Thank God America is NOT a Democracy!

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Mike

Thank God America is NOT a Democracy!

By Michael D. Robbins
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Copyright © 2024 by Michael D. Robbins. All rights reserved.

Thank God America is NOT a Democracy!

America’s Founding Fathers created the greatest and freest nation in history. They created America as the only nation based on Judeo-Christian values and corresponding unalienable God-given individual Natural Rights that cannot be taken away by people or government. The rights of every minority are protected, down to the individual.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The Founding Fathers created an incredible republican system of government that protects against tyranny of the majority in democracies, against tyranny of the minority in monarchies and other types of dictatorships, and against tyranny of the bureaucracy under unlimited government.

In a democracy, the majority rules. The smallest majority can vote away the liberty, earnings, savings, property, and lives of the largest minority.

The “Democratic” party has become a Marxist party striving to destroy Constitutional protections against government tyranny, accumulate total unlimited power, and establish a communist Marxist dictatorship to steal everything and enslave everyone.

The Constitution Article IV, Section 4 states, “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government”.

Every time Democrats say Republicans are “a threat to our democracy”, remember this: the “Democratic” party isn’t democratic, America isn’t a democracy, and the “Democratic” party is a threat to our Constitutional Republic.

Notes About This Post

This post was written by Michael D. Robbins as a Letter to the Editor for the Thursday, July 4, 2024 edition of the El Segundo Herald, a publication of Herald Publications in El Segundo, California. The word count limit is 250 words including the title, which is also written by the letter author. Therefore, there was not sufficient words within the word count limit to go into additional important points, including but not limited to the points below, which will be addressed in additional letters to the editor and/or posts on this website.

This letter was submitted to the El Segundo Herald and Herald Publications with the following note regarding copyright:

NOTE:

I am granting Herald Publications and the El Segundo Herald the right to publish and republish this letter to the editor in print and digitally in any or all of its newspapers and websites, to keep, store, and distribute it in digital or paper backup and archive copies, with attribution of my authorship. I am keeping the copyright for this letter and reserve all rights including the right to publish, republish, distribute, and have published, republished, and distributed or redistributed this letter in print, digital, video, audio, and every other media existing now or in the future. I am working on writing several books and this letter is a derivative work and adaptation of content from at least one of my books. Thank you for your understanding.

Michael D. Robbins

ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT POINTS

By Michael D. Robbins
Thursday, June 27, 2024

See the additional information in my letter titled, “America’s Founding Principles in 250 Words, Including the Title”, published in the El Segundo Herald newspaper on Thursday, July 1, 2021, here:

https://PublicSafetyProject.org/blog/2021/06/28/americas-founding-principles-in-250-words-including-title/

Democrat legislators, presidents and governors, and judges regularly ignore the constitution, laws, and election results. And they eliminate or weaken safeguards against election fraud and theft to make it easier to steal elections and more difficult to detect and stop election fraud and theft.

Democrat presidents regularly exceed their Constitutional powers and violate the Constitutional separation of powers by issuing executive orders that effectively legislate from the White House.

Democrat presidents and governors, legislators, and judges regularly violate their oath of office to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Democrat presidents and governors regularly violate their constitutional duty too faithfully execute the laws when it comes to laws they disagree with.

Democrat judges regularly exceed their constitutional authority and violate constitutional separation of powers, and issue rulings that effectively amend the Constitution and legislate from the courthouse by reinterpreting language in the Constitution and in laws to mean things completely different from what the plain language says and from the original intent.

Here are some specific examples, although there are many more.

President Joe Biden violated his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws including the immigration laws by reversing President Donald Trump’s border security policies that significantly reduced illegal alien infiltration and drug smuggling. Joe Biden has been giving illegal aliens large amounts of taxpayer money for transportation, housing, food, and healthcare services.

President Joe Biden exceeded his Constitutional authority and violated Constitutional separation of powers by issued an executive order to cancel and “forgive” college student loans to effectively buy votes without legislative authority. The Supreme Court ruled Joe Biden exceeded his authority. Joe Biden ignored the Supreme Court ruling and canceled student loans in defiance of the court.

A majority of California voters voted against an initiative ballot measure to abolish the death penalty.

California’s radical Marxist Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom ignored the majority of voters and the election result, and dismantled the execution chamber, and issued a reprieve to every murderer and multiple murderer on death row.

A majority of California voters voted against an initiative ballot measure to enact a fascist socialist Marxist statewide rent control law.

Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrat party super-majority in California’s state legislature ignored the majority of voters and the election result, and enacted a statewide fascist socialist Marxist rent control law.

California’s Democrat state legislators, Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, and Democrat State Supreme Court justices took the Taxpayer Protection Voter Initiative off the November, 2024 ballot even though it was properly qualified with sufficient voter signatures. Using their twisted reasoning, they would have taken the Proposition 13 property tax increase limitation initiative off the ballot if it were qualified this year.

According to Orange County, California Board of Supervisors Chairman Don Wagner:

Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom and the California State Legislature, meaning the Democrat super-majority in the California State Legislature, sued to remove the taxpayer rights initiative from the California state ballot despite the fact enough signatures have been collected to put it on the ballot.

The Taxpayer Protection Voter Initiative would have required that all tax increases, not just some, be subject to a two-thirds majority voter approval.

