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RE: Item 38 @ Board of Supervisors Meeting, Support for the Contract Renewal for EMS Services – Gold Coast Ambulance Services And AMR’
Hello and Good Morning,
RE: Item 38 @ Board of Supervisors Meeting
My name is Gloria Massey Chinea and I live in the City of Oxnard. I am in support of the contract renewal for EMS services. The local private ambulance companies like AMR and Gold Coast have done not only a good but a great job providing for our community in a safe and efficient manner. As a retired healthcare provider, from a major health care health care system as well as an ex-owner and administrator of a Residential Care Facility in Oxnard I can personally attest their caring behaviors and services to our community. In a personal situation in the past I have personally experienced great services rendered with my personal condition. I expect and hope that you allow this to continue rather than supporting a government takeover of ambulance services. We must remain with trusted businesses in our area that have served our community well for many years. I have experienced their services in three levels, Professionally, Caregiver and personally. So someone that can speak about their service is me since I have had the pleasure of receiving the services in multifaceted ways. I urge you to listen to your constituents.
Looking forward to hearing from you and supporting these private entities to continue their services in our community.
Thank you!
Best Regards,
Gloria Massey Chinea
I find Citizens Journal to be undermining free speech at every turn. It routinely publishes anything that suits its right-wing bias no matter how outrageous and offensive but ignores genuine and articulate commentary that challenges the bubble. I find myself thinking this publication is nothing more than a conspiracy theory echochamber. Prove me wrong, I dare you.
Couldn’t agree more. Citizens Journal make a mockery of their constant complaints about free speech. Fascist are like that.
That’s nonsense. Citizens Journal is providing real news in this regional desert of fake news. You would never even get to see the other side of what MSM presents otherwise.
Ok so Citizens Journal should be applauded for presenting an alternative to what… reality? I’m all for diverse opinions, so long as they are based on facts not fantasy. Citizens Journal is just an echochamber for not just partisan view points but blatant lies.
Did you acquire your thoughts from the Communist manifesto?
So helpful of you to prove my point.
If i can find your position in the Communist Manifesto and the the 45 goals of the communist party I can assume that is where you get your postion.
Brian, why don’t you just enjoy your life?
Brian Reilly:
So, what is the ultimate endgame of the Elite and their mask mandates and lockdowns across America? Why are our Constitutional, God given rights being violated? Why are our churches prohibited from opening for worship? Has the global invisible enemy called COVID become the global catalyst for our global enslavement? Are we being conditioned to willingly become slaves in a Technocratic system of slavery? Are the riots across America being perpetrated by the Elite to destroy real estate values so that city blocks across America can be purchased by the Elite at bargain basement prices? How does the Federal Reserve play into this scheme? Why is this plan such a well-guarded secret? Are the Elite afraid of our safety valve against tyranny? (Yes, it’s called the Second Amendment!) Why is it that we don’t know who the global Elite are, while they know everything about us? Is there a plan to destroy all small businesses and transfer their retail sales to big box and mega stores, like Amazon? Is there a tracking marker placed in the COVID vaccine? Do you really know? Is there a cashless society on the horizon that can shut off your ability to make financial transactions if the Elite find that you’re not conforming to their dictates, as in China with their credit scoring system? The endgame of the Elite is a slavery system of “We the People” of the United States of America and the entire world. This will be a system run by force! Many of these questions are answered in the video entitled, “Planet Lockdown” by Catherine Austin Fitts. Our survival and our livelihoods are on the precipice. Take some time to learn about the invisible enemy that we face. (1.) Our battle starts by refusing to wear the mask!
(1.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-0XKYAZII
As of yesterday, December 27, the Congress has passed and the President has signed a new Covid Relief Bill which totals $2.3 trillion. Of this humongous amount, $900 billion, 39%, is going to American citizens. The national population is estimated to be 331 million. Children number 76 million, 23% of the population. The $900 billion equally divided among 331 million amounts to $2,719 per person. Six of 100 Senators and 53 of 412 Representatives voted against the 5,600 page bill.
