Campbell’s proposed amendment to the California State Constitution stipulates that “any student in good standing at a California Public Postsecondary Institution will not see an increase in their fees or tuition while enrolled in a degree program.”

The non-partisan, grassroots amendment would make permanent the assurances for affordability that Campbell feels are critical to students and families budgeting for college, and will help keep California’s system of higher education competitive.

Campbell states: “You would never take a luxury cruise if you knew you would be forced to pay substantially more money at sea before being allowed to go ashore. Students need a ‘contract’ with a reliably predictable tuition and fee structure, as well as a commitment from the institution to make it possible for them to get their degree within a specified period of time.”

Campbell was inspired to author the measure after completing his bachelor’s degree. He witnessed the hardships that escalating costs were having on him and his fellow students as well as their families. Campbell sees his work on this initiative as an important part of making the budgeting process for UC Regents, CSU Trustees, and Community College Districts more transparent and accountable to Californians.

Title & Summary is expected to be issued by the State Attorney General within six weeks, after which the campaign, Californians for a Higher Education Contract (CHEC2012) can begin collecting petition signatures needed to qualify the initiative for the November ballot.

After reviewing recently proposed legislation targeting tuition and fee breaks for middle-class students, Campbell offered, “Students need more than a program here or there. We need a comprehensive set of reforms and a serious commitment to affordability and accessibility for all California residents. The skyrocketing cost of higher education divides people on the fundamental level of income, and burdens succeeding generations with unmanageable debt.”

Campbell hopes that his work will benefit students now and into the future. “I am advocating for students who will go through what I just went through in financing my education. Too many of California’s future leaders are being forced to drop out of school, or abandon plans for enrolling in college. Although there are a host of initiatives and legislation designed to narrow the education budget gap, it is past time we had a Prop-13 style measure to impose controls on the portion of those budgets borne by students and their families.”

The full text of the initiative can be viewed on the initiative’s campaign website at http://www.chec2012.com, or on the California Attorney General’s website at http://ag.ca.gov/initiatives/activeindex.php . Interested parties are invited to comment, volunteer or donate at the campaign website, or to participate on the campaign’s open forum Facebook group: Californians for a Higher Education Contract (CHEC2012).

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“It has always been our goal to help small business owners succeed, via our working capital solutions or our community outreach and business publications. This infographic is just another way for us to help small business owners. It’s their right to know how each candidate may affect their businesses,” explained Gary Barzel, FastUpFront’s manager of business development, and senior editor of the FastUpFront small business blog.

The infographic is being released at a critical time with South Carolina and Florida primary elections scheduled within the month of January. While the infographic helps voters to understand the candidates in respect to business issues, FastUpFront is not using the infographic to push readers to vote for a specific candidate.

“We feel that the candidates speak for themselves. Business owners will vote for the right 2012 presidential candidate based on a variety of issues, the infographic is meant only to summarize a variety of data sources and simplify those facts.”

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“It is both an honor and a privilege to serve on the board of directors of the ThePeoplesVote.com. In light of the tumultuous political climate, the timing of their entrance to the market could not be better. I firmly believe our Founders would be proud of what ThePeoplesVote.com has set out to accomplish: to provide a platform that accurately reflects the true will of the American people. Chuck Kirkpatrick and his talented team have a far-reaching vision, and I am proud to bring my breadth of entrepreneurial experience and focus to the team. As FaceBook and Twitter has forever changed the world of social networking, I believe ThePeoplesVote.com will have the same effect on American politics,” states Mr. Jensen.

Jensen Expansion Capital, Inc. offers strategic advice and assistance for emerging growth companies in the areas of expansion capital and the securing of high profile, professional board members. George Jensen, the founder and CEO, is an experienced CEO and successful entrepreneur raising in excess of $250 million dollars during his career. He is the former Founder, Chairman & CEO of USA Technologies (NASDAQ:USAT) which became the leader in providing wireless payment solutions for the self-serve market

“As an emerging company, we are very excited to have Mr. Jensen on our Board. He brings a wealth of experience and strategic contacts to the table, and he also shares our aggressive long term vision,” states ThePeoplesVote Founder and President, Chuck Kirkpatrick.

ThePeoplesVote.com provides an internet based, “ballot enabled” social utility that removes the uncertainty as to how citizens expect their elected officials to represent them on important public policy decisions. Designed to handle tens of millions of users, this System replaces the “catch all” methods of phone, fax, email, letters, website comment forms, tweets, and FaceBook posts with one high security communication tool.

