Ventura County Star Reporter Timm Herdt has a great new blog post discussing the Governor's request for the legislature to limit how many bills they propose.

I was interested in what proposals our legislators have made so I followed the link in Timm Herdt's article.

I am interested in this bill by State Assembly Member Das Williams:

AB 389

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 389, as introduced, Williams. Private schools: employees.
Existing law requires every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school instruction on the elementary or high school level to require each applicant for employment in a position requiring contact with minor pupils who does not possess a valid California state teaching credential, or is not currently licensed by another state agency that requires a criminal record summary, to submit 2 sets of fingerprints to the Department of Justice for the purpose of obtaining a criminal record summary from the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
This bill would delete the exemption for applicants possessing a valid California state teaching credential or who are currently licensed by another state agency that requires a criminal record summary, from submitting 2 sets of fingerprints for the purpose of obtaining a criminal record summary from the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Das Williams, what prompted you to look into the fingerprinting requirement of private school teachers? Who brought this to your attention?

Readers: Go through the links on his blog post. Tell me what other bills you find interesting.

( A flash mob at a Buck McKeon phone bank. Who do you think organized it?)

The Los Angles Times is reporting that Organzing for America is mobilizing against Rep. Buck McKeon for his opposition to new gun safety legislation.

Do you think gun control will be a major issue in the midterm elections?

This is not exactly a political post. I just wanted to share this song.

I am writing some blog entries on who we should be watching in local politics. Only condition is that they are not currently an elected official. Post a comment or send me a message with suggestions.

Ventura County Star Reporter Timm Herdt has a great article on the 2014 governor's race. Click here to read it.

Sidenote: I don't like the word gubernatorial.

I went to the Simi Valley School Board meeting tonight to support fixing the calendar. Also on the agenda was the budget. The meeting got heated at moments and it was a standing room only crowd.

The big surprise was Dan White calling for the immediate removal of the superintendent. I am not sure if he has the support of any other school board members. Debbie Sandland and Rob Collins spoke out strongly against it. The other two did not address the issue directly enough to know their thoughts.

To read Dan White's open letter click here.

To read more updates from the meeting go to facebook.com/briandennerthere

I am home from the meeting. The Paul Harvey Super Bowl ad makes sense for the people that will be at the meeting late tonight.

If you are tired of negativity check out this new Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/SimiValleyCompliments

Thank you Alan Barkwill for setting it up.

Challenge: set one up for your community. If you do post a link here and I will share it.

After each election there are a few signs that people forget to remove. I post them here to remind people to remove their signs and because it is fun. It is not our duty to go and remove any signs we see for you. These signs are from the 2012 election.

Send in your pictures and I will post them. I will give you credit for your picture if you ask.

This home often keeps up their signs long after an election.

Simi Valley City Council candidate Mark Littleton cleaned up most of his signs. This one by the mall escaped his efforts.

Do you have pictures of old signs that have not been removed? Email them to me and I will post them.