For perspective on the magnitude difference between a million and a billion, consider that a million seconds is about 12 days. A billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion seconds is 320 centuries. In order for us to pay off this $2.3 trillion, it will mean paying $230 per second for the next 3200 years, not including interest charges. This amount is in addition to the $2 trillion CARES Act of March.
Happy New Year.
Dan Prout
Nevada City, CA
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Does Oxnard start communistic CENSORSHIP
Voting public:
Did you give your Oxnard City the right to block your emails from getting to me, your elected City Treasurer? Or from you sending appropriate emails to any city employee? Do you like being censored from communicating with your appointed and elected officials?
Oxnard City, (apparently with the approval of the Mayor and Council?), has instituted censorship in what city elected and appointed staff can receive or at least from whom emails can be received (see picture below). Note that other “best wishes emails” were likewise “blocked” when sent to city staff.
Being your elected elected official I am obligated to read emails that you, a member of the public, send to me with the expectation of my receiving it. No one has the right to censor what the public wants to send their elected official. If the email is threatening, crude or disgusting there are proper methods of dealing with the authors.
Do you want your emails to elected officials and professional staff to be censored? I don’t.
Where is the picture?
Brian Reilly:
President Trump posted the link below (1.) on his twitter account Sunday, December 20, 2020. This brief video reveals the Communist enemy that currently is attempting to overthrow the United States of America, from within. The year of 2020 has been an all-out information and computer assault on our nation by the Chinese Communist Party. It’s happening with the assistance of a complicit media, greedy politicians, a corrupt judicial system and a public education system that extols the virtues of Socialism and Communism. We are on the verge of losing our God given liberties as recognized in our U.S. Constitution. It’s time to fight for our freedoms and the freedom of our posterity. It’s also time to demand answers from out Arizona leaders as to where they stand in this battle. Are they involved in treasonous business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party? Are they knowingly turning away from their oaths to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic? Are they comfortable with their treasonous ways against the American public? Or, will their guilt cause them to defend America from this Chinese Communist enemy? The Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated America to such a degree that we now stand on the precipice of destruction. We must hold all parties that are complicit in this takeover accountable for their treasonous activities. We must let President Trump know that we support him in any and all methods that he may choose to save America. We must let President Trump know that we have his back and unconditionally support him. Let him know that we’re praying for him and are taking to the streets in peaceful protests for him. We know that there are traitorous people consorting with the enemy and we will not let them conquer America. Never!
(1.) https://youtu.be/rXtGItm1bvQ
I guess this letter helps explain why VCReporter is so f—ed up. MEDIC!
DEAR SENATOR MITCH McCONELL —-
I THINK WE SHOULD PASS A RULE OR LAW, THAT ONE CAN ONLY VOTE IN THE DISTRICT THEY LIVE IN (THUS STATE & COUNTY TOO),
AND ADDITIONALLY ONE CANNOT DONATE TO A DISTRICT WHEREBY THEY DO NOT LIVE ACCORDING TO THE RULES. THAT WOULD LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY, HOPEFULLY, THAT THE LIKES OF GATES & SORO AND MANY OTHERS WHO BUY-ELECTIONS WITH THEIR RESOURCES, CANNOT DO SO AT LEAST IN ANY OTHER DISTRICT BUT ONLY WHERE THEY ARE IN RESIDENCE. IF THEY HAVE TWO HOMES, THEY WOULD NEED TO CHOOSE WHICH ONE TO CONSIDER IS THEIR PRIMARY LIVING HOUSE.
AMERICA WAS BASED UPON LOCAL-CONTROL, NOT BIG FINANCIAL DONORS SREADING $ AROUND THE COUNTRY TO BUY ELECTIONS.
PLEASE HAVE THIS MESSAGE DELIVERED TO SENATOR MITCH MCCONELL AND GET A RULE PASSED (OR A LAW). WE NEED TO STAY IN LOCAL TOWNSHIPS AND CITIES. IF IT IS A STATEWIDE OFFICE (USA CONGRESS) SIMILAR RULES. THERE HAS TO BE PENALTIES FOR PUMPING MONEY IN THAT MANNER BREAKING THE SYSTEM OF LOCAL-ELECTION CONTROL.
