We promised to never do recipes on this site and we are not going to start. But, we do think that growing one’s own vegetables is spot on when it comes to saving money, especially during these tough, government taxing, pork ladened spending bill times.
Many on this site have planted or are going to be planting our Veg (pronounced vej. for you non-gradening types) gardens. With this in mind we are asking for our readers to let us know what they are planting this year and is they would be willing to trade with others that might have something they do not.
Experienced gardeners know the surprise of what six tomato and 8 zucchini plants can produce. Therefore, trading for those crook-neck squash your neighbor grew could actually help your pocketbook and leave the government penniless.
If you would like to hook up with other Gardner’s and begin the wonderful process of “co-oping”, then drop us a line at lahabrapost@gmail.com and we will help put together the lahabrapost-Veg Co-op.
Blogs run by Art Padroza (Orange Juice!) and Matt Cunningham (Red County) are going at it over the Fullerton Tax Revolt put together by Fullerton City Councilman Sean Nelson and KFI’s John & Ken.
Watching these two stalwart blogs deliver body shots to each other makes for some great reads. Orange Juice! alleges that Read the rest of this entry »
Orange County Supervisor, Chris Norby used this famous Ronald Reagan quote when he spoke to a throng of council members and other guests, during the ceremony celebrating the Supervisor’s generous monetary donation to open the La Habra Library on Fridays.
The intention was to get the city to tear down the wall surrounding the library patio. This is the infamous patio that the librarian refused to open up to the public…..for 50 years!
Our source tells us that a recent meeting with Jill Patterson (librarian), Sal Failla (Dir. Community Services), and Amir Mozayeny (La Habra Advocate), finally brought about a consensus about the need to remove the “wall.”
This is shocking! Consensus with an advocate! Whats next, dog and cats living together?
We applaud Amir, Sal, and Jill for putting down their knives and working towards agreement to have the wall removed.
As of course with all good news that emanates from deals with the government, there is a catch. A small $10,000 catch. It seems that the city must pay prevailing wage. This means that quotes from private contractors for $3,000 to demolish the wall cannot be used. Prevailing union wage will make the wall demo a $10,000 project.
This is were we begin to auger a hole in our skulls just to keep it from exploding.
We hope that some non-profit will step up to do the work and the city will donate the $3,000 to get the job done.
Well, just when we thought that life in La Habra could not get any stranger, along comes Octomom. We swear that those damn Quakers in Whittier musta worked some heavy mojo and got the “Uterus” to pack up and relocate to our happy little town.
What, with a lethal stabbing, a new sales tax increase soon to be applied, Lang Homes going belly up, foreclosure madness, we would have enough to think about. But noooooooo, we now have the Dr. Phil side show in town to take our attention away from the mundane council goings-on.
While this side show begins its next act, lets throw out some questions for you all to consider.
How much is this now going to cost the Orange County Tax Payer?
With the money Octomom is making, how can she qualify for aid from the county?
What is the cost going to be to La Habran’s as this media hungry woman begins to meltdown and call the P.D. like she did in Whittier?
Do we actually have the man power (or woman if you prefer) to cover additional shifts needed as this freak show begins to launch?
On a week day, our undercover homeless photo junkies took these shots of the media whores as they camped out in the very small cul-de-sac off of Madonna in La Habra
Now, before you get your burp rag all messed up, we don’t want to deny these children services. In fact, we believe they are Innocent victims of a unstable, narcissistic, mother who needs affirmation and money. Kinda like Bernie Madoff – but we digress. These children are not the attention of our anger, rather it is directed at the woman who has no means to support these children except from the nationwide controversy that surrounds her irresponsible behavior.
We will be posting more and we really want your thoughts, so post away.
On Saturday March 7, the John & Ken radio show aired live in Fullerton at the Slidebar. Actually, the Slidebar can’t hold anywhere near that many so it was in the parking lot, over 10,000 patriots showed up to protest the idiots at the state who passed the “Tax” budget. Read the rest of this entry »
After an extended vacation that was to end after the December holiday, the slap happy lunatics at this site are back and loaded with stories, photos and analysis of the goings on in this sleepy little town.
While we have been away, many things have happened. From the shooting of a grandma to Boy Scouts being cut-off during public comments at the city council meeting when they dared utter those blasphemous words (that are no-no’s) “Graffiti”.
Ah yes, the sounds of democracy flow through our veins during the springtime and we can’t wait to get at it. So, come back and view, rant, and post.
For Tim Shaw to project effective leadership, he will have to deal with the morass created by the City Manager and the Police Chief involved in the campaign material mailed to La Habra Voters after Measure-T was on the ballot.
Tim can show he is a strong advocate of the people by demanding accountability and by personally filing a request of the Fair Political Practices Commission to intrevene, investigate the facts and produce a ruling.
The city deserves to know if its employees have broken the law and are guilty of misappropriating funds for campaigning purposes. If Tim is really serious about being a true Republican that is concerned about better government, then how he proceeds will speak volumes about his commitment to honest government for the people. On the other hand, he may just flea flick it under the table and “go along to get along” as the new guy on the council.
