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GOVERNMENT MICRO-MANAGEMENT: Or, How I learned to Love the Nanny State.
by Camille Giglio
April 23, 2010

On 4/22/2010, I wrote an article entitled “ Obama Care may not be Socialistic, but Sen. Mark Leno’s SB 810 is.”

In that article I analyzed the bill pointing out its intended merger of the departments of Health, Education and Labor into one partnership in order to deliver a full slate of pre-planned community level family intrusive services to residents. It’s actually called building the sustainable community. It’s Hillary Clinton’s “It takes a village..” mantra and raises it a notch.

Today I have two real life examples of this program.

The San Jose Mercury News, 4/23/2010, page A3, has a brief article entitled: “ SCHOOL SCENE: Career fair for kindergartners.” The article states that “About 1,500 kindergartners attended their first career fair Thursday, visiting with cosmetologists, scientists, paramedics and other professionals at a ‘Kinder Caminata.”

At this four hour fair, children from San Jose’s Alum Rock School District “wore badges declaring their ambitions: firefighters, veterinarians rock stars, etc. and visited booths focusing on environmental themes, to honor Earth Day” and to foreshadow their future college goals. The majority of the children attending were Hispanic.

Notice the title of the fair - Kinder Caminata - a combination of german and Spanish. Taking a stab at translation I’d say it stands for child pathways. Career Pathways is the new name of the education game .

In yesterday’s article I spoke of the education/workforce development partnership contained in SB 810, in which schools would focus more on the goals of becoming training centers for future labor force entrants rather than academic centers of learning.

This is not just some cute little idea thought up by a kindergarten teacher to amuse her tiny students. There is an entire industry developing that claims it is important to begin developing the minds of babies, shaping their brains and thinking in infancy, to be the future leaders of the world. There are numerous proponents and opponents of this re-wiring of the brain, so to speak. Rob Reiner with his “I’m Your Child” campaign has provided the greatest promotion of this way of thinking. This is the major motivation driving the movement to get government funded pre-k programs for 3 and 4 year olds. They would really like to have your kids by the time they are potty-trained. To see the whole program click on www.brillkids.com.

The next article was published in the Monterey Herald, 4,23,2010, and titled: Community health plan spells out goals, priorities.” It is written by Jim Johnson of the Herald Salinas Bureau. Here are the first three paragraphs:

   “A community-authored plan aimed at improving
   health and safety in East Salinas is in place, and
   backers are already working on a management
   structure and putting the plan into action.

   The plan is part of a 10-year, multimillion-dollar
   initiative backed by the nonprofit California
   Endowment. It is contained in a 29-page report that
   lists priorities, strategies and a blueprint for
   promoting what organizers call "sustainable change"
   in the community.

   The document is the result of nine months of work
   by more than 400 community members and
   organizations after the endowment’s selection of
   East Salinas as one of 14 low-income communities
   in the state invited to participate in the initiative.
   The endowment, which formally accepted the plan
   earlier this month, is expected to provide as much
   as $10 million for the local effort.”

To read the whole thing go to: http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_14943653.

The article reports that three community organizations have been selected to “host” this community changing mega-nanny control plan (basically, direct the lives of this unsuspecting community. The community, non-profit groups are the Alisal Healthy Start Family Resource Center (early childhood), The Action Council of Monterey County, www.actioncouncil.org (community activists for women and girls) and Second Chance (anti-gang intervention. Probably early release youth offenders).

The goals, as stated in the article, are: 1. Children and families safe from violence in their homes and neighborhoods. What this means is home visitation programs and mandated training sessions. 2. Health and Family-focused human services focused on prevention. This is where Planned Parenthood and it’s pregnancy prevention, abortion and family planning agenda comes in. 3. All Children have health coverage. This is enrolling them in the government Healthy Families and or Medi-Cal programs which are little more than family planning programs. 4. Families will be assigned to a “health home.” This is where the contract or partnership between the health department and the individual comes in. A health home means that one organization will be assigned to oversee all aspects of personal physical, mental and emotional development. Children entering these programs are viewed as independent contractors for their own services. This is where Senator Lelend Yee’s efforts towards using the schools as mental health counseling and evaluation centers for all students comes into play. 5. These organizations will be charged to oversee the “economic welfare of residents.” “Efforts must see to the economic inequities that exist in this community.” This is the Workforce Development aspect of the overall SB 810 and Obama Health Care agenda. The article finishes up by declaring that these “gross economic inequities” and “significant levels of distrust” between residents and law enforcement are obstacles which must be overcome in order to bring about a “systems change” in community life.

And, not to be overlooked is the arrogance of a statewide, non-profit Think Tank full of intellectuals being allowed to decide that there are certain counties and communities of residents in need of their special protection and nurturing.

The residents of East Salinas are not going to be the ones to profit in the long run. It is the non-profit employees who will have well paying jobs and the freedom to develop as they see fit, not the poor unsuspecting residents who believe that America is the home of the free.

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OBAMA CARE MAY NOT BE SOCIALISTIC
BUT CALIFORNIA’S SB 810 BY SEN. MARK LENO CERTAINLY IS.
by Camille Giglio

Senator Mark Leno ,(D-San Francisco), has draped himself in the health care mantle worn previously by LGBT caucus member Sheila Kuehl. For years Kuehl authored a Single Payer version of health care coverage. She took it over from former state legislator now Congressman Pete Stark,(D-Fremont). The current Leno bill is SB 810 Single Payer Health Care.

His 61 page bill, according to the state legislative analyst’s office carries a $200 million price tag and is filled with approximately 12 layers of state and regional advisory oversight committees along with an appointed Health Czar and all the stakeholder special interest groups it can think of.

The bill has passed the California Senate and is awaiting assignment to an Assembly Committee for hearing. Democrats support it, Republicans do not. One Democrat’s Aide, in an attempt to deflect concern stated that: “Oh, it’ll pass both houses, but the Governor will veto it.” Don’t bet the farm on it. This year has shown just how anxious the Governor is to cater to the Democrat Administration in order to get more money for our financially crippled state.

All the afore mentioned layers of governance created by SB 810 are filled by non-elected business, bureaucrat and special interest appointees creating a protective firewall between the elected officials to whom they report and the citizens whose lives they are charged to regulate.

This bill, further, creates a clear understanding of the meaning of partnership as expressed in political terms. The government plus groups like Kaiser Health Foundation would have you believe that there is a union, a partnership, a contract between the deliverers of health care and you, the consumer of health care. You and your health care provider are strolling down a pathway to good health and productivity through preventive medicine.

Just how loving and caring can it get?

Have you noticed that you are no longer referred to as a patient? You are now buying health care as you would buy a house. You sign a contract with a mortgage company to do such and such. You will soon be signing a contract of some sort agreeing to abide by the health care requirements set up for you by the health care industry.

In reality the partnership is between various branches of government joining together to coordinate their pre-planned delivery of services to you the consumer. In this case the partnership is between the departments of Health, Education and Workforce Development. They are training their sights on your child.

President Obama, to paraphrase several talk show hosts, has been having fun countering all the health care opponents who claim that his health care plan is socialized medicine.

Well, in one way he may be right. The socialized part of the medicine is contained in the state legislation. The Public Option, pulled from the original Obama Care bill and labeled as “possibly deserving a socialist” label is in SB 810.

