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Darth Walrus posted:So, y'all anonymously tipped local newspapers about this yet? i did pass this to my friend who works for Samantha Bee. It made sense at 2 am
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I just discovered this thread, and I'm not at all sure what I expected, but those expectations were vastly exceeded. 
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unintentionally or not, this conspiracy has revealed to me the existence of bar 41 in Oakland. it looks like a decent place that I should check out
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marmot25 posted:unintentionally or not, this conspiracy has revealed to me the existence of bar 41 in Oakland. it looks like a decent place that I should check out this is just a marketing stunt isn't it
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Victory Position posted:okay I've got to know more about this, these firefighters have like 2+ hour commutes to the Bay Area already the bay area is one of the last bastions of large scale organized crime, it's just instead of running street prostitutes and extracting rents from business owners, it's all about getting blackmail on people and maybe occasionally assassinating someone
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it's a big loving inside joke about getting hammered!
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Victory Position posted:okay I've got to know more about this, these firefighters have like 2+ hour commutes to the Bay Area already https://www.gq.com/story/san-francisco-is-burning i dont think the firefights are involved with the arsons but its the only mental connection i could make between the firefighters and the assessor's office until someone posted the stuff about the unions
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yea, firefighters equal a union which comes with a pension. pension boards loving love real estate, especially mini-malls and poo poo. whoever controls that pension fund is pro phong, anti-jim and frankly, a bad american. great guy to have on a pension board though.
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Larry Parrish posted:the bay area is one of the last bastions of large scale organized crime, it's just instead of running street prostitutes and extracting rents from business owners, it's all about getting blackmail on people and maybe occasionally assassinating someone wasn't there something about this crime ring and the construction of Little Saigon over in San Jose? this is ringing a very faint bell for some reason
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Oct 30, 2018 01:01
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When this thread hits 41 pages you’re going to see some serious poo poo
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Woof Blitzer posted:When this thread hits 41 pages you’re going to see some serious poo poo Cu James Bone, 41, found dead outside his home, after a tragic gasoline can accident firefighters were on the scene in minutes, but were unable to save him
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Oct 30, 2018 03:09
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he wants to audit Tesla? Maybe it's the big three funding him
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lol this thread rules
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Oct 30, 2018 14:20
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I hope someone notified the county comptroller and local constabulary?
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I'm not sure how much IT experience you'll need to be a county assessor, but seems a bit douchy to just add qualifications one can do, but is maybe not needed. Jim Johnsen - Can skin a deer calf in under 20 minutes Phon La - No reported deer calf skinning experience
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Darth Walrus posted:So, y'all anonymously tipped local newspapers about this yet? Rustybear posted:What do all the 41 donations sum to? the totals were easy because the paper submissions total the sums-to-date, and even keep loans separate, so it's just a matter of taking the latest one and adding any subsequent e-filings but for individual donations, I'd have to go through them one-by-one and cross-check the e-filings against the paper donations– some of the donors made multiple donations of the same amount, which I can tell because they were made on different dates, but when there's two entries of the same amount by the same donor on the same date, one by paper and one by e-filing, it's hard to tell if it's actually two donations or if it's just the same one reported twice. I think I'd have to check it against the difference between the total and the sum of all the other donations? the database website said you can download them all in an excel file, but I just got a garbled row of variable names if anybody knows more about spreadsheets and wants to see if maybe I'm missing something simple, or you also have a brain problem and want to do the math yourself (or check my work; I repeat that I am not an expert), you can get to the same information I did by going to acvote.org, opening the candidates menu, clicking campaign finance, then "get started now" under the public access portal, then putting the candidates' names in "search by name". I'd just post a link, but the session urls expire or something idk also, this is dumb, but there's at least one donation ending in 82, which... does that count? was that a coincidence, or did they donate *41 twice? if they did it three times it'd end in 23. I have alerted jim carrey just in case
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Cum 41
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are they zombie donations, like that 'save walter' scheme from breaking bad?
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well I've reached out to a scattershot of news tiplines, including local papers, college papers, and the local fox, nbc, cbs, and abc affiliates here's hoping that this will get picked up by somebody who actually knows what they're doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjvTXdSkIts I don't think anything else funny is going to happen, but thanks for being cool in my thread, everybody
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oh also I passed this by a friend, and he mentioned the $41 might have been one of those deals where you attend a fundraiser dinner, and they add the cost per plate to your donation which kind of made me feel like a dope, because it sounds extremely plausible but I don't think it holds water, because the donations were made on too many disparate dates. still, figured I'd mention it. 