This non partisan platform is based on the 100 year old Initiative and Referendum Process and will help citizens understand the issues, and communicate more effectively with their elected officials.

The Peoples Vote will provide a free membership option and has an estimated market of 279 million registered and eligible to vote citizens, including a youth program for ages 13 and up, and 35 million businesses. Their Corporate Headquarters will be located in Brevard County in the city of Palm Bay, Florida.

More information can be obtained at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/george-r-jensen-jr/3/1a8/627
and http://www.ThePeoplesVote.com .

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The calendar (*See NOTE) includes quotes from great statesman, authors and visionaries like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., along with quotes from Dr. Ron Paul on current and timeless issues.

Twelve women from all across the country are featured; students, writers, artists, and businesswomen, every one an outspoken activist for peace and freedom!

The calendar’s creator, Juliet Annerino, explains, “This is a pretty package for a powerful message. Peace + Freedom = Beautiful!”

20 percent of all proceeds go in support of Dr. Paul’s run for the presidency in 2012.

The calendar was recently featured on The Colbert Report, Politico.com and the New York Daily News.

Juliet Annerino, along with several of the Los Angeles-based Calendar Girls are hosting a “Holiday Party with the Pin Ups for Ron Paul” free event in Hollywood, Wednesday, November 30, 7 p.m.- 11 p.m. at Cafe Entourage, 1600 Vine St., Los Angeles, CA 90028. They welcome the press for interviews and photos, in the upstairs VIP section.

For ordering info, pictures and video, see: http://www.PinUps4RonPaul.com .

(*NOTE: Independently produced and not affiliated with the official Ron Paul Campaign.)

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“We are very pleased to endorse Joseph Krysztoforski, a true Conservative candidate, for Maryland’s 6th Congressional District. He has the experience necessary to represent the district and understands the problems we face as a nation,” said Ed Taylor, President of the organization. “He is a fiscal conservative with sound policies that bypass the meaningless, biased statements and platitudes others put forth and he has the name recognition and fortitude to keep the district in Republican hands.”

The organization, Allegany County Conservative Caucus, founded in 2009, is chartered with vetting candidates and holding accountable elected officials that champion conservative views but are not supporting or voting those views once elected.

“As a self-made businessman and educator, Joe understands the financial struggles facing our nation, and offers bold, common-sense solutions to create jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and eliminate our nation’s debt and deficit,” said Jim Woods, a Washington County resident.

“I am humbled, honored and grateful to have received the endorsement and support of the Conservative Caucus,” said Krysztoforski. “I thank them for their kind words. Joining together with voters throughout the district we can bring the words prosperity and pride back into the American vocabulary, return the government to the control of the people and keep the 6th district red.”

The 6th Congressional District includes the western Maryland counties of Garrett, Allegany, Washington and Frederick as well as the central counties of Montgomery, Carroll, Northern Baltimore and Northern Harford.

For more information on Krysztoforski for Congress please visit: JTKforCongress.org.

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Suction dredge mining in California has been under a temporary moratorium since 2009, when the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) began conducting an Environmental Impact Report on the practice. In February 2011 the draft report was released, which concludes that suction dredge mining is not deleterious to fish.

But the positive outcome was not anticipated by a handful of Indian tribes and environmental extremists who don’t like suction dredging, so they concocted an erroneous $1.8M deficit in the suction dredge program and proposed to Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) that he carry the ‘budget cutting’ language to the State Budget in a trailer bill. The bill language was written in such a way that the DFG would have been prevented from ever publishing the EIR, thus ending suction dredge mining forever in California.

Miners got word of the last-minute attempt to kill the industry and began contacting Governor Brown and the Legislators who had been supplied with the erroneous information. In three party-line votes, all Democrats voted for the ‘budget cut’ and all Republicans voted against it. Because the Democrats have majority in both houses, the trailer bill passed and was sent to the Governor for his signature. Fortunately, the bill died there today.

With Governor Brown’s veto, the DFG can now publish the EIR findings and resume updating the dredge mining regulations.

However, in a companion attack by the same anti-mining foes, amended moratorium language was inserted in yet another trailer budget bill AB120, which, if enacted, will add five more years to the soon-expiring moratorium which began in 2009.

