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Monday, September 17, 2018, 7:23 pm | Randy Thomasson

Have you been frustrated by the DMV too?
I tried to save time by scheduling an appointment. I even chose a DMV office in a conservative town for their perceived efficiency and fewer crowds. And I got there early. But it still took more than an hour.
The computer terminal they had me stand at to fill out an application asked me if I intended to drive a “housecar or trailer” and showed me a drawing of a little teardrop camper. I thought, well I might rent a U-Haul trailer in the future, so I checked the box. But later I was told this option was only for trailers over forty feet long, and they had to manually correct my application. But why didn’t the computer tell me that or show me a long trailer instead?
When I finished the application, a confirmation code appeared on the screen. Just to be safe, I wrote it down. Later the person processing my documents she hoped I wrote down my confirmation code. I said it’s good that I wrote it down, but they need to post a note for people to do that and put post-it notes for them to write it out. The DMV lady said those were good ideas, but that she didn’t have the power to change anything.
The most frustrating thing for me was that, while completing the computer-based application, I was asked if I wanted to register to vote and was informed that the only way not to register to vote today was to check the box declaring that I wasn’t a U.S. citizen. Shocked, I still checked that box, since I was already registered to vote. Later, at the window with a live person, I say I AM a citizen and they corrected my application. How lame was this?
I should also mention the large walls above our heads and running the length of the entire, big room were completely blank. Is there any virtue in this? There were no signs directing people to the computers to fill out their applications. And there were no signs directing us where to go afterwards. Ironically, there were large TV screens running paid, DMV-approved commercials! So communication is important if advertisers say so and the DMV says so, but not if customers need something to be clear, instead of frustrating.
After standing in one DMV line to ask where I should go next, I walked over and stood in another line next to a refined, older woman. I complained about the DMV, then she did too. I told her if I were in charge, I’d reward the good staffers and fire the bad ones. She said she agreed, and we laughed about it, both knowing it’ll never happen.
There were several other errors and miscommunications that took place during my DMV visit:
The lack of good employee standards meant DMV staffer mistakes that I had to correct. Such as trying to charge me more than what my appointment was for.
I also saw employees wasting time for minutes on end, doing nothing, just playing with their smartphones.
Meanwhile, on the back wall, the large photograph of California’s top Democrat, Jerry Brown, saw everything but did nothing.
My visit to the DMV reminded me that putting the government in charge of something usually means substandard service. And if government employees can unionize, then the pro-union laws have a tendency of making government offices slow and self-serving. For example, the privately-run Federal Express exhibits efficiency that puts to shame the government-run DMV.
And just today, I was reminded that the ruling Democrat politicians and their DMV are thieves. When canceling my automobile insurance after finding a better deal elsewhere, I was informed that, upon cancellation, I was being charged a $2 “special purpose assessment.” When I complained, the insurance carrier explained, “This is a surcharge collected by the state of California… we do not have more explanation on this surcharge.” When I searched the California DMV website, I discovered what I suspected — it just another tax permitting the wasteful, Democrat-controlled government to take — via “nickel and dime” — more money from We the People.
All of this has added to why I’m voting YES on Proposition 6 this November to repeal the Democrat politicians’ 2017 unnecessary and corrupt gas tax and DMV fee hikes. Please join me in getting a righteous return of California families’ hard-earned money and sending a message to the ruling Democrats that we recognize and reject their thievery.
“[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.”
Noah Webster, “Schoolmaster to America” (1758-1843)
Tags: Randy Thomasson, SaveCalifornia.com Posted in Ballot, Democrats, Good Government, SaveCalifornia.com | Comments Off on My experience at the DMV
Thursday, August 16, 2018, 4:45 pm | Randy Thomasson

