It creates a very unpleasant appearance. And
that's why it should be avoided. This is the kind of thing that undermines
public confidence in government. - Tracy Westen, chief
executive of the Center for Governmental Studies
His company, which helps develop solar
power plants, is hoping for new opportunities in Mexico, and thinks Brown's
presence will help.
"He's very prominent, so
it's probable we'll have a better quality of interaction with local
officials," Gould said.
Bob Roberts, president of the
California Ski Industry Assn., said these kinds of trade missions can pay off
with serendipitous moments at events that attract movers and shakers.
During a similar trip roughly
two decades ago, he was at a reception in London when "in walked a guy
named Richard Branson." Soon enough, there was a partnership with the
entrepreneur's vacation package company, Virgin Holidays, that has helped
shuttle skiers and snowboarders from the United Kingdom to California slopes.
He's hoping for similar luck
with attracting Mexican tourists, who sometimes choose resorts in Colorado
instead of California.
"This is not a lobbying opportunity," Roberts said. "This is a
chance to market."
Fifteen lawmakers are also on
the trip. Several of them, including incoming Senate leader Kevin de León
(D-Los Angeles) and Latino caucus chairman Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens),
are using campaign funds to pay for their travel.
For delegates, the
$5,000-per-person fee also provides them with a colorful guide to the trip and
Mexico City.
Travelers who might be
accustomed to California's casual style are encouraged to dress more formally,
with "conservative dark suits" for men and shirts in "classic
colors." Writing down someone's name in red ink is also considered bad
luck.
Other advice may leave
Californians feeling at home — the guide says not to be surprised if an
earthquake rattles downtown Mexico City.
Megerian reported from Mexico
City, Mason from Sacramento.
Editorial
Gov. Brown knows better than to let lobbyists pay for
his Mexico trip ry Brown
Rebecca
Blackwell / AP Gov.
Jerry Brown answers questions during a joint press conference with Mexico's
Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade in Mexico City. Gov. Jerry Brown answers questions during a joint press
conference with Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade in
Mexico City. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
Gov. Jerry Brown's
trip to Mexico is reasonable; its funding is not
Business executives and lobbyists are paying for the
governor's trip to Mexico, a troubling development
Gov. Jerry
Brown is on a four-day trip to Mexico City to talk to government officials
there about trade and immigration issues. That's a reasonable thing for a
California governor to do. Brown is not traveling alone: Nine administration
officials and 15 legislators (some using campaign funds) are with him. That's
probably reasonable too.
But then there
are also 88 business executives and lobbyists on the trip, each of whom has
paid $5,000 to cover his or her costs, as well as those of the governor and his
administrators. That's not so reasonable.
If Brown is in
Mexico on government business, the taxpayers should pay for it. Having the trip
financed by business interests seeking to curry favor is a bad idea.-
Some of the
executives and lobbyists acknowledge they have no plans to extend their business
operations to Mexico; they signed up because it made sense to pay for a little
quality time with the governor and his senior aides. That sounds an awful lot
like buying access, and the governor should know better. If Brown is in Mexico
on government business, the taxpayers should pay for it. Having the trip
financed by business interests seeking to curry favor is a bad idea.
This is not a
practice Brown invented. Gov. George Deukmejian began it in the 1980s and every
governor since — Pete Wilson, Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger — has let
private interests pay for their travel. Often the donors were anonymous, the
money funneled through nonprofits such as the "California State Protocol
Foundation" (although Davis and Schwarzenegger eventually made the donors'
names public under pressure). Brown at least has moved the money out of the
shadows; his website has posted a list of those who have paid to travel with
him.
It's penny-wise and
pound-foolish to risk the integrity of the office for the sake of a few
airplane tickets.-
Among the
fellow travelers is an international governmental relations representative for
the ride-sharing company Lyft, which has no plans to open operations in Mexico
but is fighting legislation back in Sacramento to impose new rules on the
service. Gary L. Toebben, president of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of
Commerce, told The Times that he hoped to chat with Brown and his underlings
about efforts to revive state tax credits to try to entice Hollywood to keep
more work in the state. Hardly the kind of issue that needs to be discussed in
Mexico.
