California Archives - National File http://nationalfile.com/tag/california/ NationalFile.com Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://nationalfile.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-National-Logo-32x32.jpg California Archives - National File http://nationalfile.com/tag/california/ 32 32 California Plans to Castrate Child After Mother Absconded from Texas Father https://nationalfile.com/california-plans-to-castrate-child-after-mother-absconded-from-texas-father/ Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:19:38 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=68854 Last Updated on April 6, 2024

The California court system is preparing to allow a divorced mother to castrate her young son, against the will of his father, because she claims that the 11-year-old is trans.

Jeff Younger tells National File that he expects his ex-wife, Anne Georgulas, to take their son to a gender clinic and begin the castration process immediately after the ruling, which will come at a pro-forma hearing on April 25th, where Younger isn’t even allowed to testify in defense of his son. Instead, court-ordained, pro-trans “experts” will take the stand, and the transition of his son will likely be rubber-stamped.

The anticipated ruling comes after a lengthy legal battle that has spanned two states and after the Texas Supreme Court allowed the boy to be removed from Texas and the care of his father in late 2022, and be taken to California by his mother, where she’s since taken advantage of “trans refuge” laws.

Georgulas moved her son James, and his twin brother, to California just days before those laws went into effect, something that Younger has long maintained was done to facilitate the castration of their son, despite Texas court orders barring Georgulas from doing exactly that.

But remarkably, after the move to California, the Texas Supreme Court denied Younger’s plea to have his sons returned to Texas.

Texas Supreme Court Justices Blalock and Young dismissed Younger’s concerns and warnings around the trans refuge law, claiming that his “fears are no more likely to be realized in California under SB 107 than they were before the bill’s enactment.”

According to the justices, whose ruling directly led to the pending castration of young James, his “father misreads California’s new law.”

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An excerpt from the Texas Supreme Court’s denial of Jeff Younger’s write of mandamus, seeking the return of his son from California.

Now, despite the claims and predictions of the Texas Supreme Court, Jeff Younger’s son James may be just days away from being castrated with the full backing of California and its judiciary.

Further, the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling, which blocked Younger from compelling his sons’ return to Texas, was largely based on Georgulas telling the court that she hadn’t moved to facilitate the castration or gender transition of James, but now, it’s been laid bare that that’s exactly why she moved.

“[Anne Georgulas] has flatly denied to this Court that she will seek to evade the district court’s order while she is in California,” Texas Supreme Court documents read.

At this time, it’s unclear what Younger and his attorneys plan to do about his ex-wife’s misrepresentations to the Texas Supreme Court, but further action is expected.

This story is developing.

Stay with National File for updates as they become available. 

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EXCLUSIVE: LA Dodgers Falsified Medical Records to Help Steve Garvey Dodge Draft, Letters Show https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-la-dodgers-falsified-medical-records-to-help-steve-garvey-dodge-draft-letters-show/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:56:20 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=65903 Last Updated on January 5, 2024

National File can exclusively reveal, after obtaining letters written in 1970 and signed by Steve Garvey, that the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from California and longtime Major League Baseball player worked with a Los Angeles Dodgers team doctor to falsify his medical records and dodge Vietnam War service, saving his baseball career. National File has learned that Garvey mimicked the symptoms of the migraine headaches experienced by his then-fiance and was separated from military service at Fort Jackson, South Carolina after he was given a letter by a Dodgers’ team doctor that falsely validated his phony symptoms.

In a 1970 letter from Steve Garvey obtained by National File that was written around a Hallmark card and addressed to his then-fiance Cynthia “Cyndy” Truhan, Garvey wrote of the help he was getting from Los Angeles Dodgers team doctor, Dr. Robert Woods, in evading Vietnam War service and saving his budding Major League Baseball career by faking a neurological ailment.

In the letter, Garvey documented his and Dr. Woods’ efforts to get him out of the Army and used quotation marks as he discussed the migraine headaches he was claiming to suffer from, putting them around the term “mig. headaches,” seeming to imply to the letters’ reader that the headaches were made up.

“Kisses and little hello’s,” wrote Garvey in the letter obtained by National File. “I also got to Dr. Woods and he is sending…a letter for me concerning the ‘mig. headaches.’ He said he would take care of me so let’s hope so,” Garvey added, signing the bottom of the paper, “Steve”.

