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CITY OF RIVERSIDE: IT’S ON, THE SECOND ANNUAL CHIEF RUSSELL LEACH SUPERBOWL MEMORIAL WEEKEND CELEBRATION! TMC WISHES ALL TO BE SAFE! IF IN RIVERSIDE PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR CITY OFFICIALS IN WEAVING CARS..

Posted: February 5, 2012 in Uncategorized
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DID THE CHIEF FORGET TO WEAR HIS DIAPER THAT DAY ?

TMC would like to dedicate today as the Official Russ Leach Super Bowl Day!!  If you would like to follow in his footsteps you will need “The Russ Leach DUI KIT”,  which consist of :

1. Prescription Drugs: 2 tabs Vicodin (hydrocodone-pain pills), 2 Xanax (alprazolam-anti-anxiety), 2 Ambien (zolpidem-sleeping pills), 1 Flexeril (cyclobenzaprine-muscle relaxant), 1 Atarax (hydroxyzine-anti-histamine-used with opioid analgesics to increase the pain-killing ability of a given dose of opioid).

2. Miller Lite: 4 Cans

3. Chivas Regals Scotch:  7 Doubles (approximately 21 ounces of scotch; ever drink a pint of beer at 16 ounces?)

4. Chicken Wings: 1 Order

5. Topless Bar

6. One City Owned Car

7. One Topless Dancer

8. One Diaper (forgotten that day).

9. One Good Friend

Have a safe Russ Leach Super Bowl Day.  Don’t do anything we wouldn’t do, but if you get caught, just claim you are disorientated because of prescription medications.  You might get away with it, he did!

CLICK THIS LINK TO WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE !

BACK IN 2010 CORONA POLICE LT. BRENT COLEMAN WITH ALLEGED TIES TO THE CROWN TOWN VAGOS MOTORCYCLE GANG PRESIDENT CARLOS PADILLA FIRED!  FORMER RIVERSIDE POLICE CHIEF RUSSELL LEACH’S GIRLFRIEND MICHELLE WILSON (AKA MICHELLE PADILLA) WAS THE FORMER WIFE OF VAGO’S PRESIDENT CARLOS PADILLA.  ANOTHER VERSION FROM VALLEY NEWS WHEREBY CARLOS PADILLA STATES THAT LT. BRENT COLEMAN CUT OFF TIES WITH PADILLA WHEN HE JOINED THE VAGOS CLUB..  PADILLA ALSO STATES, “I KNOW HALF THE POLICE FORCE.”

MICHELLE WILSON (AKA MICHELLE PADILLA)

RUSS LEACH AT CLUB 215

                                                             

 RIVERSIDE POLICE REPORT   AND   CHARGES AGAINST RUSS LEACH

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING ABOVE LINKS FOR FULL REPORT

UPDATE: 06/16/2012: Commenter responding to new article of police officer running into a pole.

…If they did bring Leach back, he would have kept driving and there would have been a prostitute in the car (hidden fact from Leach’s incident). Why else would they block out half of Leach’s car when they published the red light camera photo? I imagine the prostitute was let go soon after the t-stop, and I bet there is no mention of her in the reports. Falsification, you tell me…..  – check12345, commenter on the PE

UNKNOWINGLY PUSHING THE ENVELOPE, KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!   TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST…  AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!  COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT!   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM 

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT, KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC…

CITY OF RIVERSIDE: MAYOR’S OFFICE: PEN$ION SPIKING: MR. ANGRY VS. MS. KINDNESS VS. MR. WARMTH?

Posted: January 27, 2012 in Uncategorized
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Pension Spiking: the process whereby public sector employees grant themselves large raises or otherwise artificially inflate their compensation in the years immediately preceding retirement in order to receive larger pensions than they otherwise would be entitled to receive.  Artificial, just as the housing bubble the government created.. 