Wait, aren’t Democrats supposed to protect the weak and the vulnerable? No, the new Democrat agenda is to kill them off — at the beginning of life (abortion) and now to the elderly too (euthanasia).
On August 6, AB 282 expanding both “assisted suicide” (so-called voluntary death) and euthanasia (involuntary death) passed the California State Senate. Sold as a “correction” to the 2015 “assisted suicide” law, AB 282, by focusing on the existing Penal Code making it a felony to assist someone to commit suicide, illogically exempts from all prosecution the act of helping a “terminally ill” person commit suicide.
But this should not assure anyone, not even the so-called “terminally ill” who have lots of life and natural medicine opportunities left, Because under AB 282, with nothing to assure a person’s “choice” to die, selfish family members can order up the pills, even force you to “drink” them, avoid all prosecution, and still inherit money if they’re in your will. It’s the “perfect crime.”
I invite you to read my August 16 interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN News). In it, I explain why AB 282, as well as the first “assisted suicide” law from 2015, is so wrong and harmful, and why it’s a severe threat to the weak and vulnerable.
In the 40-member State Senate, all 25 Democrats voted yes, while 9 Republicans voted no and 5 others did not vote: Noes: Bates, Chang, Gaines, Moorlach, Morrell, Nguyen, Stone, Vidak, Wilk; No Votes Recorded: Anderson, Berryhill, Cannella, Fuller, Nielsen. AB 282 now returns to the Assembly for a “concurrence vote” by August 31.
In 2015, Democrat politicians in Sacramento first legalized “assisted suicide.” There’s no requirement for a witness at death, and no requirement to self-administer. What’s more, it permits forgery of a final attestation form and a false cause of death on a death certificate.
What’s going on today:
Now, the Democrat politicians are pushing AB 282 (authored by Jones-Sawyer). This new bill would:
» Exempt from criminal prosecution “aiding, advising, or encouraging” physician-assisted suicide. In other words, a bad doctor or nurse can pressure you to die.
» Allow someone who could financially benefit from your death to actually sign an order giving you suicide pills. This allows murder for profit.
Think about what a terrible message this sends to teenagers and young adults. While the law focuses on the so-called “terminally ill,” it also sends an an unmistakable signal that if you’re depressed, suicide is the “answer.”
The vital issue of “assisted suicide” is still in California courts. The 2015 bill was rightly ruled unconstitutional; however, that ruling is “stayed” (so it’s not in effect right now) while the case is being appealed by California’s pro-suicide Attorney General, Xavier Becerra.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION
Call your California state assemblymember and Governor Jerry Brown.
Calling your assemblymember: 1) Click here, then enter your voter registration address, then click the “Locate” button. 2) Then your state assemblymember and state senator information will display. 3) Click your assemblymember’s name. 4) On his or her web page, find “Contact” in order to see phone numbers.
When you call or leave a voicemail, just say: “AB 282 allows murder for profit by permitting a person who could financially benefit from a patient’s death to request a lethal dose of drugs. Oppose AB 282, which creates ‘the perfect crime.'”
Leave the same message for Governor Jerry Brown, including your conclusion, “Please veto AB 282.” Call 916-445-2841, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Posted in SaveCalifornia.com | Comments Off on The Democrat politicians’ death wish for the weak and vulnerable
Thursday, June 28, 2018, 6:27 pm | Randy Thomasson

If you’re sick and tired of the Democrat rulers of California trying to ban or punish any moral values they disagree with, here’s some real hope for you.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s big decision recognizing the First Amendment right of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to NOT be forced to promote values that they oppose (e.g., killing preborn babies via abortion) has set a key precedent for the protected speech of other organizations and business owners with moral values.
As the pro-family legal organization Liberty Counsel notes (quoting from the June 26 opinion in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra):
This case will also have an impact on laws that seek to ban counsel for unwanted same-sex attractions, behavior, or identity (SOCE). The opinion explicitly adopts the arguments Liberty Counsel has made all along in SOCE cases, which is that “professional speech” cannot be exempted as some “new category of speech.”
The opinion states: “The dangers associated with content-based regulations of speech are also present in the context of professional speech. As with other kinds of speech, regulating the content of professionals’ speech pose[s] the inherent risk that the Government seeks not to advance a legitimate regulatory goal, but to suppress unpopular ideas or information… Take medicine, for example. ‘Doctors help patients make deeply personal decisions, and their candor is crucial.’ Throughout history, governments have ‘manipulat[ed] the content of doctor-patient discourse’ to increase state power and suppress minorities.'”Justice Thomas notes that professional disagreements about the efficacy of professional services cannot be used to suppress speech.
Therefore, have hope! As you know, AB 2943 banning the free speech of counselors, ministries, churches that help people overcome unwanted homosexual or transsexual desires is advancing through the Democrat-controlled California State Legislature. These Democrat politicians don’t care about your basic liberties — they just do the bidding of their tyrannical special-interest supporters (“LGBT’ groups, Planned Parenthood abortionists, etc.)
So even though it’s probable that the Democrat rulers of California will pass AB 2943, it’s also highly probable that the right lawsuit or lawsuits could use National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra to win a future U.S. Supreme Court victory that broadly protects moral speech in America. A success here would not only strike down AB 2943, thus protecting counselors who help adults overcome homosexuality or transsexuality, but would also affirm the right of counselors to help minors who struggle with homosexuality or transsexuality (which Governor Jerry Brown and the Democrats banned in 2012).
This is why I’m asking you to use the White House web form to send a strong message to President Donald Trump. Urge him to “Nominate a strict constructionist and originalist like Neil Gorsuch who will be loyal to the written Constitution, not loyal to their feelings or liberal revisionism like the four leftists currently on the high court. And please don’t nominate William Pryor, who has been inconsistent and even unconstitutional in his rulings.”
“..on every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was past.”
Tags: Children, Randy Thomasson, SaveAmerica.com, SaveCalifornia.com Posted in Abortion, America, California Bills, California Legislature, Children, Churches, Culture, Democrats, Homosexuality, Jerry Brown, Judges, LGBT, Parenting, Religious Freedom, SaveCalifornia.com, Transsexuality | Comments Off on Ruling on pro-life centers could also stop AB 2943
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