Politicians are a lot like ponies paid to run in a race.... but it's a race against the common man, the average working class people and the 99%. It's always funny to me when people think that one party (specifically the democratic party) will be ambassadors for the average income class. This is NOT reality. They are ALL paid ponies, and they only get there if they 'play ball' by serving the wealthy class of people whom continue to destroy our country economically, and environmentally.
Americans have long been under the "spell" of these silver tongued liars.
I'll give you just one example, out of so many. Remember, these guys are prepped, and groomed to be good liars, and we are just the useful idiots whom believe them.
Gavin Newsom. At first glance, the former San Francisco mayor was considered a 'playboy' mayor. In actuality, he is a paid puppet for the elite. All one has to do is look into his own financial holdings (he became a millionaire in his mid 20's) ; but when you dig deeper you find the wife. Yes, the wife.
" Newsom has been married to actress and filmmaker Jennifer Siebel since 2008. Jennifer's father Ken Siebel is an extremely successful Marin County investment manager who is rumored to be worth hundreds of millions dollars."
Remember, there is always a controller, or a person of great wealth and power behind the paid pony. Here's your man. Ken Siebel. Ken has made hundreds of millions of dollars, and in fact enjoys living in New York; not northern California. Ken, in 2013 paid $5.9 million dollars for a luxury apartment in Tribeca. Both Jessica ; Kennith, and Judy Siebel (Kennith's wife) all pop up in city records as buyers at 250 west street, the El-Ad developed luxury condo conversion which is a very posh place to hang your hat indeed. But that's just one property, and one drop of water in an ocean of deceit.
Mr. Seibel also acts as Co-Chairman of "Private Wealth Partners, LLC" ; where he manages (and I quote) "some of the firm's largest relationships". Well, with people (like his nephew, now the Lt. Governor of California) in power, he can just pick up the phone and make power plays for his extremely wealthy host of clientele. I'm sure this comes at a very hefty price too. Political relationships have been for sale for a long time now, and Seibel is probably the broker ; the salesman that makes these wealthy clientele even richer by offering up political power in exchange for cold hard cash. I would love to see him deny this, as it's rather obvious to me.
" Prior to this, Mr. Siebel together with Peter Maier founded Maier & Siebel Real Estate Investment Advisors. He has been a founding partner of Siebel Capital Management. Previously, he was a Managing Director of U.S. Trust Company, N.A. He worked in New York and San Francisco at Smith,
Mr. Siebel resigned his partnership in 1977 to devote himself fulltime to investment management and formed the investment advisory firm of Wood Island Associates, where he served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He is a Member of Board of Trustees of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Mr. Siebel is also the Chairman of Investment Management Committee of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Investment Arm. He currently serves on the finance and investment committee, corporate partnerships committee, and resources commitment committee of Conservation International. He is on the Board of Trustees and Investment Committee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."
In all, there are over 44 BILLIONAIRES living in Northern Califonia. It seems to be a real dirt-bag hot spot ; where the likes of Stephen Bechtel Jr and Archie Emmerson (lumber magnet, raped california for it's redwood trees) reside, as well as William Randolph Hearst III. Most of them, live in -- you guessed it. San Francisco. Another Siebel (possibly of no relation, but interesting) is Thomas Siebel, whom resides in Woodside CA and is worth 1.9 Billion dollars. Mr. Charles Schwab (worth 6.2 billion) even lives in Atherton CA, so these guys are all pretty closely congregated.
The connection goes muuuuuch deeper though, when you look into a Montana property dispute which involved several wealthy land owners whom wanted to keep the public out of the scenic trout-rich stream which ran through their properties. They wanted to fence it off to the public and that was shot down in court. In this case, two dozen landowners - including Charles Schwab and Mr. Kenneth Siebel argued that they had poured "millions of dollars" into this public waterway and thought it should be completely private, not to be enjoyed by anyone other than the millionaire - billionaire boys club. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/us/01trout.html?_r=0
In fact, people have been arrested in the past for "trespassing" for fishing on a section of stream that runs through their properties. As for Mr. Siebel, he said he and other landowners would be watching. “Anyone who trespasses,” he said, “will be arrested.” Ken owns over 1,300 acres of that beautiful montana land, and he's not even willing to allow people to use the river that runs through it. Nice guy huh? Mr. Gavin Newsom's father in law seems like a real treasure to humanity.
And that's whom Mr . Gavin represents. Not you, not me. But the billionaire boys club.
It's bi-partisan and our politicians are corrupt to their very core. Go out and vote to change it? Hardly. Things will continue on like this until there is REAL change, and not more cloak and dagger politics. We need to enact laws in this country to prevent the 1% from praying on the rest of us, as these billionaires have no place in politics anymore. Americans are waking up, albeit slowly.
