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Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
"Seiler's hiring was the second decision by the county in the last month or so to raise questions from election watchdogs." Wired Magazine "Joining Seiler in the San Diego elections office is another election official beleaguered by controversy -- Michael Vu. Until recently, Vu was the elections director in Cuyahoga County in Ohio . He resigned in the wake of a number of critical reports depicting problems with how his office conducted elections and how machines made by Diebold performed. His resignation also followed the conviction of two election workers in his office who were found guilty of rigging a recount in the 2004 presidential election. Vu was recently made assistant registrar of voters in San Diego ." Wired Magazine— April 26, 2012 6:47 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
Also SD Pay close attention to WHO is running your elections!! I have been raising flags about this for years!!! We need to ensure we have an honest elect. We need to demand a handcount at precincts of at least a portion of votes to ensure accuracy. Many people dont realize San diego hired Micheal Vu from the Ohio election fraud of 2004 to RUN our elections w/ Deborah Seiler sales rep for Diebold. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/ive-got-iss…— April 26, 2012 6:46 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
Also do people realize CA has a program called CAEZ that gives millions to companies like Walmart. thats why you see this endless expansion of Walmarts. they are getting state tax dollars. according to a Sprawlbusters report its estimated Walmart gets $11,000 PER employee PER year in these "enterprise zones" that are all over California. its that corp america has found ways to syphon these dollars and create entitlements. And incidentally CAEZ did not make it to the cutting room. Why not? We are currently shutting down 70 state parks and selling of state park land to developers (see San francisco) and Walmart is STILL getting millions of our tax dollars?— April 26, 2012 6:38 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
If they repealed prop 13 developers in redevelopment would collect a windfall because of the increase in property values. Thats why there has been such a campaign to repeal it.— April 26, 2012 6:33 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
Its not prop 13, its that they allocated 5.5 billion dollars a year to redevelopment. People need to be outraged and we need the teachers to go after them rather than coming to taxpayers for tax hikes.— April 26, 2012 6:32 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/financial-c… Yesterday in a tentative ruling, the judge denied the City's bid and said the case should go forward. Scott Kessler says he was fired by the City for cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the San Diego Police in its investigation of possible corruption of Little Italy mover and shaker Marco Li Mandri and Paul (Joe) Mannino, a convicted felon. The Reader has previously reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration in New York City traced Quaalude sales to a Paul Mannino and found boxes of the drugs in his car. He was indicted in 1980 and convicted of violation of federal drug, firearms, and racketeering laws. He went to prison and after getting out, met Li Mandri around 2000. There is more to this case than meets the eye. Under the Freedom of Information Act, civic activist Mel Shapiro requested more facts on the case from the FBI. He got very little, but what he did get was eye-opening. On the FBI report, the initials used in the title are OC/DI. Former FBI officials tell me that means "organized crime/drug investigation." Below are these initials: "LCN - Genovese." An FBI agent told Shapiro, and former FBI agents told me, that this means that the investigation focused on La Cosa Nostra, or Mafia, and the Genovese family, one of the five major organized crime families in New York City, rivaled in power only by the Gambino family and the Chicago outfit. The FBI report goes on to state that the investigation was by the bureau and San Diego police, but the San Diego district attorney "declined prosecution of the above-captioned case." The Reader has reported several times that District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis did not pursue the case, even though it was exhaustively researched by the FBI and a San Diego police detective.— April 26, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
Amen!!!! Beware of the public private partnership!!! It is being pushed by both sides as a great solution. its just a way to syphon tax dollars to special interests in a way that leaves citizens out of the loop. It always sounds good on paper. Who doesnt want to improve their neighborhood? look what the biggest public private partnership redevelopment has gotten us...unbelievable blight and enormous debt. he City is demanding 6.5 billlion dollars in state tax dollars for development projects. and there is no accountability and the gov is not standing up to them. So even though they are "dead" they created this entity to still have authority and there is nothing we can do about it. 1 more reason to vote no on any tax increases. doesnt matter what they say its for. it just goes into the giant sluch fund.— April 26, 2012 6:21 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
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Sounds like taxpayers need to create a ballot initiative to prohibit these things from happening.— April 26, 2012 3:25 p.m.
Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
the crazy thing is Dumanis was given a pile of documents by the FBI, plenty to convict this guy and she decided the claim was "baseless" despite the FBI saying the contrary... he should be in prison. Instead he is creating new taxes and putting himself on the payroll...kinda like Toni Atkins...should be in prison instead is proposing a bill that will cost taxpayers 1.4 billion dollars to go to MORE housing. This as our state parks are being sold to developers.— April 26, 2012 3:24 p.m.