His right wing agenda includes a Walmart funded plan to destroy public schools, public school teachers and teachers unions.
Merced Sun-Star Editorial: More transparency needed for Mayor Kevin Johnson's network of nonprofits
The state's political watchdog has uncovered that Mayor Kevin Johnson has solicited much more money for his network of nonprofits than the public knew.
The size of the gifts involved, and how long they went unreported, are serious cause for concern.
The mayor had reported about $1.5 million given to nonprofits at his behest since taking office in 2008. The California Fair Political Practices Commission found another $3.1 million – in 22 donations from corporations and foundations going as far back as March 2009 – that had never been disclosed until its investigators came calling.
The money went to the Stand Up school reform group, the City Year volunteer program and Gifts to Share for city parks, among other nonprofits.
Because Johnson didn't follow state law requiring that donations be reported within 30 days, the FPPC announced Monday it had fined him $37,500 – $1,500 for each of 25 violations.
Johnson paid the penalty last week out of campaign cash and has agreed to a proposed settlement, but he may not be out of the woods yet, The Bee's Ryan Lillis reported Tuesday. While FPPC's enforcement division isn't seeking more because Johnson doesn't have any prior violations and cooperated with investigators, the commission is to decide next week whether the fine should be higher – a maximum of $5,000 per violation, or $125,000.
The mayor took responsibility for what he called an "unintentional" administrative lapse, and told the FPPC that training and procedures have been fixed.
It's not that simple.
The issue isn't just whether forms get filled out on time. It's also how Johnson uses these nonprofits to push his agenda outside City Hall, and how these donations could potentially overlap with his official duties.
For example, among the biggest newly disclosed donations were two this year totaling $500,000 to Stand Up from the Walton Family Foundation, funded by the founders of Wal-Mart. In addition, the Walmart Foundation gave $100,000 to City Year and $75,000 to Gifts to Share.
Critics say that Walton backs schools and measures that take public dollars — and, some say, the most motivated families — away from the existing public schools, effectively creating a two-tier educational system that could hurt the students most in need....
“What they’re doing in terms of education is they’re trying to create an alternative system and destabilize what has been the anchor of American democracy,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-largest teachers union.
Now the mayor is accusing Deadspin of a vendetta against him. Deadspin responds to the local CBS affiliate
“Why is the question our motivation?” Deadspin editor Tim Marchman. “Our motivation to cover Kevin Johnson excessively is the Sacramento press has done a f—— embarrassing job of it. He is corrupt. He is out there doing god knows what with public money.”
The Mayor recently sued a major Sacramento weekly - The Sacramento News and Review:
Then race baiting charges came right as the News & Review was, as it has been, rightly hammering Kevin Johnson for using public resources for personal business. On July 1, apparently seeking to slow down coverage of the scandal, Johnson filed a lawsuit against the paper and its top political reporter, Cosmo Garvin, naming his own city as a co-defendant. That suit, which is still pending, seeks to prevent the release of emails from the mayor’s office related to Johnson’s self-styled “coup” against the National Conference of Black Mayors, an Atlanta-based non-profit. (Johnson is now also suing and being sued by NCBM officials.).....
Nick Miller, co-editor of the News & Review, asserts that the charges against his publication aren’t sticking.
“Ever since the lawsuit, and now this, we’re hearing, ‘Fuck KJ!’” Miller told me early last week. “It’s been near-unanimous support. People really are saying that. It’s not me saying that. People are that upset with their mayor. Now, they just don’t trust him. It’s pretty wild.”
Link to list of some of the local Sacramento News and Review stories he wishes would go away
The Mayor dodges reporters at the Movie Premiere in Sacramento:
ESPN Kills Kevin Johnson Propaganda Movie; Kevin Johnson Throws Himself A Party
Kevin Johnson, when he turned up, was repeatedly asked about the abuse allegations. He evaded every hard question and threw back only circumspect talking points. The only elaboration he gave was on whether or not he will seek a third mayoral term, and he gave the same defense as ever to questions about his alleged abuse of a teenager, which is, in summary, that people accuse you of all kinds of stuff when you’re famous. He didn’t want to talk about it, but he never broke his practiced calm. It was quite a performance:
A SacBee editorial tries to minimize the allegations - yet ends up talking about the recent sexual allegations against the Mayor saying:
Johnson should be judged by his performance as a public official – whether he has delivered and conducted himself with dignity while mayor. So it’s troubling that he also faces sexual allegations while in office. In April, a former aide to the city manager accused Johnson of sexually harassing her multiple times during a seven-month period at City Hall.
Johnson denies the allegations. Again, we don’t know for sure what happened. We do know that the city’s human resources department and an outside law firm found the allegations to be unsubstantiated and the city denied the $200,000 claim. It’s not clear whether Johnson paid a private settlement to the woman. Johnson should state whether he did. The murkiness only feeds suspicions that the mayor should want to quash, given his history.
This is what happens when you are busy looking at yourself in a mirror:
Police: Violent Crime Up by 24 Percent in Sacramento
New statistics released by the Sacramento Police Department indicate violent crime is up by 24 percent throughout the department's districts.
In North Sacramento, near Del Paso Heights, and South Sacramento, near Mack Road and Meadowview, violent crime is up by 35 percent.
and more from what may be his first victim
Teen who accused ex-NBA star Kevin Johnson of sexual abuse tells her story
Koba, who has started a website for victims of sexual abuse, wrote an essay earlier this year on a website called The Unslut Project.
In it, she wrote:
“I’ve been called a sick slut in the media, a gold digger, an unreliable victim. I’ve had attorneys infer that the man who abused me had much more attractive women, options, so the idea that he’d sexually abuse me, a minor, was ludicrous. I’ve had my perpetrator — that’s what he is, a perpetrator, not someone who just made a mistake — held up as an example, a leader, a trusted advisor.
“I am every victim of sexual assault by a celebrity, a professional athlete, a politician, who has been silenced. I’ve been afraid to speak, come forward and tell my story. But no more. It’s time.”
For more details and allegations see part 1 of this story:
Kevin Johnson, Sacramento Mayor, Sexual Predator? asked to Resign which includes the video testimony of the 16 year old girl on her relationship with the then Basketball Player.