Remarkably, Garvey was claiming to be suffering from the same debilitating migraine headaches that his then-fiance actually suffered from, even though he’d played varsity football and baseball at Michigan State University and made his debut with the LA Dodgers in 1969, without neurological issues keeping him sidelined.

Garvey Letters Dodgers Doctor Draft

In a subsequent letter obtained by National File, Garvey told Ms. Truhan that his efforts with the doctor had paid off and that he would be recommending Garvey be separated from military service.

“The doctor wrote out a report and put at the bottom ‘recommend separation from……’,” wrote Garvey, adding “xxxx (kisses)” in an apparent moment of celebration.

“Now a couple of good letters and SPG is at MSU (Michigan State University) for Jan & 1/2 of Feb!” he went on, before signing off with the initials SPG, for Steven Patrick Garvey.

Steve Garvey Letter to Truhan

National File has also obtained the envelope that the above letter was mailed in, featuring a return address for Steve Garvey at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, where he was being inducted into military service, and postage from nearby Columbia.

The envelope is addressed to “Miss Cyndy Truhan,” who was Garvey’s soon-to-be wife, at her East Lansing, Michigan address around Michigan State University.

Steve Garvey Letter Envelope

Related Exclusive: Steve Garvey, California GOP, LA Dodgers SILENT in Face of Draft Dodging Claims

After reviewing the letters from Steve Garvey, National File reached out to Ms. Truhan, Steve Garvey’s ex-wife and mother of three of his children, who confirmed their authenticity.

Ms. Truhan explained to National File that Garvey had indeed been drafted into the United States Army and traveled to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for training alongside other conscripts, who would eventually be deployed to Vietnam, where Ms. Truhan’s brother was actively serving, having followed in the military footsteps of their father.

And, in addition to the letters, Ms. Truhan told National File that Garvey called her from Fort Jackson and quizzed her on the migraine symptoms from which she suffered, as well as on the medication she took to treat them.

“He called me and he asked me my symptoms and my medication. He told me his plan [to get out of the service],” Ms. Truhan told National File. 

“I had the migraines. I had the medication. He mimicked my symptoms and got doctors to write him letters to get him out of the military,” she went on, adding how uneasy the entire situation made her once she realized what Garvey was up to, considering her family’s strong military tradition. 

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Steve Garvey’s penchant for dodging the draft and faking migraine headaches isn’t the only issue set to plague his run for the United States Senate, as a laundry list of personal and financial scandals has long followed the former First Baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

As National File previously reported:

Disturbingly, Garvey even neglected to pay for his own children’s visits to the doctor, leading the family’s pediatrician to write the Garveys a letter informing them that all future services would be provided on a “cash-only” basis.

In addition to his financial woes, Garvey’s checkered personal life has landed him in hot water numerous times over the years. He’s known to have fathered at least two children out of wedlock and has been dragged into court to answer for his failure to support his progeny, an issue that ties directly into his aforementioned money problems, again according to The Los Angeles Times.

Read More: Garvey Scandals Could Tank California GOP Hopes in 2024

As of late, Garvey, who has the support of large swaths of California’s GOP establishment and refuses to say if he will vote for President Trump in 2024, has polled as high as second place, behind Adam Schiff in the jungle primary for the seat long held by the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Regardless of partisan affiliation, the top two vote-getters in the primary will appear on the general election ballot, and Republicans are believed to have a better chance of actually getting on the ballot in California in 2024 than at any point in recent years, thanks to a fractured Democrat Party and growing defections among Democrat voters.

Despite support from the establishment and the corporate media, Garvey has been blasted in California by conservatives for running a disingenuous campaign. One conservative insider accused Garvey of using his Senate campaign not to get elected to Washington, but to get elected to Cooperstown, New York, the home of Baseball’s Hall of Fame.

As National File previously reported:

Former California Republican Assembly President Stephen Frank blasted Steve Garvey in a write-up published on Frank’s website, CA Political News and Views, saying that Garvey’s run for the US Senate is actually a campaign for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

“STEVE GARVEY STARTING HIS ACTIVE CAMPAIGN – FOR BASEBALL HALL OF FAME,” the write-up’s headline reads.

