DIR & Lupe Almaraz lose: they violated the United States Constitution and they screwed over the taxpayers they purportedly serve


Labels: 1st Amendment, Almaraz, Bradshaw, cms, Corrales
An unofficial blog highlighting inefficient, incompetent service that taxpayers receive as a result of DLSE mismanagement. The opinions here are mine and should not be read by anyone. DIR lawyers Christopher Frick, Angela Bradstreet, Anthony Mischel, Vanessa Holton, Steve McGinty and Richard Munoz spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars dedicated to taking a crap on the 1st Amendment instead of doing DIR-related work for the taxpayers.


Labels: 1st Amendment, Almaraz, Bradshaw, cms, Corrales
The DLSE has millions of dollars to Labels: Bradstreet, cms, Corrales, Taxpayers
DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz sent Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet his resignation letter; he's set to go away on 12/31/2007. At the end of the day, he did nothing for this department except spike his retirement paycheck...once again, screwing over the taxpayers! After Lupe's gone, ain't nobody named to be in charge of Wage Claims. It would be nice to see Nance Steffen come back as the Wage Claim Assistant Chief, but she's only going to get the blessing of staff by removing Regional Manager Abigael Calva's taxpayer-paid commute vehicle from Calva's possession. The taxpayers don't need to pay for Calva's commute. CASE IN POINT: her lazy ass, having a state vehicle assigned to her, made Deputy Labor Commissioner Bruce Broadwater drive from Santa Ana to Los Angeles to discuss an item of importance. He had to use his car & his mileage even though the state gives her a vehicle of her own. Normally, if state auditors would ask WTF(?) she does with her car, she'd tell them that as Regional Manager, she's responsible for all these offices in So Cal...total bullsh*t. Her lazy ass goes nowhere and makes her staff come to her. Typical, lazy, bureaucratic, cow. The recent Deputy Labor Commissioner III (DLC 3) exam came down to So Cal. Here's my prediction: they will pass & pick whoever they want to pass & pick because these assholes do not know how to keep themselves in check. Ferchrist, the State Personnel Board provides no oversight, and even when the California Supreme Court provides their oversight in their Corrales decision, Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet does nothing to Greg Rupp-the whore (at the time) for Jose Millan who screwed over all those wage claimants & violated their due process. These douchebags cannot self-regulate, and we're supposed to think that they'll righteously promote someone from a merit-based exam? They can't (even) follow laws, much less policies. Last but not least, the desk donkies wasting money from the taxpayer's bank accounts opened the spigot for the supervisor's meeting in Nor Cal (11/04-06/2007). Now, these money wasters justified expeditures like video conferencing in offices so that they can hold meetings via video conferences. Why must they waste more money on airline tickets, lodging, meals, and time? We need computer software like Adobe Acrobat and scanners, but these money wasters sit around for three days, butt-kiss, and bray like an old goat about how to make the system worse. Bend over taxpayer, and try to exhale gently. I have a contact who's looking into CMS, and I need the names of people who have details about Culbeaux, Baker, et al. Specifically, I need names and phone numbers because that's what the reporter needs. Mail it to: T. Zatori, PO Box 26212, Austin, TX 78755. Copies of anything can be sent here, and I will scan them and post them for all to see (like the examination fraud investigation). It will be forwarded to me. I don't want the names posted here, as they will be targeted for retaliation. If you want the truth to come out about CMS, computer contracting, Culbeaux, and Baker, then this is your opportunity to point truth-seekers in the right direction.Labels: Almaraz, Bradstreet, Broadwater, Calva, Christine Baker, cms, Corrales, Jim Culbeaux, Millan, Nance Steffen, Rupp, Zatori
This is the jackass who won't spend anything on children's healthcare (or anything else domestically), but wants $2,000,000,000,000 for his war in Iraq. Is there anyone (still) willing to die for companies like Blackwater, Halliburton, Bechtel, and the like? Are the children of Bush & Cheney fighting this war, or is dying in Iraq reserved only for the poor? Wasteful & corrupt public officials have no place in this democracy and should be removed from public office, on their own accord or in handcuffs should they be dumb enough not to resign. Anyone connected to the CMS contracts & the taxpayer funding of this abortion should resign immediately; that includes DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp for his violating of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution of those hundreds, if not thousands, of the Corrales wage claimants who got screwed over by him and Jose Millan, then- Deputy Secretary to LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw, the top idiot, moron, and imbecile of this agency.Labels: 14th Amendment, Bradshaw, cms, Millan, Rupp
A Labor Code 98a wage claim hearing was scheduled at 8:30am on 11/07/2007 in Santa Ana with a Hearing Officer. It was cancelled & re-scheduled at the last minute because the hearing officer wanted to take a vacation day. This Hearing Officer also had Counter Duty, and it's the store's policy to have a replacement on counter duty, but not when calling in sick. The people who showed up for the hearing, took time out of their day, and paid for parking? They got the big, fat middle finger from this public agency. In the end, the state will spend more money on this re-schedule, the case load will be backed up because this case didn't get heard, and nothing will happen to the hearing officer because butt-kissers & snitches are protected in this agency. Screw the taxpayer, the butt-kissing/snitch hearing officer must be protected. Regional Manager Abigael Calva will do nothing, and neither will Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz. Welcome to Labor Standards.Labels: Almaraz, Calva, hearing officer
Labels: Almaraz, Bradshaw, Bradstreet, Calva, Dell, Holton, Jones, McGinty, Millan, Mischel, Munoz, Nakagama, Rea, Rupp
Being a cop takes a lot of responsibility and one must hold themselves to a high degree of accountability. DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp is a sworn peace officer in California, but you'd never know it by his actions. He bends over for his (former) boss Jose Millan and then proceeds to screw every California wage claimant during the time described in the Corrales decision. But just as in the red flags seen before Mike Carona's downfall, there were red flags in Greg Rupp's history with the DLSE. This peace officer, sworn to uphold the law, went after this clerk named Rowene Diaz. He went after her with such malice that the DLSE decided to settle her lawsuit secretly. After that, the DLSE promoted him. It seems that the DLSE rewards