What was Your Call to Action ?

What good do you do? Why? What if other’s say it isn’t enough? #fb

Political Irony . . . and housing

@politicalirony

Oil e-mail from Change.org

Remember the BP Spill? Get ready to get angry. I am posting the e-mail from Change.org for you to read so I don’t have to be annoyed by explaining it. “Big Oil’s election successes earlier this month are already paying dividends. News reports this week say Republican Joe Barton – the guy who infamously apologized […]

CA Governor Race and the Homeless

I have not heard how the people who would be the most prominent in our state would try to serve the most needy.

Prop 13 – The Parts that Ruined California

#fb What Prop 13 is: At a high point in the housing boom with a housing shortage driving property values up – Prop 13 reassess property tax values from 3% of their current value in 1978 to 1% of their value from before the housing boom. This was great for the poor and elderly on […]

Welfare Warriors and Mommy Bloggers

@helpamotherout @jessicagottlieb Today we are going to explore groups of people who found a way to use their voices to 1. Be heard 2. Change their corner of the world to make it nicer for everyone. Let’s start with my favorite combination of these two groups: http://www.helpamotherout.org/” It can take an average of $1,100 a year […]

Obama Aunt Was Homeless #fb

“If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,” -Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango

Homeless People Shouldn’t Vote!

“I don’t think homeless people should vote. Frankly. In fact, I have to be very honest. I’m not that excited about women voting, to be honest. … But that’s just me. I’m a pig, and that’s fine. All right? And we’ll see that, I’m sure, on a lame-ass website very soon. But I don’t think […]

Why I fail as a Political Wife

“You are very Pro-Homeless – and that means you would be a terrible Political Wife. You would say something well-meaning and alienate half a contingency”. My jaw dropped as I heard these words last week. I am not, Pro-Homeless. I am simply Pro-Human, Pro-dignity, and Anti-Homelessness where it can be avoided. I get that sometimes people […]

State Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Moorpark

See… sometimes I am not ashamed to be a Republican. Thanks Tony for your article in the Ventura County Star. ” The majority in Sacramento need to stop treating hard-working California families like an ATM machine by reaching into their pockets every time they run out of money.” “If we want to get out of this […]