“Even [Garvey’s] ‘campaign’ logo looks like an effort to remind the MLB Veterans Committee to vote him into the Hall of Fame,” Frank wrote, also noting that in a campaign email blasted out last month, Garvey neglected to mention anything he’d actually do as a US Senator.

Read More: Garvey Running for Baseball Hall of Fame, Not Senate, According to Political Insider

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Steve Garvey, California GOP SILENT in Face of Draft Dodging Claims https://nationalfile.com/steve-garvey-california-gop-silent-in-face-of-draft-dodging-claims/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:28:50 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=65796 Last Updated on December 28, 2023

Steve Garvey, the California GOP, and the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball organization are SILENT in the face of claims that Steve Garvey, a Republican candidate to be the next US Senator from California, dodged the Vietnam War draft with help from the aptly-named Los Angeles Dodgers, for whom he was playing professional baseball at the time.

National File has reached out to Steve Garvey directly for comment but after confirming that it was indeed Steve Garvey who answered National File’s phone call, the California US Senate candidate hung up when questioned about his alleged Vietnam War draft dodging.

CLAIM: Steve Garvey Falsified Medical Records to Dodge Vietnam Draft, With Help from LA DODGERS!

Likewise, National File has reached out to multiple members of the Los Angeles Dodgers front office and media team but has received no response on claims that the storied ball club helped Steve Garvey dodge the Vietnam War draft when he was playing first base at Dodger Stadium.

As shown in the exclusive National File X post below, among others, Erik Braverman, the Senior Vice President of Marketing Communications, and Broadcasting for the Los Angeles Dodgers, has opened multiple emails regarding the organization’s alleged role in Garvey draft dodging claims but has refused to respond.

In addition to the Los Angeles Dodgers, National File has made California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson aware of allegations that Garvey, the leading GOP Senate candidate who’s backed by California’s McCarthy-linked GOP establishment, dodged the Vietnam War draft to save his baseball career.

Like Garvey and the Dodgers, Jessica Millan Patterson has refused to comment on the Garvey situation and refuses to disclose the California GOP’s role in Garvey’s campaign, or whether or not the party supports Garvey’s alleged draft dodging scheme.

As National File has reported, in addition to Steve Garvey’s alleged draft dodging, a litany of personal scandals are expected the plague his campaign for the US Senate seat vacated by the late Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein – A seat that many believe Republicans are in a unique position to compete for thanks to a jungle primary process and a fractured California Democrat Party.

Read More: Garvey Scandals Could Tank California GOP Hopes in 2024

What’s more, Garvey has been slammed by a prominent California conservative insider who says that Garvey’s campaign is meant to get him elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, not the US Senate.

As National File reported:

Former California Republican Assembly President Stephen Frank blasted Steve Garvey in a write-up published on Frank’s website, CA Political News and Views, saying that Garvey’s run for the US Senate is actually a campaign for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

“STEVE GARVEY STARTING HIS ACTIVE CAMPAIGN – FOR BASEBALL HALL OF FAME,” the write-up’s headline reads.

“Even [Garvey’s] ‘campaign’ logo looks like an effort to remind the MLB Veterans Committee to vote him into the Hall of Fame,” Frank wrote, also noting that in a campaign email blasted out last month, Garvey neglected to mention anything he’d actually do as a US Senator.

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Steve Garvey’s US Senate campaign logo harkens back to his days in Major League Baseball.

Read More: Garvey Running for Baseball Hall of Fame, Not Senate, According to Political Insider

 

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CLAIM: Steve Garvey Falsified Medical Records to Dodge Vietnam Draft, With Help from LA DODGERS! https://nationalfile.com/claim-steve-garvey-falsified-medical-records-to-dodge-vietnam-draft-with-help-from-la-dodgers/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:27:21 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=65659 Last Updated on December 23, 2023

National File can reveal that California GOP Senate candidate Steve Garvey allegedly falsified medical records to dodge the Vietnam War draft with help from the aptly-named Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team, for which Garvey was a star player at the time of the war.

