Community organizer Tim McManus of COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc., a non-profit organization located in Watsonville, CA,  spoke 9/16/2018 to 15- 20 parishioners at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Aptos, Calif.
How about lots of cheap housing,  free health care/ free specialist MD referrals for illegal alien immigrants, & expanded free mental health? Those are COPA’s 2018 goals for Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties in California.
So what methods really work to effect “social justice” according to COPA?
Just show up when told to – says  McManus of COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. The power politics of sheer body count with government officials effects COPA specified change according to Mr. McManus.
Here’s what COPA Tim McManus says:
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Aptos Psychologist: COPA is not my cup of tea. What was the original tea party that lead to the American revolution all about? Not about “body count” muscling local government officials to achieve socialist progressive goals. About COPA — be wary. Give a fishing pole not free fish.
Now’s the time for Republicans to schedule votes. Even though Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may not have 60 Senate candidates the Republicans can use Democrat “no” positions to huge effect in their races.
Now — two months from mid-term elections — is the time for you to speak out in support of I.C.E. and to de-fund “sanctuary cities”.
For church members & the public, COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. is not a good bang for the buck based on  info from Charity Navigator.
Look at the numbers:
COPA expenses: Seventy-nine percent  or roughly 4 out of 5 dollars pays for Personnel ($288 K) and General/ Administrative ($18.8 K). Only 21% [$80,400 / $387,233] goes for Program Costs. Wow!
$288 K pays for three full-time COPA organizers in the 2018-19 Budget.  Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. is another name for COPA in the Santa Cruz and Monterey CA area.
COPA/ Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. is housed at a Lutheran church in Watsonville, CA and pays about $19 K for General and Administrative costs.
 How to evaluate the numbers:Â
Program Expenses: The majority of charities listed by Charity Navigator  – seven out of ten non profits – spend at least 75% of their expenses directly on their Programs. That means the organization should spend no more than 25% of their total expenses on administrative overhead and fundraising costs.
COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. reverses the percentages recommended by Charity Navigator with expenses for Program accounting for only 21% and Personnel/ Administrative expenses accounting for 79%. Wow. That’s a reversal!
 Check for evidence of commitment to accountability and transparency:
Website:Â The best charities are transparent and accountable to the public. You should be able to see evidence of this in the information they provide on their web site. Can you readily find information about the charity’s staff and Board of Directors? Did the charity publish its financial information such as its most recently filed Form 990 or audit?
Industrial Area Foundation (IAF) akin to an octopus with legs
Transparency: Low. One must search to find connections to COPA’s  founding organization — the Industrial Area Foundation (IAF) of Chicago, Illinois COPA is a long standing affiliate of IAF.  And there’s no mention of community activist Saul Alinsky who wrote the guiding principles for progressive socialists i.e., Rules for Radicals. One might think it interesting to churches that Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Open Borders is one goal of COPA / IAF / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc.
Churches connected with COPA in Santa Cruz and Monterey CA fund open border  immigration policies. Exactly how much dues each church affiliate pays COPA is not readily available.
COPA recently  held a conference on immigration “reform” in Monterey, CA (4/9/2018). No specifics as to number of attendees is provided on their website.
The Catholic church in CA is a long time supporter of open borders. Five of the seven churches in Santa Cruz County & neighboring two counties which act as as the governing board of COPA  are Catholic.
Other supporters of COPA include several Episcopal churches, i.e., St. John’s in Aptos, Calvary in Santa Cruz and St. Mary’s by the Sea in Pacific Grove.
Sunday, 9/16/18 at 9 am,  COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. lead organizer Tim McManus speaks at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Aptos, CA. You might ask Mr. McManus why roughly 4 of 5 dollars of Expenses goes to pay staff Personnel & Administrative and only 21% pays for Program.
Aptos Psychologist:Â Â Â COPA goes to church leaders and gets their “buy in” and them uses that buy in to contact parishioners and teach Alinsky progressive socialist goals.
