THE TSI BLOG

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Public Issues Discussed For The Public's Benefit


The purpose of this Blog is to expose the secrets of our city that are known but to a few select Insiders and to illuminate corruption when found. What many people do not realize is that there are concrete harms that result from corruption; corruption is a direct threat to our democracy and our way of life. As citizens and taxpayers we must constantly be vigilant to protect ourselves from corrupted politicians and other "Insiders" who would do our community harm.

Shining the light on malfeasance, and the open exchange of information, is critical to fighting corruption.

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For if you kill me you will not easily find another like me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by the God; and the state is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the state and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. - Socrates

The Gadfly

Thursday
14May

Why Republicans Will Never Win...and other things.

 

 

In the world of politics, power and control, what you see is never what you get.

The Republicans are fully aware that they have been soundly whipped in the national, state and local political arenas; yet you have to give them some credit, they are paddling ferociously as they circle the drain.

My upcoming article will expose how the Republicans are deviously working at misleading the public. If they could, the GOP would follow AIG's lead by changing their name and rebrand themselves. Instead they will simply mislead the masses who are very unhappy with both parties. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book, a Trojan horse.

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Tuesday
12May

Tea Party Organizer Has Meltdown Over TSI Post.

Below is a response I received from Mark Meckler to TSI's recent post:  "Why Conservatives Will Never Win."

Mr. Meckler is the self proclaimed “National Coordinator, California Coordinator,  Sacramento - Organizer." With all of the titles, and being a practicing lawyer,  it’s a wonder he found the time to respond to my blog post;  I think his reply is LONGER than my post.

I am rather busy this week.. But I will find the time to fully respond to Mr. Meckler’s concerns and his use of legal terms like libel...

I obviously struck a nerve. Good, that was the intent of my post. Unfortunately, like I said...nothing will change.

Oh..and today, Politico.com announced that two Republican governors are organizing events called "Tea Party 2.0." Hmm, I guess I may have hit the nail on the head...

Read his reply below:

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Saturday
09May

Why Conservatives Will Never Win.

 

By Jim Knapp

Conservatives will never win because they can't organize, it's that simple. While they claim to be the "silent majority," they are silent for a good reason; they are unable to speak with a unified voice, or for a common cause. They ramble on about taxes, big government and social programs, yet nothing will change because they simply can’t organize, and much of their leadership cannot be honest with the public.

Take the Tea Party "movement," it evolved (only via heavy marketing by FOX news, despite vehement denials) in response to the largest political shift in American history, so they had their protests, FOX news doubled their ratings, then, nothing...zero...nada...

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Thursday
30Apr

David Taylor has corrutpted our Council?

Well after some public ranting and raving at the News & Review, it seems that my criticism on their lack of coverage of corruption in the City of Sacramento has paid off. SN&R has finally printed an article which exposes a sliver of the corruption in Sacramento. After three rather heated phone calls from the News & Review management & Cosmo Garvin, in which they denied going light on the City since they started taking subsidies from the Redevelopment agency, it appears that my prodding has made an impact. Below is an article that came out today in SN&R that exposes a sliver of the corruption in River City. My hats off to Cosmo, I hope he continues writing exposé’s on our town’s dirty little secrets.

In a scheme that I call campaign finance laundering, (the City calls it "business as usual") City Council members have been handing tens of millions of dollars of cash and tens of millions of dollars in free land, taken forcibly from others, to David Taylor, in what I can only describe as a payoff for campaign contributions.

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Wednesday
08Apr

We The People Stimulus Package

Monday
30Mar

Former FBI Agent Discusses Government Corruption

Monday
19Jan

Fargonians Drive 5-4 Council Vote

The power vacuum left when our city threw Heather Fargo out of office appears at least initially to be filled by Ray Tretheway. Ray Tree-the-way, a long time Fargo friend and supporter appears to be leading the opposition to change in Sacramento.

As I have projected for several months, the Fargo/Teacher/City Employee union crowd is angry and desperate to cling on to power after their figurehead was removed by the voters. Right now it appears that KJ will be in for a host of 5-4 votes on the council.

What was a bit surprising is that the first 5-4 vote was to perform an audit of the city by an independent outside auditing firm. From what I understand the audit would have been basically free to the City.

From the outside looking in, it appears that there are powerful forces at work who do no want to be audited.

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Monday
19Jan

Kevin Johnson on Larry King - Video Part 1

Finally Sacramento has a leader that has the national stage!