It looks increasingly likely that California's Governor Gray Davis will be recalled and a special election will be held either this November or next March. Some 900,000 signatures are required for the recall to make its way to the ballot, and organizers claim to have more than 500,000 already -- with months to go before the September deadline. This is a good thing; no matter who replaces Davis it's sure to be an improvement.
Despite his 24%-27% approval rating, Davis isn't counting himself out yet. He's the dirtiest political fighter that I've ever seen, and he's coming up with some rather underhanded schemes to stay in office. He's in a tough position: if the recall petition gets the required number of signatures, then there is no way to prevent the recall from appearing on the next ballot. It's not a competition -- there's no "counter-petition" that could, given any number of signatures, prevent the recall from going to the ballot. And Davis knows that if the recall proposal is put to the people, 83%-86% of them will vote him out of office.
So what can he do? Well, apparently there are only a limited number of companies available to be hired to circulate petitions, and Davis is trying to hire them all so that the recall proponents can't use them. Hey, that's pretty sneaky! What's really unsettling, however, is that Davis is also circulating a pro-Davis "petition" and getting people to sign it by tricking them into thinking it's the recall petition.
"The Davis carriers ask people 'Have you had a chance to sign the Davis petition?' They leave the impression with people that they've signed the recall petition, so voters then decline to sign the real recall petition when it's offered to them because they think they've already signed," Costa complains. "I believe that's fraud. For sure it's gutter politics." ...Gray Davis is total scum. I could link to hundreds of different scandals he's been involved in, but here's five:Meanwhile, those who sign the "Davis petition" aren't really signing a petition, defined by Webster as "an entreaty" or "a request" for something. All the Davis document says is that signers don't want the recall.
Davis accepts kickbacks from Oracle.
Davis abuses Coastal Commission to do favors for friends.
Davis admits to questionable fund-raising practices.
Davis gives prison guards 30% raise in exchange for $2.6 million in campaign contributions.
Davis' advisors owned stock in companies California bought overpriced electricity from.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
GRAY DAVIS’S FAVORITE SEX PREDATOR, JOHN RODRIGUEZ, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, ANNOUNCES $1,000,000 AWARD TO LIBERTY HEALTHCARE TO SUPERVISE CHILD MOLESTER BRIAN DE VRIES
The following is a news release from the San Jose Mercury News on March 15, 2003.
Cost to watch sex offender: $1 million
PENNSYLVANIA FIRM MAKES DEAL TO SUPERVISE MOLESTER IN S.J.
By Sean Webby
Mercury News
Saturday, March 15, 2003
California will pay an estimated $1 million to set up a program expected to keep one sexually violent predator fed, clothed, housed, counseled and watched over in San Jose for the next year.
Most of the money will go to Pennsylvania-based Liberty Healthcare, which recently won a no-bid contract to create a supervised-release operation for California's sexually violent predator program. But at least at first, Liberty will have just one client: convicted child molester Brian De- Vries, who will soon be moved from Atascadero State Hospital to an as yet undisclosed San Jose location.
The state Department of Mental Health has already agreed to pay Liberty $264,000 for less than four months of work; Liberty is expected to get a yearlong contract in July. Officials declined to say how much that contract will cost, but agreed it would be ``reasonable'' to pro-rate the current contract over a whole fiscal year -- bringing the total to about $792,000.
Adding the labor costs of Department of Mental Health officials, the prosecutor and police will bring the total annual cost to about $1 million, department officials said.
``I don't disagree that we have tough financial times,'' said John Rodriguez, deputy director for the Department of Mental Health. ``But this is a public safety issue. And while it's expensive . . . it is justified with all the services provided.''
The department is not required to take competitive bids for the contract, officials said, and Liberty was the only company in the country they could find that was qualified and willing to take it on.
Rodriguez said much of the expense could be attributed to start-up costs for the fledgling state program. The mental health department has estimated that eventually the cost per offender will decrease to about $180,000 per year as more enter the program.
Department officials praised Liberty as well-qualified and experienced in the field of sex offender treatment and oversight.
Questions about firm
But Liberty does not have a spotless record. The company was probed less than three years ago by the state of Florida. The investigation determined that sex offenders in a Liberty-run center were having sex with each other; that staff members had not properly investigated an allegation of sexual harassment; and that one of the high-risk sex offenders had briefly escaped from the center when a man picked him up from the recreation yard in a helicopter.
California officials pointed out that Florida still contracts with Liberty to run a similar center.
Liberty was hired last week to create a supervised release program for California's entire sexually violent predator program, under which about 400 sex offenders whose criminal sentences are completed are incarcerated in a state mental hospital. Liberty will be in charge of a treatment team of therapists, medical doctors, lie detector and sexual arousal testers, and someone to monitor a global positioning system device to make sure DeVries stays within city limits and away from playgrounds and schools.
They are technically responsible for doing this in all 58 state counties. But, so far, only 44-year-old DeVries is scheduled for imminent release. Another man in Contra Costa County has also been ordered into the program, but the state is fighting his release.
The mental health department has estimated that there could be more than 1,000 sexually violent predators in custody in California by 2012, but there is no estimate of how many will end up in the release program. Very few are even close.