The California State Supreme Court, which is made up of all Democrat-appointed justices, issued and absurd opinion in this case.

It claimed that this initiative ballot measure would fundamentally change the structure of the California government and therefore cannot be on the ballot but most instead result from a California State Constitutional Convention.

This is absurd because it does not change the structure of the California state government. There will still be three branches of government — a legislative branch, executive branch, and judicial branch. Also, this is not much different than Proposition 13 which requires a two-thirds majority vote to approve property tax increases.

There is no way to appeal this to the United States Supreme Court. The California State Supreme Court has the last word on this.

Don Wagner
Chairman, Orange County Board of Supervisors

Campaign website:
https://WagnerForSupervisor.com/

Orange County, California Supervisor District 3 website:
https://d3.OCGov.com/

Copyright © 2024 by Michael D. Robbins. All rights reserved.

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Recall Racist and Undemocratic Governor Newsom, Elect Larry Elder – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Michael D. Robbins

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Mike

Recall Racist and Undemocratic Governor Newsom, Elect Larry Elder – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Michael D. Robbins

By Michael D. Robbins
Monday, August 30, 2021

Copyright © 2021 by Michael D. Robbins. All rights reserved.

Recall Racist and Undemocratic Governor Newsom, Elect Larry Elder

Gavin Newsom and his Los Angeles Times Fake News Lynch Mob support racist, white supremacist, Democrat Jim Crow laws and policies that Larry Elder opposes–including Jim Crow gun control, minimum wage, ban on school-choice vouchers, and the over-kill economic lock-down that destroyed one-third of small businesses.

Democrat Jim Crow gun control laws date back to slavery. They keep law-abiding blacks vulnerable and dependent. Gun control increases violent crime, especially in poor minority communities.

Larry Elder is correct to quote economists Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. Minimum wage is the most anti-black law. Racist, white supremacist Democrats enacted minimum wage and prevailing wage laws for white labor organizations, to keep poorly educated, unskilled, and inexperienced black job-seekers unemployed, so they will not compete at lower pay for white workers’ jobs and get job skills and experience.

The real minimum wage is always zero, when workers are priced out of the job market and remain unemployed because they are replaced by machines or more qualified workers.

Larry Elder supports school-choice vouchers that allow poor and minority families to escape from unsafe and failing schools.

A majority of California voters voted on three statewide ballot measures to keep and speed-up the death penalty, and to reject Marxist statewide “rent control” that partially abolishes property rights.

King Gavin ignored the election results, and issued reprieves for all death-row murderers, dismantled the execution chamber, and signed into law a Marxist Democrat statewide “rent control” bill.

Michael D. Robbins

NOTES:

There is much more to say than what is included in this letter, but the El Segundo Herald has a 250-word limit including the title, which is selected by the letter-writer.

This post was submitted as a letter to the editor of the El Segundo Herald newspaper, a weekly newspaper published by Herald Publications.

All California voters should vote YES on the first question, to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and vote for Larry Elder on the second question of who should replace Gavin Newsom if a majority of votes counted voted YES on the first question.

Voters can vote NO on the first question and still vote for Larry Elder on the second question, but a YES vote is necessary to prevent further serious long-term damage to California by Governor Gavin Newsom’s malfeasance and malevolence.

Anyone can support Larry Elder’s campaign by making a campaign contribution or volunteering to work on the campaign by going to his campaign website at ElectElder.com.

My letter includes a defense of Larry Elder, a conservative black Republican candidate for governor in the recall election. The Los Angeles Times is waging a despicable dishonest smear campaign against Larry to save Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom from a legitimate recall. Larry is a longtime national radio talk show host, book author, documentary movie producer, and lawyer.

The L.A. Times has published many recent smear columns against Larry Elder, including a news column on August 20, 2021 titled “Column: Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned”. You can see it here:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians

I have listened to Larry Elder’s radio talk show on KRLA and before that on KABC for many years. I have called in at times, and I have meet him in person several times. I can vouch for Larry’s integrity. I personally know the L.A. Times is provably lying about Larry and what he has said, using their newspaper and website as a corrupt political campaign propaganda organ to improperly influence the election outcome. That is why the L.A. Times fails to give any examples or accurate exact quotes of Larry to back up their absurd claims.

NOTE:

I am granting Herald Publications and the El Segundo Herald the right to publish and republish this letter to the editor in print and digitally in any or all of its newspapers and websites, to keep, store, and distribute it in digital or paper backup and archive copies, with attribution of my authorship. I am keeping the copyright for this letter and reserve all rights including the right to translate, publish, republish, distribute, and have translated, published, republished, and distributed or redistributed this letter in print, digital, video, audio, and every other media existing now or in the future.

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America’s Founding Principles in 250 Words, Including the Title

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Mike

America’s Founding Principles in 250 Words, Including the Title

By Michael D. Robbins
Monday, June 28, 2021

Copyright © 2021 by Michael D. Robbins. All rights reserved.

America’s Founding Principles:

(1) Equality in liberty and law, not equality in outcomes through inequality in liberty and law.

(2) Unalienable God-given individual Natural Rights that no people or government can take away.

(3) No government without consent of the governed.

(4) No taxation without representation.

(5) All power inherently belongs to the people except limited enumerated powers the people voluntarily and revocably delegate to government through a written constitution the people can unilaterally change but government cannot.