Can a little bit of kindness make everything all right? Regarding Miss Kindness herself, Kristin Tillquist, the Mayor’s as well as the people’s Chief of Staff …. Let me clarify, she has written a book called “Capitalizing on Kindness: Why 21st Century Professionals Need to Be Nice”.   But why is their fear among employees, former employees and fired employees who were in the employee of the City of Riverside?  And even those who are currently being litigated against for doing the right thing?  And why are residents even afraid to come forward and state their true thought about city business, which is truly the business of the people?  Why has the does the Mayor become so angry lately, especially after Berstein’s article?  So when TMC asked these questions, we are warned by city personnel with the threat of a Slapp suit.  This is a good example of why residents in the city feel terrorized by those who represent them.  Considering Miss Tillquist to be the right hand person of Mayor Ron O. Loveridge, and  stating ‘fear is an old school approach to business’?  As a servant to the people, has her kindness techniques really performed at the public sector level in the City of Riverside in which she manages?  Tillquist states in the business world the employee needs to respected… So, possibly her kindness techniques need to be implemented within the public sector.  But will they take hold under current city management?  Maybe, what is needed in the mix is a bit of warmth?  But how does Miss Kindness herself compare to Mr. Warmth himself?    and or should the City of Riverside hire Mr. Warmth himself for a consult?

So should her next book should be titled, “Capitalizing On How To Get a 15% Raise Out Of Your Boss In The Worst Economic Climate”?

How do ‘we the people’ not call this Pension Spiking by virtue of campaigning for the benefit of the Mayor?  Or maybe because she is just kind, or a damm.. good employee?  Who gets a 15% raise in the worst economic environment?  Kristen Tillquist does…

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With the looming POTENTIAL budget gap in excess of 5 million dollars, this of course is what the city is currently willing to admit,  however, can we be handing out 15% raises?  There’s nothing potential about it.  It’s fact, its real, and it’s here and we have been saying it for over a year now.  Currently, California is taking aim at pension spiking as indicated in this Bloomberg article.  Or as indicated in this L.A. Times article, “Pensions spiking, double dipping targeted by lawmakers.”  In February of 2011, the general fund was showing a negative 3 million dollar deficit and no one noticed it?  AHHHHH, I did!  In March 2011, the city started commingling funds with state redevelopment funds. Were they completely out of money ?   I believe so…with the POTENTIAL for mounting debt.  Miss Kindness herself earns a 15% raise.

Mr. Mayor himself goes on record stating his office will lead the way by not taking any raises. But how do you get a 15% raise in dire economic times when the going rate in the private sector is not more than 3%?  To be exact, executives in the private sector are in the 2.9%-3.0% average.  So what is the public sector doing right that the private sector is not?  Maybe the ability to raise taxes on a whim, while the private sector has to earn it?  The real abuses are not occurring in the private sector they are occurring in the public government sector.

Why would the Mayor give his Chief of Staff a 15% raise in these hard economic times?  Let’s look at the facts, first know that at the City Council meeting in October 2011, it was first brought before the public to name Riverside City Hall after Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge.  The members of this special and self appointed secret committee included Chief of Staff  Kristin Tillquist,  Former Riverside City Manager Brad Hudson, Private Developer Mark Rubin, Yeager Construction Companies Jack Yeager, Senior VP of The Entrepreneurial Corporate Group which owns the Mission Inn Ted Weggeland , Riverside County Fair Housing Executive Director Rose Mayes, President/CEO Riverside Chamber of Commerce Cindy Roth (incidently but not part of the committee, Richard Roth, who is now running for Senate, is hired by the city for litigation purposes as in the current case of RPD Sgt. Valmont Graham’s racism case,  and of course, he is endorsed by the mayor) , Roth Carney Law Firm Partner Jane Carney, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Roger Luebs, Director of Center for Philanthropy La Sierra University Dr. Jim Erickson, Retired Superintendent Alford Unified School District Dr. Damon Castillo, RUSD School Board Kathy Allavie. The majority of these people in one way or another have benefited from City Hall and/or have had their palms financially greased by the taxpayer.  If you look at the names they all have some connection with the mayor in terms of contracts, associations, employment by the city etc.  It appears as if there was a private committee headed by the ring leader, Jack Clark, a partner in litigation for BB&K, a firm which receives millions in taxpayer money for their legal advice to the city and not to forget the recently signed assumption of their lease with the city.  He inititated the presentation at a city council meeting.  Though he initiated the presentation of why Mayor Ron Loveridge’s name should be applied to City Hall,  was he the instigating leader?  Or was it Kirsten Tillquist?  My question is did any of the members know Ms. Tillquist was awarded a 15% raise in July 2011?  The question is who really came up with the idea to put the Mayor’s name on City Hall?

We notified one of the members of this ‘exclusive secret society’ about the particulars of naming City Hall after the Mayor.  This Member stated that a phone call came in approximately February or March 2011 (they weren’t quite sure of the exact date), but it was from Chief of Staff Kristen Tillquist.  The phone call asked this member to be a part of the secret society to name City Hall after  Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge.  Of course they accepted the invitation not realizing the fiasco this was going to ensue.  I personally believe this is one of the most embarrassing moments of the Mayor’s term, and will be remembered as part of his legacy.