Time will tell whether the citizens have gotten what they bargined for.
You have heard us talk about ‘trading integrity for political expediency’ before on this site, some of this year’s politicos were a perfect example of this.
Tim Shaw and Daren Nigsarian went for political expediency. Unfortunately, the voters did not get any mailers or newspaper ads alerting them to these two.
Sheer arrogance coupled with unlimited access to the public coffers, proves that the heavy fist of government in La Habra has once again delivered another heavy blow against her citizens. We have not seen such a blatant abuse of power by the government in this town, since the happy chain smoking days of fascist city manager Lee Risner.
Both the city manager, Don Hannah, and Chief Dennis Kies should be fired for their part in the blatant disregard for campaign laws, afterthe two marketing pieces sent out after Measure-T became an official ballot measure.
As for the city council that approved this entire charade, they should be forced, along with Hannah and Kies, to pay back the cost to the tax payers for those mailers. But not in this town. When you can spend a $140,000 to get $3,000,000 a year for twenty years, well, you ‘d do that deal all day! And that’s what they did.
We won’t know for a couple more days the exact total of money the city dumped into their illegal political campaign for Measure-T, but our estimates are over $75,000 and probably around $100,000. If you count the Yes On T committee expenditures of about $40,000 there was a whopping combined $140,000 poured into this taxing measure.
It will take a lawsuit before this city will ever change its ways.
After a long night of voter watch, the results are in and the City of La Habra can be proud that another election has passed and maybe half of the 26,000 registered voters voted. Here are the results:
What if the Measure-T passes? If this were to occur then oversight will be of the first order.
Making sure that who ever is in office is accountable and responsible for spending the funds for the next 20 years as promised is paramount. That no council will ever bond against these funds, thus depriving the right of the people to Read the rest of this entry »
We would like to take time out to thank you, our viewers, that have come by to visit. We have eclipsed 3,500 site visits in a very short time with huge daily numbers in the last week.
We appreciate you stopping by and hope you will keep doing so in the future.
After the 2008 election, this site will keep reporting and giving editorial insight into the decisions made by the city council no matter who sits in the seat.
With a couple of additions in the works, we feel that you will come to rely on this site for analysis of fiscal, planning, and redevelopment policy; Something lacking in the local papers.
Do not come looking for recipes or how to hear how the editor is out in her garden growing herbs for a natural cure for menopausal hot flashes. We all know where you can find that crap reporting but not here. We will continue to mine down to what is really going on and releasing it to you.
Now, go out and vote and remember when you vote, you are doing something that others in the world would die for the right to do. So exercise your right and vote.
O.K. folks, normally we don’t like to post e-mails that we get from viewers that can comment to a post. However, once in awhile we get a e-mail that just needs posting.
This came in a few days ago.
I find it funny that these 3 candidates Dobkin, Ortega, and Shapiro are against Measure T, But want to spend money for other programs. Not one of these candidates Dobkin, Ortega, and Shapiro have said how the will fund their lofty goals or find the money to do any thing. I also think some of the goals are great redoing downtown is a great idea, but again where are you going to get the money.
We are not aware of any programs that any of these candidates are promoting. Second, redoing downtown has been in the works for 50 years and has been the biggest waste of time, money and energy. Every time the city has gotten involved with “redoing” downtown, it looks worse and it costs the tax payers money – the city was sued by business’ of the last facade improvement that the city spearheaded. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re looking for information on the candidates in this town, you can click on VIDEOS in the menu bar and see Tim Shaw and Daren Nigsarian Read the rest of this entry »
A general tax, when passed by the people would require only a simple majority of those who vote. These monies would go into the general fund and can be used for anything the city council would like. Despite all of their promises to apply it towards police and streets, THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT.
Conversely, a specific tax would require a super-majority of those who voted, 2/3or 66%. The tax would then have to Read the rest of this entry »
Nigsarian has, on numerous occasions, either stretched the truth, contradicted himself or lied about never wanting to tax water. Well, he is stretching the truth about his 24 years as a LA County Sheriff Deputy.
In 1986 Nigsarian, according to his own web site, his friend states he graduated from Rio Hondo Police Academy in 1985 and has been a Sheriff’s Deputy for 24 years.
Our research shows that Nigsarian was a Marshal that worked at the Norwalk Superior Court, California. We have not been able to find Read the rest of this entry »
O.K., we know that we reported on this a few weeks ago and we also posted video of Nigsarian from the City Council interviews where he states his desire to tax the citizens of La Habra. However, now we have video of Nigsarian’s response to Candidate Shapiroaccusing him of wanting to tax water in the Video Link Below.
It is amazing to see Nigsarain lie with such ease when only a few months prior to the League of Women Voters forum he was giving careful, detailed explanations of why we need more taxes and how he would personally guarantee getting a hotel tax passed. AND WANTING TO TAX WATER AS A WAY TO GENERATE REVENUE!
Watch this video and immediately e-mail your friends cause this guy is lying before he even gets into office.