(6) The people cannot have all the power and prevent tyranny if government has all the guns. Therefore, the people have the right to keep and bear dual-use arms.

(7) The purpose of government is to protect the people’s liberty. When it fails to do so or violates liberty, the people have the right and duty to alter or abolish and replace their government.

(8) America is not a democracy. America was founded as a constitutional representative republic that protects minorities, to prevent tyranny of the majority in democracies, and tyranny of the minority in monarchies and dictatorships. Article IV Section 4: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”.

(9) The Constitution requires very many features to constrain, limit, separate, and balance powers to limit concentrations and abuse of power and conflicts of interest.

(10) Liberty is more easily lost than regained. Every generation must learn, teach, and vigorously protect America’s Founding Principles established in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Federalist Papers.

Notes About This Post

This post was written by Michael D. Robbins as a Letter to the Editor for the July 1, 2021 edition of the El Segundo Herald, a publication of Herald Publications in El Segundo, California. The word count limit is 250 words including the title, which is also written by the letter author. Therefore, there was not sufficient words within the word count limit to go into additional important points, including but not limited to the points below, which will be addressed in additional letters to the editor and/or posts on this website.

This letter was submitted to the El Segundo Herald and Herald Publications with the following note regarding copyright:

NOTE:

I am granting Herald Publications and the El Segundo Herald the right to publish and republish this letter to the editor in print and digitally in any or all of its newspapers and websites, to keep, store, and distribute it in digital or paper backup and archive copies, with attribution of my authorship. I am keeping the copyright for this letter and reserve all rights including the right to publish, republish, distribute, and have published, republished, and distributed or redistributed this letter in print, digital, video, audio, and every other media existing now or in the future. I am working on writing several books and this letter is a derivative work and adaptation of content from at least one of my books. Thank you for your understanding.

Michael D. Robbins

UPDATE:

Thursday, July 1, 2021

This letter was published on page 3 of the El Segundo Herald weekly newspaper in El Segundo, California on Thursday, July 1, 2021 and is also available from the Herald Publications Website at:

El Segundo Herald Newspaper PDF File for Thursday, July 1, 2021:
CLICK HERE to view or download the PDF file for the entire El Segundo Herald newspaper for Thursday, July 1, 2021. (16 pages, 7.60 MB)
CLICK HERE to view or download the PDF file for the entire El Segundo Herald newspaper for Thursday, July 1, 2021 from the INTERNET ARCHIVE WayBack Machine. (16 pages, 7.60 MB)

El Segundo Herald Newspaper Web Page for Thursday, July 1, 2021:
CLICK HERE to go to the El Segundo Herald newspaper web page for Thursday, July 1, 2021.

El Segundo Herald Newspaper Web Page:
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Herald Publications Website:
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ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT POINTS

By Michael D. Robbins
Monday, June 28, 2021

The states created the federal government through the state representatives of the people. The federal government did not create the states. The states, in creating the federal government, reserved for the states or the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government in the written Constitution. Thus, any power the federal government is exercising that is not in the Constitution, and any expenditure of public funds to exercise powers not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution, is an unconstitutional usurpation of power and misuse of public funds.

The Tenth Amendment, in the Bill of Rights, states:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The people delegate, modify, or revoke federal government powers, and create or modify durable features of the structure of and constraints on the federal government that cannot be changed unilaterally by the federal government, by amending the Constitution.

The only legitimate methods to amend the Constitution to change even one word are defined in Article V. They require a very large super-majority of elected state and federal representatives, or of elected state representatives, depending on the method used. They do not involve any non-elected, appointed-for-life judges, certainly not a five-out-of-nine majority vote of non-elected, appointed-for-life Supreme Court justices.

Per Article V, Constitutional amendments are proposed by a two-thirds majority of each house in Congress, or by the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the states to call a Constitutional Convention. Amendments must be ratified by a three-fourths super-majority of the state legislatures, within a specified time period if any, to become part of the Constitution.

Therefore, corrupt judges and justices who ignore the plain language and original intent of the Constitution to effectively amend the Constitution by fiat to advance a political agenda, by issuing opinions from the courthouse, are violating both Article V and the separation of powers in the Constitution. The original intent of the Founding Fathers who wrote and voted to ratify the Constitution is determined from the Federalist Papers, the records of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention debates, and other historical documents.

Corrupt educators have been teaching – at least since the 1970s – the false claim that the Constitution is a “living breathing document” that judges and justices can “re-interpret” to mean whatever they want, inconsistent with and contrary to the plain language and original intent of the Constitution, because “times have changed”. The Constitution was written by divinely inspired geniuses to be a durable and stable document that intentionally requires very large super-majorities of elected representatives to propose and ratify amendments to it. If times truly have changed that require amending the Constitution, then it should be possible to convince a required super-majority of elected representatives to vote to ratify the amendment. Otherwise, the Constitution should not be amended, and it certainly should not be circumvented or ignored.

In a democracy, the smallest majority can vote away the money, property, and freedom of the largest minority, and enslave the largest majority. The Constitution has many features that make America a representative constitutional republic and not a democracy to avoid a tyranny of the majority.

