Fundraising For The Church.

After perusing Jon Ortiz' State Worker blog (Click Here), I discovered that robbing the elderly by allowing the reduction of their, current, retirement benefits is not Mr. McCauley's first foray into the body politic.

Paul McCauley, with all the zest of any religious zealot, has several initiatives, one of which, if enacted, will create one of the largest transfers of wealth in California's history, from the California taxpayer, directly to, what is being referred to with increasing frequency as, the "Church of Global Warming". Merely Google "Church of Global Warming" to find out more.

First, as has been previously discussed on this blog, is his plan to open the door for confiscation of the, current, benefits of California's retirees for the purpose of funding benefits for his Global Warming Alarmist parishioners. Now, lets examine his other initiative whose beneficiary will, similarly, be his Parish.

The "McCauley-Rooker Wealth Tax and Oceans Preservation Act" will initiate massive tax increases in California to fund his Global Warming Religion:

Click Here for the document.

Some excellent commentary is to be found by Clicking Here.

Clearly Mr. McCauley's "Church of Global Warming" has an appetite that is so voracious that it is prepared to consume, in their turn, every catagory of California's citizenship with the confiscation of their assets for purposes that will, not only support and expand the Church doctrine, but may very well get Mr. McCauley a ride on Al Gore's private, fuel guzzling, jet.

The Church of Global Warming seems to be a beneficiary which is common to Mr. McCauley's initiatives, whether it is leaving the elderly destitute or chasing money out of the state, Mr. McCauley is one of the churches most dedicated fundraisers.

The question that each and every California citizen must now ask is, "When will YOU be in Mr. McCauley's cross hairs?"

Mr. McCauley has provided the following contact information:

Paul McCauley, CPA
1640 5th Street, #214
Santa Monica, CA 90401-3309

Tel: (310) 230-5418
Fax: (310) 458-1026
Email: pmcca28169@aol.com

Paul McCauley's Secret Agenda.

With his pholosophy of, "Whatever it takes to get the job done.", Paul McCauley has, seemingly, revealed his true motivation, for either his incompetence or deception, in attempting to amend the California Constitution through the Initiative process.

Within the last sentence of Mr. McCauley's, ill conceived, proposal is an insight into Mr. McCauley's true agenda. In his final statement, " . . as well as to make an urgent response to global warming effects on the environment.", Mr. McCauley exposes himself as a Deacon in the Church of Global Warming and he wants to sacrifice the elderly and their current pensions on its altar.

My reasoning for this presumption is simple. This stipulation is, completely, out of place when compared with the other purposes which Mr. McCauley has embraced in his initiative. As any purveyor of Sesame Street can attest, the game of "One of these things is not like the other things.", a game which encouraged children to make critical comparisons to determine which, among several items, is out of place, has come into play as Mr. McCauley's "sore thumb".

While Mr. McCauley attempts to take the moral high ground for his robbery of the elderly, his support of global warming issues, and his willingness to put the elderly out in the cold for their support, has been obfuscated but not lost in his rhetoric.

Global Warming (or climate change as it is now being called, due to the confusion among its proponents) is still controversial and there is NO consensus in the scientific community regarding its reality. More controversial still is the notion that climate change is being caused by human activities, and a substantial number of prominent scientists dispute the philosophy that global warming (climate change) is caused by anything other than natural occurrances within our world and our universe.

Mr. McCauley wishes to stir up the fervor of Californians, through deception, regarding economic issues to force the elderly, through reduced pension benefits, to, involuntarily, support his political causes of Global Warming/Climate Change.

Once again, Mr. McCauley's contact information, as listed in his state filings, is:

Paul McCauley, CPA
1640 5th Street, #214
Santa Monica, CA 90401-3309

Tel: (310) 230-5418
Fax: (310) 458-1026
Email: pmcca28169@aol.com

Paul McCauley and Sloppy Work.

On Jon Ortiz' State Worker blog, which can be accessed by clicking here, is an email from Mr. McCauley in which he expresses his desire, through his proposed amendment, to modify annuities for retirees that are paid, annually, over $100k:

"As the economy tanks and an increasing number of people lose their jobs, their homes, their 0D 401(k)'s etc., their sympathy for a public employee who believes that he/she has an entitlement to retire on a $100,000 pension will wane."

However, Mr. McCauley has, certainly, NOT done his homework on this figure. As reported by CALPers, in their January, 2009, report, which can be accessed by clicking here, the summary of average annual retiree benefits are as follows:

Average monthly service retirement allowance all retirees: $1,985 X 12 = an annual benefit of $23,820.00

Average monthly service retirement for school miscellaneous members: $1,079 X 12 = an annual benefit of $12,948.00

Average monthly service retirement for State members: $2,291 X 12 = an annual benefit of $27,492.00

Mr. McCauly is, therefore, either (1) misinformed as to these recipients of these monumentally high annuities or (2) he is conducting a campaign of misinformation to further his political agenda. While it is arguable that there may be a few annuitants who draw in excess of $100k as Mr. McCauley asserts, the figures show that they are far from the mainstream CALPers retiree and, in fact, represent a very small fraction of all retirees.

Mr. McCauley's profession is that of a Certified Public Accountant or, in contemporary parlance, a bean counter. His stock and trade is precision in numbers and extracting an accurate bottom line from information that he has determined to be accurate. His foray into the political arena with this, ill conceived, initiative is inconsistent with his training and ethical standards of professional meticulousness. His measure, cited below, is the political equivalent of "fuzzy math" in the accounting world, a concept for which there is no place.