Here’s what the bill mandates:

• Establishes a new California Healthcare System - Single Payer type.

“This bill prohibits the existence of a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy, except for the CHS, that will be sold in the state that provided for the same services as the system. This will reduce the California health plan and insurance industry to either third-party administrators for the system or entities that would provide coverage for benefits not covered by the system.”

• Creates a statewide Agency under the direction of an appointed Health Care Commissioner as well as local and regional agencies groups by two or more counties.

“It will be administered by the California Healthcare Agency under the control of a Healthcare Commissioner appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.”

• Makes eligible all California residents regardless of legal residency status.

“To provide affordable and comprehensive health care coverage with a single standard of care for all California residents.”

• Creates the Office of Patient Advocacy - Sec. 140102.

[the Health Care Commissioner]Oversee[s] the establishment of locally based integrated service networks, including those that provide services through medical technologies such as telemedicine…..This shall be accomplished in collaboration with the chief medical officer, the Director of the Office of Health Planning, the regional medical officers, the regional planning boards, and the patient advocate.

• Creates school/health partnerships for the purpose of establishing educational programs designating “qualified community agencies to serve as health provider centers.”

This section is very vague. This will authorize placement of school centered health clinics on every campus and provide groups like La Raza and Planned Parenthood direct access to your child as deliverers of health care, health care education and/or instruction of teachers to teach their brand of “medically accurate” facts (forget about morally principled) on sexual habits.

Here’s the exact wording of the bill:

"Health care provider" means any professional person, medical group, independent practice association, organization, health facility, or other person or institution licensed or authorized by the state to deliver or furnish health care services.”

It further describes this facility as:

“[Is] fully integrated operationally and clinically to provide a broad range of health care services, including preventative care, prenatal and well-baby care, immunizations, screening diagnostics, emergency services, hospital and medical services, surgical services, and ancillary services.”

Further on it also refers to mental health services. Most school centered mental health services bills are carried by San Francisco Democrat Senator Leland Yee whose occupation, prior to being elected, was as a child Psychologist.

What kind of education and for what purpose? Here’s one possibility. The website for the National partnership for Women and Families (formerly the Women’s legal Defense Fund) www.nationalpatnership.org , under its section on Reproductive Health: adolescent health, describes an educational program that they have completed for the state of North Carolina, created by the School of Government University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, entitled: Legal Guide for Minors and Families. This educational program has five component parts: Legal guide for Adolescents, for pregnant and parenting adolescents, for schools and pregnant and parenting adolescents and a health care guide for pregnant adolescents. AIl of it is intended for the classroom. The NPWF further states that it is also nearing completion of a similar educational program for California and Florida.

This Guide goes into great detail about the legal rights of minors to obtain comprehensive - all inclusive - health care coverage as their right without parental involvement or influence. It instructs the student in his/her obligation as a minor to comply with parental authority and sets down the rules for parental obligation to their minor children. It further coaches the students in how to obtain legal court bypasses for abortions along with treatments for sexual diseases.

There is also a section in SB 810 authorizing schools to deliver vaccinations as deemed appropriate by the FDA and other third party so-called medical experts. There is no parental notification or opt-out opportunities. This will mean that your daughter and son will be subject to vaccinations against sexual diseases. We citizens thought we had defeated the bills authorizing Gardasil for 11 year olds and up, but they merely moved it into a little noticed segment of SB 810.

This treats the parent/child relationship as a mere contract enforced by government officials. It would also have the effect of encouraging children to turn in their parents to authorities if they, the child, feels that the parent is not fulfilling their government mandated duty.

This is the whole intent of other bills submitted periodically creating parent/teacher compacts or partnerships. Parents, especially those who are low-income, welfare, immigrant, shaky legal status, are especially sought by schools in an effort to gain these parents confidence and enable the teachers to conduct behavior modification programs on the parents, with the objective being to overcome their lack of trust in authority and allowing the schools to influence the home activities, nutrition, work efforts. etc.

1. Creates regionalized health delivery centers and attaches them to the already created Work Force Development regionalized centers - Sec. 140205.

The budget for the system shall include…:
Workforce training and development budget pursuant to Section 140222.

1. (a) The commissioner shall establish a budget to support the training, development, and continuing education of health care providers and the health care workforce needed to meet the health care needs of the population and the goals and standards of the system.

On Tuesday, April 20, I visited the office of Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, (D-Antioch) and spoke with his Chief of Staff, Richard Zeiger. The subject was Torlakson’s Resolution ACR 82 on supporting what is called S.T.E.M. legislation - Science, technology, engineering and math. This is what is becoming known as the new pathway to a better education resulting in participation in global leadership, and is being funded and promoted by the federal Race To The Top legislation - RTTT. RTTT has taken over the formerly named No Child Left Behind legislation promoted by Bill Clinton and advanced by George Bush. It is federal education stimulus funding designed to merge the education, health and workforce preparation branches of government into one super bureaucracy. As a part of that discussion we began talking about the benefits to be derived to students of a school system that enables a child to enter the work force better prepared to function in the business and industry world.

Mr. Zeiger, speaking on behalf of his boss, Tom Torlakson, spoke glowingly of the advantages of a school system that would have the authority to supervise and guide a child’s career goals even beginning at the early stages of education. He spoke of the need for schools to be better funded so that they would be better able to bring the world’s choices to the student enabling that student to decide upon a career, especially in the areas of science (health), technology (computers), engineering (construction) and math.

He even included the advantages of a health care system that would be the enabling source for a minor to decide for herself her reproductive future.

Tom Torlakson wants to be your next State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Who are the co-sponsors of this legislation?

The California Nurses Assn, Ca. Health professional Students Assn, Ca. Teachers Assn, Health Care for All - California, Ca. School Employees Assn, League of Women Voters. It further includes an entire page, tightly worded, of groups such as the ACLU, SEIU, Ca. Maternal and Child Health Dept., multiple local Democrat clubs, The AFL-CIO, the Union for Reform Judaism, several mainline Protestant denominations, local and specialized civil rights organizations and a host of community non-profit groups who will attempt to cash in on this lucrative source of funding.

The subject I have tried to describe for you is huge and all encompassing. There is much more involved than I felt could be absorbed in one report. What I have tried to convey is a sense of what will be the true intent behind the nice slogans of educational reform, jobs formations, the so-called right of everyone to be provided with health care and a peek at what that health care really entails. If it could be summed up in a few words it means that the government is taking over what was formerly the role of private enterprise in the areas of health, education and employment. It is a merger creating one entity directing the lives of every citizen, staffed by non-elected bureaucrats who will have the power to determine what your health outcome will be, what your nutrition will be, your exercise and your lifestyle choices; education will be directed more toward preparing children to enter into pre-planned workforce training designed by partnerships between business and education and, of course, the employment itself. There is much contained in education and workforce legislation that talks about students who attend the proper classes and are cooperative being able to obtain Certificates of Mastery enabling them to be assured of placement following graduation.

The sad thing is that while the Democrats favor the health care issues and the Republicans vote against it; the Republicans and the Democrats favor the workforce legislation. This results in both sides appearing to placate the desires of their Party constituents while, in reality, bringing about the change so urgently desired by the Obama Administration.