Don’t get me wrong Tillquist, but how did you infuse the ‘kindness’ into the City of Riverside?  Secondly, was your work regarding the assembling of a committee for the naming of city hall part of her regular job?  Or was it done on city/ taxpayer dime and time?  I don’t know what kind of employee she is, but for the Mayor Loveridge to give her a 15% raise she must be really, realllllly goood!!!!!  The records attained were the result of a public records act request.

Eric Ustation, assistant to Mayor Ron O. Loveridge and Government Affairs Representative at Riverside Transit Agency also received a 15% raise!  The saga continues for these really gooood employees closest to the Mayor…

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UPDATE: 02/06/2012: REPRESENTATIVE BILL DEWEESE, PENNSYLVANNIA, CONVICTED ON THREE COUNTS CORRPUPTION CHARGES RELATING TO ALLEGATIONS THAT HE REQUIRED TAX-PAYER STAFF MEMBERS TO WORK ON HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGNS AS PART OF THEIR JOBS.

UPDATE: 02/28/2012: MAYOR CANDIDATE DVONNE PITRUZELLO CHALLENGED MAYOR RON LOVERIDGE REGARDING THE 15% RAISE GIVEN TO THE MAYOR’S CHIEF OF STAFF, KRISTIN TILLQUIST. 

SINCE RECENTLY SEVERAL SEWER EMPLOYEE’S WERE LET GO, AND WOULD NOT LOOK GOOD IN SPITE OF THE STATE AUDITOR’S COMING IN.  “MAYOR WILL YOU TAKE BACK THE 15% RAISE”? WELL I GUESS WE HAVE YOUR ANSWER.. (MAYOR DID NOT RESPOND)…

UPDATE: 05/05/2012: THE MAYOR’S OFFICE: OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER 10% RAISE..

CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW FULL DOCUMENT

UNKNOWINGLY PUSHING THE ENVELOPE, KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!   TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST…  AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!  COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT!   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM  BY THE WAY, COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED!

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT, KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC…

CITY OF RIVERSIDE: COURTHOUSE BOMB THREAT IN TWO CITIES, EXPLOSIONS HEARD!

Posted: January 19, 2012 in Uncategorized
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THIS MORNING BOMB THREATS HAVE ENSUED THE CITIES OF RIVERSIDE AND SAN BERNARDINO, SPECIFICALLY THE COURTHOUSES.  PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED, AND AROUND 11:40AM, AN OFFICER YELLED “FIRE IN THE HOLE”, AND LOUD BLAST WAS HEARD.  ACCORDING TO SHERIFF OFFICIALS, EXPLOSIVE CREWS DETONATED A SUSPICIOUS OBJECT.  A CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S CHIEF OF POLICE SERGIO DIAZ STATED, “THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT ANY OF IT WAS EXPLOSIVES”.  SECONDARY DETONATION WAS HEARD A BIT AFTER 12:00 NOON.  IT APPEARS THREE SUSPICIOUS ITEMS WERE FOUND, TWO WERE DESTROYED, ONE ITEM BEING A FONTANA ATTORNEY’S BRIEFCASE.  THE FIRST CALL CAME IN BEFORE 8:00AM FROM A BLOOMINGTON PHONE BOOTH, WITH A BOMB WARNING TO THE SAN BERNARDINO JAIL AND COURTHOUSE, AND THE SECOND CALL WAS AFTER 8:00AM WARNING OF A BOMB AT COURTHOUSE’S IN THE CITY  OF RIVERSIDE.  THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY IN RIVERSIDE.  CITY OF RIVERSIDE MAYOR RON LOVERIDGE’S STATE OF THE CITY SPEECH IS EXPECTED TODAY , THE NEW TEQUESQUITE PARK GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY THIS AFTERNOON,  THE MEETING WITH IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS AND ACTIVIST’S FOCUSED ON ISSUES OF DEPORTATION IN RIVERSIDE AND SAN BERNARDINO , THE HEARING REGARDING THE CITY OR RIVERSIDE POSITION ON RECUSING A BLACK JUDGE IN THE RPD SARGENT VALMONT GRAHAM’S RACISM CASE AND STUDENT PROTESTORS DISRUPT UC REGENTS MEETING REGARDING INCREASE TUITION COST.