What is COPA?   On November 2, 2009 Freedom Advocates wrote, “COPA targets congregations and unsuspecting parishioners…”
What COPA currently says:  It’s Mission is  “to develop the leadership skills of ordinary people …. to engage effectively in public life …with power to negotiate with public and private sector leaders … to change the economic, social, political and cultural pressures on their families …Â
COPA has 22 member institutions in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties — including “many religious groups” they say.
Per COPA’s website (4/2018) Pete Scudder of Scudder Roofing said about obtaining workers, “there is no system. There is no line. No way anyone come here legally unless they have  a lot of money….Scudder Roofing construction company hires 90% Hispanics. Scudder Roofing seeks to sponsor ‘citizen applications for workers’.
Back to general discussion of COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc.Â
It’s vital to look at how charities are rated for financial health and transparency. Neither COPA aka Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc is rated by Charity Navigator. That’s because their financials are too small for Charity Navigator.
What if all the legs of the founding organization — IAF — were examined by Charity Navigator? What if COPA was transparent about its socialist progressive agenda? Would parishioners and the public support COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc?
It’s best to view COPA and Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. for what they are — community organizing entities which seek progressive socialist goals.
Per D Souza both Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton — both students of Alinsky — implemented Saul Alinsky’s political tactics.
Remember Obama’s promises that “you can keep your doctors…” and that “insurance premiums costs were going down …” Then Obama took over health care and 1/6th of private economy. Check out D. Souza on YouTube.
What do you want for your children and grandchildren?  That your children learn progressive socialism in church via COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc?Â
Or that your children learn to think for themselves and seek freedom?Â
written by Aptos Psychologist Cameron Jackson PSY 14762
Among other accomplishments, she is a former San Francisco District Attorney who — according to the San Francisco Examiner — knew of evidence tampering before the public or police chief knew of it.
Controversy
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office found itself under fire in early 2010 when it came to light that Deborah Madden, a drug lab technician for the city police, confessed to removing cocaine from evidence samples. Her admission resulted in the police lab’s testing unit closing and pending drug cases being dismissed. The police department also had to investigate cases already prosecuted due to Madden’s admission of evidence tampering.
During the scandal, it was asserted that the District Attorney’s Office knew of Madden’s evidence tampering. However, it remains unclear what information the district attorney knew about Madden and when Harris learned of the tech’s improprieties. The San Francisco Examiner has alleged that the District Attorney’s Office knew of the situation months before the public was told of the controversy and before the police chief himself learned of the news.
Kamala Harris is age 53 and grew up in Oakland, CA. Her mother, a M.D. took her daughter to Muslim temples to worship. Growing up, Harris visited India various times. Her father is Black and was, not sure when, employed as a professor at Stanford. Harris after graduating from Howard University and then Hastings College of Law was employed as a Deputy D.A. in Oakland. She then moved on.
A woman candidate prefers 76 degrees. New York Democratic gubernatorial female candidate Cynthia Nixon’s campaign requested that the auditorium where she will debate New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday be kept at 76 degrees.
Many spaces are “notoriously sexist when it comes to room temperature, so we just want to make sure we’re all on the same page here,†Nixon’s chief strategist Rebecca Katz stated in an email, according to The New York Times.
The campaign made the request to WCBS-TV, the radio station hosting the debate that will take place at Hofstra University in Long Island, reported the National Review.
Football hero Jim Brown likes Trump & won’t kneel
Football hero likes Trump & won’t kneel. Football hall Of fame Jim Brown told “Fox & Friends†Tuesday morning that neither President Donald Trump nor America are racist. When asked if Trump was “a racist,†Brown replied: “I’m glad you asked me that. Of course not. Is America racist? Of course not.â€
Brown also encouraged black Americans to stop blaming Trump for the high homicide rate because “it’s the black community that needs to address it…and the black community is not doing what it should do.â€
The former NFL star suggested black people need to consider the positive and stop pushing the negative. “How many black athletes are millionaires because of..white fans that ago to those games?†He asked.
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Firenze Sage: It is pretty hard to denigrate football’s greatest running back and civil rights hero Jim Brown but the carping race baiters were at it full on.