SB 810 needs to be defeated. The Democrat legislators need to hear from the voting and legal citizens who will be the ones funding all this socialized government. Attending Tea Parties is fine, but while they’ve kept you are out there on the street corner the legislators are in their chambers passing all this stuff and feeling pretty smug about it.

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April 12, 2010

Please consider taking action on the two bills listed below:

AB 2478, Anthony Mendoza, (D-Norwalk) School Safety: Disruption: Pupil’s Safety.
POSITION: OPPOSE.

Bill’s intent:
Amends existing law that provides that a person who comes into any school building or school ground, or adjacent street, sidewalk, or public way, whose presence or acts interfere with or disrupt a school activity, without lawful business, or who remains after having been asked to leave, is guilty of a public offense. Applies to any person [who] willingly creates a disruption with the intent to threaten the immediate physical safety of any pupil arriving at, attending, or leaving any preschool or school.

The author seeks to amend this law to include sending “threatening messages” so-called, to students, k-8, that might result in physical harm to these students.

There are severe penalties of $500.00 for a first offense and possibly jail time and a fine for subsequent offenses

BACKGROUND:

In 2008 the Center for Bio-Ethical Reforms, Directed by Gregg Cunningham, drove its highly identifiable truck, upon which is posted vivid photos of aborted babies, around the perimeter of a southern California middle school between 7:15 AM and 7:45 AM when the students were coming to school.

The author declared that students were so traumatized that they were placed in harm’s way by stopping in the street to stare at the truck, crying and getting angry. The school called the local Sheriff’s office to the campus with the request to remove this group from the vicinity of the school.

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform countered with a lawsuit that went all the way to the Ninth Circuit Court which found in their favor based on the freedom of speech issue. However, the court made one loophole concession.

The Court declared that if the legislature were to pass a bill making it unlawful to distribute unsettling material on the sidewalk, campus, driveway of the school, etc. they would abide by that legislative action.

This bill was introduced on Feb 19, 2010. It passed the Public Safety Committee on a 6 to O vote including two Republicans, Danny Gilmore of Hanford and Curt Hagman of Diamond Bar.

It awaits a hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, chaired by Felipe Fuentes, (D) Connie Conway, (R-Visalia) V. Chair. Letterhead letters should be directed to Ms Conway, C/o Assembly Appropriations Committee, State Capitol, Sacramento. 95814.

OBJECTION: This is a deliberate attempt to silence the free speech rights of one segment of the community, the pro life complement of citizens while the opponents, the pro abortion groups, receive full first amendment rights on and off campuses to distribute literature and products to students.

This bill would have the effect of making criminals out of anyone who, attempting to exercise his/her freedom of speech, should approach a student on the city street near a campus or hold up a pro life sign near a campus.

The Appropriations Committee only looks at bills for the costs to the state. So, this bill would increase the costs to local law enforcement groups and to the courts. The costs consisting of a misuse of the law enforcement people as they are called out to restrain the first amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, the costs of court and judge time not to mention citizens jury duty time when there are important and violent crimes to be dealt with.

Both Assembly-members Hagman and Gilmore should receive calls and letters protesting their YES vote on this bill in the Public Safety Committee.

SB 438, Leland Yee, (D-SF) Charter Schools: Freedom of Speech and of the Press.
Makes provisions of existing law regarding free speech and expressive activities of public school pupils applicable to charter school.

The subject is an attempt to protect the homosexual speech rights of students on Charter school campuses. This bill is related, in a way, to the previous bill. It attempts, in this instance, to silence Christian students in Charter Schools who would wish to respond to those students expressing support for what the Christian students would find offensive and immoral. At the same time this bill would allow and even encourage those students with homosexual interests to freely express their position in school newspapers and bulletin boards. It would also protect the teachers who allowed material offensive to one segment of the school - pro life students - from being called to account for lack of direction and counsel in this matter.

There are two problems here. Charter schools have been presented to the public as schools where parents have the authority to set standards for conduct as well as academics. While supported by tax dollars, the schools were to be considered independent of state education controls.

There are Charter schools developed by Christian families and there are Charter schools created by ACORN and PICO associated parental groups. Each group might well have a different standard for what constitutes acceptable and appropriate speech on the campus bulletin boards and newspapers. This bill is sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association and by the American Civil Liberties Union.

This is a definite attempt to intervene in one type of Charter School to control the speech rights of students and to interfere with parental authority mandating that parents submit to the state on this issue while protecting speech rights in other Charter Schools

Senator Yee should receive letterhead letters as well as personal letters, opposing his bill for his attempts at denying freedom of speech. The Hon. Leland Yee, C/0 State Capitol, Sacramento, Ca 95814.

I urge letterhead stationery because only letters from organizations get printed along with the bill analysis. Letters from individuals are listed as merely, for example, 5 letters.

Legislators are required to send all correspondence received to the committee next in line to hear the bill.

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by Camille Giglio

In the last few days I have seen two ads, one on TV and one on the internet, promoting elements of the universal health care plan.

AD 1: (I am paraphrasing) DEMOCRATS, VICTIMIZED FOR DEFENDING THE POOR AND NEEDY. This could well be the title of this Ad.

This Ad positions the Democrats in Congress as victims of those opposing the recently passed health care plan. The ad claims that Democrats have received threats, nasty phone calls, etc. It urges the reader to please, quickly send a $5.00 donation to the following address to help overcome this unpleasantness and help inform the people of the good work to be done by The Plan, yadda, yadda.

In truth the phone calls, if any, are probably from constituents who have a right to oppose a vote cast by their legislator and the so-called threats are, most likely, vows to defeat the legislator at the next election.

This is exactly the routine followed by Planned Parenthood. They position themselves as victims at the mercy of a well-funded but vicious pro life community which is spreading false information about the work of Planned Parenthood. They spend a fortune (of our tax dollars) sending out fund raising letters urging people to send money to aid in their “education” program. They claim to have been victimized by pro lifers and have no other way to respond but through your urgently needed donation, yadda, yadda.

You are supposed to feel sorry for these poor, brave defenders of social justice who need your protection.

AD 2. DIGITIZING MEDICAL RECORDS.

This TV Ad shows a man sitting on an examining table in a doctor’s office. The doctor wonders, out loud, if the patient has ever been checked for____. The patient shrugs his shoulders and suddenly the scene changes to include a large audience. Members of the audience start jumping up proclaiming that the patient has had this any number of tests.

Then a voice-over begins to talk about the advantages of medical record keeping and sharing.

This is the promotion of digitizing everybody’s medical records and assigning patients, without their approval or knowledge, apparently, to a Medical Home. I have written about this in the last legislative alert.

Now, this may be, to some extent, a good idea. Kaiser has this sort of organized record keeping. Instead of spending time looking through poorly written paper medical records, the doctor just has to press a button and up pops the info on whatever test or medication they ask for. Any Kaiser doctor or nurse with privileges or on a needs basis, using the proper pass code can look up your record.

Years ago I worked for a County Child Protective Services Agency. Occasionally we would learn of some client jobbing all the county services without each department knowing about the other. We would talk about how great it would be if we could somehow automatically share the information in order to find out if client A is getting the same service or payment from several agencies.

However, their is a down side to this. Just how far afield would Obama’s Administration wish to share your information? Does your employer or your child’s teacher need to know about your bladder infections, your nasal drip, your appendectomy?

