Keys to spotting a flawed leader; in this case, it's one of our least favorite Governator puppets, Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet

1. "A proclivity for developing grandiose strategies with little thought toward their implementation." These DLSE people assume that others at lower levels will magically turn strategy into reality. This is what makes the Bradstreet Corrales memo a total joke. She doesn't say sh*t about bringing critical offices up to authorized staffing levels; in fact, she wants the few people (still) working to make idiot phone calls because the Santa Barbara office supervisor has time to sit on his ass and telephonically harass defendants into settlements.

2. "A reputation for forcing programs down the throats of reluctant staff." These DLSE people need to be consensus builders, and they need to be many more things. Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet is attmepting to shove CMS down our throats, managers who violate the US Constitution down our throats, and "her way" of fixing Corrales down our throats.

At the end of the day, she deludes herself into thinking that more rules and more regulations will magically turn into faster case resolution...WTF? More rules and more regulations mean more work to be done and less results. Did she have a logics class at law school? Did she pass it?

Heard of the $6 Million Dollar Man? Here's the $2 Trillion Dollar idiot; reminds me of CMS & our a-holes that refuse to prevent this taxpayer waste

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.

DLSE supervisor exam to be held in Los Angeles, mid-November: the bat guano referred as DLSE execs. begin their biased, unfair, & traditional testing!

Well, it's time for the good ol' girls club at DLSE (Greg Rupp and Lupe Almaraz included) to start their biased, unfair, predetermined supervisor's exam. At the last supervisor's exam (DLC IV), how did some friggin' noob like Eric Rood (dink bureaucrat hailing from EDD) manage to pass the exam & promote to Regional Manager while seasoned supervisors failed the same exam? Yeah, tell me that the DLC IV exam was fair & unbiased.

Here's the real kick in the grapes: the DLSE doesn't (even) attempt to appear fair, which is the very purpose of the merit-based, civil service exam. The civil service exams & promotional qualifications appraisals' purpose are supposed to eliminate this kind of crap, yet all it does is shield the guilty from the microscope.

Why is California's State Personnel Board not up DIR's butt as to why such exams are continuing? These DIR retards have proven, to themselves and others, that they will not self-correct. It is the managers that need constant supervision, and it is the managers who need to be investigated. Why are Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz and Assistant Chief Greg Rupp still collecting paychecks, after placing California taxpayers in harm's way? Why have they not been disciplined and investigated for their actions against the citizens of California? Does Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet need more communications from Assembly Members to get off her lazy ass and take action? What's her major malfunction?

Come mid-November, the Kabuki Theater called the DLSE supervisor exam will go thru the motions, and then pass & pick whoever they want to pass and pick. If the State Personnel Board fails to supervise the DLSE, then are they just as liable?

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet's burn-taxpayer-funds & do-nothing approach to this job

CMS is the biggest boondoggle this division has seen since entering the 21st century; our latest Labor Commissioner has seen fit to continue this multi-million dollar, taxpayer-paid fiasco instead of halting this fiscal hemorrhage.

Our latest Labor Commissioner seems to only be in the news when generating citation news releases as to how she's cracking the whip with those darn sweatshops or when reporters highlight how her appointment may be less-than political and more of another type of appointment.

Our Labor Commissioner has a ruling issued by the California Supreme Court discussing how DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp violating the 14th Amendment of the United State Constitution, and what does she do? She doesn't do anything, she just sits on her ass and does nothing.

Our Labor Commissioner has a ruling issued by a California Superior Court discussing how DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz violated the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution, and what does she do? She doesn't do anything, she just sits on her ass and does nothing.

The taxpayers are paying her over $120,000 per year to authorize more taxpayer waste into CMS, to do nothing with Greg Rupp, and to do nothing to Lupe Almaraz. Who holds her actions accountable to the People of California?

News Article on our new Labor Commissioner...I'm sure there's more to come. Will DLSE ever acquire a Commish without the accompanying reporter drama?

Click here to read full report. I have not have time to read all of this, but I do believe in selecting the right person for the right job, and it should not be based on anyone's sexual identity, whether they are gay, straight, or bi.

Tiffany Rystrom is Angela Bradstreet's domestic partner, who heads up the state's Public Employment Relations Board, and that position pays $123,897 a year. Susan Kennedy is GAS' Cheif of Staff. Susan Kennedy and Vicki Marti share a home in Fairfax. Ties between the Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger administration and Marin Services for Women of Greenbrae are being scrutinized because the domestic partner of Schwarzenegger's chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, is a longtime employee of the nonprofit.

Schwarzenegger has kept Vicki Marti on the California Medical Assistance Commission even though her term expired in January 2005. The position pays $54,250 a year. In February, the governor appointed Renee Zito, the former director of programs at Marin Services for Women, as director of the state's Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. The position pays $142,965 a year.