“It is our hope that Governor Brown will allow the original moratorium to be solved with the EIR scientific findings,” states Dunn, “rather than allowing anti-mining foes to keep inventing new criteria for the DFG to chase after, and wasting taxpayers money while doing so.”

If the Governor vetoes the trailer bill language, the nearly immediate consequences to California’s economy would be positive: 4,000 miners will be back to work and 15,000 inter-related jobs will be protected, adding much needed revenues to the State’s coffers.

The suction dredge gold mining industry generates $23 million annually in California, and supports jobs in more than 14 sectors, including restaurants, hardware stores, gas stations and camping outfitters. “These are real mom and pop businesses that rely on miners every season,” says Dunn. They, along with the miners, are hoping for a quick and positive decision by the Governor on AB120.

About Gold Pan California:
The company was founded in 2008 by Mike Dunn, an international gold mining specialist who has been suction gold dredge mining for 33 years.

For more information visit http://www.goldpancalifornia.com .

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While Governor Brown and Democratic Legislators battle Republicans to raise taxes, Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) has asked for Governor Brown’s assistance to squash a Democrat-approved piece of Legislation which will increase California’s deficit and have devastating long term effects to the State.

“Depriving the State from yet another source of revenue while breaking the back of its economy with higher taxes is indefensible,” states McClintock.

In an underhanded proposition by a few Indian tribes and environmental extremists, an erroneous $1.8 Million “budget cut” was suggested to be made to a non-existent “budget deficit” in the suction dredge gold mining budget.

Although erroneous, the all-Democrat “budget saving” legislation will cost the State $23 Million annually, and will erase 4,000 miners’ jobs plus 15,000 additional inter-related jobs. It will also deal a permanent death blow to the suction dredge gold mining industry in California.

In the communication to Governor Brown regarding the legislation, McClintock stated “Destroying four thousand jobs when California is suffering from 11.9 percent unemployment is simply insane.”

While the miners and McClintock are trying to save the California industry and help shore up the budget, anti-mining foes have submitted grant requests for $9 Million to lease industrial-sized cutter-head dredges from a Canadian company to suck up sediment in California reservoirs.

“The utter hypocrisy is staggering,” says Mike Dunn, owner of Gold Pan California. “They want to stop individuals from diving for gold, yet they want to mechanically gouge out the river bottoms with gargantuan machines. And, they want the taxpayers to support a Canadian manufacturer, when Keene and Proline are the two largest dredge manufacturers in America, and both businesses are located in California,” says Dunn.

The Democrats are battling Republicans to raise taxes, supposedly to balance the budget deficit. But when the Legislature thinks its a good idea to kill California’s entirely solvent gold mining industry, erase 4,000 direct jobs plus 15,000 inter-related jobs, and increase the State deficit by $23 Million, meanwhile, send our tax dollars to a Canadian manufacturer for equipment used in California, it doesn’t seem like raising taxes will balance any part of California’s budget deficit.

Congressman McClintock’s warning letter summed up the legislation attempt precisely; this is insane.

On a bright note, if the Governor removes this harmful legislation, the miners’ contribution of $23 Million can be added to the Revenue side of the new budget, since it was entirely omitted in the first budget proposal which the Governor vetoed last week.

About Gold Pan California:
The company was founded in 2008 by Mike Dunn, an international gold mining specialist who has been suction gold dredge mining for 33 years.

For more information visit http://www.goldpancalifornia.com .

Reference: link to Congressman McClintock’s letter (PDF):
https://goldpancalifornia.pinnaclecart.com/images/custom/Letter_GovBrown_OpposeSuctionDredgingBan_110617.pdf .

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In a terse written communication yesterday to Governor Brown, McClintock stated “Destroying 4,000 jobs when California is suffering from 11.9 percent unemployment is simply insane.”

McClintock is referring to a bogus $1.8 million “budget deficit” which was supplied by anti-mining foes in order to provide a “cut” to the budget of the Department of Fish and Game, who oversees the suction dredge gold mining program. Although erroneous, passage of the language will close the industry forever in California.

Adding to the insanity, the erroneous $1.8 million “budget cut” will increase California’s budget deficit by $23 million. “Depriving the state from yet another source of revenue while breaking the back of its economy with higher taxes is indefensible,” states McClintock.

While the miners and McClintock are trying to save the California industry, anti-mining foes have submitted grant requests for $9 million to lease industrial-sized suction dredges from a Canadian company to suck up sediment in California reservoirs. “The utter hypocrisy is staggering,” says Mike Dunn, owner of Gold Pan California. “Keene and Proline are the two largest dredge manufacturers in America, and both businesses are located in California,” says Dunn.