There have been 5 bills so far in the 2009-10 California legislative term authorizing Medical Homes for just about everyone. Two failed, one was enacted, one was gutted and replaced with housing language and three are awaiting hearings.

AB 1037, by Bonnie Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod and Norma Torres, all Democrats.
This would have established a Medi-Cal Managed Care Pilot Program for Riverside and San Bernardino counties with access to a medical home.

By the way, there is no definition of a Medical Home in California law. apparently, because SB 966,Welfare and Institutions: Medi-Cal, by Sen. Elaine Alquist, mandates development of a definition to coincide with the 2008 Physician Practice Connections-Patient-Centered Medical Home standards and Guidelines established by the National committee for Quality Assurance.

So, these legislators are authoring bills and they don’t even have a working definition of what constitutes a medical home.

AB 6 d, Noreen Evans, Medi-Cal, was chaptered on 7/28/2009.
Provides, in order to maximize federal claiming under the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project, that the Department of Health Care Services have broad discretion to claim federal reimbursement. Authorizes the seeking of all available funding including under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Requires an application for a project federal waiver. Requires an implementation plan for such waiver. Requires the formation of a related stakeholder committee.

AB 1542, Medical Records: Homes, authored by the Assembly Health Committee.
This does carry a definition of a Medical Home.
Defines a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) as an approach to providing health care that originates in a primary care setting and fosters partnerships among the patient and health professionals to promote coordinated care, ensure quality and access to care, and to improve health. This bill will create a partnership agreement between the Health Care Professional (notice it never says doctor) and the patient to provide access to “high Quality, comprehensive care.”

I advise caution when faced with the word “comprehensive.” That is a favorite word of Planned Parenthood’s and it means family planning and abortion. This time it will include obtaining the patient’s consent to agree to a set plan of preventive measures to which the patient will be pressured to adhere.

This bill appears to have ties to a federal bill, S. 1303, Women’s Medical Home Demonstration Act by Robert Menendez, (D-NJ). This bill consigns all women to a Women’s Medical Home for the delivery of health care which does include family planning, venereal diseases and abortions.

If this passes you could be assigned to the same medical home as the town hooker and you will probably be paying, with your taxes, for her medical care.

This is an area of equality and diversity never mentioned in the pro Obama health care press.

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STATE OF THINGS FOR MARCH 23, 2010

1. Federal and State Legislation
2. Parish Nurse Program
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There is a 30 day waiting period between the end date for filing new bills and having those bills show up in committees. That waiting period is about expired. Also, very likely little activity has been occurring on legislation, especially health and education bills, until the Obama Care bill is signed. So, beginning this week or next bills may be starting to move.

In the meantime here are two bills to carefully watch.

STATE

AB 1542, Medical Records: Homes.
This bill is authored by the Assembly Health Committee. It establishes the Patient-Centered Medical Home Act pilot project. This creates the authority to assign every health care client’s medical records to a specific location. It further assigns the patient to that location, or medical home, creating a patient/doctor partnership. A team of medical personnel form a contract with each patient to oversee and guide that patient’s health care, mostly preventive care.

This home is sort of the gatekeeper approach to health care somewhat like the procedure for Kaiser patients, it would seem.

AT this time the bill carries no penalties for a patient’s failure to live up to the agreements of the health care contract. There is other legislation establishing peer review boards to track the performance level of the personnel, denying them new patients or payments for failure to provide appropriate care which could be used to punish those who fail to secure the compliance of the patient.

This bill has been sitting in committee since July, 2009, and is now beginning to see action. It has passed the Assembly and is now awaiting action in the Senate Health Committee.

The main selling point of this bill might be that this would be one way to restrain the costs of health care in the Obama bill.

FEDERAL

S. 1303, Robert Menendez, (D-NJ), Women’s Medical Home Demonstration Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a three year pilot program for a women’s medical home demonstration project to guide the redesign of the health care delivery system for women to oversee the delivery of “targeted, continuous, coordinated, confidential and comprehensive care to eligible individuals” beginning at age 13, or for any woman on MediCaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program - CHIP.

• This project can be headquartered at a medical facility or clinic.
• It can include family planning services.
• Preventing cervical cancer by immunization. That means vaccination of teen girls with gardasil.
• Overcomes “health disparities for minority women.
• It will reward (or punish) the management of the care through performance-based bonus payments, incentive payments.
• It will create a woman’s medical home advisory council consisting of 13 stakeholders, as they call it, representing various aspects of government and private health care professional levels.

There will be a continual analysis and assessment of which women, based on “demographic facts, such as age, race, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status benefit the most from participating in a women’s medical home.”

Cost savings to MediCaid, CHIP and other federal programs will also be evaluated.

At this time there is no indication of who is sponsoring or supporting this legislation, but I have little doubt that Planned Parenthood is behind this. Becoming the controlling agent for women’s health and reproductive activities has always been their goal.

SECURING JOBS
Now that the Health Care Insurance seems securely in place you may have noticed that President Obama is calling for a jobs bill. This is workforce development and it fits right into the health care over all plan just like the medical home. A healthy person is a healthy worker. A healthy worker is a happy worker. One can become a healthy and happy worker by submitting his working desires to a government controlled jobs and career training program either in a one-stop career center for adults or through technical education in the schools.

More about this as it develops.

PARISH NURSING.
A Lutheran trained Minister named Granger Westberg first conceived of the idea of delivering government services to citizens by accessing the people through churches. He had accompanied a U.S. Health Department fact finding trip to China in the early 1980’s, and saw the resistance of the people to direct contact by government officials. Being a minister he realized two things, A) people would have more trust in their minister than in a government official, B) people, especially women, have more trust in a woman than in a man and would confide in that woman much more easily than to a man or to a minister. He is credited with developing the delivery of “services” to parishioners in what is now termed faith based health care ministries. This is total, comprehensive health care; social, emotional, spiritual and physical.

This parish nurse, though often an actual registered nurse, can be anyone with the ability to have a pleasing personality and good listening skills. The Parish nurse often starts out as a non-paid, volunteer member of the church, but, in fact does not need to be either of the same faith or non-salaried.

The position of Parish Nurse is elevated to one of authority right alongside the pastor. She is designated as an essential provider of spiritual, physical and emotional wellbeing for the parish. She establishes a partnership with community organizations and attempts to match parishioners with what she determines to be needed services of a community agency.

According to one Catholic church parish nurse that I interviewed she even refers women to Planned Parenthood which is merely one of the community agencies with which she establishes a rapport. Though she started out all friendly when I asked her how it was possible for a Catholic parish nurse to refer a pregnant teen to Planned Parenthood she instantly became very reserved and spoke very distinctly, saying that: it was not her position to be judgmental. She was there merely to provide information about agencies and what they provided. It was up to the person to decide which services to use and what agencies to contact.

Though the parish council may give approval for this it is seldom to never fully explained by the parishioners. It starts usually with a questionnaire being given to those attending Sunday Services. It asks parishioners what they would like to see in the way of assistance from their church and other types of somewhat invasive questions. From this they create a foregone conclusion that parishioners are “needy” and can only be brought to spiritual and physical wholeness through the aid of government programs. It has happened that parishes have received payment for directing parishioners to sign up for MediCal or Healthy Families.

This parish nurse said that she brought the program to her pastor who took it to the parish council which approved it. The Bishop was not contacted for approval.