             

WALK WITH ME IN CELEBRATION OF A DANGEROUS DREAM..

Posted: January 16, 2012 in Uncategorized
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UNKNOWINGLY PUSHING THE ENVELOPE, KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!   TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST…  AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!  COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT!   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM  BY THE WAY, COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED!

CITY OF RIVERSIDE: HUDSON DOUBLE DIPS IN A DOUBLE DIP RECE$$ION?

Posted: January 11, 2012 in Uncategorized
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CLICK THE PIC TO WATCH BRAD HIDE..

Currently Former City Manager Brad Hudson collects a $200,000 annual retirement benefit from the city of Riverside, along with his new Sacramento County CEO salary of $258,000 plus benefits.  According to the Sacramento Bee he could earn a second pension when he leaves Sacramento County. His contract calls for Sacramento County to match up to $9,000 of his annual contributions to the county’s retirement plan.  During his employment with the City of Riverside, it has been found that he as spent over $200,000,000.00 in his discretionary slush fund without city council approval.  Hudson was allowed to spend up to $50,000.00 a pop.  New Mayoral Candidate Dvonne Pitruzello exposed his massive spending.  And of course Hudson had a shoe polisher here as well.  Quite possibly the City of Riverside owned Fox Theatre can have a musical about this.  The Fox, which runs on a deficit by the way, you guessed it, at tax payer expense.

BRAD HUDSON’S FIVE YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO

BRAD HUDSON’S FORMER CITY OF RIVERSIDE CONTRACT

$197,000.00 CalPERS

$258,000.00 Salary as Sacramento County Chief Executive

$455,000.00 Total Yearly Compensation excluding benefits

Hudson retired at 53, to take on his new postion in Sacramento.  Excessive?  How much more will government do to terrorize the taxpayer?  Questions still remain if Hudson was given the choice to leave by resigning, therefore allowing him to receive his CalPERS pension, as opposed to being fired.  This has been an acceptable practice in the upper eschalons of government.  Another double dipping example is our new Chief of Police Sergio Diaz, retired from LAPD to take on the new position in Riverside.  Our forefather of this great country warned of this abuse, and as the peoples government it is not only our responsilbility, but our duty to oversee the activities of government.  We should never be asleep at the wheel, because if we do, the resultant government will be a reflection of our failure to intervene..

Read more here:

Public Eye: Sacramento County CEO’s refurnishing includes shoe polisher

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/06/4166679/public-eye-sacramento-county-ceos.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

I have taken some time to research Hudson’s misdeeds over the course of his undistinguished career.  He apparently left the City of Riverside flat broke and saddled with an unambitious successor who can’t seem to “ferret out” (those were the man’s words in the local paper) what is going on around him. I’m also sorry to report having learned that the Riverside police turned a blind eye to misconduct by their bosses’ minor son.  That is most disturbing. We really got a bum deal when this bum caught his own high speed rail out of southern California and wound up in our area. Our pain is Riverside’s gain.    – commenter from the uncensored sacramento bee, hudsonfan

This guy is trying to reinvent himself after being run out as Manager of the City of Riverside.  I urge everyone to just look up all the dirty laundry he left there, there are several news articles by The Press Enterprise-( pe.com) as a former employee of Sacramento County ( I retired last year) I know for a fact that the “open door policy” sounds good on paper, but it is a joke, all the departments are so understaffed and overworked that no one has the time to just visit with the boss?  What ever happned to working your way up the ladder?  I’m sure there a few county employees that are qualified and would perfect for this job.  The B.O.S. are hopefully going to wash their hands on this selection without eating crow, but I hope the public fills the seats for the next meeting and lets them have it.  – commenter from the uncensored sacramento bee, formercountyemp