“This Legislature is so bamboozled by a handful of Indian tribes and environmental extremists,” says Dunn, “that they think it’s a good idea to kill California’s entirely solvent gold mining industry, erase 4,000 direct jobs plus 15,000 inter-related jobs, and increase the State deficit by $23 million, meanwhile, send our tax dollars to a Canadian manufacturer for equipment used in California.”

Congressman McClintock summed up the legislation attempt precisely; this is insane.

On a bright note, if the Governor removes this harmful legislation, the miners’ contribution of $23 million can now be added to the Revenue side of the budget, since it was entirely omitted in the budget which was vetoed last week.

About Gold Pan California:
The company was founded in 2008 by Mike Dunn, an international gold mining specialist who has been suction gold dredge mining for 33 years.

For more information visit http://www.goldpancalifornia.com .

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What the gold miners and Dunn are in upheaval about is a proposed budget “cut” of a non-existent $1.8 million deficit in the suction dredging gold mining program.

Dunn says that a consultant preparing this year’s budget for the Department of Fish and Game used a 3-year old estimate of costs to arrive at a deficit in the suction mining program. The real cost was later formally determined, and provided by Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office.

According to legal correspondence to the Superior Court of California from then-Attorney General Jerry Brown, “As we informed the Court at the hearing, issuance of suction dredge permits is supported chiefly, if not exclusively, by funds received from permit fees.”

A second, more precise communication to the Court from Jerry Brown’s office stated: “In no uncertain terms, General Fund Monies have not been expended on suction dredge permitting.”

If the California Legislature passes the trailer budget bill language, the consequences would be sweeping: 4,000 miners will be put out of work permanently, 15,000 inter-related jobs will be affected, and the entire suction dredge gold mining industry will be killed.

“The task at hand is daunting,” Dunn states. “But the disaster awaiting is even worse, so I am trying to reach every Legislator before they go to the floor to vote.”

The suction dredge gold mining industry generates $23 million in California, and supports more than 14 sectors, including restaurants, hardware stores, gas stations and camping outfitters. “These are real mom and pop businesses that rely on miners every season,” says Dunn.

There will never be a time when it doesn’t make sense for a man to prospect for gold, and if Mike Dunn is successful in his efforts to stop this bad budget proposal, 4,000 miners will be back at work in November, contributing millions of dollars in gold and paper back to the economy.

Hopefully, former Attorney General Jerry Brown’s legal finding will get to Legislators in time to avert a disastrous end to the industry that put California on the map.

About Gold Pan California:
The company was founded in 2008 by Mike Dunn, an international gold mining specialist who has been suction gold dredge mining for 33 years.

For more information visit http://www.goldpancalifornia.com .

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What the gold miners and Dunn are in upheaval about is an inaccurate $1.8 million budget deficit in the suction dredging gold mining program, which the Department of Fish and Game administers. If the Legislature rules in favor of the trailer budget bill language to “cut” the erroneous $1.8 million deficit, the consequences would be sweeping: the entire California suction dredge gold mining industry will be killed, putting 4,000 miners out of work permanently and affecting another 15,000 inter-related jobs their industry supports.

Because the budget cutting language was inserted just 3 weeks ago, no miners were allowed to publicly comment on the mistake. Now, Dunn is trying to call on every Legislator to alert them to the obvious but disaster-provoking mistake. “I’m bringing the proof with me in hard copy. Everyone can agree with the very deliberate wording by the DOJ. The program pays for itself, period.”

Indeed, just yesterday the first Federal lawsuit against the State was filed in Sacramento by a miner who knows he’s standing on firm ground.

The suction dredge gold mining industry generates $23 million in California, and affects more than 14 sectors including restaurants, hardware stores, gas stations and camping outfitters. “These are real mom and pop businesses that rely on us miners every season,” says Dunn. “We’re trying to give the Legislature buckets of water to put out the fire before it gets to them.”

There will never be a time when it doesn’t make sense for a man to prospect for gold, and hopefully former Attorney General Jerry Brown’s golden words will get to the Legislators in time to avert a disastrous end to the industry that put California on the map.

About Gold Pan California:
The company was founded in 2008 by Mike Dunn, an international gold mining specialist who has been suction gold dredge mining for 33 years.

For more information visit http://www.goldpancalifornia.com .

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