The Parish Nursing Program is endorsed by Planned Parenthood and can receive startup funding through the federal faith-based initiative legislation. Within a period of time the outside funding disappears and the parish is required to take up the costs of running this government representative-in-the-parish program.

This hands-off attitude by church officials regarding associating with Planned parenthood but not approving abortion and family planning is standard operating procedure in many Dioceses in California and elsewhere. This thinking is what enables Catholic Pastors to form associations with ACORN and PICO and its affiliates. It’s sort of the Pontius Pilate syndrome. Wash your hands of the whole abortion thing, look the other way while the vulnerable are sent off to Planned Parenthood but applaud the affordable housing, community organizing training, help for immigrants, etc.

Find out if your church has a Parish Nurse Program. Also ask if your church is a member of the the local branch of PICO or any other Community Organizing Program. During my interview with a parish nurse I asked if her pastor was active with CCISCO, the Contra Costa County, Ca. branch of PICO? She said: “Oh, Yes, he is heavily involved with CCISCO.”

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Since the beginning of the second half of the 2009-2010 term we have been following over 100 bills dealing in various aspects of education and health for their effects on the right to life and family privacy rights as well as other public policy issues.

As of today many of those bills have failed or been held in committee. Two have been signed by the Governor. Today I present you with 17 bills affecting education and family. Please pass this information on to others; your pastors, educator friends, clubs. Above all please notify your elected representatives of your position on these bills.

Everyone has a right to submit their position on a bill, even non-profit, tax deductible organizations. This is public policy not campaigning.

We take a moment to recap our concerns over education bills and family primacy and privacy.

The following is a very brief and simple explanation of developments in education.

The US Department of Education was formed in 1965 out of the bowels of the then Health and Human Services Administration. The current Obama appointed Director is Arne Duncan who stated, upon his appointment that: :Education is the Civil Rights issue of our generation,” and, further that: “education is an economic imperative.”

Creation of this cabinet level office has always been viewed as a federal power grab of what was traditionally local educational programs and standards. Part of the State’s Rights segment of the Constitution. View the website for the US Department of Education to see the 27 committees and offices within this monster Department.
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/or/index.html

In 1972, a very powerful piece of legislation was passed entitled Elementary and Secondary Education Act - ESEA. This Act has been centrally figured in bringing sex education into the schools. It also brought federal funding to state and local schools with the resulting establishment of expanding federal rules regarding priorities in education.

In the late 1980’s under the George H.W. Bush Presidency a program of America 2000 was created along with an education agenda to bring us into the 21st Century. Under Clinton and with the assistance of Sen. Ted Kennedy, America 2000 morphed into Goals 2000 which in 2002 was renamed No Child Left Behind-NCLB. The ESEA/NCLB is due for re-authorization in the near future.

Little did anyone realize that this signaled a broad change in the purpose of education establishing partnerships between education and labor to produce pre-determined outcomes for students. It became known as Outcome based education.

Parents became wise to what was happening with OBE and so under George Bush,2, the name was changed to Workforce Development. Thus has begun for America, the greatest transformation in educational goals in partnership with labor. Rep. George Miller, (D-Martinez) is Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.

One woman, Charlotte Iserbyt, a former department of education employee set about verifying all these changes referring to it as the “Dumbing Down of America.”

The driving force behind this proposed transformation of education was, during the Clinton Administration, Marc Tucker, Director of the National Center for Education and the Economy - NCEE. He wrote a report to Hillary Clinton setting down the guidelines on the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce - Tough Choices or Tough Times.

The final product or mission of education is now to produce shovel ready students to match the shovel ready jobs that Obama is pledging. This is the purpose of the Race to The Top education funding legislation. If states and school districts apply for the RTTT federal funding, (which several are now refusing to do) they are also agreeing to transform their educational system into one that focuses on preparing students for jobs, jobs that these Workforce Development Boards, established in every county in California, are now planning. This further removes any local control from education. It further sees the parents role in all this as little more than a partner in encouraging the child’s workforce training potential which has been pre-determined by all the longitudinal data analysis and collection software now being developed. And, finally, this is the meaning of a seamless education, or life-long education requiring pre-K thru junior college continual reinforcement of the goals set for each student.

The role of parents is being diminished, the value of our children is being determined by their ability to promote the United States’ global achievements, special interest groups including Planned Parenthood are being given privileges to access our children in the schools for the self interests of these organizations. These are the fruits of the loss of respect for the right to life of every individual. When and if we support these objectives of education and labor and health elitists, we reinforce their belief that people are expendable. Recall what was supposedly presented by the apostles in the bible: if a person doesn’t work he doesn’t eat? Well, now, if a person is not useful, from birth, to society, he/she has no God given right to existence. Here is a list of bills needing letters of opposition. Letters. postal cards or emails are requested to be sent either to the legislator or certain committees. Address is The Hon.___, C/o State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814. Email addresses can be found at www.leginfo.ca.gov. Bills can also be read in full on that site.

AB 35, Warren Furutani, (D-Fresno) Education: Workforce Development. Declares the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to develop a strategic plan in the education system for workforce preparation and career technical education. Requires the State Postsecondary Education Commission to develop a strategic plan for connecting education and workforce development in the state. Current Status. Has passed the Assembly, waiting in Senate Rules for assignment to a committee.

AB 465, Joe Coto, (D-San Jose) Schools: Parent Involvement. Encourages school districts to review and contract with nonprofit community-based organizations that have a proven track record and can demonstrate their success in educating parents and building direct collaboration with school districts, administrators and educations, and would be required to demonstrate and provide a culturally and linguistically competent parent involvement program. Encourages a low-performing district to submit a report showing efforts to promote parent engagement and the outcomes. Current Status: Passed the Assembly, awaiting a committee assignment in the Senate.

SB 436, Leland Yee, (D-San Francisco) Charter Schools: Freedom of Speech and of the Press. To allow charter school students the right to express their opinions in the school newsletter or bulletin boards and also to protect the school personnel from any law suits or reprimands for allowing this unsupervised freedom of speech and press. Current Status: passed the Senate, awaiting hearing in Assembly Judiciary Committee.

SB 1e, Darrell Steinberg, (D-Sacto) Public Schools: Race To The Top. Authorizes certain agencies to enter into agreements in order to facilitate the implementation of a longitudinal education data system. Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Career Technical Education Educator Credentialing Program. Provides for teacher evaluations, certain requirements for low-achieving schools, revised academic content standards, a plan to secure federal Race to the Top funds, and the sharing of certain wage data with the Department of Education and other entities. Current Status: the Governor signed this bill on 1-7-2010. This was a mandate of the federal RTTT in order for a state to show compliance with the federal RTTT application for funding.

SB 2e, Joe Simitian, (D-Palo Alto) Pupil Data. Signed by the Governor 1-7-2010 Authorizes the Department of Education to conduct pupil data management on behalf of local educational agencies. Authorizes the local agencies to access specified data via the Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System and to share specified data via the system. Requires the establishment of an education data team to respond to all requests for pupil data. Authorizes the release of data to a nonprofit scientific research entity. Establishes a child care and development program reporting process.

