“Mayor Heather Fargo called the [police] cuts [announced by Chief Rick Braziel] ‘outrageous’ and ‘unacceptable’ .. She said there were other things the department should consider cutting, like white collar crime investigations and ‘officers out on New Year’s chatting with each other’..”

There she goes, there she goes again.. ripping her colleagues and employees for the budgetary chickens that finally came home to roost last night when Police Chief Rick Braziel announced even more cuts to the city’s already slashed and looted…

In a development that validates what us anti gang tax gadflies have been saying all along,  the City of Sacramento has decided the Red Light Camera program (aka Say-queso-for-big brother-as-you-illegally-pass-through-a-photo-enforced-red-light), should remain in the hands of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department for another several years, and in Public Hearing Item #13 at tomorrow night’s city council meeting, they will make it official.

Reason? Simple: When the city of Sacramento was managing the ten-light program in city limits, a state audit revealed…

FARGO DEMANDS A SALES TAX INCREASE IN THE MIDST OF A RECESSION, DURING THE WORST REAL ESTATE CRISIS IN HISTORY, AT A TIME WHEN GAS IS NEARLY $5 PER GALLON AND HAS A CAMPAIGN THEME CALLED ********PROGRESS******???

Heather Fargo did not even know there was a crime problem in Sacramento until last month when her mayoral opponent Kevin Johnson told her there was. Even then she scoffed at the idea, and said the only problem residents had made her aware of…