These include:

(1) Congress is a bicameral legislature, where the Senate (the upper house) has equal representation (two senators) for each state, and legislation must be passed by both houses (the House and the Senate). In the original Constitution, the Senators were chosen by the state legislatures and represented their state government. This important check-and-balance of power between the state and federal governments was eliminated by the Seventeenth Amendment (passed by Congress May 13, 1912 and ratified April 8, 1913) that made the Senators directly elected by the people of their state. Senators serve six-year terms, while the House of Representatives is the more numerous house with representatives apportioned based on state populations and two-year terms of office. All tax and spending legislation must be initiated in the House of Representatives.

(2) The president must approve legislation passed by both houses of Congress for it to become law.

(3) The president has the power to veto legislation passed by both houses of Congress, and a two-thirds super-majority vote in both houses of Congress is required to override a presidential veto.

(4) Treaties must be approved by a two-thirds super-majority of the Senate alone.

(5) The Electoral College gives additional voting power to smaller population states relative to their populations, by giving each state one elector (Elector College vote) for each of its representatives, which are apportioned among the states based on each state’s population and total population, plus two additional electors – one for each of its senators. This enhancement effect was much greater at the time of America’s Founding, when the total population, the total number of representatives, and the number of representatives apportioned to each state were smaller than today.

(5) The Constitution creates limits and constraints on types of legislation that Congress can enact, and Congress and the President cannot unilaterally amend the Constitution. For example, Article 1 Section 8 limits appropriations of money to raise and support armies to a maximum of two years, the term of office for the House of Representatives, which is the more numerous house in Congress with shorter two-year terms of office. Article 1 Section 9 prohibits Congress from enacting ex post facto (retroactive) laws and bills of attainder (that legislate for or against or punish individuals by name). As mentioned earlier, per Article V, amending the Constitution requires a two-thirds super-majority vote in both houses of Congress, or application of a two-thirds super-majority of state legislatures to call a Constitutional Convention, and proposed amendments must be ratified by a three-fourths super-majority of the state legislatures.

(6) Furthermore, Article V has a special protection where no majority of elected representatives in Congress and no majority of state legislatures can amend the Constitution to deprive a state of its equal representation in the Senate regardless of its state population:

“Provided that … no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.”

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the Constitution) do not give rights to the people, but officially recognize and protect unalienable God-given individual Natural Rights that every American is born with and that no people or government can take away.

The Ninth Amendment, in the Bill of Rights, states:

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

An important point here is that without God, there are no unalienable God-given rights that cannot be taken away by people or governments. Also, without the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible, “Thou shall not murder”, “Thou shall not steal”, and the rest of the Ten Commandments that govern people’s relation to each other are merely opinions and not commandments from a Supreme Being. Unlike commandments from a Supreme Being, everyone can have their own opinion, and opinions from other sources can be rejected entirely or in part.

  – Michael D. Robbins

Copyright © 2021 by Michael D. Robbins. All rights reserved.

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Former El Segundo City Councilman Mike Robbins Exposed Evidence of an El Segundo Unified School District Pay-For-Play Scam Involving Bond Measure ES

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Mike

Former El Segundo, California City Councilman Mike Robbins authored, printed, and distributed citywide an information flyer documenting and exposing evidence of a pay-for-play scam by the El Segundo Unified School District (ESUSD).

The scam, ESUSD Bond Measure ES, will jack up property taxes paid by El Segundo homeowners, renters, and other property owners west of Pacific Coast Highway (PCH, formerly Sepulveda Blvd.) by more than a quarter billion dollars, and enrich the out-of-town and out-of-state special interests that make money from school bond tax hikes, and that funded the Measure ES campaign with many $5,000 and $10,000 campaign contributions.

Here is a link to a PDF file of that flyer.

The content of that flyer appears below.

Vote “NO” on Measure ES !

Quarter Billion Dollar+ Tax Hike on Homeowners,
Renters, and Taxpayers West of PCH (Sepulveda)

THIS GRASSROOTS FLYER PROVIDES THE FACTS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS HIDING.

These facts are from government public record information. See PublicSafetyProject.org.