SB 4e, Gloria Romero, (D-LA) Public Schools: Race to the Top. Signed by Governor 1-7-2010. Establishes the Open Enrollment Act to enable pupils residing in the state to attend public schools in school districts other than their school district of residence under certain conditions. Relates to implementation of the federal Race to the Top program. Require a local educational agency to implement certain reforms for schools which are subject to corrective action and continue to fail to make adequate yearly progress. [note: This is especially worrisome because of the implication for sending students away from home and across school district borders.]

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Judge Allows SoCal Obstetrician To Keep Practice
ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer

SAN DIEGO (AP) ― A judge ruled Thursday that a Southern California obstetrician may continue to practice medicine while regulators seek to revoke his license, saying the doctor didn’t violate a court order that limits the kind of procedures he can perform.

The ruling is a setback for the California Medical Board in its efforts to stop Dr. Andrew Rutland from practicing after a 30-year-old woman under his care died last year, but it’s not the final word. Another proceeding on whether Rutland should permanently lose his license is expected this year.

Administrative Law Judge James Ahler said his January order that limited Rutland’s activities did not extend to chemically induced abortions, as regulators believed it did. He clarified that his order only bars Rutland for doing surgeries and delivering babies.

The judge was reluctant to open a debate on whether chemically induced abortions jeopardized patients.

"Folks, this is not a referendum on abortion," he said.

Kathleen Nicholls, the medical board’s southern area commander, was disappointed by the ruling and called Rutland’s conduct "dangerous."

"How many patients have to die before a doctor is shut down?" she said outside the hearing room. "It’s unfortunate someone else is going to have to die to change this order."

Rutland, 66, first surrendered his license in 2002 in a high-profile case involving the deaths of two infants. In 2007, he convinced the board that he had been rehabilitated and regained his license.

New troubles surfaced after the 30-year-old woman visited Rutland’s San Gabriel clinic last July for a second trimester abortion and was injected with lidocaine. According to court records, she went into respiratory distress and died six days later.

The medical board said that Rutland offered a chemically induced abortion to an undercover investigator who visited his Chula Vista clinic in suburban San Diego this month.

His attorney, Paul Hittelman, said Rutland had problems in the past but that he deserves to continue practicing.

"He’s had such a long history of successes," Hittleman said after the hearing. "I don’t represent people who I don’t think merit my services."

Rutland, who is based in Anaheim, did not appear at the hearing.

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In a previous report on Workforce Development the acronym STEM was mentioned. This stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. It is the core component of the new educational focus as mandated by the Obama Race To The Top federal education standards. California, if it qualifies for Race funding, stands to receive something like $4 billion. This is funding contained in the latest stimulus package.

Creating new jobs and building new infrastructure technology to go along with the jobs is the latest government mantra. Well, what does all this mean in reality?

Here are some examples.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

(a) If California is to retain its premier position in stem cell research and fully realize the medical and economic benefits of regenerative medicine, stronger links are needed between California public schools and this emerging industry.

California bill SB 471, by Gloria Romero, (D-L.A.) Stem Cell and Biotechnology Workforce Development was signed into law by the Governor on 10/11/2009.

As you may recall, Proposition 71 creating the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine - CIRM was passed in November of 2004. It was sold to the public on the premise of awe inspiring cures for otherwise incurable diseases and disabilities.

This proposition guaranteed $3 billion in state bond funding to the Center for Regenerative Medicine to research cures through the use of embryonic (pre-born baby) stem cells. As of May, 2009, the CIRM had spent nearly $700 million in research and facilities grants. (Most of it went for facilities and salaries).

During this time many promising pieces of research using adult stem cells have been produced, but in California no cures have been forthcoming from Embryonic stem cell sources. And, apparently the CIRM is finding it difficult to find people even willing to work in this Frankenstein-esque industry. At the time of its creation the CIRM refused to consider any research in the field of adult stem cells.

SB 471 was approved in order to provide it with authority to enter into agreements with educational programs, in the field of science, to train more workers for the embryonic stem cell research programs.

This is considered a jobs creation incentive. It will have nothing to do with curing or ameliorating disabling illnesses, but it will meet the national criterion of Science and technology mandates. Instead of developing realistic cures the stem cell industry will be creating educational programs and questionable ones at that seeing that this is a dead-end industry. Where will these students go when they graduate? Will it be right back into more training academies for whatever is then the current fad research?

Regarding infrastructure changes:

GPR 1, State Government Information Technology, the Governor’s own bill, and ACR 88, an Assembly Concurrent Resolution, by Tom Torlakson, (D-Antioch), Education, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math. (STEM)

GPR 1, makes drastic changes to the Welfare and Institutions Code, the Government Code, the Public Contract Code and the Revenue and Taxation Code. This is a 38 page bill submitted on 3/10/2009 and adopted on 5/7/2009.

This is a massive reorganization of government offices creating the office of the state Chief Information Officer within the Cabinet and moving many government branches under the Governor’s direct authority. This removes these offices from public access.

One of the things I find most troubling about this reorganization is the creation of a Council of Governors created by the Obama Administration. This Council will be advisors, so to speak, directly to the President or, from the President to the people through the Governors.

Resolutions do not carry the authority of bills, but they do indicate the sense of the legislature indicating what the legislature would like to see happen.

Torlakson’s Resolution, ACR 88, does not need the Governor’s signature. It passed out of the Assembly and awaits a committee hearing in the Senate. It is only 3 pages but carries great significance for its cloning of Obama’s and the United Nation’s global education standards.

This sets out the principle components of a state level STEM Task Force consisting of 11 members. It’s purpose is to call attention to the citizens of California about the “distressing shortage of Californians prepared to contribute to the state’s future technology workforce.” And, further, that it shall be establish[ed] “for the purpose of raising awareness of educational issues and shall be nonpartisan in nature.”

Notice the emphasis on the state’s future, not the students futures? Does this truly reflect the mind of the legislature? Isn’t the legislature supposed to reflect the mind of the citizens who elected these people?

Does anyone else see a disconnect here?

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1. Legislation
2. Churches and secular influences.
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“Why has the Lord permitted us
to be defeated today by the Philistines?
1 Samuel 4:3

There is a flurry of activity now in the state legislature. My time has been quite taken up with research, interviews of legislators or their aides and reading books on policy subjects. One book I would recommend for those who like heavy reading is “Politics for the Greatest Good: The case for prudence in the Public Square,” by Clarke D. Forsythe former Director of Americans United for Life.

Prudence, in this instance, is not compromise, but the gifts of discernment and wisdom as to what can be accomplished at any given time in the public arena and what should be tried to accomplish. Sad to admit but there are ever deepening dependencies both in the private and religious realms of dependency upon financial funding sources and power sources tied to activities and funding sources that would ordinarily be inimical to both. Sometimes asking for the whole enchilada can be more destructive than just taking that enchilada one bite at a time as in working for parental notification for a minor child’s abortion rather than a Personhood Amendment in a single bill. This is my example, not one offered in the book.

I have also taken some time to “walk the halls” in Sacramento, talking to legislative Aides, especially Republican Aides. It is instructive to understand what dynamic is going on when we see Republicans such as Republican Assemblyman mark Wyland, endorsing Democrat bills such as the Obama Administration promotion of “Race to the Top” (G. Romero, (D) SB x 45) education funding and restructuring bills. No Wyland employee was willing to speak for the record as to the reason a Republican co-authored a Democrat bill. The Republican federal No Child Left Behind education goals and agenda has now been supplanted by the Race To The Top legislation.