From the “Old dog, old tricks” file: He’s been CEO for just four months and the troubled “company” he inherited has seen four years of budget cuts, not to mention layoffs, program cuts, and employee contract concessions.Brad Hudson, Riverside’s ex-city manager and now top exec of Sacto County, must feel their pain. Poor guy ate a $36K pay cut to $258K. But like Scarlett O’Hara, he’s clawing his way back! The Sacto Bee reports that hard-times Hudson has run up a $21K county tab on new office furniture. There’s a $7,300 “Lexington” desk, a round table, end table, coffee table and credenza. “I wanted something that was appropriate for the work that we do,” he told the Bee. “It’s not extravagant. I just want people to feel like they can come in.” And sit right down in his “Diva Series” conference chairs. Just don’t plant your posterior on papa bear’s new “Tuxedo Executive” chair or he’ll toss you out on your cummerbund. The only creature comfort critic the Bee scrounged up was an ex-union boss, suggesting the Sacto supes knew what they were getting. Hudson could just be warming up. During his six-year watch, Riverside City Hall completed a decade-long $20 million remodel, including glass-walled offices for electeds and a corner lair for the city manager. Don’t forget, Hudson is at heart a hard-charging developer. His currency just happens to be taxpayers’ dollars and fancy-pants lingo. Viva la Renaissance Chez Tuxedo Junction!     – Uncensored Dan Berstein, Riverside Press Enterprise

“That’s because he is collecting a $200,000 annual retirement benefit from the city of Riverside, along with his new Sacramento County CEO salary of $258,000 plus benefits.” This is not an uncommon practice and happens more than people realize.  I believe Ann Madden Rice of UC Davis Med Center, who’s salary is almost $1M as the CEO, is another who is able to “double dip”, along with several others executives working in the UC system.  However you don’t see a bunch of slam pieces on UC Davis executives as they are quite chummy with Cheryl Dell, sacbee President, and it’s staff.  It all comes down to blantant greed and the obvious exploitation of state/county/city loopholes which enables this to happen.  I could really care less about the $78 polisher.  I care more about the state, county, and city officials being able to retire and collect full benefits/pensions on the tax payers dollar and then them being able to take another posistion (carefully picked as to not violate the terms of their pension) and collecting another salary.  I think once they retire, they should have to stay retired…irregardless of their former public position.  They want to keep working, then they can go into the private industry.  Possibly creating some jobs and revenue for the state as opposed to continuing to suck off the proverbial breast of the state.  It’s highway robbery and it’s a big reason as to why the state is in financial ruin.     – commenter on the uncenored sacramento bee, Ms.Nesbit

$200k pension and a quarter million dollar salary?  He’s the problem – the government has become the biggest 1%.  They didn’t need a shoe polisher, they need a rope and a strong tree to hang him from.  THIEF!!!     – commenter on the uncensored sacramento bee, brettsacto

UNKNOWINGLY PUSHING THE ENVELOPE, KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!   TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST…  AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!  COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT!  TMC WISHES ALL, EVEN CITY HALL, A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!  THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM  BY THE WAY, COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED!

CITY OF RIVER$IDE: THE GENERAL FUND: $HOW ME THE MONEY?

Posted: January 10, 2012 in Uncategorized
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CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW NOVEMBER 2011 POOLED CASH AND INVESTMENT REPORT

By May 1, 2012 the City of Riverside will really be in trouble.  As of November 30, 2011 the City of Riverside’s General Fund only had the sum total of $2,154.00  Yep we dared to ask, “Show me the money!”  But of course we wanted answers, we wanted the truth, but wasn’t sure how we would handle the truth, we got the truth.  Regardless, I said two thousand one hundred fifty four, not two hundred and fifty thousand dollars!   How do you pay the bills for our city with $2,154.00?  City of Riverside’s Chief Financial Officer Paul Sundeen stated in a Press Enterprise ariticl the city needs $50 million to $70 million available at any given time for day-to-day operations. The question needs to be asked what is the real reason Brad Hudson left. The 2 Billion dollar Renaissance was a complete failure.  According to discretionary fund records, Former City Manager Brad Hudson spent almost 200 million without any City Council approval.  Our prediction for 2012 will be The Beloved Fox Theatre will be closed and the real amount that was spent on the theatre will exceed almost 50 million.   Another question to ask is why the finance staff is currently working overtime?  Maybe trying to figure out who should be paid first, Police, Fire or General Staff?  Or will we have to eliminate our fire department and contract Cal-Fire, or will we have to eliminate our police department and contract Riverside Sheriff’s Department?  Well guess again…for one thing,  the Bond payments will supersede everything else, with 128 million due this year, and they, the city, only have two thousand one hundred fifty four dollars in the general fund?  Inquiring minds are asking, “Where did the money go?”  The City anticipates the upcoming property taxes to replenish the fund.  With unemployment and foreclosures at an all time high, with another real estate dip expected this year, how short will we come in reference to the city’s expectations?  Will the City pass it on to the taxpayer with increase utility and water rates?  Time will tell, THE TRUTH WILL BE TOLD.  Look out BRAD, this is the year of exposure..   The records attained were the result of a public records act request.