  • Evidence of Pay-For-Play: $81,000 in BIG campaign contributions mostly from out-of-town & out-of-state special interests that make money from school bond taxes, including architect, construction, consultant, & technology companies, & lawyers. $5,000 from ESUSD’s law firm. (SEE BELOW)
  • Special interests often receive a MILLION TAX DOLLARS for every THOUSAND DOLLARS they contribute. They don’t donate $5,000 to $10,000 each to get nothing in return.
  • Measure ES Campaign: Organized by a school board member and a former city treasurer who resigned in disgrace; Managed from Oakland; Slick mailers designed, printed, & mailed in Berkeley.
  • ALL of the School District’s TAXPAYER COST NUMBERS are OPTIMISTIC ESTIMATES!
    The Tax Rate Statement for Measure ES states, “… the foregoing information is based upon the District’s projections and estimates only, which are not binding upon the District.”
  • By Law, ES authorizes unlimited property tax increases to secure the bonds for the “investors”.
  • Total homeowner/renter/taxpayer cost of up to $368 MILLION for principal and interest!
    • $193,428,000 estimated taxpayer cost for principal and interest is wildly optimistic.
    • Legal maximum cost to taxpayers is FOUR TIMES THE AMOUNT BORROWED:   $368 MILLION.
  • Renters pay property taxes passed on to them in their rent as an overhead cost.
  • By law, ONLY 25 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR IS GUARANTEED to be spent for schools!
  • $92 MILLION for schools, and up to $276 MILLION in interest to hand-picked “investors”, without a competitive bid to determine bond interest rates, durations, and sales fees.
  • 12% Maximum Legal Interest Rate for up to 40 Years! That’s what “at legal rates” means in ballot statement. ESUSD violated E.C. §13119 by not disclosing bond duration in ballot statement.
  • We are Still Paying 13.899%, 9.704%, and 8.09% for previous ESUSD Bonds until 8/1/2033, 8/1/2025, and 8/1/2027, respectively.
  • ESUSD regularly sells Risky Capital Appreciation Bonds that exploit taxpayers. They pay no principal or interest for a span of years, add unpaid interest to the principal, & pay interest on interest.
  • ES will spend MILLIONS on computers and technology that will be obsolete and trashed or recycled in 3 to 5 years, and finance it at up to 12% for up to 40 years, secured by our homes!
  • Bond Money WILL BE SPENT ON SCHOOL EMPLOYEE SALARIES AND BENEFITS.
    • Measure ES text states: “Proceeds of the bonds may be used to pay or reimburse the District for the cost of District staff” (salaries & benefits – see back side & TransparentCalifornia.com).
  • “Citizens’ Oversight Committee” is a farce: Hand-picked by School Board using District recommendations, serves at will of School Board. Last one disbanded before all money was spent.
  • Past Annual Audits DID NOT STOP ESUSD from VIOLATING the LAW on use of Tax Money.
  • ESUSD VIOLATED laws against spending taxpayer money on political campaigns. E.g., contract approved 2/14/2017 with True North Research, Inc. for campaign polling & communications.
  • School District spends operating and maintenance money on lavish salaries, benefits, and pensions, then cries “poor”, “leaky roof”, & “unsafe” to guilt taxpayers into paying double & triple.
  • EXAMPLES from El Segundo USD Salary and Pension Data at TransparentCalifornia.com :
    • School Board Member William Watkins, a retired ESUSD teacher & administrator with 40 years of service, gets a CalSTRS pension of $138,830 per year for life with $2,127 annual COLA raises.
      His pension paid him $931,920 for 2011-2017, and ~ $2 Million for 2001-2017, mostly from taxes.
    • School Board Candidate Paulette Caudill, a retired ESUSD teacher & teachers union member with < 35 years of service, gets a CalSTRS pension of $91,077 per year for life + $1,535 COLAs.
    • School Board Member Nancy Cobb, a retired ESUSD teacher & teachers union member with 17 years of service, gets a CalSTRS pension of $40,170 per year for life + $680 COLA raises. She organized the YES on Measure ES campaign scam, with all the contributors below.

Most of the $81,000 in Measure ES campaign contributions are from out-of-town and out-of-state businesses that make money from school bond tax hikes. Some worked on Wiseburn high school in E.S. Silver Creek Industries below sold 4 modular classroom buildings to ESUSD and wants to sell more.

YES ON ES CONTRIBUTOR AMOUNT WEBSITE TYPE OF BUSINESS
PBK, Inc., Houston, TX 10,000.00 PBK.com Architecture
DLR Group, Omaha, NE 10,000.00 DLRGroup.com Architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design
WLC Architects, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 10,000.00 WLCArchitects.com Architecture
Balfour Beatty, Dallas, TX 8,500.00 BalfourBeattyUS.com Construction
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Romo & Rudd, Cerritos, CA 5,000.00 AALRR.com ESUSD’s law firm – probably paid over $1 Million with our tax money.
Network Integration, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 5,000.00 Network integration services
Continental Development, El Segundo, CA 5,000.00 Real Estate Development
Elements Consulting, El Segundo, CA 5,000.00 Consulting services
TELACU Construction Management, Los Angeles, CA 5,000.00 TELACU.com Construction management
VPLS Solutions, Orange, CA 4,999.99 VPLSSolutions.com Sell and install large computer networks and communication systems
Pringle Associates, Torrance, CA 2,000.00 PringleAssociates.com Construction inspection consultants
Silver Creek Industries, Perris, CA 1,500.00 Silver-Creek.net Sold 4 modular classroom buildings to ESUSD approved at 2/14/2017 ESUSD Board Meeting.
Koury Engineering & Testing, Chino, CA 1,250.00 KouryEngineering.com Engineering and testing for construction
Geo-Advantec, San Dimas, CA 1,000.00 GeoAdvantec.com Geological engineering services for school construction projects
Williamson Construction Co., Lawndale, CA 1,000.00 Construction company
Omar Sadek, Redondo Beach, CA 1,000.00 Owner, Transportation services
TOTAL $ 76,249.99
Authored & Paid for by Mike Robbins, El Segundo Public Safety Project, PO Box 2193, El Segundo, CA 90245.
PublicSafetyProject.org. Not authorized or endorsed by any candidate or committee.   Rev. 11/01/2018
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Flyer Distributed throughout El Segundo exposing evidence of El Segundo Unified School District Pay-For-Play to Fund School Bond Ballot Measure ES Campaign

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Mike

Former El Segundo City Councilman Mike Robbins distributed a flyer throughout the City of El Segundo, California to expose the evidence of pay-for-play to fund the campaign for El Segundo Unified School District (ESUSD) Bond Measure ES.