Steve Garvey allegedly dodged service in the Vietnam War to save his baseball career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, for whom Garvey began playing in 1969, at the height of the conflict that saw more than 2 million young American men conscripted into service, more than 58,000 of whom died.

Garvey’s run for United States Senate features a heavy dose of Los Angeles Dodger merchandise.

The heavy Dodger branding surrounding Garvey’s candidacy has led some to question whether the Dodgers are using Garvey to get beyond their recent public relations SNAFUs — the celebrations of deviant, child-friendly homosexual behavior at a family ball park led by the Sisters of Perpetual indulgence, who describe themselves as an “order of queer and trans nuns,” and the premature release of former Dodger pitcher Trevor Bauer after a woman lodged unproven abuse claims against him.

National File is attempting to contact Garvey, as well as members of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, for comment on this story.

The corporate press has circled the wagons in an effort to assist Garvey and the Dodgers with their effort to get past the recent spate of scandals. Bill Gates’s MSN breathlessly reported that Garvey is in line to best two of the big name Democrats in the U.S. Senate’s jungle primary contest. “California Dreaming: Republican Steve Garvey in line to beat two big-name Democrats in Senate jungle primary,”

Garvey’s personal track record is far from pristine.

At one point, two women — Cheryl Moulton and Rebecka Mendenhall — sued Garvey in the span of one year claiming that he was the father of their children.

The claim about the L.A. Dodgers assisting Garvey in dodging the Vietnam War draft is a new addition to Garvey’s checkered record.

Whether or not Garvey will succeed in helping the Dodgers polish their tarnished reputation is up in the air.

National File has reached out to Garvey and the L.A. Dodgers about Garvey’s military service and what, if any involvement the Dodgers had with assisting in Garvey’s successful discharge from military duty.

Steve Garvey Draft Claim

Garvey is running for the vacant US Senate seat long held by late Democrat Dianne Feinstein. In California, candidates are nominated by way of a jungle primary in which the top two vote-getters, regardless of partisan affiliation, make the November ballot.

In 2024, with a fractured Democrat Party and a multitude of Democrat candidates vying for office, Republicans are believed to have a better chance than at any time in recent years of actually getting a candidate on the ballot, if voters unite behind one candidate.

As of a poll released earlier in the fall, Garvey, who supports Kevin McCarthy, is backed by California’s GOP establishment, and refuses to say if he will vote for President Trump in 2024, was polling in third place, behind Democrats Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.

Though Garvey’s backed by the establishment, he’s been blasted by conservatives for running a disingenuous campaign. One conservative insider accused Garvey of using his Senate campaign to garner press and boost his chances of being elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, an honor that has long eluded him.

As National File reported:

Former California Republican Assembly President Stephen Frank blasted Steve Garvey in a write-up published on Frank’s website, CA Political News and Views, saying that Garvey’s run for the US Senate is actually a campaign for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

“STEVE GARVEY STARTING HIS ACTIVE CAMPAIGN – FOR BASEBALL HALL OF FAME,” the write-up’s headline reads.

“Even [Garvey’s] ‘campaign’ logo looks like an effort to remind the MLB Veterans Committee to vote him into the Hall of Fame,” Frank wrote, also noting that in a campaign email blasted out last month, Garvey neglected to mention anything he’d actually do as a US Senator.

In addition to the criticism from Stephen Frank, Garvey has been ripped both in and out of politics for his checkered personal past, which includes extramarital affairs, fathering children out of wedlock and then failing to support them, and accumulating massive personal debt that earned write-ups in several news publications.

Conservatives have raised concerns that, if he makes the general election ballot, Garvey will be destroyed by Democrats and rejected by voters thanks to his baggage, much like Cal Cunningham of North Carolina, the Democrat whose extramarital affair was exposed by National File, tanking his US Senate hopes.

As National File reported:

The Los Angeles Times reported in 2006, Garvey and his second wife Candace had a reputation for driving around in luxury cars, living in mansions, and galavanting around the world while living in “financial chaos” and failing to pay “dozens of people” who’d “worked for them for years”.

At the time, Garvey owed his attorneys more than $300,000, the report added.