IF WE ALREADY HAVE SUCH RULES, WHICH I DOUBT, WE NEED THEM ENFORCED POST HASTE!
THANK YOU: GERALD CHRISTIAN & GAIL GRACE NORDSKOG
Friends, good people and electeds of Oxnard:
Electeds are sent this email and are forbidden to talk about it with another elected person, or to respond to it, but the public is free to contact me or anyone about it.
A few years ago, before I was elected to office and before I started working for the city, I along with a council member pushed for a City whistleblower program. The program allows any employee to file a complaint confidentially, anonymously, either using verbal, electronic-communication, or otherwise.
Since the meeting where Mayor Flynn and Council approved the contract with PP& Company to manage the Whistle Blower program, the City Manager, Mayor and Council have received a number or reports from the Company.
Those reports identified complaints from numerous employees and members of the public concerning harassment, and wrong doings against both elected officials and city managers.
I recently requested that the professional corporation inform me if from the beginning to today there ever were any complaints filed against me for any reason including harassment, intimidation, wrong doing, etc.
Today I received the response telling me ” I don’t have any record of a whistleblower compliant filed against you.”
This leads me to question what caused Mr. Alexander Nguyen, City Manager, to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a report, which the writer refused to authenticate for court, making
the claim that I had harassed two women?
In a recent article in the TriCountySentry, one of two women the city claimed filed a harassment complaint, recanted. We just read that there are no official filed complaints against me
Mr. Mayor Flynn, Council members, it makes a person wonder why would the city Manager do this? Why would he present false information to the public? I’m not an attorney, but why would he put the city
under the threat of a lawsuit? Did you direct him to do this?
Respectfully,
Phillip Molina
Oxnard City Treasurer
Democracy requires the participation of the people. When the citizens fail to participate in a democracy it often reduces to a dictatorship.
America is a REPUBLIC, not a democracy.
When the citizens fail to participate in a REPUBLIC, it gets reduced to a democracy.
Then, when the citizens do participate, a dictatorship becomes more likely.
That’s insane nonsense. Too much Koolade for you buddy.
Special City Council Meeting on Oxnard Measure E
A number of years ago via a public record request I was inspecting documents related to payments to the District Attorney’s Office related to the gang injection. Ed Sotelo was the city manager, James Cameron was the CFO, and Dale Belcher was City Treasurer. Most of the transaction reflected payments to the attorney, representing the city, fast tracking criminal charges. Those transaction has sufficient backup showing the hours work and the cases being adjudicated. There were several transactions reflecting payments to the District Attorney’s Office for $10,000 each. There was no back up, there was no explanation. Fast forward to this year. The city has a City Manager and City CFO reviewing transactions with no oversight from an elected official. The city manager now wants to increase revenue via Measure E, hoping to raise $32,000,000 a year with no direct oversight from an elected official.
Measure E will have no oversight. Vote No on Measure E. The way Measure E is written. The city manager will be able to spend the money anyway he wants. Measure O had language indicating, but not mandating there would be an increase in Code Compliance. There was no increase in Code Compliance.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Vote No on Measure E.
Respectfully submitted,
Lawrence Paul Stein
Civil Disobedience From Churches, Yet
By Twila Le Page-Hughes
What is going on?
Christians are admonished to obey the laws of the land and to “give to Caesar, what is Caesars.” In other words– to pay taxes to keep the government going. But it does not say that government can keep Christians from meeting.
Yet, in these perilous times– after months of lockdowns, churches are not deemed essential businesses. Yet many businesses are open –bars are, liquor stores, are, Home Depot is, but not churches. And in those places people mix and mingle and are not always distanced, except as go to check out.
How could shopping at Home Depot be a badly needed spiritual experience—but shopping for a new throne in the bathroom might be. After all we do sit on it and contemplate.