ESUSD School Governing Board Member Nancy Cobb, a former ESUSD school teacher and teacher union member, set up the campaign committee “Friends of El Segundo Schools-Yes on Measure ES 2018”, FPPC I.D. #1407827, to receive and spend many $5,000 and $10,000 campaign donations from out-of-town and out-of-state businesses that make money from school bond tax hikes. These businesses include architect, planning, construction, construction management, building inspection consultant, and network and technology companies.

The campaign expenditures reported in the second FPPC 460 filing show the School Board Member’s Measure ES campaign is being managed out of Oakland, California, and the multiple slick campaign mailers were designed, printed, and mailed in Berkeley, California, a long distance away from El Segundo in southern California.

Here is a link to the PDF file for the flyer:

Mike Robbins’ Campaign Flyer exposing evidence of ESUSD pay-for-play

Here are links to the scan PDF files for the first and second filings of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) 460 campaign finance disclosure forms for the campaign in favor of ESUSD Bond Measure ES:

First FPPC 460 filing (3.69 MB PDF file)

Second FPPC 460 filing (4.84 MB PDF file)

Courtesy, Past Due, and Penalty Notices (913 KB PDF file) from the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk to the the campaign committee’s treasurer, Chris Powell.

Chris Powell is a former ESUSD School Board Member. He is also a former City Treasurer who resigned in disgrace after it was learned that he made repeated violations of the sacred trust placed in him.

Chris Powell and others with questionable backgrounds endorsed El Segundo Ballot Measure A, which was eleven tax hikes in one ballot measure, on residents and businesses. The Yes on Measure A campaign claimed Measure A was “Supported by People You Know and Trust”, until Mike Robbins distributed a flyer and posted information on the PublicSafetyProject.org website proving otherwise.

See more on Measure A and the “People You Know and Trust” here:

Have the Measure A Supporters Earned Our Trust?– scroll down where Chris Powell is mentioned.

That information on Chris Powell is repeated here with the same document links:

Chris Powell resigned from his City Treasurer office in disgrace due to his long-time persistent affair with a school board member, which he admitted to in writing, after her husband contacted the City Council regarding the persistent affair with his wife – former City Treasurer Christopher Powell and current School Board Member Laura Gabel

PROOF:

For more information, Mike Robbins can be contacted at 310-322-7244.

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Alert for the Tuesday, November 8, 2016 General Election

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Mike

GENERAL ELECTION:
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Click HERE to see the “Clinton Cash” documentary movie for FREE over the Internet on Breitbart.com before you vote.

See the great “Hillary’s America” documentary movie in a theater before you vote, and before it goes away, to learn the secret history of the Democratic party that explains their lust to accumulate and abuse power. Click HERE to find a theater showing Dinesh D’Souza’s “Hillary’s America” documentary movie.

Vote for Donald Trump because the future of the Supreme Court and our Constitution are at extreme risk if Hillary Clinton wins. Hillary Clinton will appoint leftist activist Supreme Court justices who will “reinterpret” the Bill of Rights, including the First, Second, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments, in absurd ways to render them meaningless and eliminate our most important freedoms.

Vote “NO” on all Tax Measures. All taxes combined are much too high, and customers pay the business taxes that are passed on to us as a cost of doing business. The liberal tax-and-spend politicians must learn to live within our means.

Vote “NO” on the measure to ban the Death Penalty for Terrorists and other Mass-Murderers.

Vote “YES” on the measure to speed up the Death Penalty for Terrorists and other Mass-Murderers.

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Mike Robbins’ Public Communications at the May 3, 2016 El Segundo City Council Meeting

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Mike

Honorable Mayor Suzanne Fuentes and Members of the City Council,

Good evening. I am Mike Robbins, a 33-year El Segundo resident and a former El Segundo City Councilman.

REPORTS CITY CLERK Item I-7

Thank you to outgoing Mayor Pro Tem Carl Jacobson

First, I want to thank outgoing Mayor Pro Tem Carl Jacobson for his many decades of service to the City and the citizens of El Segundo, as Mayor, as Mayor Pro Tem, as Councilmember, on the Planning Commission, and in other capacities.

I had the privilege of serving on City Council with Carl Jacobson as mayor. We agreed on most issues, but when we disagreed, I always knew he was honest, intelligent, competent, and doing what he believed was in the best interest of the City and the citizens of El Segundo.

Congratulations to the newly elected City Council Members

Second, I would like to congratulate the newly elected City Council Members, Don Brann, Carol Pirsztuk, and Drew Boyles. The City Council election turned out the way I believe will be best for our City. I am disappointed with the passage of Measure B, the 50 percent increase in the Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax.

I hope that increase in City tax revenue will not trigger a clause in the union contracts to give automatic additional COLA pay raises to the City employees. Such a clause existed in the previous union contracts.

Third, I realize that the City Council meeting where the new Councilmembers are sworn in is meant to be brief and celebratory in nature. However, there is an item on the City Council agenda to change the way the mayor and mayor pro tem are elected, without a vote of the citizens of El Segundo to make that change. That item has many flaws that must be considered.

REPORTS – NEWLY ELECTED/CURRENT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS Item L-8

Change in the current practice of electing the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem

Any change in the way the mayor and mayor pro tem are elected should be based on what is best for the citizens of El Segundo, and should be put before the voters of El Segundo. All of the pros and cons of such a change should be carefully considered before putting the question before the voters.