The whole idea
of having special interests pay the governor's travel expenses is troubling.
But it's even worse if they don't have any legitimate reason to be on the trip,
and are merely paying for time and special access to lobby the governor.
At best, this
practice is unseemly. The governor should create new guidelines limiting the
use of private cash to underwrite official business. It's penny-wise and
pound-foolish to risk the integrity of the office for the sake of a few
airplane tickets.
Jerry Brown kicks
off trade mission in Mexico e Antonio Meade Kuribrena, Jerry Brown Rich
Pedroncelli / Associated Press
As Gov. Jerry Brown looks on,
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, left,
responds to a reporter's question during a news conference on July 23 in Sacramento. As Gov. Jerry Brown looks on,
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, left,
responds to a reporter's question during a news conference on July 23 in
Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
Gov. Jerry
Brown, on a trip to Mexico, seeks to position California as a more welcoming
place for immigrants
Gov. Jerry
Brown, who begins his first full day of meetings here on Monday, wasted no time
setting lofty goals for his trade mission to Mexico during a reception on
Sunday night.
Speaking in a
hotel banquet room to scores of delegates who are traveling with the governor,
Brown said his trip "is not your ordinary trade mission."
"This is
serious," he said. "There’s a lot we can do on some of the most
important issues the world faces.” Gov. Brown Talks Immigration, Trade & Environment During
Visit To Mexico Gov. Brown Talks Immigration, Trade
& Environment During Visit To Mexico
Gov. Brown Talks Immigration, Trade
& Environment During Visit To Mexico
The governor
has prioritized addressing issues such as climate change, and he's expected to
sign an agreement with Mexican officials on the matter on Monday afternoon.
In addition,
Brown's Monday agenda was modified to include a private meeting with Mexican
President Enrique Peña Nieto. He's also scheduled to meet with the governor of
the state of Mexico and the foreign affairs secretary. A reception with the
U.S. ambassador is to be held at a downtown art museum.
On Tuesday,
Brown is expected to address the controversy concerning Central American
migrants, particularly unaccompanied children, entering the United States. He's
scheduled to meet with the Los Angeles archbishop and leaders from Central
America.
The governor,
who has called the issue a "humanitarian question," has sought to
position California as a more welcoming place for immigrants, including those
in the country illegally. He's signed legislation allowing them to obtain
driver's licenses and reducing the number of situations in which arrests by
local law enforcement triggers deportation proceedings.
Before entering the reception on Sunday, Brown told reporters
that California's record on immigration will boost the state's success south of
the border.
“Because of
our proximity, and our history, and also our sympathetic policy both to Mexico
and to the plight of people who have struggled to get [to California] from
Mexico," he said, "we are in a very good position to forge very close
and productive relationships.”
FOR PELOSI,
IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING THE DEM PARTY BASE WITH LOOTING MEXICANS!
LA RAZA-OCCUPATION and LOOTING in MEXIFORNIA…. shocking!
Californians
bear an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population
estimated at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and
local tax dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion. That total
amounts to a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S.
citizen.
THE ENTIRE
REASON FOR THE AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED!
“The U.S. Chamber is in the pocket of
Communist China and big companies seeking cheap labor in the United States. We
think it is morally repugnant for the chamber to pursue, as a matter of public
policy, initiatives which exploit the poor and oppressed, just so they can keep
labor costs down for their fortune 500 member companies.”
OFFICE of REP. KERRY BENTIVOLIO (R-Milford)
LOS ANGELES – OBAMACARE
OBAMAcare
and the looting of America
“The hardest-hit were young people, he
said. In one region of Los Angeles County, people age 25 paid 52% more for a
silver plan than they had for a similar plan the year before, while someone age
55 paid 38% more, Jones said.”