Sen. Warren — aka Pocahontas — gets fossil fuen wampum from oil company
Pocahontas — aka Sen. Elizabeth Warren –gets fossil fuel wampum.
For many years, Sen. Warren  receives money from a gas producer.  Sen. Warren has expressed views that gas producers harm the planet. What she has to say about fossil fuels.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren received royalty payments in 2017 from one of the largest natural gas producers in the nation, according to tax return documents her campaign released Wednesday.
Warren received $121 in royalty payments in 2017 from Chesapeake Operating, LLC, a subsidiary company of Chesapeake Energy, according to her tax return. Chesapeake is the second-largest natural gas producer in the nation behind Exxon Mobil and is the most active driller of new gas wells in the country.
Warren called out major oil companies, including Exxon, Shell and BP for raking in billions in profits, during a 2015 speech before climate and labor activist where she stressed that government regulation of the energy industry was necessary to prevent companies from “dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.â€
Notably absent from her speech was mention of Chesapeake, which operates nearly 23,000 oil and natural gas wells across the country. The company signs lease agreements with landowners prior to opening a new drill site and pays royalties to leaseholders, like Warren, typically as a percentage of the revenue earned from the sale of the gas drilled.
Warren’s financial ties to Chesapeake date back to before her entrance to the Senate in 2013, according to her tax returns.
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Firenze Sage opines:Â Â More hypocrisy and fraud from the queen of deceit [Elizabeth Warren].
Don’t go to MSNBC for facts on the Constitution. For the second day in a row, the network attempted to explain the process of “how Impeachment works.
†Once again, the cable channel screwed up. MSNBC Livehost Ali Velshi on Thursday lectured his viewers: “Think of the House as a prosecutor and the articles of impeachment is a document detailing the alleged crimes.†So far so good.
But then, an MSNBC graphic incorrectly trumpeted the number of senators needed to convict a president: “60 VOTES out of 100 SEATS.†No, it’s 67 senators.
Though his graphic got it wrong, Velshi himself gave the correct information. Today, that is. On Wednesday, he incorrectly asserted: “Two-thirds of the Senate, 60 as it stands right now, are needed to vote guilty for impeachment.†On that day, Velshi said of the House’s role in impeachment: “Next, the House votes. At least two-thirds of the chamber has to approve the impeachment.†No, just a simple majority is needed.
On Thursday, Velshi managed to get that section right, noting: “A simple majority is all that’s needed to approve the impeachment.†BUT he made another error. The host claimed: “The Senate acquitted Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton without impeaching them.†No, they were impeached in the House. Just not convicted in the Senate.
One might ask: Why is MSNBC giving daily updates attempting to explain the impeachment process? Another question might be: If they are going to explain impeachment, could Velshi and the network at least do so properly?
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Firenze Sageopines:Â Â If these idiots are so keen on impeaching Trump,you’d think they’d at least learn how to do it.
First stated by Henry IV of France as, “I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday,” and later in the United States during the Hoover campaign for presidency as part of an advertisement.
The cost of chicken is about $1.28 per pound in the USA.
So — what can people do so Venezuela kids have “a chicken in every pot”?
The Trump Administration has imposed a range of sanctions on the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela, including sanctions targeting Maduro and other senior government officials.
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firenze sage–how many bills buys a Venezualean chicken?
LISTEN to patients in hospitals & stop staring at hospital computers!
Listen to hospital patients & stop staring at hospital computers and putting info into medical systems no one reads. Or rarely reads. Wake up and get hospitals to wake up.
MD’s and nurses now spend heaps of time staring at computers — and little time listening to you. Why? Money they get.
Ever spend a week in a hospital recently? Family and friends visit?
Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA:  What everyone sees — at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, CA for example — is nurses sitting in front of computers.l And patients principally see RNs when they come to give medications — with their computer in front of them.
At Dominican Hospital the patient gets asked the same questions in the ER area and again when “admitted” to the hospital.  But later — when leaving the hospital — they do not have an easy way to leave with a copy of their records. Yes there is a way — but not readily available.
Listen. And listen some more. All this is Bad News for patients who do need someone to listen. Patients need someone to touch. them.  And someone to be there with them.