It seems to me that if you want a really high political appointment under GAS, it really helps to be connected at the Marin Services for Women of Greenbrae, and it also seems that your sexual preference must be lesbian. Now, before everyone starts crying and wiping their eyes with rainbow flags, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I'm all for gay rights in this state. If Angela and her crew had any real courage, they would demand from their Governor (their boss)that gays must have the same rights as straights, especially marriage. As we know, GAS is not the People's Governor, because gays are people, too, and gays want to be married just like straight people, well - GAS stopped that legislation dead in its tracks. I bet if he was gay, then gays would be legally allowed to marry.

What the problem here is that once again, cronyism and favoritism dictate political appointments in state service, and it doesn't matter if it's (previously) from some fat, old, dumb, straight white guy like Greg Rupp or a (current) lesbian who knows people in really high places. The point is that the best person is not selected for the job, and that's how the taxpayers get screwed. This is our current Labor Standard: hang with lesbians, get kick-ass political appointments.

Ask yourself this question, why are multi-millionaires (like those mentioned above) coming down to such lowly positions like state political appointments? Couldn't they sit on their asses and collect bigger paychecks by doing nothing at their old jobs? Why must they come here for lower pay, do nothing, and screw the taxpayer for such shitty service? Santa Ana still has no safety barrier - unlike our Labor Commissioner, that multi-million dollar taxpayer-paid abortion called CMS is deader than Susan Nakagama's career, Lupe Almaraz & Greg Rupp have yet to be punished for violating our United States Constitution, and Ms. Angela Bradstreet refuses to get off her lazy ass and actually do something about that Corrales beat-down she suffered at the hands of the California Supreme Court. Ferchrist, I don't care if GAS appoints a monkey as Labor Commissioner, just so long as the damn thing can get something done around here. Labor Commissioner Bradstreet has yet to do a thing around this place except get her name in the papers, and it seems for all the right & appropriate reasons.

Eric Rood, hand-picked from EDD: how did he pass the DLC IV exam and furthermore, how did his answers surpass guys that've been w/DLSE for 25+ years?

This just goes to show that at the end of the day, the DLSE will do whatever it wants to do. If I had to guess, then this guy-who's very young to be a DLC IV-is being groomed for bigger things. The only person that controls both EDD & DLSE is Secretary Victoria Bradshaw...and I do mean Secretary. Whatever he's being groomed for..he'll get the promotions, as the DLSE took a huge shit on those that have given their lives and careers to DLSE....those guys are CHUMPS! There are DLC IIIs that have spent decades doing the job, and the DLSE cannot devise an exam where the best DLC IIIs pass an exam, and some newbie passes it? Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't rigged! And to the DLC IIIs who failed the exam & have given decades of dedicated service to the DLSE: the higher-ups think that you are dirt and chumps. "You will continue to be dumped on because that's what we think of your service. New guys like Eric Rood will get the promotion because that's how we roll. You don't like it? Quit. By the time you read this, the DLSE just turned you into a prison wife! Just kidding! Keep up the great work!" I bet that not one of the DLC IIIs (who failed the exam) protested it, as fighting (even soooo close to retirement) is in direct opposition to ass-kissing.

Loyal morons like Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz still get named as Defendants in losing lawsuits, but promoting him to Deputy Chief was (still) the better choice than promoting that other asshole Assistant Chief Greg Rupp. Of course, only both of them have been named by judges for failing to read the US Constitution & understand what was written over 200+ years ago. Maybe our founding fathers should have used smaller words.

Is there anyone in DLSE management that does not violate the constitutional rights of other co-workers? Why are these violators not disciplined?

DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp takes (hundreds or thousands) of wage claim victims and violates their 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. After the California Supreme Court so states, why is Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet not disciplining Mr. Rupp?

DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz takes a fellow co-worker and violates the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution as well as the employee's right to privacy. After having three different judges so state, why is Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet not disciplining Mr. Almaraz?

At her senate confirmation hearing, she'll be asked what she did to these two violators, and she better have an answer if she hopes to be confirmed...then they'll ask the status of that CMS abortion and what's been done during her watch.

DLSE and their dishonesty is compared to LAPD and their Rampart (click this link to view comment)

"Corrales is going to be waved in a judge's face every time these guys are dumb enough to go into a court room. It is sort of like the "Ramparts" debacle for the Los Angeles Police Department. When a Los Angeles Police Officer testifies under oath in a court room that he once worked in the Ramparts [sic] Division his testimony becomes instantly worthless. Corrales has made our management's testimony worthless. The world now knows they are dishonest."

Corrales was not decided by some janitor; it was decided by the California Supreme Court.

What can be done to a taxpayer-paid division that intentionally violates the US Constitution?

What can be done to a taxpayer-paid division that intentionally spend millions of dollars on some worthless piece-of-crap computer software that holds no one accountable?

What can be done to a taxpayer-paid division that intentionally screws the California worker?

Apparantly, Bradshaw's doing nothing to those that exposed the DLSE to such incompetence, inefficiency, and waste. Holding dipshit "I'm konfoosed about meal & rest peeriud" conferences only reinforces that the fact that no action is being taken, and any action that will be taken will lack conviction & strength, just bullshit serve-the-master politics as usual in the DLSE.