Or buying some booze at the liquor store to slug a swallow for that toothache might be a needed spiritual experience, but Governor Newsome says only churches are banned from meeting.
There is much written on spiritual needs and how bad the lockdowns are on the psyche and on the mental health, as well as the income. Needed jobs are locked down. People are experiencing loneliness, deprivation, hunger, more alcoholism, more suicide, and more abusive relationships.
Now after months of lockdown, and only attending church via u-tube doesn’t quite cut it. No real interaction, taking communion together, hand shaking or singing praises to the Lord or even a warm greeting hug. That is the emotional and spiritual part we missed so much. That’s what’s missing. And in all of our lives we need this spiritual uplifting. Granted as we returned –and we must distance, and no hugging or handshaking and no communion served, so we elbow shake and wave from a distance, but what the heck– we are still together, pray together and sing even if with masks on.
Early Christians flaunted the law when the Romans said they could not meet but they met underground in houses, anyway. Some were persecuted for it. The Apostle Paul was imprisoned and eventually killed for preaching the Word, which was against the Roman law.
Even today in China, a communist controlled country, Christians must meet underground and in homes and if caught are persecuted or killed. Some make their way to this country.
In today’s world Christians feel the Constitution gives them the right to assemble and worship. It doesn’t say not in times of war, natural disaster or any other reason shall we stop meeting. And it doesn’t say government can control who shall or shall not –or that they can decree Christians shalt not gather together and worship when some businesses are open, casinos open, and protestors throng the streets, maskless– with no distancing. You don’t hear any condemnation over that from the liberals, or the media.
Churches then started defying the rules and orders and started meeting anyway. Most using health guidelines. Some have been sued and one church meeting outside in a drive-in service—with the members in cars arrested.
A church in Las Vegas installed slot machines in their lobby as the casinos were allowed to open up, but not churches. (All proceeds went to the church aid fund). Another started meeting in the lobby of a casino.
There is a group out there called The Pacific Justice Institute. They represent churches (for free) who have been arrested or subject to governmental tyranny.
In July the Supreme Court refused a request from a Nevada church that they be allowed to carry on under the same conditions as secular businesses. The vote was against them 5 to 4 as most votes are nowadays. Five liberals and four conservatives on the Court. Surprise. They vote along political lines. Neil Gorsuch, voted for the church and wrote, “ the world we inhabit today with a pandemic upon us, poses unusual challenges. But there is no world in which the constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel.”
Some critics worry that if governments can trample religious freedoms with relative impunity, what will be next? It can become tyranny.
Dr. Stephen Allen, distinguished fellow at the Capital Research Center was concerned and he said in an article in Epoch Times, “Will future presidents, governors and mayors use the emergency powers the courts have allowed them to impose sweeping restriction on the use of say carbon emissions to supposedly save the planet, or will office holders issue dramatic fiats limiting gun ownership rights despite the 2nd amendment?”
There’s a recall petition circulating to recall Governor Newsome. You can go online to sign one. Governor Newsome has gone overboard apparently luxuriating in his newly attained power and obviously has no use for Christians, small business owners or how bad the economy is affected by his arbitrary lockdowns. So much of the data was flawed as to the extent of the virus. Percentages were not used. And some doctors were told to report deaths from the virus when it was from other reasons. Yet he acted as if there were many more deaths.
We’ve seen the appetizer, folks. They found that they could easily control us by keeping us scared and shut down. The next crisis (and there will be one even if the power mongers have to invent it) and then we will see the main course. Complete control of the people which the leftists have worked toward for decades to get. Not pretty. I’m scared for my kids, grandkids and greats. Not a very nice world.
For more information, log on to http://www.covid19.ca.gov/B.S.
There seems to be some confusion about how the present statue of Serra got where it is. It has been a long time and I didn’t think it would become controversial at the time so didn’t make special not of it but my recollection differs from some versions I have seen.