UNKNOWINGLY PUSHING THE ENVELOPE, KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!   TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST…  AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!  COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT!  TMC WISHES ALL, EVEN CITY HALL, A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!  THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM  BY THE WAY, COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED!

TMC WISHING ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR IN 2012!

Posted: December 31, 2011 in Uncategorized
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SUPREME COURT ABOLISHES REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN CALIFORNIA!

Posted: December 29, 2011 in Uncategorized
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As if they were testing their parents, as children do, the state said no more, enough is enough, and slammed it’s iron fist of authority over municipalities.  Cities cannot become rogue entities and become microcosms of self proclaimed commonwealths, they must still answer to a higher source, as the state has indicated.  California Supreme Court judge ruled this morning that Assembly Bill 1X 26 to abolish redevelopment angencies is legal!   Assembly Bill 1X 27, the measure conditioning further redevelopment agency operations on additional payments by an agency’s community sponsors to state funds benefiting schools and special districts, also abolished.   This is based on Proposition 22 (specifically Cal. Const., art. XIII, § 25.5,subd. (a)(7)) which expressly forbids the Legislature from requiring such payments.   According to the L.A. Times the state acted legally when it abolished more than 400 redevelopment agencies to close a budget gap.  The State acted legally.  Therfore, the state has the right to legislate and remove legislation as it sees beneficial to the citizens of the state.  Assemblyman Chris Norby, R-Fullerton, said the agencies long ago outlived their usefulness and should be shut down, particularly as the state confronts a $25.4 billion budget gap.  The cities lobbying groups, The California Redevelopment Association and The League of California Cities sought a writ relief arguing that each measure was unconstitutional.  Well ok..  You have to wonder why these city lobbying groups, who represent cities, are going to the costly legal expense of fighting so hard, for taxpayer monies for a city’s redevelopment plans.  Well, then, are they really looking at the best interest of the taxpayer in the long run?  ..or in reality, only for those they actually represent?  and in addition, do they actually contribute to the abuse by showing cities how to fully take advantage of redevelopment, against the best interest of the taxpayer?  In our opinion, these lobbying groups are in no way friends of the taxpayer.  According to the California Legislative Analyst Office back in February 16, 2011 came to the conclusion that there was significant policy shortcomings of the California Redevelopment Program.  They made mention that documents released by the California Redevelopment Association (CRA), a lobbying group for the cities, were seriously flawed.  This was in reference to claims made by the CRA that 304,000 jobs would be lost if redevelopment agencies were eliminated.

READ FULL VERSION OF THE SUPREME COURT RULING BY CLICKING THIS LINK!

According to the L.A. Times the state acted legally when it abolished more than 400 redevelopment agencies to close a budget gap.  The cities lobbying groups, The California Redevelopment Association and The League of California Cities sought a writ relief arguing that each measure was unconstitutional.  Dan Berstein’s of the Press Enterprise had much to say about Redevelopment in the City of Riverside.

But it has scarred and scraped communities. It has put people out of business by ripping down buildings and not replacing them, or evicting businesses — the “private sector” — and filling the void with nothing.

Redevelopment is a mixed bag, not a money bag. But that’s not how its champions see it. They see an entitlement program and they’re hooked on it.  Tax increment is their heroin. No wonder they went to court.    -Dan Berstein, Press Enterprise

Hopefully Dan won’t be warned with a SLAPP suit by unknown entities within the City as TMC, for stating an opinion.  But even the City of Riverside pushed the envelope of their contempt by calling the states actions a form of “ransom”, as indicated in their July 27, 2011 news release, or even as a form of “theft”, as indicated in this June 16, 2011 release.  I wonder if they are on the State’s list of potential SLAPP suit candidates?

     

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All you have to do is walk Downtown Riverside and see what your $1.8 billion has attained for the taxpayer.  What does our city’s favorite son, former city manager Brad Hudson have to say about this?  What did he know? and did he leave town just in time?  Will the city now try to sneak a new ballot initiative for the citizens of riverside to pay the bill for their bad business decisions and indiscretions?  Get ready for higher property taxes.  Just by the fact of shutting 400 angencies throughout the State of California, state officials already estimated that the new laws would generate $1.7 billion this fiscal year, the City of Riverside has already spent $1.8 billion alone on redevelopment projects… in the middle of this, where are the obligatory affordable housing projects?  They weren’t found in the Raincross Promenade… What are ex and fired city employees saying about the cities redevelopment program?  Where does the City of Riverside go from here?