Disturbingly, Garvey even neglected to pay for his own children’s visits to the doctor, leading the family’s pediatrician to write the Garveys a letter informing them that all future services would be provided on a “cash-only” basis.

In addition to his financial woes, Garvey’s checkered personal life has landed him in hot water numerous times over the years. He’s known to have fathered at least two children out of wedlock and has been dragged into court to answer for his failure to support his progeny, an issue that ties directly into his aforementioned money problems, again according to The Los Angeles Times.

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Garvey Running for Baseball Hall of Fame, Not Senate, According to Political Insider https://nationalfile.com/garvey-running-for-baseball-hall-of-fame-not-senate-according-to-political-insider/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:24:53 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=65265 Last Updated on December 5, 2023

Steve Garvey is running for US Senate as a Republican in California, but a political insider says that Garvey, who had a long MLB career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and later the San Diego Padres, isn’t running for office to defend the Constitution but to shine a spotlight on himself and wage a PR campaign to win the place in the Baseball Hall of Fame that has long evaded him.

Former California Republican Assembly President Stephen Frank blasted Steve Garvey in a write-up published on Frank’s website, CA Political News and Views, saying that Garvey’s run for the US Senate is actually a campaign for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

“STEVE GARVEY STARTING HIS ACTIVE CAMPAIGN – FOR BASEBALL HALL OF FAME,” the write-up’s headline reads.

“Even [Garvey’s] ‘campaign’ logo looks like an effort to remind the MLB Veterans Committee to vote him into the Hall of Fame,” Frank wrote, also noting that in a campaign email blasted out last month, Garvey neglected to mention anything he’d actually do as a US Senator.

Steve Garvey Senate Logo
Steve Garvey’s US Senate campaign logo harkens back to his days in Major League Baseball.

Garvey’s campaign website seems to back up Frank’s assertion that Garvey is truly running for the Baseball Hall of Fame and not the US Senate, and also reflects the lack of campaign substance that Frank mentioned in his write-up.

On the website, the first thing to greet visitors is not a vision for America laid out by a prospective US Senator, or even a basic policy position. Instead, they’re greeted by “Steve’s Story” which is actually just a recounting of Garvey’s baseball career including some of his statistics and accolades.

It reads like a cover letter that Garvey would attach to his résumé, were he to send one out to Hall of Fame voters.

“Garvey played as a first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres from 1969 to 1987, was a 10-time All-Star, National League Most Valuable Player in 1974, and National League Championship Series MVP in 1978 and 1984,” the campaign site reads.

At the end of “Steve’s Story,” visitors to the website can click on a link to “learn more” and are directed to an even more detailed recounting of Garvey’s Major League Baseball career – with absolutely no mention of his US Senate campaign or politics in general.

Steve Garvey Senate Bio

Garvey does at least get around to mentioning his Senate run in the “Steve’s Vision” section of his Senate campaign website, though even then, he links his run back to his baseball career.

If visitors click the “learn more” tab below “Steve’s Vision,” they’re directed to another webpage where Garvey mentions several of his political grievances without actually offering a “vision” to fix them.

Steve Garvey's Vision

In addition to concerns about how genuine his campaign is, Steve Garvey’s checkered personal past has raised major red flags among conservatives, including Stephen Frank, who slammed Garvey as a “DEADBEAT DAD to several children” in his write-up.

His penchant for extramarital affairs, fathering children out of wedlock and then failing to support them, as well as piling up such massive personal debt that he was dragged in and out of courtrooms in multiple states, has earned him coverage from several news publications, including National File.

Read More: Garvey Scandals Could Tank California GOP Hopes in 2024

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Newsom Adds Highway Patrol to ‘Operation Smash and Grab’ as Mass Looting Continues in California https://nationalfile.com/newsom-adds-highway-patrol-to-operation-smash-and-grab-as-mass-looting-continues-in-california/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:24:22 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=65011 Last Updated on November 27, 2023

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) is implementing the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in an effort to curb the Golden State’s surging organized retail theft problem.

On November 22, he announced the operation as being a part of his 2021 “Real Public Safety Plan,” according to the release

CHP will increase its “presence in key retail districts across California.” At the same time, its specialized unit, the Organized Retail Crime Task Force (ORCTF), will provide additional “enforcement efforts through proactive and confidential law enforcement operations with allied agencies.”