It is my recollection that the original concrete statue was in poor condition. The master woodworkers association volunteered to make the wooden mold used to cast the present bronze statue. I remember articles in the Star about them and the long hours they spent taking careful measurements in order to preserve the likeness that Kangas, the original sculptor, had crafted.
After the mold was built, I don’t know how the bronze got paid for. It is my recollection that it was by public subscription, but I could be wrong on that.
I wonder if the Star has kept archives from those articles of probably 40 years ago or perhaps more?
To the Editor:
We knew a pandemic would come, but we did not prepare for it and are now suffering the consequences in terms of many, many lost lives and a severely damaged economy. Similarly, climate change is a clear and present danger and will most likely reach a stage at least as severe (and probably worse) in its consequences as COVID-19. Are we currently doing enough to head off the severe consequences of climate change? NO! Just like the pandemic, we have the shortsighted anti-science people saying climate change is not anything to worry about despite empirical evidence to the contrary. In addition, we have business interests that do not wish too stop their polluting because it would add additional expenses to existing costs of doing business. And then we have the politicians who need large donations to run for election. Their masters are wealthy corporations and individuals who all too often in favor of the business-friendly polluted status quo. I feel like America is in the early stages of circling the drain, as evidenced by our avoidable unpreparedness for COVID-19 and climate change.
Jim Sullivan
Ventura, CA
What an opportunity for your political agenda.
Can you ellaborate on the action that should be taken?
Restoration Life Christian Church May 17, 2020
Lawndale, CA
Dear Leaders.
What would Jesus do? What did early Christians do? They met underground or in people’s home in direct defiance of the government. Chinese Christians do the same thing.
Stop hiding and realize most of this is exaggerated but goes along with the socialists/leftists here wanting to get rid of Christians and churches. So, they are taking this opportunity to do so.
And to control us all.
If churches do NOT stand up, we will soon be stamped out. The data has been greatly exaggerated and the powers that be are listening to technocrats, like Barbara Ferrer, a social worker, paid $500,000 advising the LA County Board of Supervisors, who knows nothing about disease like this nor the effects on the economy and human beings, and is undoubtedly against Christians. The people making all of these orders are being paid high salaries. So they are not feeling any pain, when many of your congregants are feeling a lot of pain– so need some spiritual communion.
Do you know the greatest punishment meted out in prisons is isolation in the hole. People are social beings so we need others. And people need the social and spiritual guidance.
I’ve been doing a lot of research on all of this.
And don’t let one church in Butte County stop you, who met, and one person was tested positive for the virus. You can be tested positive if had a flu shot. My Dr. said don’t get tested.
Can start with drive-in meeting as some were going to just before we got shut down. Then gradually go to multiple services with a certain minimum number in them for some distancing. Although doubt that will make much difference.
Paul got put in prison for preaching the gospel, which was against the government’s rules, and eventually gave his life. Are we willing to give of ourselves to meet with our God?
Enclosed is a chart to show just what the actual data is on the COVID virus. In proportion, the numbers are not what are being announced. Look at the percentages.
If left alone, there’s such a thing as herd immunity which builds up antibodies in the herd of people, like the flu vaccine does. It’s God’s way of mitigating the disease. But no, the government has to swoop in and control us masses and isolate all– when only a small number are getting the actual virus, and that mostly in nursing homes. Some doctors are reporting they are told by county agencies and even the AMA to state deaths on death certificates, by corona virus, instead of by natural causes. The hospitals are empty, doctors out of work. People are suffering greatly through this– not only financially, but with depression and other health risks.
So stand up for God and the church and do what’s right by Him, not what’s right by the governments run by so-called atheists. If all churches in California opened upon May 31 at same time, they’d have a hard time trying to stop that many- and it would be a loud message.
God Bless
Twila Hughes
Help for small businesses, from your bank, during this economic pandemic event:
https://www.jobcreatorsnetwork.com
Why is this Ross Wolschlager allowed to be released in Ventura County and on top of everything, the judge will not allow his address to be released! This is an outrage! What about Megan’s Law? This judge needs to be fired!