Flashfax (May 25, 2005)

THE ROGER HEDGECOCK SHOW
KOGO/AM 600 - 3P - 6P (Pacific)
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
THE RADIO MAYOR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY MAY 25TH , 2005

TODAY ON THE RADIO: More fallout from SD city wrangling over who is going
to jail and who remains free!! ROGER likely to dwell on council plan to
sandbag citizens with personal lawyer fees. The Bolton nomination may get
a vote today so that could be chat fodder. We’ll make time for your topic
and/or response to our topics. Chaos, fun and straight talk begins at
3:07pm. Homework first, as always please:
http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/rogersnews5-23-05.html

MUTTERINGS
(got some saved up)

**VOTE BY MAIL!! Lots of yelling and near screeching from folks about the
mail in ballot. The county vector control fee vote is being done by mail
and some are real upset. And now the topic (don’t know if it got signed
off on last night or not) of vote mail for the SD City Mayor’s race has
caused alarm in some circles. Don’t the entire state of Oregon vote by
mail in Presidential elections? Didn’t note that they had any more fraud
with their ballot than happened up in Ohio with the walk in and vote
ballot. I think sometimes we just want to bitch about stuff cause…well
just cause.

**RICHARD RIDER joins the race for SD Mayor fray and will once again put
up Dick Rider signs in yards. That will please the folks up in Hillcrest.
They love it when Richard runs for office. They steal his yard signs.

**DONNA FRYE STILL DISAPPEARED!! Has she been abducted?  Can we help with
the ransom? Do we want to help with the ransom?

**SHOULD WE CHECK THE OT BUDGET AT FIRE STATION? We get an email from an
insider telling us that the new Mary 13th fire contract agreement allows
fire folks to work four consecutive 24 hour shifts. Is that like 96 hours?
Yikes. The writer is concerned about fatigue but also mentions overtime
payments. The former don’t worry us. Fire folks mainly eat and sleep at
the fire station and then make a run on a car accident. Save when all of
the CA fire folks get together and create a Fire Debacle like 2003, most
city fire guys hang out. Oh, there is shopping to do and cooking and
putting polish on the trucks and grooming the dogs (do they still have
black and white spotted fire dogs anymore?) but mostly it’s hanging around
and talking about retirement and DROP program and getting the whole career
over with as fast as possible.

Still might somebody suggest a peek at the overtime budget for a fire
fighting force that don’t have to fight many fires?

**NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE had the nerve to send me a subscription solicitation
in the mail this week. Don’t they know they are out of business? Why would
I buy a magazine that no longer exists?

**AND I GET JUNK MAIL that looks real official. Envelope tells me it’s
from the Processing Department. Very official. It’s the Union Buffoon
wanting me to subscribe.

**JUST US or does Michael Aguirre seem to be cloned? Everyday he’s issuing
a new report on pension, city legal position on this that or another
thing. And most of this stuff is real detailed and has a lot of pages.
Where do he find the time? Boy has raised more ruckus in a few months than
a whole platoon of city attorney folk.

**ANOTHER BOARD MEETING TONIGHT…at Flinn Springs. More talk about the pig.
We’re cookin’ the pig for our Homefront San Diego Salute to our Volunteers
event out here at the triple wide in mid June. So we gotta meet each
Wednesday evening and drink some beer and talk some pig. It looks like
Phil wants to throw some chicken and beef in a smoker too. Wife has
arranged for a piano man to play some tunes. She’s got tents planned and
is working my butt off to get the backyard landscaped so the trailer looks
real good.

On the serious side the gathering is real important to us. All of our
Homefront San Diego Volunteers work tirelessly for our military families
without pay and often at their own expense. And these folks are often
military wives themselves with husbands deployed. So we’re gonna try and
spoil them with gifts and food and surprises.

**SPEAKING OF HOMEFRONT SAN DIEGO…we’re working all the time to meet new
needs for our military families. In recent months we’ve begun providing a
lot of service for our wounded warriors and their families. Flying family
members here to be at bedside, putting those families up at hotels and
making sure they have transportation to get to the hospital. We’ve been
buying special wheel chairs for warriors who are released. And this week a
donor gave us money to buy a special hospital bed that a warrior needed
before the doctors would let him go home. In one case we paid for the
funeral for a warrior killed in combat in Iraq.

And now we’re piloting an effort to be helpful to warriors who are so
injured they cannot be in the Marines or Navy anymore. That’s a tough
place to be. You are seriously disabled, out of the Marines, out of
military housing, pay is cut and you still have a wife and two kids to
support.

We’re working a recent case of a Marine E-3. Discharged. He, wife, 2 year
old son and 7 year old daughter are headed to Missouri. They have family
there. But he’s gonna need a lot of support. Wife has to take care of him
full time. So what we’ve done at Homefront San Diego is get on the phone
and try to set up a back home support system. (we gave the family gas
money, hotel money, food money and tide over money as they started out on
the drive from San Diego on Saturday). We called local churches, the
American Legion, the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police, the 139th Airlift
Command of the Missouri National Guard, the hometown newspaper and the
local talk radio station. The idea is to hand off this warrior and his
family to a hometown support network. Heck if Homefront San Diego can be
helpful to thousands of military families a community in Missouri can make
sure a single family is taken care of.

If this case works then we’ll fire up some of our local church partners
here in San Diego and ask them to do this project for us. We’ll try to
keep you posted on how this family does back home.

This circumstance is real tough. And we hope folks at the federal congress
level read this part of the flash. The warriors who are bad hurt and
kicked (sorry) out of the military are kinda left in the wind. The
families and injured folks in the 911-01 attack got to split up 7-billion
dollars in tax free funds. (5,562 people split the 7-billion). Tax free.
And this warrior gets squat…well a disability payment and medical care and
that’s it. Wonder where the nearest VA hospital is in that part of
Missouri. Watch this space.

**HOMEFRONT SAN DIEGO is our continuing commitment to the men and women
who serve and their families. ROGER and y’all have been at this since the
fall of 911-01 and we’ll stay at it til there ain’t no more need for us.
One number to call to either help a military family or if you are a
military family that needs help. 866-424-9467.

GOD BLESS AMERICA
WE REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
SAVE OUR CROSS..VOTE YES JULY 26TH
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