do with being ready the next time, because this was a gross failure this time.”
Johnson said House Republicans are also discussing the possibility of tying California aid to efforts to raise the limit on more than $36 trillion in U.S. debt.
A Pacific Palisades reservoir was closed when wildfires swept through the area and devastated the community, officials told the Los Angeles Times.
The Santa Ynez Reservoir is connected to the Los Angeles water supply system, and authorities said it was shut down for repairs at the time the fires erupted, “leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades,” the newspaper reported on Friday.
A reservoir in the Palisades that holds 117 million gallons of water was offline this month for previously scheduled maintenance. It was empty when the Palisades fire exploded. https://t.co/qLgNpFPwiu
So will the Newsom fires in California change peoples political views?
It’s not like this is the 1st time we’ve seen this happen. Will this change anyone’s mind on how the left runs the state? Time will tell. I myself think that the folks have become used to bad government.
The first step would be a recall. Second since the next 180 days of recovery is being paid by the federal government, let’s hope this also means they direct the recovery and the clearing of brush in areas that haven’t been effected.
Now the state legislature is also to blame. They pass the crazy laws based on what junk science tells them. And the media doesn’t ask questions until after there ‘a a disaster. And the questions never have a follow up.
Finally California Republican politicians need to stop acting like Liberal like clowns. They once ruled the state. Go back to what works.
So how does someone this incompetent get elected to one of the largest cities in the US? No reason needed, it’s California and she’s black. Nuff said
'Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent whilst their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget? @skydavidblevins questions the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, as she faces backlash regarding the California wildfires.https://t.co/Nkz8onjC7Vpic.twitter.com/WwRwp6Imqz
I have a dream. From the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Grasshoppers.
Come January, we will see drilling like never before. And no California, you cannot stop it. With drilling and fracking, you will again see California pumping oil like there’s no tomorrow.
From Bakersfield to the rest of the state.
Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, is the third largest oil field in California and is the densest operational oil development in the state, with over 9,000 oil wells in an area just under 11 acres, Bakersfield, Kern County, Calif. Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The Supreme Court of California dismissed a lawsuit arguing that hospitals not showing certain costs in emergency care prior to treatment violate state laws, ruling the institutions are not obligated to disclose such fees.
The ruling was made following a class action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Taylor Capito against San Jose Healthcare System, also known as Regional Medical Center San Jose. In 2019, Capito was treated twice at the medical center’s emergency department, paying more than $41,000. She filed a complaint against the center in 2020, accusing the medical center of not providing advance notice of evaluation and management services (EMS) fees.
She alleged that this amounted to an “unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business” practice as per California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL) and violated the state’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA).
The case went to a trial court and the appeals court, both of which rejected the plaintiff’s claims. The Supreme Court of California then took up the case.
According to a Dec. 23 court opinion, the Supreme Court dismissed Capito’s claims on Monday, agreeing with the two courts.
“Hospitals do not have a duty under the UCL or CLRA, beyond their obligations under the relevant statutory and regulatory scheme, to disclose EMS fees prior to treating emergency room patients,” it said.
“The California Legislature, the United States Congress, and numerous rulemaking bodies have already decided what pricing information to make available in a hospital’s emergency room. Just as importantly, they have decided what not to include in those requirements.”
The reason authorities have avoided mandating the inclusion of certain fees is to prevent patients from getting dissuaded by seeing prices and opting out of potentially life-saving care, the court wrote.
Forcing hospitals to show EMS costs would lead to patients weighing the price against the necessity of such procedures. Insisting that such prices be shown assumes that patients in emergency rooms are capable of diagnosing “whether their ailment is relatively minor.”
In the lawsuit, the plaintiff did not accuse Regional Medical Center of failing to comply with the mandated disclosure requirements. Capito also did not allege that she was charged fees for services not provided or that the fees were excessive.
“Neither the UCL nor CLRA requires further disclosure of EMS fees beyond what the regulatory scheme requires,” the court opinion said.
Burden on Hospitals
The California Hospital Association (CHA) has argued against the push for notifying patients about fees in emergency treatment conditions.
In June last year, the organization filed an amicus brief in another lawsuit in which a plaintiff made arguments similar to those in the Capito case. The plaintiff said that California hospitals must disclose EMS fees to patients in emergency care prior to their treatment in accordance with UCL and CLRA laws.
Allowing such a policy would impose “an unreasonable duty” on hospitals, said the association.
“Hospitals cannot determine the costs of patient care prior to treatment, especially emergency care. The treatment necessary for a particular patient depends on the severity of the patient’s condition, which is impossible for either the patient or the hospital to know in advance,” the association said.
“Besides, a patient’s financial responsibility for treatment costs depends on his or her insurance status and coverage. Even assuming a patient has insurance, the hospital cannot foresee whether, and to what extent, the insurer will provide coverage for the services ultimately rendered to the patient.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) is looking into the potential impact of private equity-run emergency care services provided to hospital patients.
According to an April 1 statement, he sent letters to private equity companies and physician staffing companies asking for information on patient care and other matters.
The letters followed multiple interviews conducted by his office with more than 40 emergency medicine physicians across the United States.
“I am concerned that our nation’s largest emergency medicine staffing companies may be engaging in cost-saving measures at the expense of patient safety and care, which could put our nation’s emergency preparedness at risk,” Peters said. “I am pressing these companies and their private equity owners for needed transparency.”
Just a reminder of how well California is doing in other areas.
California Progressives were shocked to learn that they were going to jail for the crimes they commit on a regular basis. Recently three of them found out what happens when you leave the hood and show up in descent neighborhoods.
Police in California released a video of a trio of alleged shoplifters who were shocked to find out that the penalty for their crime had recently changed. California Gov. Gavin Newsom remained adamantly opposed to the effort to undo portions of Proposition 47, saying it “takes us back to the 1980s, mass incarceration.”
The alleged thieves were shocked to learn that they could be charged with a felony for stealing. (Seal Beach Police Department)