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Cubone posted:oh also Fake news, 41 is an ancient sign of the Freemasons (Illuminati).
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Irrespective, please post the results here. Good thread.
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Cubone posted:well rip cubone, soon to be murdered we will remember you as a key Something Awful Investigative Journalist, which is a list that has a surprisingly increasingly nonzero number of names on it 
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This seems sort of related? https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1058116791170416641
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no thats just the continued privatization of our schools
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Nov 1, 2018 23:06
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ah. Thats more money than was spent in the UK 2017 general election lol
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yeah america owns
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Jose posted:ah. Thats more money than was spent in the UK 2017 general election lol lol
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Jose posted:This seems sort of related? this is one I think people know about if they're paying attention but yeah same basic deal Thurmond is such a stereotype and he doesn't even know it these guys who spend their entire lives playing by the rules and working within the system, and they tell us that "I know things are bad... but we've gotten some of the reasons it got bad out of the way! and I know we can weather this storm if we keep this ship sailing in the right direction! I can't promise miracles, but I know we can't afford to give in to these foolish temptations to make things worse, and I trust you all are smart enough to see that. just, please: let me be the level-headed captain who'll faithfully stay at the helm, and I promise that I'll never falter" and it's not that people don't believe him, it's that they're running out of patience for the somber, plodding march of incremental improvement that he represents and then spuds diamondback, recently retired ceo of the "sink the entire loving ship and sell it for scrap" company gets helicoptered in and he's like "hibbity dibbity zow!!!! this ship is all hosed up!!!!!!!!! remember it wasn't?? we should break pieces off of it to build a life raft just for me and you!!!! YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND!!!!!!!" and then I'm like "oh my god.... people are going to vote for this guy poo poo. oh crap oh gently caress oh no" and th earth keeps turning Raskolnikov38 posted:yeah america owns
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Jose posted:ah. Thats more money than was spent in the UK 2017 general election lol Did that include an administrator of public instruction? I didn’t think so.
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Jose posted:ah. Thats more money than was spent in the UK 2017 general election lol pussy assed empire
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im pretty sure i left the jim "jimmy" johnson vs phong "leland yee" la race on my ballot blank because i couldnt figure out a single difference between them. if only i had dug deeper or found this thread. i wish your continued assessing of this race the best op
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Just a heads up for anyone who doesn't live in CA, the Assessor is actually a pretty powerful position for one reason (which was glossed on a little bit here): They have the ability to decide your property taxes based on the market reduction in your real estate value. Ok, time. Why is this a big deal? Especially in CA? Oh, well there's this interesting Proposition that's been popping up: https://la.curbed.com/2018/10/18/17851036/proposition-10-california-election-costa-hawkins quote:Proposition 10 would give cities the ability to expand rent control, including potentially to more buildings. It would do that by repealing the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a state law that limits how cities can apply rent control. What does this have to do with the Assessor and market reduction? The previous law allowed you to raise rent based on "fair market value", meaning if enough people next to you raised it you could, too. This led to basically a silent price fixing scheme, and no joke, actual algorithms built to decide how much your lease would cost updated daily. Alameda county in particular has insane rent costs. Going a bit further, an Assessor is the person you go to to lower your property taxes, say if you've suddenly lost potential income because of a popular Prop that's likely going to win. Here's another interesting tidbit on why real estate may be heavily invested in this race: http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/_templates_portal/Service.aspx?id=2147534591 quote:Proposition 8 Imagine you're a real estate group and you know that there's a massive housing bubble forming. You're going to want a friendly Assessor who will assess your property a the lowest possible rate. There is no question the housing market here is in trouble. With the new Rent Control Prop and the bubble looking to burst, they want a guy with little experience who they can push around and basically bribe to save a ton of money after screwing over homeowners and tenants for decades. Oh and just a heads up, if you're an individual homeowner, good look getting the Assessor to come out and value your property before tax season. But you're a group of real estate/property owners who gave a bunch of money to the candidate? What day works best for you?
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if I was in a position to do so I'd definitely donate large amounts of money to a candidate who promised to audit tesla, but i don't think this position is capable of such an act
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Cubone posted:this is one I think people know about if they're paying attention but yeah same basic deal This should probably be the first page of a high school textbook, except with illustrations so that America's future voters will be able to internalize it.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:yeah america owns im starting to wonder if any money in america actually goes to something productive or if the entire country is now a scam
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