LOS ANGELES GANGS
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, MEXICO WAS
LOOTING.
THE COUNTY OF MEX-GANG INFESTED LOS
ANGELES PUTS OUT ONE BILLION DOLLARS TO ILLEGALS!
MARIA CHATA LEON
LA RAZA GANG
B ITCH MARIA “CHATA” LEON… A MEX MOMMA OPERATING HER OWN MASSIVE DRUG CARTEL IN LA
RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA
“In Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of
Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated with
racism, yet in denial, having never endured the social development of a Civil
Rights movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign Whites
are often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact, racism as workplace discrimination
can be seen across the US anywhere the illegal alien Latino works--the vast
majority of the workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites,
Asians, and others.”
LA RAZA SISTERS
of CORRUPTION, FEINSTEIN, BOXER and PELOSI are all advocates for Obama’s
amnesty hoax to legalize Mexico’s looting! They are guilty by greed of turning
CA into a Mexican dumpster!
As
an example, the inspector general offers ICE’s Los Angeles field office which
has flouted federal policy by creating its own private system of worksite
enforcement. During the three-year period considered by the watchdog the office
conducted 147 investigations, with 7% resulting in fines and 55% in warnings.
Even in instances where more than half of a business’s federal employee
verification forms (known as I-9) had “substantive errors” the federal agents
in L.A. only issued warnings instead of fines. One business mentioned in the
report had its fine slashed an astounding 78%, from $4.9 million to a little
over $1 million.
but
how “CHEAP” is all the Mexican labor?
Welfare
for illegals soars under Obama.
REP. XAVIER
BECERRA and the LA RAZA-OCCUPIED Mexican dumpster of LOS ANGELES
HOW LA RAZA FASCIST REP. XAVIER BECERRA HELPED MEXICO TURN
LOS ANGELES INTO LA RAZA’S BIGGEST WELFARE OFFICE.. they also get all the jobs
in L.A. and are VOTING FOR MORE!
“WE WILL
TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF
NECESSARY!”
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, MEXICO WAS
LOOTING.
THE COUNTY OF MEX-GANG INFESTED LOS
ANGELES PUTS OUT ONE BILLION DOLLARS TO ILLEGALS!
“WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF
POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!”
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
FOOLS STILL THINK MEXICANS ARE NOT VOTING FOR LA
RAZA SUPREMACY. THEY VOTE IN DROVES FOR RACIST LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GIL CEDILLO!
WHEN ILLEGALS ELECT MEXICANS, THAT LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST CONSIDERS MEXICANS THEIR SOLE CONSTITUENCY, BOTH LEGAL AND
ILLEGALS!
But that nickname diminishes Cedillo, who should be taken
seriously. When it comes to representing the interests of illegal immigrants
Gil Cedillo is a true believer.
LA’s own ‘secretary of state’ not
looking after our interests
Our secretary of state was one busy diplomat last week
scrambling to get ahead of a mushrooming crisis.
LARAZA DEMS
HAS THE BANKSTER-OWNED DEMOCRAT PARTY – PARTY OF LA RAZA
SUPREMACY DESTROYED CA….. MEXIFORNIA?
ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, CA PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR
TO ILLEGALS AND NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS ARE NOW BY MEXICAN GANGS!
VIVA LA RAZA? THEN VOTE DEM!
MEXICO DIRECTS LA RAZA MEXICANS TO
LOOT AMERICA!
WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT MORE CALIFORNIA
HOSPITALS?
OR WILL IT BANKRUPT THE STATE ITSELF?
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services
to non-citizens --- was the last gasp of white America in California." ---
Art Torres, Chairman of the California
Democratic Party… NOW THE PARTY for LA RAZA SUPREMACY… do a search for Barack
Obama and LA RAZA. ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN KAMALA
HARRIS, NEARLY
HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE NOW BY
MEXICAN GANGS.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/mexifornia-75-gang-leaders-arrested-in.html
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