Newsom’s anti-retail crime initiative is said to be a means of cracking down during the holiday season as retail crime throughout the state continues to climb, prompting merchants to close down or relocate.

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A Black Lives Matter looter robs a Target in Oakland, California. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

Target announced last September that it would be closing three stores due to the theft problem, according to CBS News. Its CEO, Brian Cornell, said the company is expected to lose more than $500 million more than last year, which was estimated to be between $700 and $800 million, making these new losses up to $1.2 billion.

CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee stated during the Zoom presser:

Organized retail crime remains an issue … From brazen smash-and-grabs to sophisticated theft rings, and organized retail crime … Working together with our partners and utilizing the CHP’s extensive statewide resources, we are cracking down and stopping unacceptable criminal activity.

The National Retail Federation noted in its latest security survey of about 177 retailers that it averaged a rate of “shrink” of 1.6% last year or $112.1 billion in losses, reported CBS News. The NRF prefaced that 65% of the shrink was due to external theft, including organized crime incidents.

CHP’s ORCTF regional teams in Southern California, the Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento will now be working together in this operation, according to the report. Since 2019, CHP has had 2,200 investigations, totaling more than $33 million in stolen retail merchandise.

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California Highway Patrol Officer shakes hands with Black Lives Matter rioter. (Robyn Beck/Getty Images)

In the briefing, Los Angeles County Assistant Sheriff Holly Francisco said the new task force will concentrate on large outlet malls while utilizing a visual presence, “where you’re going to see uniforms, walking in and around those areas,” adding that surveillance and undercover personnel will also be present.

The Highway Patrol’s role is just one part of what they call “Operation Smash and Grab,” a $267 million investment to 55 cities and counties to increase arrests and prosecutions relating to retail crime.

In addition, the sheriff will be sending as many as 70 deputies and detectives, typically assigned to violent crimes, to focus on retail theft until the end of the holiday, reported ABC7 News.

Still, others in law enforcement, including Sacramento Sheriff Jim Cooper, don’t believe that this is at all enough to combat the organized retail crime problem.

“It really started with the change in the law in 2014 with Prop 47,” Cooper told Fox News. “The voters were duped into voting for that. It was called the ‘Safe Streets and Schools Act.’” 

Proposition 47 reduced many non-violent crimes to misdemeanors, including shoplifting under $950. It is widely believed to be a core cause of California’s organized retail theft problem.

San Francisco: Smash-and-Grab Robbers Steal Nearly $200,000 Worth of Camera Equipment Near Union Square

In 2020, Proposition 20 was on the ballot to reform the original law, increasing the penalties for serial thefts and organized retail crime; however, it received a mere 38% of the vote, according to Ballotpedia.

Calmatters.org states that Newsom voted against Prop 20, along with the progressive nonprofit ACLU and the California Teachers Association; meanwhile, the proponent was, unsurprisingly, the California Retailers Association.

Asian-Owned Jewelry Store Employees Fend Off Smash & Grab Robbers in California

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Garvey Scandals Could Tank California GOP Hopes in 2024 https://nationalfile.com/garvey-scandals-could-tank-california-gop-hopes-in-2024/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:12:35 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=64615 Last Updated on November 14, 2023

Former Los Angeles Dodger and San Diego Padre Steve Garvey is running as a Republican to be the next U.S. Senator from California, but his long history of personal and financial scandals could spoil the party’s chances of even making the general election ballot.

Garvey has unveiled a crisp campaign website, telling a favorable story of his careers in both baseball and business but neglected to mention his extramarital affairs, the children he fathered out of wedlock and then failed to support, or the massive personal debt he compiled with his second wife that landed him in courtrooms and earned write-ups in several news publications.

As The Los Angeles Times reported in 2006, Garvey and his second wife Candace had a reputation for driving around in luxury cars, living in mansions, and galavanting around the world while living in “financial chaos” and failing to pay “dozens of people” who’d “worked for them for years”.

At the time, Garvey owed his attorneys more than $300,000, the report added.