Mr. McCauley states that he is targeting retirees making $100k+ annually, however, this figure is nowhere to be found in his initiative. It, simply, lumps all retirees into the same pen for slaughter, regardless of their annual income.

When measured against his statement of intent, this means either one of two things:

1. Mr. McCauley has, incompetently, formulated an inexact initiative which is not that which he intended.

2. Mr. McCauley is conducting a campaign of misinformation to deceive California, thereby bolstering his own political aspirations.

The disparity between what Mr. McCauley says and what he does is not reconciled in his initiative.

Neither of these scenarios bode well for Mr. McCauley's clientelle, who pay for competence, accuracy and integrity in a CPA. These qualities are a Certified Public Accountant's stock in trade and should be as much a part of Mr. McCauley's political life as it is a part of his professional life and, if lacking in his political life, who is to say that these qualities are present in his professional life?

Perhaps the solution for California's financial ills lies more in the auditing of Mr. McCauley's clientelle by California's taxing agencies to see for themselves if, in fact, any of his political deficiencies have rubbed off into his professional life.

I do not assert that Mr. McCauley may be "cooking the books" for his clientelle, only that elements of his political life may be bleeding into his professional life.

I am The Blogger.

This is the amendment. the added language is offset by asterisks.



SECTION 3. CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1, SEC. 9 is amended to read:

SEC. 9. A bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts may not be passed, *except that public-employee pension contracts may be renegotiated, including reducing vested benefits for existing and prospective retirees, for the limited purposes enumerated hereinafter.*

*1. To enable the state government, local governments and taxing districts to meet the essential public services of fire and police protection, public health, education and prisons.*

*2. To enable California and its political subdivisions to meet long-term public investment needs to provide for fire and police protection, public health, education, prisons, transportation and energy needs as well as to make an urgent response to global warming effects on the environment.*

Paul McCauley and Elder Abuse.

Paul McCauley and Elder Abuse.

Many years ago, the People of the State of California saw fit to pass laws outlawing Elder Abuse, doing so with good reason.

In a heroic effort to protect some of California's most vulnerable citizens, the California Legislature decided to take action and enact laws to protect our elder residents against abuse by younger and stronger predators. Now, enters Paul McCauley, replete with Gerontophobia, who threatens to, quite literally, take the food out of the mouths and I.V.s out of the arms of the elderly in California, all in a time when these old folks should be enjoying their Golden Years.

Currently, the California Constitution prohibits the abrogation of existing contractual obligations of California. The initiative proposed by Mr. McCauley, and approved for the petitioning process, would add one, narrow exception. All "existing and prospective retirees" who are beneficiaries of "public employee pension contracts" would be subject to have these contracts abrogated through renegotiation, a renegotiation which is prohibited in all other State obligations.

Clearly, the targeting of politically powerless retirees, living on a vastly reduced income, too old to begin another career to make up for the monetary loss that Mr. McCauley proposes, is tantamount to Elder Abuse. Clearly this mean spirited measure will facilitate some secret agenda while robbing the elderly of a decent retirement.

When coupled with current efforts for California to pass an Assisted Suicide bill, Mr McCauley's dark vision, for California's retirees, is clear. In the movie, Soylent Green, the disillusioned elderly, could check into suicide centers called "Home" and self administer a poison to, slowly, die and become one less statistic in an overburdened, surplus population. From there, they were processed into a foodstuff known as Soylent Green for consumption by the existing population.

The fact that Mr. McCauley will feed on the misery of the elderly is obvious since he is expending so much effort to do so, the only remaining question is the form of the feast.

The Secretary of State's tracking number for this measure is 1350 and the Attorney General's tracking number is 08-0018.

Mr. McCauley's contact information, as listed on his filing with the Attorney General's Office is:


Paul McCauley, CPA
1640 5th Street, #214
Santa Monica, CA 90401-3309

Tel: (310) 230-5418
Fax: (310) 458-1026
Email: pmcca28169@aol.com

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News Release by Calif. Secretary of State Debra Brown
DB09:002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Kate Folmar
January 21, 2009
(916) 653-6575


Public Employee Pension
Contracts Initiative Enters Circulation
Renegotiation of Public Employee Pension
Contracts. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

SACRAMENTO: Secretary of State Debra Bowen today announced that the proponent of a new initiative may begin collecting petition signatures for his measure.

The Attorney General prepares the legal title and summary that is required to appear on initiative petitions. When the official language is complete, the Attorney General forwards it to the proponent and to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State then provides calendar deadlines to the proponent and to county elections officials, and the initiative may be circulated for signatures. The Attorney General’s official title and summary for the measure is as follows:

RENEGOTIATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PENSION CONTRACTS.
INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

Eliminates certain state constitutional restrictions on renegotiating public employee pension contracts. Allows vested pension benefits to be reduced for existing and prospective public-sector retirees. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Possible reduction in pension costs for state and local governments, depending on future actions by state and local governments and courts. Any such reduction likely would be largely or entirely offset by negotiated increases in other costs, such as employee salaries and wages. (08-0018.)

The Secretary of State's tracking number for this measure is 1350 and the Attorney General's tracking number is 08-0018.

The proponent for this measure, Paul McCauley, must collect signatures of 694,354 registered voters – the number equal to 8% of the total votes cast for governor in the 2006 gubernatorial election – in order to qualify it for the ballot. The proponent has 150 days to circulate petitions for this measure, meaning the signatures must be collected by June 22, 2009. The initiative proponent can be reached at pmcca28169@aol.com. No phone number was provided.