CalFreedom.net reports that Edward Teyssier was the attorney of record in a landmark August court victory against a San Diego tax disguised as a “processing fee”. The San Diego City Council voted yesterday to end certain “processing fees” that landlords have been paying into the city’s general fund since 2004, and to issue around $1 million in refunds. Teyssier is a long-time member of the Libertarian Party of California and a past Chair of the San Diego Libertarian Party. The CalFreedom posting includes coverage from the San Diego media, and the inside story from Teyssier about the legal struggle.
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In the Heart Land:
KC music promoter Anne Winter dies at age 45
The Kansas City Star
Breaking News:
“Kansas City’s alternative-music and free-speech communities are mourning the death of Anne Winter, longtime music promoter and proprietor of Recycled Sounds, a midtown record shop that closed in 2006. Winter, 45 and a mother of two, died Thursday at her home.
Winter was a well-known figure in the local music scene by virtue of the independent music store she owned with her husband, Kurt von Schlemmer, for 18 years. She often employed local musicians to work behind the counter and at one point hosted her own music show on KKFI-FM as “Little Orphan Annie.”
But Recycled Sounds was more than a store. Tim Finn, The Star’s pop music writer, described it this way in 2006: “In the way a bar is more than the liquor on its shelves or the beer that flows from its taps, Recycled Sounds was much more than just the music that went out its door. It became a haven for people who wanted to know what was happening in the city’s underground culture, for local bands and visual artists who needed a place to peddle their music or promote their shows and exhibits, for musicians who needed a stop-gap part-time job.”
In the wake of congressional hearings in the 1980s on “indecent” lyrics in rock and rap, Winter became heavily involved in anti-censorship advocacy and served a term as president of the Greater Kansas City Free Speech Coalition. The coalition also helped establish Culture Under Fire, an annual arts celebration of free speech.
In 1994 several area school districts either removed or considered removing a book for young people, “Annie on My Mind,” from library shelves because of complaints that it endorsed homosexuality. The coalition invited author Nancy Garden to speak as part of Culture Under Fire.
Winter said book censorship was not different from efforts to censor music.
“Sometimes we forget how important (our) rights are or the fact that Americans have this right, whereas in a lot of countries people aren’t allowed to present ideas that may be a little bit more on the fringe,” Winter said.
A gathering was planned at 7:30 Friday evening at the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.
A visitation is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday and a service at 1 p.m. Tuesday, both at the Muehlebach Funeral Home, 6800 Troost.
Posted on Fri, Oct. 23, 2009 01:20 PM”
State Senate for California State Government
Mar 2, 2004 … 43105 votes 74.1%;
Ken Bourke, [Lake: Yet another Fed Up former Lib] Republican ………. 6323 votes 10.8%;
Ralph Denney, Republican ………. 5652 votes 9.7%; Jim Galley, …
http://www.smartvoter.org/2004/03/02/ca/state/state_senate.html – Cached – Similar
Hey Ed, if this article, and having suffered through criminal judge Mayor Dick Murphy, now resigned under Reform Party pressure in 2005, I applaud it, makes it to the County LP news letter …….
If so, will you print the article in the local house organ and will you allow non Libertarians to buy the same for $5 ???? Will you take their bono fided check, cash it, and ‘forget’ to mail the media ???????
When you are embarrassed, in a public forum [FORMER Lib Ken ‘Fed Up’ Bourke’s open house], to give the money back, will you count out the bills as you folks can not be trusted at your word and or ethics and or honesty ?????????
And you wonder why San Diegians roll their eyes when Richard Rider and your name comes up????? Con men in the garb of alternative politicians!
With a few hundred armed pickup trucks, Somali forces posed no danger to surrounding countries. ,
Via Aroundtheblockafewtimes // Oct 21, 2009 at 8:32 am
We [alternative political types] need to recruit more pro bono lawyers to challenge the constitutionality of all sorts of legislation and when election commissions deny ballot access.
Hope Libs ease away from the eternal infernal debating society and target more real problems [erh, opportunities] of the real world! [It would be good for lots of us!]
Not closely related except it’s about landlords and California…
There was a great movie with Michael Keaton a few years back, called “Pacific Heights”.
The story is all about how a villainous tenant takes advantage of stupid local landlord-tenant laws in [San Francisco?] to terrorize and steal from a young couple who buy a large house with the intention of leasing out the lower floors.
It’s a great movie for anyone who is convinced the government has no business interfering in rental real estate.
Inasmuch as the LP seems to have as many victories in court as at the ballot box, we need to recruit more pro bono lawyers to challenge the constitutionality of all sorts of legislation, to bring justice when LEOs overstep their authority, and when election commissions deny ballot access.
And years before there was a flap on the publicly subsidized local Sports stadium [Richard Rider] and one of the many reasons for the historical Governor Gray Davis [D] recall was the illegal, unconstitutional import [from other states] tax of used automobiles. [Welcome to California, pay us $500 that you do not owe us!]
Kudos and congrats, Ed!
Ed, Great work!