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As California continues to dig itself deeper into debt, and Friday’s IOU-honoring deadline by a number of the country’s largest financial institutions looms, a group of legislative committee heads are converging on the floors of the Senate and Assembly this week to discuss pornography.
With the future of California’s welfare and low-income health services still in question, continuing cuts to education and in-home support assistance for the elderly–not to mention a deficit now projected at $26 billion– Assembly Bill 847 has managed to reach agenda status. The bill, which requires a two-thirds vote from the legislature and would introduce a tax to adult entertainment retailers, is an effort at increasing state revenue and tidying up areas where these establishments exist.
Meanwhile, five days have now past since State Controller John Chiang’s office began issuing IOUs to various contractors as a result of California’s mounting deficit.

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Calif.’s 20% Porn Tax Proposal Shot Down in Committee
Tue, Jul 07 2009 08:30am PDT
SACRAMENTO — A California bill that would have imposed a 20 percent tax on sales of adult movies and sex toys, as well as the receipts of strip clubs, has been voted down by a legislative panel.
Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Diane Duke, who had traveled Monday to Sacramento for the hearing, told XBIZ that she and FSC Lobbyist Ignacio Hernandez, as well as a representative from the Motion Picture Association of America, had testified in opposition of Assembly Bill 847.
Later Monday, the bill was voted down in the Assembly Tax and Revenue Committee.
“Read my lips — no new taxes on adult entertainment,” Duke said.
California Assemblywoman Mary Salas, D-San Diego, sponsored the proposal, which would have sent revenue from the tax to a newly created Adult Venue Impact Fund.

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A Solano County Superior Court jury on Monday found a Vacaville man guilty of multiple felonies in connection with what police believe was a bizarre prostitution scam.
Returning their verdict Monday afternoon before visiting Superior Court Judge Gregory Caskey, jurors found 24-year-old Sean Grant guilty of pimping, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment and inflicting corporal injury on a co-habitant. In addition, the jury ruled that Grant was not guilty on one count of trying to dissuade a witness from testifying.
Following the verdict, Judge Caskey scheduled 8:30 a.m. Aug. 10 for judgment and sentencing in the matter.
Grant was arrested in March after a report that he had beaten a 23-year-old woman.

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Elk Grove, CA – Ben Findlebaum, a concerned parent in Elk Grove, California, has been busy all night selling the Crystal Defanti sex video online. Crystal Defanti is a digitally challenged 5th grade teacher who mistakenly gave her students a DVD of her ‘private moments at home’.
So far Mr. Findlebaum has collected over $3 million in revenues, all of which he intends to turn over to Governor Shwarzenneger in order to stem the tide of debt owed by the State of California to its creditors.
Said Governor Shwarzenneger, “..I’m quite shocked at the amount of money but do we really want to be pimping our teachers in order to cover our budget deficits? I think not.”
However many California business leaders, specifically in the entertainment industry, disagree, stating that they have been pimping on behalf of the government for years and no one in the government has complained about it yet.

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Down an alley off a backstreet in Wapping is one of Victorian London’s architectural gems. Behind five early-18th-century houses that form its foyer is Wilton’s, the world’s oldest surviving pub music hall. Built in 1859, it was the only building in the area to survive the Blitz.
It has a rich history. It was a pub-cum-music-hall (and probably a brothel, too) for 20 years, famous as the home of Champagne Charlie and the risqué can-can. Then it became a Methodist mission hall, a safe house for protesters against Mosley’s Blackshirts, and finally a sorting house for rags. John Betjeman led a campaign to save it from demolition in the Sixties, and, in 1997, it was reinvented as a performing space by Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw, who re-launched it with an unforgettable version of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land.

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In recent weeks, the state Senate has been the scene of political mayhem caused by the sudden defection of two Democratic lawmakers who threw control of the chamber to the GOP. One of the party-switching legislators has since returned to the Democratic fold, but that has left the Senate evenly divided — a recipe for gridlock. Paterson has been trying to force both sides into an extraordinary session, even asking the state Supreme Court to intervene. But so far, the senators have come no closer to settling their differences.
Paterson hasn’t done much to help himself. Shortly after taking over for Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who became embroiled in a prostitution scandal, Paterson publicly admitted to his own extramarital affair. He was also criticized for his clumsy handling of the process to appoint a replacement for Hillary Clinton in the United States Senate. He chose a little-known upstate congresswoman, Kirsten Gillibrand, to fill the seat, after a tumultuous period of public sniping with Caroline Kennedy, who also sought the position.

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How foolish to think that fans are happier when their team wins as opposed to when their stadium vendors offer family packages that include nachos, corn dogs and soda. Perhaps if Al Davis were to put a pirate ship in the Black Hole or had a mountain with cascading waterfalls in the parking lot – as the top ranked Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim do – then he would see happier fans in the stands.
I guess all those years when Cowboy fans were showing up to that dump of a stadium to watch Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson hoist Lombardi trophies that they were secretly miserable because their seats did not have cup holders.
No, I’m clearly as naïve a fan as there is.
I’m always begging Al Davis for a winner instead of a massage parlor in Oakland Coliseum.

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Ross argues that the dispensary presents no danger to children and that there have been no nearby crimes. He invites parents and grandparents to visit.
“I welcome them,” Ross said. “I tell them, ‘Please come in and see what we’re all about.’”
San Bernardino County may have a second dispensary if Carl Clines, owner of California Alternative Caregivers in Venice, gains approval.
Clines, who opened the first legal dispensary in Los Angeles four years ago, has approached county planners and sheriff’s officials about opening one at Big Bear Lake.
He has invited them to visit his Venice dispensary, which he says operates under very strict rules.
Concern Over Rules
Advocates fear that San Bernardino County’s ordinance governing dispensaries will consign them to out-of-the-way industrial areas next to strip clubs instead of allowing them in a commercial district alongside pharmacies or tobacco shops. Bledsoe said he believes they can operate discretely in such areas.

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Sign Demolished At Blighted Sacramento Motel
Sacramento Agency Working To Buy Up Motels Along Stockton Boulevard
POSTED: 3:28 pm PDT June 22, 2009UPDATED: 4:45 pm PDT June 22, 2009
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A run-down motel that’s attracted drugs and prostitution to a Sacramento neighborhood is coming down.
On Monday, a digger ripped the sign out of the ground at the River City Motel on Stockton Boulevard.
The boarded-up rooms and trash piles will all be cleared out by mid-July.
The Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency has been working to buy up blighted motels along the boulevard.
“We are basically addressing many of the problem hotels along Stockton Boulevard by accquisition, demolition and reposition of those properties,” Chris Pahule from SHRA said.
SHRA is working to buy an empty neighboring lot and shop the bigger property to a business or housing developer.

See the full article from “KCRA.com”

Deputy Public Defender Darby Williams told Judge William C. Harrison that the purported victim of a beating and forced prostitution case reported four months ago had recently recanted statements that she made against pimping and assault defendant Sean Grant. The 23-year-old victim, Williams added, also claimed that the injuries she suffered actually were the result of a fight she’d had with another woman.
Williams asked that the District Attorney’s Office further investigate the woman’s statements and requested that her client be released, possibly under house arrest, until additional investigation could be conducted. Grant has been held at Solano County Jail in Fairfield on $150,000 bail since his arrest in March.
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Grant faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon, pimping, false imprisonment, causing corporal injury to a cohabitant and trying to dissuade a witness in connection with an alleged attack at a Peabody Road apartment complex on March 12.

See the full article from “TheReporter.com”