City Council Candidate Larry Dobkin got it right at last weeks council meeting when he accused the city of illegally campaigning for Measure-T and asking them if another mailer was coming out – of which he got no response.
This time, City Manager Hannah has recruited Police Chief Dennis Kies to be a party to this charade as a larger (8.5″x11″), more expensive 4 page color brochure arrived yesterday in the mail (Oct. 30) with Chief Kies giving a full accounting of the dangers if Measure-T does not pass.
He states that “..cuts will have to be implemented that may significantly impact public services.” Since when did the Police Chief decide about what is going to be cut in the P.D budget? At the Candidates Forum, Councilman Beamish and Espinoza both stated that they would not cut the PD’s Read the rest of this entry »
La Habra’s Politicians, those who feed at the trough of the taxpayer and other elitists, have finally come out of the closet and put their names on ballot Measure-T, the 20 year sales tax.
The mailers are replete with chalked out murder scenes with dangling and torn crime scene tape, followed by the fear mongering by line “You Never Want to Get This Call!” Of course, none of this will happen if you pass the 20 year sales tax.
The mailers are big, letter size color flyers that have come via the postman. Two received yesterday were interesting, to say the least. One of the flyers had the names of La Habra’s mostly elite endorsing the tax. And of course there is Lyle Parks , ultra wealthy contractor/developer of the Westridge retail center on Beach and Imperial Hwy., who endorse the sales tax. Along with a bunch of city employees and out of town real estate agents, The Doomis’s and a host of usual suspects that feed at the incestious trough of the city.
Keep watching as we get ready to post the pages of the those donors of the Yes on Measure
Another amazing item that we found, the Yes On Measure-T website (welovelh.com) has nobody endorsing the sales tax measure.
If you go to the site and try to click on the “Endorsements” link you will find it is not active. Why? Because none of the incumbents up for re-election, Rose Espinoza(D), Tom Beamish(R), and candidates Darren Nigsarian(D), Tim Shaw(R), will risk running on the tax for fear of losing.
While they all support the Sales Tax increase, they refuse to put their verbal commitments into print or on their individual web sites.
Come on you guys’ and gal. Be proud of your stance on raising taxes on your constituents during this country’s biggest economic crisis since the great depression. All of you are brilliantly articulate about why we need the tax when you speak to your supporters but you become very different when speaking to the public.
You can see Tim Shaw & Darren Nigsarian discussing why they are for the tax by clicking on the “Video” link in the Categories Box to the right side of this page.
These folks are covertly running on the tax while at the same time they are running away from it when it comes to their campaign material or speaking to the public.
When city council’s get a guaranteed revenue stream they usually want to realize the funds immediately by bonding against it. This will do two things; Thwart a recall of the measure after it is passed because bonds are tied to it and in-debt the taxpayers for years.
Our City Council can actually bond against the Tax once it passes. This would explain why the reported phone calls came from Boston, although they could come from N.Y., as there are plenty of bond companies that would have a stake in seeing a 20 year sales tax be passed in La Habra.
More food for thought for when we go to the polls next week.
We’ve had numerous e-mails complaining that telephone marketing from actual live callers, not automated computer calls, from the city of Boston, Mass. in support of Measure-T have been hiting homes in our city. Many angry voters have expressed their displeasure with folks from an extremely Liberal state, telling La Habran’s what would be best for them.
We can only surmise at this point, that the ”We Love La Habra – so taxes us hard and long group” will go to any lengths to drain us of our money.
If you go this link, “Socialist La Habran’s Who Know Whats Best For You” web site, you can see the idiots in action. The arguments are weak and promise everything if you only pass the tax. From Erectile Dysfunction to solving MassTransit Issues, the T-Tax will do it all.
We promised to never do recipes on this site and we are not going to start. But, we do think that growing one’s own vegetables is spot on when it comes to saving money, especially during these tough, government taxing, pork ladened spending bill times.
produce. Therefore, trading for those crook-neck squash your neighbor grew could actually help your pocketbook and leave the government penniless.
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Now, before you get your burp rag all messed up, we don’t want to deny these children services. In fact, we believe they are Innocent victims of a unstable, narcissistic, mother who needs affirmation and money. Kinda like Bernie Madoff – but we digress. These children are not the attention of our anger, rather it is directed at the woman who has no means to support these children except from the nationwide controversy that surrounds her irresponsible behavior.
On Saturday March 7, the 
grandma to 
O.K. folks, normally we don’t like to post e-mails that we get from viewers that can comment to a post. However, once in awhile we get a e-mail that just needs posting.
In 1986 Nigsarian, according to his own web site, his friend states he graduated from Rio Hondo Police Academy in 1985 and has been a Sheriff’s Deputy for 24 years.
It is amazing to see Nigsarain lie with such ease when only a few months prior to the League of Women Voters forum he was giving careful, detailed explanations of why we need more taxes and how he would personally guarantee getting a hotel tax passed. AND WANTING TO TAX WATER AS A WAY TO GENERATE REVENUE!
have expressed their displeasure with folks from an extremely Liberal state, telling La Habran’s what would be best for them.