Who’s Going to Pay?

The Glendale Planning Officer approved the 87-unit apartment building at Foothill Boulevard and New York Avenue. It will be a huge, five-story building [similar to] the new five-story apartments built at the end of the 2 Freeway by the LA River. 

The owner is using AB 130 to add 29 more units than code allows and two extra stories in height by making nine units available to very low income tenants. These nine units are not subsidized by the state but their sweetheart rents will be subsidized by the other 78 tenants in the building. As an example, if the very low income rents are $2,000 per month less than the rents for similar units, the remaining 78 tenants will have to pay $230 per month extra to cover the $18,000 lost to the low income rents.

This is bound to cause some animosity [among] the tenants who are being forced to pay other people’s rent. It is a weird form of rent control and social engineering at its worse. The state is allowing these giant complexes to be built that do not conform to existing zoning and building codes and the Glendale government is rolling over without a fight. 

Shameful!

Randy Redfern
La Crescenta

Signs of Election Rigging

The Democratic establishment is rigging an election.

Again. 

On March 16, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber removed Dr. Rudolph “Butch” Ware from the June 2 primary ballot on false claims of clerical errors in filing paperwork. Dr. Ware, an associate professor of history at U.C. Santa Barbara and the Green Party’s vice presidential candidate in 2024, filed suit against Weber’s office, highlighting that they “arbitrarily establish[ed] threshold … to meet and hurdles to jump” to disqualify him. 

On March 26, Sacramento Superior Court Judge James Arguelles rejected Dr. Ware’s lawsuit. While Weber’s office refuses Dr. Ware’s claims, the CA gubernatorial candidate and his legal team have substantial evidence to support their position, including but not limited to: 

• copies of doctored emails submitted as evidence by Weber’s office in court;
• records of all conflicting edits requested by Weber’s office after the initial filing; 
• a copy of the initial filing, which complied with the last list of updated edits requested.

Regardless of the outcome of the appeals process, Dr. Ware’s name will be a write-in option on the ballot. 

This moment is critical. 

The predatory duopoly is desperate to maintain their power in what is the third largest economy in the world and the tactics used against Dr. Ware mirror those used against Ralph Nader and Senator Bernie Sanders, while distinct in their policies are similar in their treatment by the Democratic Party establishment for challenging the status quo. 

The capitalist Epstein-class [has] historically denied us our human and civil rights – and this is just another iteration of a long-standing tradition of class warfare. This cannot be allowed to continue. 

To the readers – start by joining the campaign: write to your local news outlets, talk to your neighbors and follow the BDS movement.  

Alice Reid
Huntington Beach