Recall that un-elected Mayor Bill Fisher, and outgoing Councilmembers Marie Fellhauer and Dave Atkinson, were all defeated in their reelection campaigns in part because of their violating El Segundo’s longtime tradition that the Mayor is elected to a two-year term, and absent good cause for removal, should serve a full two-year term.

At present, the mayor and mayor pro tem are elected by the new City Council members every two years, at the meeting after the City election where the newly elected Council members are sworn in. This system is a middle of the road compromise between having the mayor directly elected by the people to a four year term and having rotating mayors with one-year terms.

I believe it will not serve the voters of El Segundo well to change the term of Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem from the current two years, which is half a City Council term, to one year or less. I believe the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

Here are some of the disadvantages.

First, the additional and specialized experience and knowledge gained during the first year as mayor will be lost with each annual rotation.

Second, it will break continuity. It will reduce the ability of the mayor to develop continuity in leadership, and to cultivate relationships and influence on behalf of the City with other government entities throughout the region.

Third, it will result in an ongoing Lame duck Syndrome for half to all of the one-year mayoral term. The mayor will not be taken as seriously by other elected officials in and outside El Segundo, and by City employees, if the mayor has a term of only one year. The mayor and mayor pro tem will only be ceremonial positions.

And fourth, if a councilmember turns out to perform very well as mayor, the mayor will or may be changed in only one year instead of two years.

City Council choosing mayor based on number of votes received

The proposal for the City Council members to select the mayor based on the number of votes each received may seem reasonable, but it too has flaws. Different elections have different voter turnouts. And the number of votes received depends on how many seats are up for election, how many candidates are running, how much money is spent on the campaign by each candidate, and by the police and firefighter unions who usually support candidates and ballot measures based on their own financial interests at the expense of the taxpayers.

In this last election, one candidate, Don Brann, started out recovering from a serious injury that hindered his walking door to door, which undoubtedly cost him many votes.

Also, a candidate can get elected with the most votes by getting mostly each voter’s third vote. This occurs when there are two opposing factions and a candidate is viewed as unsatisfactory to voters in each faction, but not as unsatisfactory as the candidates in the other faction.

Election Campaign Spending Data

FPPC campaign disclosure forms show the police and fire unions spent an overwhelming $39,247.50 in our city election ($19,033.50 police, and $20,214.00 fire) to influence voters on Measure B and the City Council race. See PublicSafetyProject.org.

NOTE:

The following sentence in the third disadvantage was accidentally omitted from the spoken public communications: “The mayor and mayor pro tem will only be ceremonial positions.”

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New El Segundo City Council Members Sworn In, Council Voted for Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Mike

Suzanne Fuentes to Continue as Mayor and Drew Boyles to Serve as Mayor Pro Temp for Next Two Years

By Michael D. Robbins

The May 3, 2016 El Segundo City Council meeting began with a proclamation, a commendation, and a presentation recognizing the Election poll workers for their valuable services rendered to the City of El Segundo during its April 12, 2016 General Municipal Election.

Next was a roll call, followed by public communications. Former El Segundo City Councilman Mike Robbins spoke, thanking Mayor Pro Tem Carl Jacobson for his decades of service to the City and citizens of El Segundo, congratulating the newly elected City Council members, and opposing agenda item L-8 to change the traditional method of electing the mayor and mayor pro tem and their terms. That agenda item, requested by Councilman Mike Dugan and Councilwoman Carol Pirsztuk, would change to a rotating mayor and mayor pro tem selected by the City Council with only one-year terms.

The old City Council then conducted a minimal amount of City business, including approving the minutes from the April 19, 2016 City Council meeting. They adopted a City Council Resolution certifying the final election results, declaring the winning candidates, and declaring that Measure B, the 50 percent increase in the Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), was passed.

Then the traditional American peaceful transition of power took place. Outgoing Mayor Pro Tem Carl Jacobson and City Council Members Marie Fellhauer and Dave Atkinson said their goodbyes, received gifts and recognition certificates, and stepped down from the dais in the City Council Chamber. Marie Fellhauer showed off her very young adopted baby again. And a video was shown on the big screen on the Council Chamber wall recognizing Carl Jacobson’s decades of service as the city’s mayor, mayor pro tem, council member, and in other capacities.

Deputy City Clerk Mona Shilling administered the oath of office to reelected City Clerk Tracy Weaver. She ran unopposed and easily won reelection. City Clerk Weaver then administered the oath of office to reelected City Treasurer Crista Binder who also ran unopposed and easily won reelection. City Clerk Weaver then administered the oath of office to newly elected City Council Members Drew Boyles, Carol Pirsztuk, and Don Brann, who then took their seats on the dais where each gave a brief speech.

Then it was time for the new City Council to choose the new mayor and mayor pro tem from among the Council members. I suspected there were two but not the necessary three votes (out of five) to choose Suzanne Fuentes for her second two-year term as mayor. I also suspected that three or four members of the new City Council, including Suzanne Fuentes, Mike Dugan, Carol Pirsztuk, and possibly Drew Boyles, wanted to be mayor and there might not be three votes for any of them. I was curious to see what would happen.