DeVries molested nine boys and had himself surgically castrated. His status under the program will be reviewed each year, after which he could be released unconditionally.
Earlier this year, Judge Robert Baines ordered him conditionally released. Sources have told the Mercury News that authorities have picked a residence somewhere along Monterey Highway. DeVries is required to be released in Santa Clara County, the last place he was convicted of molestation, and San Jose is the only city in the county equipped to monitor him, authorities said.
History of contract
Department of Mental Health officials said Liberty was chosen partly as a last resort, when in-state companies and other providers rejected the contract. When it learned a year and a half ago that De- Vries could be on the cusp of getting out of Atascadero, the department tried but could not contract with county and regional providers of sex offender treatment, Rodriguez said.
Negotiations with the Harper Medical Group -- a company that handles other conditional release programs for less serious offenders in Santa Clara County -- broke down over time lines and money, the state reported.
When Baines ordered De- Vries released in late February, the state had to scramble, Rodriguez said. So it hired Liberty, which had consulted with the state on its sex offender programs in the past.
No other out-of-state provider was interviewed, according to department officials, but they denied they had spent much more money than if there had been competition for the contract.
``There is nothing else out there,'' said Theresa Billeci, the department's chief of forensics. ``This is all cutting-edge. One day there will be competition, but that's a long way off.''
Connie Isaacs, executive director of the Association of Treatment of Sex Abusers, agreed that there are few companies willing or able to run large-scale outpatient programs for serial rapists or child molesters.
Liberty, one of the largest such companies in the United States, has a long history in the sex offender field. It runs programs in Illinois, Indiana and Florida. Its record is a good one with no major problems except for the Florida incidents, California officials said.
In Illinois, Liberty runs a conditional-release program similar to the one it is trying to set up in California. About seven people have been released from the state's civil commitment program into the year-old conditional release program there. None has offended again, officials said.
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Contact Sean Webby at swebby@sjmercury.com or (650) 688-7577.
John Rodriguez has a rather colorful background himself. He was demoted from Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Health Services in 1996 by Kim Belshe, Director of Department of Health Services while Pete Wilson was Governor because of his involvement in a large sexual harassment suit brought by three executive secretaries in the department. JR as Rodriguez is known was given a promotion by Gray Davis when he was elected Governor.
The secretaries who worked for the California Department of Health Services were subjected to a gross violation of their human rights. (One of these women was pregnant and encouraged to get an abortion by DHS management). The women were Sue Ann Gage, Rochelle Strasser, and Karen D. Gilson who were harassed over a three period, they threatened with termination of employment and given negative references when they tried to escape this hostile environment. I have read the court documents concerning this case and this was not a simple case of boss having an affair with his secretary, these women where passed around among Department of Health Services management for the purposes of providing sexual favors that coerced out of them. The major offenders were John Rodriguez who was Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Health Services and Joe Munso who was Deputy Director of Administration for the Department of Health Services.
Joe Munso had one former secretary perform fellatio on him while he stood with his back to the door so nobody would walk in on them.
The three women sued these creeps in Sacramento Superior Court No. 96-Aso 1521, November 8, 1996, Department 53. I have the court documents which are public record. The victims were paid hush money complements of the taxpayers of the State of California.
JR was also responsible for over one billion dollars $1,000,000,000 lost in the State Medi-Cal Program per the State Controller’s Audits. It was so bad that in October 1999 60 Minutes had a segment entitled KNEE DEEP IN FRAUD-CALIFORNIA MEDI-CAL.
I was an Analyst who designed the Accounts Receivable Audit System for the Drug Rebate Program a massive boondoggle. I was harassed out of State employment after over 19 years during which I had been an Auditor for the State Board of Equalization and the Franchise Tax Board. I have both a BA in Economics and a BS in Finance from CSUS along with a Computer Science (Networking) from UC Davis Extension.
Currently another former State Auditor Ana Ortega who was set up by JR for reporting Medi-Cal Fraud by having her wait after work in the Thompson Diggs Building when witnesses were gone for a Radio Flyers messenger who claimed that she threw the process papers in his face. She was fired the next day. The Radio Flyers messenger could never be located again. She lost her home through foreclosure like I did. The Davis regime and Bill Lockyer have been looking for every technically to can to throw her lawsuit.
These are excellent reasons to RECALL GRAY DAVIS NOW!
Sincerely,
Jack Bessler
jgbess@pacbell.net
(916) 422-6725
There is no doubt about the crimes that Davis and company done in California, but, Cali voters have only changed one scum for a beastman now...There just don't seem to be any choices as the scum is all the are running for public office everywhere...here is a link to some attrocities done under Grey "Pink" Davis:
http://nospank.net/cya.htm
It seems brutality and barbaritarism are a threat to us all these days....no one is safe esp. children.....the scum, like Davis and Arnie, are straight from hell...satan's clan.
John: I'm not sure why you're calling Arnold a "beastman" if not for his appearance, which doesn't seem to be a legitimate criticism to me. He's not a perfect governor, but he's a heck of a lot better than what we had.