“For far too long, California taxpayers have financed obscure government agencies that use taxpayer dollars and their power of eminent domain to benefit politically connected developers,” said Marko Mlikotin, alliance president

Thursday morning Riverside City Officials converged for an emergency meeting regards to the effects of the new Supreme Court rulings.  I would have loved to be a “fly” on the wall on that one.  Keeping in mind, the redevelopment agency and the city are two different entities which are unrelated.  Mayor Ron Loveridge said the meeting was to discuss a potential $5 million shortfall, which the new ruling would place in the city’s general fund budget.  Therefore, some projects would not get done, such as the new shopping plaza in the Five Points area and a long-planned multi-modal transit center.  Some months back, TMC reported comingling of the general fund with redevelopment money, and a $5 million dollar oversight.  Questions were being raised regarding the movement of state monies to the city’s general fund, otherwise known as an inter-agency transfer.  As far as we understand, state agency monies cannot be transferred to the city’s general fund, monies are to remain in seperate accounts.  The question still remains unanswered.   Mayor Ron Loveridge called it “the worst possible outcome for cities.”  Which is true, since the taxpayer will be the one responsible for the bill.  

He went on to say, “Redevelopment’s been our primary way which we’ve created jobs and worked on economic development projects, and now that tool is taken away.”  Let me think about this, the primary way we create jobs, according to the mayor, is through taxpayer raised monies?  I always believed as many,  it is in the private sector.  And that the success of a business is dependent on what they produce in terms of products or services, or both.  This creates demand, demand then creates value. This in turn creates the encentive for the business to expand, hire more people, in turn, creating jobs.  Funding jobs through tax payer money does not constitute real jobs in a free market.  The idealism of Keynesian economics does not work in this instance, or has it worked in any instance in history.  In a capitalist form of government, what would give the impression and perception that government knows best, and this can be the “norm.”  It goes against all that this country was originally based on.  But the practice and its illusion continues.

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CITY OF SACRAMENTO: BRAD BRINGS HIS DECORATIVE TOUCH OF GUCCISM TO SAC CITY.

Posted: December 24, 2011 in Uncategorized
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Acording According to the Sacramento Bee Former City Manager Brad Hudson has spent $21,000.00 on furniture to redecorate his top floor office, and has ran up $26,000.00 in County Expenses.  His Lexington Model Timber desk alone has costed the County $7,300.00, and according to Sri Woods, Hudson explained his motive for shopping furniture.  He wanted a more mouth watering atmosphere than what was combined by his aged predecessors Steve Szalay and Terry Schutten.  He went on to say, ” I wanted something appropriate for the work that we do,” he said, “It’s not extravagant.  I just wanted people to feel like they can come in.”  His taste for Guccism went on to purchase the “Diva Series” discussion chairs and the high back “Tuxedo Executive” chair to match his Lexington desk, and tied it all together with linen wall coverings.  Five of eight flights from Sacramento to Ontario were billed as moving expenses – at a cost of $1,667. Hudson said he needed to take care of a variety of personal business on weekends in Riverside as he made the transition to Sacramento.  But he has his critics, such as Daniel Uselmann, former president of the American Federation of the State, County and Municipal employees, isn’t so sure.  “We’ve had layoffs………office expenditures may not be a good idea.”  Hudson isn’t planning to sell his Riverside home, which explains the Brad sightings around town.  Will this be the beginning of an expensive Schwarzenegger type commute for the County of Sacramento?

Quite a bit different from the comment section on our Press Enterprise, which has not been the same since criticism by Chief Sergio Diaz, after fallen RPD Officer Ryan Bonaminio was killed last year. Regardless, the comment section of the Sacramento Bee did not hold back on its uncensored criticism:

This is of no surprise to County Workers. Brad Hudson hasn’t even introduced himself to County Employees since he came to work in August of 2011. And from what we hear from his Administrative staff he is a man full of himself, ego, and an attitude of my way or the highway. Shame the BOS didnt do a little more research before picking Mr. Hudson. He has a very low opinion from his Executive staff who are with him daily.  Maybe the Bee should look into why he has directed the Municipal Services Agency to go around town and pick up shopping carts and deliver them back to the stores, ON THE PUBLICS DIME! Its all about image for the egotistical man whom the Board of Supervisors placed in command.  This latest spending of the publics money to redecorate his office and the seventh floor conference room is just plain wrong. And the Board should inform him that his decisions in these poor economic times when the County is struggling finacially is a laspe on good judgement. Lastly to Mr. Hudson~~ I pass you daily in the hallways of the Administration Building.  You have greeted me only once. Is it becuase of my finely pressed jeans and laundered shirts I wear?  Do I not fit into your ‘mold’ of what a professional worker should wear? Good luck! You can take it up with my Union. I’m sure the Board buying you out of your existing contract would be cheaper then the ensuing court case.    – commenter on the Sacramento Bee, known as CntyAdmnWkr

