What issues should Calexico & IV politicians care about?

tiburon · Cholo Nako Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 16

Radiohead (Don Conde) made some very interesting points regarding Calexico's politics and issues. He said,candidiates only post signs and hardly ever (if ever) disccuss about the issues.

Now i Wanna hear what kinda issues should Calexico & IV politicians care about.

1) Cut border waiting time (cars)
If i were a powerful local politician, I would talk to the federal govt (or whoever is responsible), so they can hire more border officers (not border patrols), so we can have all the car lines open when the people come from chicali. I think Calexicans really hate waiting in line, because it just kills a lot of time.

imagine only waiting 10/15 minutes everytime u come back from chicali, and max 1 hour when it is a holiday.

2) Create Scholarships & more educational camps
I really hate it to see when most of the calexicans graduate from high school and they are like ...DUh... what do i do now?

a) flip burgers
b) ivc
c) welfare

So i will put more effort in encouraging students to stay in school by creating some educational camps... such as eaop and eop (if u know what they are, if not i can elaborate more, next time) where students can stay in an uc or csu for a couple of weeks so they get to enjoy a real experience outside Calecia...and make them want to go to college

I believe programs like "Math field day" are really good because to the students, because they are fun and educational. It makes them feel good and something to look up to. instead of stay home and watch dragon ball (or whatever they watch now) n super old chespirito re-runs.

i will add more later. the bottomline is, we got to change the calexico mentality from the young ones... many are brought with the mentality that the world revolves around calexico

tiburon

CX3 4life

Politicians should care about crime, education and enviornmental issues. On the enviornmental front is the new river which will probably still be flowing freely for future generations to cherish. Politicians have long promised a solution and even the "New River Committee" was formed but still no results. Our proximity to the border also creates a unique situation in dealing with crime. Our valley is used as a corridor for human and drug smuggling in which shady people are also responsible for crimes like car thefts.
Politicians should make sure our local and county law enforcement agencies have all the necessary tools and personnel to do the job. For example the I.C. Sheriff's Office should be the lead agency but instead it has the highest turnover rate of officers and the county board of supervisor's won't give them more funds for better wages and benefits for it's employee's. It's an embarassment to all of us that live in Imperial County to see billboards like the ones the ICSO officer's union posted in the Northend telling people buying houses that they couldn't be protected.

Calexico should have done whatever it took to have that new SDSU campus built within the city. It is a big deal when we have a major university in our backyard, the city council wants to give money to keep the theatres open but did they do anything to facilitate the expansion of SDSU?

elchrist

tiburon · Cholo Nako Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 16

I haven't been in Calexico for a while. What happened to the SDSU IV campus?

henryT8 · Cholo Nako Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Calecia

maybe someone can update us, but from what i know
sdsu calexico and
sdsu brawley campus are operating just fine.

i think more expansion will be at sdsu brawley since that one is newer, and it has more land that are available for the expansion.

i don't really mind as long as both of them operate, sdsu calexico is doing allright, but could be better, i hope it doesn't becomes just apartment, cuz it will be a waste..

more later, gtg

elchrist · Posted: 27 Oct 2006 12:28 PM Post subject:

elchrist · Posted: 27 Oct 2006 01:03 PM Post subject:

Local politicians should care about making Calexico/IV da bomb. It seems like many just run for office as a stepping stone for their future, for financial gain or for the elitism and they do just enough to not get impeached. BTW, can we impeach local elected officials?

The main issue has got to be employment. We have the highest unemployment in the United States, next to Yuma. Politicians need to figure out how to cut this percentage down by at least half in a matter of a few years. Help bring in more demanding jobs that bring in more diversity and culture to our area.

The environment should be high on the list. This one's tough because we have Mexico next to us and we're not about to change their eco-standards any time soon. So we're basically screwed here, but that doesn't mean we just give up. Put in lots of "green" transit systems (buses) that will allow people to commute from town to town. Population-wise we may be nothing, but the Imperial County covers a lot of space, so that means a lot of driving.

Another issue is immigration/international travel. The rest of the valley can't just pretend Mexicali doesn't exist. There's 2 million plus people there and that's just the numbers from their census. The reinforced wall idea is a joke, but sadly that's handled 3,000 miles away from here and we seem to have no input on the construction. Politicians here need to let the US government know what's up and get something done about it. If cities are interesting in generating more revenue, then let these people through with a little bit more ease.

Radiodude · Posted: 27 Oct 2006 04:59 PM Post subject:

The main issue in my opinion is to encase the New River and save lives. Over 30 people that live near the New River in Calexico have cancer because the contamination of the river. Our "leaders" don't have the balls to sue the federal goverment and encase the New River. Mexicali already did it, why not us?

If this was Riverside or La Jolla this would not be happening and the problem would be solve in five minutes. If the New River is encased then it will help Calexico have an economic expansion to the west and will allow anexations for housing and business to the west of Calexico.

verbal · Posted: 27 Oct 2006 05:04 PM Post subject: