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Robert Beadles  By Beadles on February 17th, 2010 One year ago, President Obama and the Democrat Leadership signed into law a spending bill they called the “American Recovery Reinvestment Act”. The Democrats made claims that this $787 billion spending bill would create over 3 million jobs, prevent our unemployment from increasing beyond 8%, and would help our struggling economy.
Today, we have over 8.5 million Americans who have lost their jobs since the recession started. In California there are 2.2 million Californians who are out of work and in this past year, our state lost 47,000 employers. The Democrats promises never came true.
What our country and state now has is not more jobs or a growing economy, we have a $1.3 trillion debt that continues to grow every single day.
In our Congressional District 11, which includes the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Santa Clara, what we have seen grow are food lines, unemployment, and the loss of homes and businesses.
The current people in Washington, D.C. don’t get it. That is why I need your support now to retire the current Democrat Congressman Jerry McNerney. With your help we can put a like minded, small business owner in congress, who understands that if you don’t have the money, you don’t spend it.
Here is how the Democrats have currently spent your hard earned money on this stimulus package:
- $15,551 to Study Drunk Mice
- $325,394 to Study “Mating Decisions” of Cactus Bugs
- $390,000 in Stimulus Money to Study Malt Liquor and Marijuana Consumption
- $1 Million to Study Ants
- $3.4 Million for a Turtle Tunnel in Florida
- $30 Million for a Spring Training Baseball Complex for the Arizona Diamondback and Colorado Rockies
We need to focus on creating jobs, putting people back to work and controlling our spending. It is about priorities. That this why I need your help to retire Jerry McNerney, so that we can take back our country.
Robert Beadles By Beadles on February 4th, 2010 In the State of the Union Address, the President was all fired up over lost jobs, high debt, and the banking industry. Did you notice he forgot to also get fired up over the “Cornhusker” kickback or the Louisiana Purchase?
The “Cornhusker” Kickback:
After holding out for weeks, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska (D), was promised $45 million. “In exchange for Nelson’s vote on the $871 billion health bill — the key 60th vote needed to overcome unanimous Republican opposition — Democratic leaders guaranteed the federal government would pay the full price of expanded Medicaid coverage in Nebraska.” (Brenden Scott, “GOP Blast ‘Kickback” Health Fix,” New York Post, 12/22/09)
Louisiana Purchase:
Before a closed vote last month, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) got an estimated $300 million in extra federal spending for here state… she now supports Obama’s Universal Health care.
“And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor mid-afternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote — and to trumpet the financial “fix” she had arranged for Louisiana. ‘I am not going to be defensive,’ she declared. ‘And it’s not a $100 million fix. It’s a $300 million fix.’” (Dana Milbank, “Sweeteners For The South,” Washington Post, 11/22/09)
And The Cost To California… $2 Billion – $8 Billion:
With Staggering Deficits, Where Will The Money Come From? Higher Taxes? “The Schwarzenegger administration estimates this would cost California a staggering $8 billion. This is an enormous problem. The plunge in revenue due to the deep recession has left the state utterly strapped for money. The 2009-10 budget approved in late July is easily the leanest in at least a decade. So where would this money come from? The most likely answer is from a hodgepodge of tax increases — higher sales, gasoline and income levies and more. In other words, from every Californian, in every income bracket.” (Editorial, “Health Care Bill Has Huge Tab For State Taxpayers,” San Diego Union Tribune, 10/8/09)
“If you put everybody on Medicaid at 133 percent of the federal poverty rate, the cost to the state is $2 billion,” Feinstein said. “Where does the state get that money when it’s got a $15 billion shortfall next year and probably for many years after that?” (Carolyn Lochead, “Feinstein Skeptical About Health Care Costs,” San Francisco Chronicle, 9/12/09)
It is important to note that Sen. Feinstein has now changed her stance on this failed government takeover- she now supports the government run health care, but has not provided any information on how the state of California will pay for it.
Robert Beadles By Beadles on February 2nd, 2010 First let me say thank you to CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson and San Francisco columnist Debra Saunders, who shed some light on Washington’s Global Warming parties where you, the taxpayer, got to pick up the tab.
21 members of Congress and their 38 staffers each spent $2,200 per person, per day to stay at a five-star hotel. This does not include the 60-plus administration officials who attended the Global Warming Summit in Copenhagen or “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members [who] flew on three military planes at an estimated cost of $168,000.” (Debra Saunders, “So Much Wasted Green For Climate-Change Talks,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1/31/10)
How about this fact: Many staffers flew commercial airlines at fares ranging from $4,163 – $10,038 per flight. Yet, the reporter noted that the flights could have been purchased for $800 online.
And how did they handle all the pollution for traveling to Copenhagen… ”the House bought ‘offsets’ for the journey’s emissions.” Of course they did.
Robert Beadles By Beadles on January 27th, 2010 The President announced today a $15 billion spending reduction over the next three years. While I applaud the President for heading in the right direction, Congress has over $500 billion in stimulus money that it still plans to spend. While discretionary spending has increased by more than 20% in the past two years, we should use the leftover stimulus money and pay down our debt which is at $1.3 trillion and scheduled to balloon to $6 trillion in the next few years. In 2009 alone, overall spending increased by 18%, or $536 billion.
The President’s three-year freeze on ‘non-discretionary funding’ only affects 17% of the budget and the fiscal budget for 2010 (which runs from October 2010 – September 2011) will cut some programs, while increasing funding for others.
It is no secret that we are living in difficult economic times, but getting Americans back to work should be our number one priority. I am glad the President has begun to see his party’s mistakes, but the outline he laid out for our nation needs to go further. I believe you need to look at a person’s actions, not words. We expect actions, not more excuses or lofty words.
Robert Beadles By Beadles on January 21st, 2010 Democrats just don’t get it. Two days after the voters in Massachusetts rejected the National Health care plan, California Democrats have introduced their own Universal Health care plan with a $200 billion a year price tag!
Democrats Resurrect Single-Payer Health Care Bill
By lvorderbrueggen
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
From Political Blotter
With federal health care reform on life support, California Democrats this morning quietly moved to resurrect a state-based single-payer health insurance system with an estimated $200 billion annual price tag.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted without comment along party lines, 6-3, to lift from suspense — the dead file — Senate Bill 810 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco.
The bill is almost identical to former Sen. Sheila Kuehl’s 2008 single-payer bill that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed.
Voting in favor of moving the bill forward this morning were Democratic Sens. Christin Kehoe of San Diego, Ellen Corbett of San Leandro, Leno, Carol Liu of Pasadena, Curren Price of Los Angeles and Leland Yee of San Francisco.
In opposition were GOP Sens. Dave Cox of Fair Oaks, Jeff Denham of Merced and Mimi Walters of Tustin.
The legislation would create a state insurance program for Californians at an estimated cost of $200 billion a year. Leno’s bill does not spell out how the financially strapped state would pay for the program; that would be left up to an appointed panel to determine. Kuehl’s bill would have imposed a variety of payroll and other taxes on the wealthy to fund the program.
(Read original post here)
Robert Beadles By Beadles on January 10th, 2010 By The Record
January 09, 2010
LODI – A Lodi congressional candidate whose business was searched by law enforcement for stolen property on Monday has issued a statement alleging accusations against him were politically motivated.
Robert Beadles, 32, owns a construction safety company called Robert Beadles, Inc., and is running on the Republican ticket for the right to challenge 11th Congressional District incumbent Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton.
In a written statement Thursday, Beadles called the allegations, which were brought to police by a business competitor, “false accusations and smear tactics to prevent us from winning the Republican nomination.”
Beadles said that because his competitor, Gary Anderson of Farwest Safety, Inc., had an employee send an e-mail informing media outlets and primary candidate Brad Goering of the police search of his business, the accusations are politically motivated.
A task force searched the Lodi-based RBI on Monday, looking for stolen street signs and construction equipment. The team found several items and are working to determine if they are stolen, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department said. No arrests have been made.
(Read article here)
Robert Beadles By Beadles on January 8th, 2010 This past week, local law enforcement executed a search warrant on my property erroneously charging alleged possession of stolen property. I cooperated with the law enforcement officials and answered all questions.
I have come to learn that this warrant was based on false statements made by a business competitor, Gary Anderson, collaborating with a disgruntled former employee of mine who was terminated for stealing fuel and materials – and who now works for Anderson.
Since the search was conducted, I have not been charged with any crime.
Initially, this seemed to be a lowly, desperate, and perhaps personal attack by a competitor. But the more I have learned about the circumstances of this incident, the more I am forced to consider political motivations.
The search warrant was issued by the court on December 28, 2009, but was not executed until January 4, 2010.
Given the stress on local tax revenues, reduced services and budget deficits facing local governments, is sending law enforcement officers to search my property for allegedly stolen goods of minor economic value the best use of scarce public safety resources?
Additionally, an employee of my competitor sent a press release announcing the search to political reporters throughout the 11th Congressional District, as well as one of my primary opponents, Brad Goering. This occurred shortly after the sheriff’s deputies’ arrival and raises questions about what my competitor knew of this search in advance. (see this link)
Raising additional questions about my business competitor’s actions is a call one of his employees made to my office supervisor warning him about the search just as sheriff’s deputies arrived. (see this link)
Given the appearance of foul play and petty tactics, it is no wonder that hard working and honest individuals find the political process to be so distasteful. Unfortunately, there are too many Gary Andersons in the world who are petty and malicious in pursuit of monetary gain. However, I refuse to be bullied or prevented from standing up for what I believe.
This election has always been about fighting for struggling, hard working California families. My campaign will continue to focus on getting our economy back on track, creating good, lasting jobs for California, and giving the people of the 11th congressional district the conservative, independent leadership they deserve.
I will not allow these false accusations and smear tactics prevent us from winning the Republican nomination for Congress and giving people a responsible, responsive voice in the House of Representatives.
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