Here is my observation of the current cooperative attitude between Democrat and Republican legislators in Sacramento: there has been a decided choice on the part of Republicans not to think of this as a Democrat or federal funding takeover of local educational matters. Rather they preferred to think of it as a needed improvement of educational standards. These so-called improved educational standards are, in reality, nationwide, standardized core subject standards. This then brings national standards into the local community denying parents a right to involvement of what their child learns, places the national standards within the international (global) standards as sought by the United Nations and effectively makes every child a student of the global goals and standards. This further threatens the autonomy offered to Charter School parents and students as well as I will demonstrate further on in this report.

Did you know that ACORN and PICO have created Charter Schools as well?

This new attitude of cooperation in the legislature brings with it legislation already signed by the Governor authorizing Open Enrollment policies for the Public and Charter School, especially in economically deprived communities (read black and Hispanic).

Open enrollment policy states that a child who is failing in school may apply to any other (approved) school in the state. I asked one Aide if that meant that, for example, a 4th grader might only be able to improve his education by attending a special school that is several counties away from home? He said, yes, if the parents chose that. I asked, if, in the case of this school being only across the district or the county, who would be accountable for living arrangements for out of county placements and or transportation arrangements? Again, the Aide hedged but eventually affirmed that it would be up to the parents to make the living arrangements to board the child somewhere.

Regarding transportation I asked who would be responsible for getting the student(s) to these distant schools especially if poor parents have no means of transportation? He really hedged at that, but admitted that it would probably be up to the school system to arrange for transportation. Can’t you just picture the expanding number of buses needed to drive students of all ages around to schools? Talk about traffic jams!

This Aide further rejected the idea of Open Enrollment leading to internationalization of education, but, stated, instead, that what might happen is one state cooperating with 4 or 5 other states to set standards. I asked if he was referring to regionalization of education? He preferred the words collaboration or cooperation. But he did not deny the idea of regionalization. This fits in with workforce development standards and Master Plans.

And, by the way, everything is thought of these days as the necessity of forming Master Plans. Master Plans for workforce development whether it be in the health care fields, education arena, technology, science, teaching, elder care, transportation. All these plans mandate the formation of state and county advisory or oversight committees of local politicians, business people, non-profits, community organizing groups, unions, etc.
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LEGISLATION - State

AB 535 - Tom Ammiano, (D-SF) Elder Death Review Teams: Information Requests.

This bill has passed both the Assembly Health and the Asm Long-Term Care Committee with both Dems and Reps, in some instances voting for.

Ammiano’s Aide said, in passing, that the medical directive for health care that the bill would work with is called Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment - POLST. This is a program prompted by the Compassion in Care group which was the major supporter of the latest attempt at passing Physician Assisted Suicide.

The official sponsors are the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform and the California Senior Legislature (a private, non-profit lobbying group.

While this would appear to be an admirable piece of legislation seeking to provide the fullest protection against elder abuse and discrimination, a look beneath the nice words presents a different picture.

This is the Master Plan for elder care. It will create state and local elder death review advisory panels for all skilled nursing facilities - snf. These panels consisting of distinguished local elected, legal, community, medical and non-profit groups will have the power to mandate in-depth reporting and analysis of the manner in which patients die. This information will be shared with all the agencies connected to the death review teams. There will be an electronic data collection system developed or put into use. The stated purpose is to act as a monitor for any actual or suspected elder patient abuse, physical, medical, mental, social or financial.

The bill is, in my estimation, suspect for being used to monitor whether or not facilities are complying with any right to die mandates that are not being complied with especially since the bill promotes the POLST. www.finalchoice.org.

Location of Bill: 1/14 it passed out of the Long-term Health Committee and is going to the Appropriations.

REQUEST: Please write to the author, The Hon. Tom Ammiano, c/o State Capitol, Sacramento 95814 with a copy to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, same address. PLEASE use letterhead organization stationery if you have any. Only that way will your opposition get on the record.

Since this is appropriations which means funding, they are not swayed (much) by moral or religious persuasions. The fact that it is going to appropriations means that it is believed that it will have a fiscal impact even though the author denies any impact. One could easily state that this bill would negatively affect the smooth flow of medical and personal care to patients if there has to be a continual use of personnel to fill out state forms and to be on-call to any of the local death panel team members for information and analysis.

This team could also, especially with the advent of Universal Health care, be a means of rating these facilities as to whether or not they will be denied new patients and or whether their employees or medical staff will be subject to law suits for failure to comply promptly with reporting mandates.

SB 438, Leland Yee, (D-SF) Charter Schools: Freedom of Speech and of the Press. On 1/14/ this bill was gutted and amended from a health care bill to its current status as an education Committee free speech bill which will include Charter Schools under the Public School freedom of speech and school newspaper press rights.

It is being promoted as merely an adjustment to the law drawing in the Charter Schools under its protection, but it has an interesting twist.

Charter Schools have become popular with both conservative and Christian families due to its presumed freedom of families to be involved in setting education goals and standards.

This bill would protect the right of students to publish in campus newspapers anything they chose as well as put notices on bulletin boards (that’s where freedom of the press comes in). It also has the potential for protecting staff from law suits for allowing student free speech.

This would begin to be a limitation on parental rights to set standards and goals whether it would be a case of promotion of homosexuality, abortion or in the case of an ACORN Charter School, some student who would want to write about supporting the right to life. LOCATION: Re-referred to Senate Appropriations Committee awaiting hearing due to change of focus and different potential for costs to the state such as law suits.

Letters of Opposition should be sent to the author, The Hon. Leland Yee at the state Capitol address and a copy to the Senate Appropriations Committee. In this case it would be appropriate to make reference to the potential for placing limitations on Charter School parental involvement rights along with stating that this is a nuisance type piece of legislation interfering with academic learning leading to court challenges of parental rights.
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Thank you to all who contributed to our support during December and January. There is one clarification that we wish to make regarding donations. At one time and for many years, California Right to Life Education Fund, IRS 501 (c) 3 and California Right to Life Committee, Inc. IRS 501 (c) 4, were two phases of the same organization. Right around 2000 we split into two separate organizations. CRLEF retained its non-profit, tax deductible status and maintains a separate office and identity. I took over the Committee, Inc. or Public Policy Advocacy activities. Money donated to the one organization does not benefit the other organization. We both hope and pray that you continue supporting both of us but, please, with separate checks.

Donations to Committee, Inc. are used to defray the costs of research on legislation and mailings. It is still considered educational activities but with the added emphasis of providing the citizen with the tools to access their elected officials and advocate for life in the public square. This is not political activity or support or opposition to candidates. That comes under an entirely different branch of IRS rules with which neither of us are connected.

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This was the title of a page 3 article in the 12/20.2009, Contra Costa Times. It was about culling trees unworthy of life from a grove of more desirable and stately oaks. It should have been the title of an article about the most despicable piece of legislation since Roe v Wade.

Senator Ben Nelson betrayed his pro life supporters and all babies waiting to be born, and chose special monetary perks for his state with the same cavalier manner as the tree cutters taking their chain saws to certain trees - sorry, baby, you gotta go.

This Obama Health Care legislation is about a lot of things other than abortion, its true, but whereas, TARP and the ARRA have been used to bolster the banks and auto industry, health care money will underwrite the abortion Planned Parenthood industry which is already awash in state and federal funds, not to mention the blood of millions of unborn human babies.

Will this be enough for the population controllers? Apparently not. No sooner was there an announcement about Ben Nelson’s cave-in than Debra Ness, Director of National Partners for Women and Families issued a statement declaring: “[a]greement reached in the Senate today on abortion services would be a huge step backward.” Further, “[it] creates an unworkable impediment to women’s ability to access reproductive health coverage.”

The abortion industry will never be satisfied until they control every aspect of human reproduction. Margaret Sanger and her original Birth Controller’s group set themselves up to be the ones to determine which human lives get culled from the ranks of the more stately humans and they didn’t care how they did it. The current crop of legislators also don’t seem to care how they wrest control of human lives away from individuals and gather it to themselves. They promise health care for all but the result is universal control of all.

But, make no mistake, this health care legislation is not just about cleansing the population of so-called undesirables horrible as that is. The legislators want to clean up and reform those humans allowed to live.

Over the years many pieces of legislation that have started out as beneficent have become instead a means of control. The 1960’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act has given us sex education in the schools and all that that created. Title X of the Social Security Act has brought abortion funding and now Workforce Development which places control of jobs and businesses in the hands of government.

The No Child Left Behind Act, which originated with the First President Bush in a well-meaning attempt to ensure that no child was deprived of a good education has turned into a further means of government control, government advisory bodies, centralization of education and is now planned as a means of drawing homeless children into the noose of Obama Care.

Something called the McKinney/Vento Act was added to the NCLB providing a definition of what constitutes a homeless child for the purpose of ensuring that homeless children received an education equal with that of any other child. Now Congress is seeking to expand that definition of homelessness into the arena of health care which means placing them in the hands of Planned Parenthood for their Responsible Reproductive activities co-authored by Sen. Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer. Sort of a Civil Rights Act for children.

For the purpose of McKinney/Vento a homeless child is one who: shares housing with other people, experiences economic hardships, living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, emergency shelters or was abandoned in hospitals, etc. and includes migratory children as defined by the ESEA of 1965.

HR 4173 by Barney Frank is yet another omnibus human control piece of legislation. It seeks to reform Wall Street by claiming that it will be the Consumer Protection Ac-t of 2009. This is another 2000 page plus bill, beginning with numbered section 1000 and ending with section 8004.

The U.S. Senate with Harry Reid leading the charge has been debating HR 3590 a 2000 page guide to controlling the population, but Reid also has 66 bills of his own, of which, at least 12 directly effect various aspects of daily human life. And he isn’t the only legislator carrying such bills. All these bills have been sitting in committee, most of them since January 6, 2009, just waiting for passage of this omnibus Universal Care (control) bill.

Here are some of the more egregious bills:

HR 3253, Carl Levin (D-Mi) Advance Directives Promotion Act of 2009. Provides funds to states to advertise and expand the use of advance directives in end of life planning by amending Titles XVlll and XVlX of the Social Security Act. It will create hot lines for decision making counseling, promote decision making educational programs for the general public. Life long learning may become life shortening learning.

S. 1, Harry Reid, Economic Growth. This proposes to create jobs, restore economic growth, strengthen American’s middle class, modernize the nation’s infrastructure, enhance American’s energy independence, expand educational opportunities (this is career technical education - school to work) improve affordable health care, provide tax relief and protect those in great need.

S. 2, Harry Reid, Middle Class Opportunity Act. This bill is what is called a “sense of Congress” bill. It urges the President to sign legislation to improve the lives of middle class families and provide them with greater opportunity to achieve the American dream, meet retirement needs, help families acquire education and training, promote child and elder care, and freedom to unionize which is further referred to in the bill as providing “fair pay for all workers.” In other words one will not be paid for the work done or how much effort was put into preparing for the job but what the government wants you to have.

S. 3, Harry Reid, Homeowners and Consumers. Reduces foreclosures, ensures availability of credit for homeowners, business and consumers and reforming the financial regulatory system.

This falls in line with Barney Frank’s Wall Street reform bill. Government bureaucrats will determine who gets to open businesses, who gets loans, who works at those jobs and who lives where.

In regard to who lives where we refer you to all the Smart Growth, Sustainable Development legislation that seeks to reconstruct communities according to government elitists ideas of the most efficient means of providing affordable housing to everyone, placing like groups of people, economically and age wise together. Senior citizens are already being urged to move into cluster type housing and surrender their homes to those whom the government has declared need them more. I think the clustering of seniors is more for the advantage of all the community service providers who won’t have to drive very far to “service” all the so-called needs of the aging boomers.

S. 4, Harry Reid, Health Coverage. Another sense of the Congress to guarantee affordable, quality health coverage for all Americans.

S. 5, Harry Reid, Economy and Security of United States. This will be provided by reducing the dependence of the US from unsustainable energy sources and the risk of global warming. S. 6 is about providing national security. This, like most of these are basically spot bills. They are brief, say little and can be used at the last minute for amending into other bills or expanding to include other bills.

S. 7, Harry Reid, Educational Opportunities. Early children education and after school programs, advancing reform in elementary and secondary education, strengthening math, science and making education more affordable. This is the true dumbing down of America. Affordable doesn’t mean financially. It means sending all students through 16 years of schooling to insure that the behavior modification stays firmly rooted.

S. 21, Harry Reid, Womens Health Care. This 26 page bill is a rehash of a multitude of abortion funding bills over the years. It amends Title X of the Public Health Service Act to create an education program entitled “Responsibility about Life Act.” Even if abortion funding had been removed from Obama Care, this bill would get pushed through thereby providing the funding for abortion. Guess what non-profit radical feminist group would be charged with developing this curriculum and training the teachers? One would not have to legitimize prostitution, all young people would become volunteer prostitutes doing their duty for their country. Can you imagine your beautiful little girl receiving outcome based education to be a prostitute? Don’t laugh.

S. 968-IS, Harry Reid, Secondary School Innovation Fund Act. According to this bill: “The nation has failed to educate enough students to meet workforce demands.”

Did you understand all these decades that this was the job of education? Was education always meant to be little more than a sausage factory spewing out pliable, compliant bodies ready for work? I surely didn’t realize this. This is how Harry Reid and others see our precious children, merely widgets in the gristmill of capitalism.

HR 4072, Walt Clifford Minnick, (D-ID-01). Federal Job Training and Career Education Programs. Requires certain federal job training and career education programs give priority to programs that provide a national industry-recognized and portable credential.

This is a direct attack on home schooled children. If the graduating student does not have the government mandated required mind set for becoming a member of the workforce in a position that the government has determined is needed, then that student might as well forget about working.

When man attempts to practice the corporal works of mercy but without consideration for the spiritual needs of man; when legislators perceive that they can govern men’s lives through science and touchy feely psychology producing the perfect society but without a consideration of God’s plan for man’s eternal salvation this is the result. Many countries have lived behind the Iron Curtain of Communism. We, in America, may well end up living within the padded cells of smothering nannyism.

This is the Christmas Season. This is the time to recall that God has promised to always be with us. He can not take his eyes off of us, His beloved created beings. We must always hold precious the understanding that all, each and every, human being is precious in God’s eyes and that we are called upon to be a messenger of that love and compassion to all our neighbors no matter what the government mandates.

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