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County of Ventura Watch: Here Come The Tax Increases Part Two
The Ventura County Star has Supervisors may give big raises
Some county employees are in line for double-digit increases after salary surveyDistrict Attorney Greg Totten and Treasurer-Tax Collector Larry Matheney could win double-digit raises under a recommendation going to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors today.
Totten earns almost $25,000 less than the average for his counterparts in other populous California counties, a survey conducted in November indicates. Matheney’s salary is about $15,000 behind in the survey.
n an effort to boost them and several appointed managers to the average, personnel officials are recommending a package of raises.
Totten’s annual salary could rise by 14.4 percent, increasing from $166,641 to more than $190,000. Matheney’s could grow from $131,259 to close to $148,000, a gain of 12.4 percent.
Isn’t Ventura County always complaining about budgetary constraints?
Here come the Taxes……….
District Attorney Greg Totten
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Ambassador Robert D. Nesen: RIP
The Ventura County Star has Former Ambassador Nesen dies at home.
Robert D. Nesen, a Ventura County businessman who became a U.S. ambassador during the Reagan administration and earlier served as assistant secretary of the Navy, died at his home in Thousand Oaks, his family said Monday. He was 87.
Nomination of Robert Dean Nesen To Be United States Ambassador to Australia and Nauru
April 17, 1981
The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Dean Nesen, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., to be Ambassador to Australia and to serve concurrently as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru.
Mr. Nesen served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946 and was in the Naval Reserve from 1946 to 1966, lieutenant commander. In 1941 he was with Air-Research Corp. of Los Angeles, Calif. From 1946 to 1947, he was the owner-manager of Coast Aero Flying Service of Oxnard, Calif. Since 1948 he has been founder-chairman of the board, R. D. Nesen Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Inc., of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Also, since 1971 he has been founder-chairman of the board, Nesen Leasing Corp.
From 1972 to 1974, Mr. Nesen served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Washington, D.C. He was appointed by Governor Reagan to the California New Car Dealers Policy and Appeals Board (elected first president), California State Board of Education, and as chairman, then cochairman of the California delegation to the National Convention. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Review Board, Department of State, from 1970 to 1973.
Mr. Nesen was born January 22, 1918, in St. Louis, Mich. He attended Tri-State Engineering College and graduated as an aeronautical engineer in 1941 from Curtis-Wright Technical School. He is married to the former Delta Hudson and has three children.
A stalwart Reagan Republican and Ventura County patron of Republican politics, Ambassador Robert Nesen has passed on.
Condolences to his family……..
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Roe v. Wade Watch: Alito Downplays 1985 Abortion Statement
Judge Samuel Alito, left, President Bush’s nominee to join the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in her Capitol Hill office, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005. Documents released Monday show Alito in 1985 telling the Reagan administration he was particularly proud to help argue that ‘the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,’ a statement senators want to know more about before voting on his candidacy for the Supreme Court. Feinstein is the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee.The ASSociated Press Alito Downplays 1985 Abortion Statement
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito distanced himself Tuesday from his 1985 comments that there was no constitutional right to abortion, telling a senator in private that he had merely been “an advocate seeking a job.”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., an abortion rights supporter and the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said she asked the conservative judge about a document released Monday showing Alito in 1985 telling the Reagan administration he was particularly proud to help argue that “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.”
“He said first of all it was different then,” she said. “He said, ‘I was an advocate seeking a job, it was a political job and that was I’m now a judge, I’ve been on the circuit court for 15 years and it’s very different. I’m not an advocate, I don’t give heed to my personal views, what I do is interpret the law.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Trade Mission Begins
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger embraces Special Olympics athlete Wang Xiaoyu, as Maria Shriver, right, looks on during a Special Olympics ceremony in Beijing.The San Francisco Chronicle has Schwarzenegger urges world to depend less on oil
Governor suggests China invest in California’s clean technology
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged diplomats and business leaders at a joint U.S.-China energy conference today to forge ties that will reduce the world’s dependence on oil and increase energy efficiency.
The governor said the two nations are at a critical moment in history and must find new ways to produce and consume energy “to sustain our economies and our environment.”
Schwarzenegger, on the second day of his trade mission to China, praised the Chinese for their progress toward greater energy efficiency and suggested they increase their trade relationships with California businesses that specialize in clean technologies.
The governor pulled a tiny silicon chip from his pocket, saying it was developed in Silicon Valley and manufactured in China.
“This is the most efficient solar chip in the world … a symbol of unlimited potential that we can realize,” the governor said of the chip, produced by SunPower Corp. of Sunnyvale.
The governor’s speech at the serious policy conference contrasted with the rowdy reception he received as a former world-wide film star within an hour of his arrival Monday.
In the meantime, California is abuzz regarding a $50-100 billion bond issue to repair California’s infrastructure.
Has the Governor hit on the “RIGHT” theme towards political rehabilitation?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