On a June day in 2003, Paige Bilbrey was on the phone frantically trying to reach her boss, former Los Angeles Dodger great Steve Garvey, at Le Parc Hotel in Paris, where he was attending the French Open tennis tournament.

The matter couldn’t wait: Standing in the lobby of Garvey’s hilltop mansion outside Park City, Utah, was an employee of the local power company. Pay the overdue bill, the man said, or he’d turn off the lights.

The incident wasn’t the result of an embarrassing oversight. It was typical of the financial chaos that has reigned in Garvey’s life. For years, Garvey and his wife, Candace, have neglected bills large and small, leaving dozens of people who either worked for them or sold them merchandise wondering if they were ever going to get paid.

The Garveys drove luxury cars, shopped in upscale boutiques and traveled extensively even as they were pursued by creditors. Garvey’s gardener took him to small claims court to recover $1,773. A mirror installer did the same over $809. A caterer received a court order to seize valuable artwork from the Garveys until they paid her $14,000 bill.

Garvey owes attorneys more than $300,000, according to court records.

Disturbingly, Garvey even neglected to pay for his own children’s visits to the doctor, leading the family’s pediatrician to write the Garveys a letter informing them that all future services would be provided on a “cash-only” basis.

Fed up with not getting paid, the Garveys’ pediatrician wrote a letter in March 2003 stating that any future medical services provided to their children would be on a “cash-only” basis.

Furthermore, The Los Angeles Times reported:

Even the Garveys’ church had to wait nearly a year to receive the $2,700 it was owed for items the couple had agreed to buy at a charity auction, according to documents and interviews.

In addition to his financial woes, Garvey’s checkered personal life has landed him in hot water numerous times over the years. He’s known to have fathered at least two children out of wedlock and has been dragged into court to answer for his failure to support his progeny, an issue that ties directly into his aforementioned money problems, again according to The Los Angeles Times.

A big source of Garvey’s money problems stem from a paternity suit filed by his onetime fiancee, Rebecka Mendenhall. She sued him in 1991, alleging that he was the father of her child, born in 1989.

In 1993, a judge ruled that Garvey was the boy’s father and that Mendenhall was entitled to child support. Three years later, as Garvey sought a reduction in the amount he was ordered to pay, he filed the declaration stating he was nearly a million dollars in debt.

California has been presented with a rare opportunity to elect a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2024, as the seat formerly held by late Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is up for a vote with no incumbent to defend it.

Because of California’s jungle primary process, all candidates, regardless of partisan affiliation, appear on the same primary ballot and the top two vote-getters will square off in the November general election.

In a field that already includes well over a dozen declared Democrat candidates, including Congressman Adam Schiff, the left has yet to coalesce around a single candidate and likely won’t, opening a lane for a Republican to win a spot on the general election ballot and potentially the U.S. Senate.

The launching of Garvey’s campaign has been met with much positive corporate media coverage which, amazingly, has totally omitted his already-public financial and paternal issues – issues that will certainly be used as a cudgel by Democrats should Garvey make it onto the November ballot.

A Sportskeeda page documenting portions of Garvey’s personal life provides additional details on his fathering of children out of wedlock, reporting that “Steve Garvey once came under fire when it was revealed that he had impregnated two of his ex-lovers in the same year.”

In addition to the aforementioned Rebecka Mendenhall, “Garvey had also impregnated another woman the same year, having a daughter named Ashley. He also married Candace Garvey in 1989, making the year quite eventful for him.”

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San Francisco Police and Fire Salute Pride Flag https://nationalfile.com/san-francisco-police-and-fire-salute-pride-flag/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:16:27 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=60277 Last Updated on June 8, 2023

A video posted by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office shows police and firefighters from the San Franciso Sheriff’s Office, the San Francisco Police Department and the San Franciso Fire Department saluting the pride flag like the American flag. The video also shows first responders wearing pride patches on their uniforms.

The video starts with Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way.” The San Franciso Police and Fire are seen holding the pride flag and preparing to raise the flag on the American flag’s poll. There is a caption in the video that reads “Pride 2023”,

First responders then take the pride flag and raise it on the flag pole like it’s the American flag. The video then shows first responders saluting the pride flag like a first responder would salute the American flag.