There is absolutely no defense for this expenditure!  A person at this level of leadership should already have an open door style of management!  There’s something wrong when a person doesn’t consider a $7,300 desk as extravagant, especially in these financial times!  I’m not going to find his office more inviting just because he has a Lexington desk.  Rather, I’m going to find it nauseating.  You don’t need a gawdy desk to do the job right!  If you needed a desk, you could have gone to state surplus.  This guy is so stuck on himself.  The BOS should be ashamed of themselves; they should have left him in Riverside!     -commenter on the Sacramento Bee, Doshima

And the Bee didn’t mention his automatic shoe-polisher (that I have seen with my own eyes). He didn’t like the first one (approx. $700+), but it couldn’t be returned (reason unknown).  So, he had staff buy him the one he wanted (approx. $900+). AND, he said he wanted to implement a dress code for County workers … said WE looked “rustic and provincial” the way we dressed.  But he was told by Legal that he had to meet and confer with the Unions to do that. He didn’t want to get involved with the Unions, so he just ‘told’ every department head that he wants a dress code. Coming from him, the department heads are going to implement it anyway, because of the threat of losing their jobs. The threat has come from Brad’s hatchet-man, Nav Gill (the COO).  Who fired 4 different dept. heads when they didn’t do what he wanted (of course, he used bogus charges).  Lovely working here under folks who use Hitler, Stalin, Amin, & Bashir as their role-models. Nav would set up his own Gestapo if he could.      -commenter on the Sacramento Bee, I_Furpie

Wow.  I see Brad is up to his usual self.  I’ve worked for Riverside County for many years and saw Brad there and at the City.  To say he is arrogant and aloof is beyond an understatement.  He wanted a cafe in the lobby of City Hall, and spent a million dollars in change orders alone because of his whims.  When they redecorated City Hall, and started to use green tones, it was stopped and immediately replaced with blues, to a much greater cost.  He willfully violated CEQA when he asked the Riverside Planning Commission to approve an EIR BEFORE the comment period was over, and of course had his hatchet men do the dirty work.  He authorized the tearing down of a historic building that was to be saved per the City’s own conditions, then he and city staff offered a  myriad of reasons for the action, none of which matched. When I learned that Brad was leaving Riverside, I was overjoyed.  Then, I heard that he was headed to Sacramento County, and my first thought was – What did they do to deserve this? You say he doesn’t care about County employees or the public?  That’s not true – he doesn’t even think about you, so he can’t care.  In his Brad-centric universe, the only people he has to keep happy are his superiors, which at the city of Riverside were the mayor and 7 councilmen.  All the others could go to you-know-where for all he cared.  Like you in Sac County, there were several people who crossed him and were never heard from again – just spirited away.  Good luck folks – you’re going to need it.  As a number of you have said, buckle up and get ready for the ride!  I wish I had some better news for you.  BTW – a campaign was started here just before he left.  Someone printed green buttons (his least favorite color) with the slogan “I didn’t vote for Brad” on them.  Food for thought, since he’s now running your county and you didn’t get input into his selection . . .      -commenter on the Sacramento Bee, RiversidesGladBradsGone

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/23/4141605/public-eye-sacramento-countys.html#disqus_thread

“The next two or three years are going to be a tough row to hoe. A lot hinges on the economy, most of which is out of our hands. If we have to just keep grinding down programs and personnel, at some point we reach the state where it’s nearly impossible to make that next cut or service reduction.”

Read the rest here in this interview story in Comstock’s Magazine, called “Working Lunch With Bradley Hudson.” by Douglas Curley.

UPDATE: 01/11/2011: THE SACRAMENTO BEE: PUBLIC EYE: SACRAMENTO COUNTY CEO’S REFURNISHING INCLUDES SHOE POLISHER  http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/06/4166679/public-eye-sacramento-county-ceos.html#storylink=misearch

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