Councilman Don Brann started the process by quickly nominating Suzanne Fuentes for mayor. Fuentes just served a two-year term as mayor. Councilwoman Carol Pirsztuk nominated Councilman Mike Dugan. There was a vote for Fuentes, which failed with only two out of five votes, with Brann and Fuentes voting yes. Then there was a vote for Dugan, which also failed with only two out of five votes, with Pirsztuk and Dugan voting yes.

The Assistant City Attorney, who attended the meeting because City Attorney Mark Hensley could not attend, suggested that Suzanne Fuentes remain as mayor since there was no change of mayor as a result of the insufficient votes to choose a new mayor. There was a Council consensus to accept his recommendation and keep Fuentes as mayor.

Mayor Fuentes then nominated Councilman Don Brann for mayor pro tem. There was also a nomination for Councilman Drew Boyles for mayor pro tem. The vote for Brann failed with only two out of five votes, with Fuentes and Brann voting yes. Then there was a vote for Boyles, which passed.

Next, the City Council discussed agenda item L-8, requested by Mike Dugan and Carol Pirsztuk, to change to a rotating mayor and mayor pro tem with one-year terms from the traditional mayor and mayor pro tem selected by a vote of the new City Council after each city election, with two-year terms.

The Assistant City Attorney stated that the City Council could adopt an ordinance to implement that change if it so desired. He said the City Council could direct that an ordinance be drafted, that the item be studied further and brought back to City Council at a later date, or that it be tabled.

There was some discussion. Mayor Fuentes opposed the change. Mayor Pro Tem Boyles stated he originally thought it was a good idea, but after additional research, he is no longer sure and it would require further study. Don Brann had nothing to say on the agenda item.

Mike Dugan moved and Carol Pirsztuk seconded to direct the City Attorney to draft an ordinance to implement the proposed change and come back to City Council with it. The motion failed 2 to 3, with Dugan and Pirsztuk voting yes, and Fuentes, Boyles, and Brann voting no. The item was tabled.

Thus, for the next two years, the City of El Segundo’s mayor is Suzanne Fuentes and its mayor pro tem is Drew Boyles.

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Inherent Conflict of Interest – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Mike Robbins

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Mike

The following letter to the editor was published in the El Segundo Herald newspaper (HeraldPublications.com) on Thursday, April 21, 2016 in the Letters section on page 3. The El Segundo Herald has a strict 250-word limit, including the title.

Inherent Conflict of Interest

The Police Officers’ and Firefighters’ Associations (unions) bankrolled the Measure B tax-hike campaign. FPPC campaign disclosure forms show the police and fire unions spent an overwhelming $39,247.50 in our city election ($19,033.50 police, and $20,214.00 fire) to influence voters on Measure B and the City Council race.

This is nearly four times the $10,000 they contributed to the “Yes on Measure A” campaign in 2014, for eleven tax hikes, on residents and businesses. The fire union probably spent more than $100,000 on their Measure P campaign in 2012, to outsource our local Fire Department to Los Angeles County for a reduced level of service, for their own financial benefit.

None of the firefighters and only about one-fourth of the police live in town. They campaign in our local elections to maximize their pay and pensions, and raise taxes and fees to pay for it, no matter how excessive and unsustainable.

The latest available El Segundo City Employee compensation data, for 2014, at TransparentCalifornia.com, shows the 58 sworn police employees had the following total annual pay and benefits statistics: Minimum=$139,028; Maximum=$358,536; Average=$228,240; and Median (half above and half below)=$214,867.

The 44 sworn firefighter employees had the following total annual pay and benefits statistics: Minimum=$148,235; Maximum=$375,524; Average=$247,646; and Median=$225,882. The firefighters are paid to sleep and eat, including some of those hours at the overtime rate of 150% their regular pay rate.

The union campaigns have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with union greed.

– Mike Robbins

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Smear Campaign? – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Marianne Fong

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Mike

The following letter to the editor was published in the El Segundo Herald newspaper (HeraldPublications.com) on Thursday, April 21, 2016 in the Letters section on page 3. The El Segundo Herald has a strict 250-word limit, including the title.

Smear Campaign?

I would like to assure Marie Fellhauer’s campaign supporter, Jenica Brigham, that I do exist. I am not “the same person” as Mike Robbins as she claimed in her insulting 4/7/16 Herald letter. Brigham attacked me, Mike Robbins, and others with childish name-calling and other baseless personal attacks because we reminded voters of Fellhauer’s record on City Council. She used personal attacks because she could not disprove any of our facts about Fellhauer’s true record.

Brigham claimed the residents “think everything should be free.” In fact, we don’t want to be charged twice for the same things, such as $1,850+ fire department ambulance transport fees when taxes already pay for our fire department.

Brigham described herself as “a young woman”, apparently to attract young voters to vote for Fellhauer. But at age 38, she hardly qualifies as “a young woman”. By 38, you’d think she would have registered to vote. She is not even registered to vote in El Segundo, at least not as of 2014.

Another Fellhauer campaign supporter, Beth Schodorf, submitted a letter calling accurate descriptions of Fellhauer’s City Council record a “smear campaign”. Now who’s doing the smearing? Schodorf even defended Fellhauer by attacking Lou Kutil. That was a mistake. For many years Lou Kutil, an elderly resident himself, has volunteered his own time and money to drive elderly residents to their doctor appointments, wait for them, and drive them back home.

– Marianne Fong

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