Following the salute, first responders are seen wearing pride patches on their uniforms; some even wear pride hats. Then a message flashes that reads, “A call for unity, visibility and equality.” The video ends with ” Happy Pride.”

San Francisco Sheriff’s Office tweeted the video with a caption that read, “SFSO’s THIRD ANNUAL PRIDE FLAG RAISING Thanks, @SFPD, @SFFDPIO, @eBARnews, and @KPIXtv for joining us. Happy Pride! #pride #pridemonth #pride2023 #sanfrancisco #sf #sheriff

https://twitter.com/SheriffSF/status/1665876499059347456?s=20

This video is receiving harsh backlash. One individual claiming to be a former law enforcement officer tweeted at the San Francisco Sheriff’s office, “This is embarrassing. These are the same people who will march and advocate defunding the police. As a former Deputy Sheriff and Police Officer, this makes me sick to my stomach.”

Many are becoming concerned with the fact that Democrats are turning the FBI and local law enforcement agencies into their personal police force. Video from San Francisco first responders will only further this concern.

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Trump-Appointed Judge Overturns Berkeley, California’s Natural Gas Ban https://nationalfile.com/trump-appointed-judge-overturns-berkeley-californias-natural-gas-ban/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:01:35 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=59356 A Trump-appointed federal judge has overturned the City of Berkeley, California’s ban on the natural gas that powers ovens, furnaces, and more. The ban was part of a local ordinance that the city, often referred to as the People’s Republic of Berkeley because of its far-left politics, passed with the aim of stamping out gas appliances, a pet issue recently picked up by the left, including the Biden Administration.

Berkeley attempted to ban natural gas appliances by banning the construction of natural gas supply systems in general, barring the construction of supply lines to newly-constructed buildings while working to phase out the supply of natural gas to already-existing buildings as well. Trump-appointed federal appeals court Judge Patrick Bumatay wrote in his opinion, striking down the ban, that the City of Berkeley had overstepped its bounds by attempting a broadly-sweeping natural gas ban.

Though concerningly, Judge Bumatay appeared to concede in the opinion that Berkeley can in fact “directly ban” gas stoves and appliances, as long as they don’t ban the entire natural gas sector.

“Instead of directly banning those appliances in new buildings, Berkeley took a more circuitous route to the same result,” Bumatay wrote in his opinion. “It enacted a building code that prohibits natural gas piping into those buildings, rendering the gas appliances useless.”

“In sum, Berkeley can’t bypass preemption by banning natural gas piping within buildings rather than banning natural gas products themselves,” the opinion reads.

Much like the left-wing City of Berkeley, the Biden Administration and Democrats in Washington are working to ban gas appliances all over the United States, part of a wider series of attacks on the natural gas industry, an industry that, along with oil, offers the United States the capability to be totally energy independent considering the country’s massive natural fuel resources.

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California School District Bars White Employees From Event For ‘Employees of Color’ https://nationalfile.com/california-school-district-bars-white-employees-from-event-for-employees-of-color/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:03:18 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=58453 Last Updated on February 21, 2023

A California school district recently held an events for “employees of color” at which attendees were urged not to invite their White peers due to “feelings of uneasiness and mistrust.”

The Acalanes Union School District, located in the Bay Area, hosted an event for all employees of color in February. Dr. Lynnā McPhatter-Harris, the director of Student Support Equity & Inclusion for the district and planner of the event, informed White educators that they would not be welcome, according to an email obtained by Libs of TikTok.

“Hello POCC staff, we are ready for out first coming together in 2023,” McPhatter-Harris wrote in the email. “We are looking forward to seeing our people of color in the district. Please invite any employee of color to this event.”

“Be reminded that we have avoided inviting people that are not of color as there remains feelings of uneasiness and mistrust and we need this to be a safe space for our people of color,” she went on to say. “Please reach out to me if you have any questions of concerns.”

The Acalanes Union School District has previously been the subject of controversy in 2020, when the district’s school board opted to hold out and keep lockdown procedures in place while neighboring California districts were lifting them.

“I think that this divisiveness is very unfortunate and it’s counterproductive,” said Mark Woolway, who opted to run for an open board seat. “But again, I think that this is reflective of a lot of the broader issues that are happening in the country.”

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