Yeah I know ‘why we fight’ was the tagline on a series of world war era propaganda pieces, but it’s also an applicable tagline for this great Union Tribune editorial savaging big labor…

UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL

Labor union greed may kill convention center

July 5, 2007

Suppose a company was willing to:

Pour $850 million of its own money into a local project (an amount sufficient to build a football stadium).

Hire 6,500 construction workers and pay them union-level wages.

Hire 2,000 permanent service-industry employees and allow them to join labor unions, if they choose.

Build the largest hotel and a second convention center in a region that depends upon tourism as its third-largest industry.

Yet, suppose that one labor union wanted even more, to the point that the company said “Goodbye, San Diego” and “Let’s talk, Seattle.”

That pretty much describes the current scenario here. Gaylord Entertainment of Nashville is building a national convention business network and would like to establish a West Coast presence on the Chula Vista bayfront.… Read More

Our company helped the Lincoln Club elect Cheryl Cox to Mayor of Chula Vista. This post from Red County San Diego’s Hiram Johnsonshows her standing strong against labor bosses who are trying to force a major coastal development to use only union labor… GO GET EM MAYOR COX!

Cheers to Chula Vista Mayor Cox for Standing Up to Union THUGSby Hiram Johnson, Red County San Diego

Talk about UNION THUGS – local union leaders are threatening to kill the development of Chula Vista’s coastline by using their pull with GOVERNMENT regulatory authorities unless the project is made entirely union. Isn’t that called blackmail here in the real world?

But Chula Vista’s Republican elected officials are not taking the union threats quietly. They are standing up and loudly exposing the union’s shady and ham-handed attempt to twist arms. Which is just what this situation needs: the light of day.

From the Union Tribune:

Cox’s voice was tight with emotion as she spoke into an echoing microphone. She said that if this deal fails, the unions will be to blame.

“The No. 1 opportunity to… Read More

We here at the FlashReport extend best wishes to you and your family for a great Independence Day! Look for our daily commentary to return tomorrow, with a column from FR correspondent Shawn Steel!… Read More

We here at the FlashReport extend best wishes to you and your family for a great Independence Day! Look for our daily commentary to return tomorrow, with a column from FR correspondent Shawn Steel!

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Al Gore III was arrested early this morning in Orange County after being pulled over for driving 100 miles per hour according to Reuters.

The former vice president’s 24 year-old kid was driving a hybrid Toyota Prius. I have newfound respect for the Prius–the fact that it can 100 mph, I might consider driving one, as a rental, if I had to.

Also, young Gore had the making of a party, if your in to that sort of thing: marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall, said sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino. There were no prescriptions found, he said.

Good luck to young Gore, it can be rough growing up with money and privilege.

Care to post his $20,000 bail? Go to www.ocsd.org for details.… Read More

Court Rejects State Pension Bonds Because Voters Were Ignored

Victors Call Ruling “a Fourth of July Gift to Californians”

Contact: Harold Johnson Attorney Pacific Legal Foundation (916) 419-7111 hej@pacificlegal.org www.pacificlegal.org

SACRAMENTO, July 3, 2007: A California appellate court today rejected the State’s bid to float $560 million in bonds for government pensions without approval of the State electorate. The Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the State’s proposed “pension obligation bonds” are illegal because they were not submitted to voters as the California Constitution (Article 16, Section 1) requires for state debt in excess of $300,000.

“This is a great Fourth of July gift to Californians,” said Pacific Legal Foundation Attorney Harold Johnson, who represented the Fullerton Association of… Read More

In a somewhat stunning move for a self-professed conservative, Dana Point Mayor Diane Harkey (and Republican candidate for 73rd Assembly District) has proposed on the City Council agenda tonight a 10% raise in the wages of the contract city attorneys, from $200 an hour to $220 an hour, and an automatic Consumer Price Index for inflation in their hourly wage every July 1 hereafter, regardless of performance by the attorneys.

We spoke with a city councilman today in neighboring Mission Viejo, who told us his city pays only $150 an hour for legal advice. This city councilman, who recently conducted interviews for law firms for Mission Viejo, said he had "never heard of an automatic CPI inflator in a contract for legal services."

Harkey, whose record really is in no way conservative,made her motion to increaseattorney’s fees, and to allow for a mandatory annual increase in attorney wages regardless of performance, in a memo dated July 3, 2007 to the City Council. We understand though, that she has called in "sick" for tonight’s meeting in the meantime, and we are hopeful that sanity will prevail and her motion will be… Read More

Today’s FR Front Page features the Los Angeles Times Editorial calling on disgraced LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to resign. Joining that chorus today is the Antelope Valley Press. See here.

There will be no Rocky 2. More papers to follow I’m sure.… Read More