Quentin L. Kopp

Nov 23, 2024 | westsideobserver.com | Quentin L. Kopp |Richard Knee |Glenn Rogers |Carol Kocivar

• • • • • • • • • • July 10, 2024 • • • • • • • • • • “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” Thus spoke H. L. Mencken, a voice from the past.

Nov 5, 2024 | westsideobserver.com | Quentin L. Kopp |Richard Knee |Glenn Rogers |Carol Kocivar

Editor’s Note:The Westside Observer does not endorse candidates or issues, opinions of its authors and reporters are their own, not the Westside Observer. • • • • • • • • • • September 2024 • • • • • • • • • • Separation of church and state in the United States of America, California and San Francisco could hardly be more complete.

Nov 5, 2024 | westsideobserver.com | Quentin L. Kopp |Richard Knee |Glenn Rogers |Carol Kocivar

• • • • • • • • • • August 6, 2024 • • • • • • • • • • Over five years ago, I opined in these pages about then-U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and her dishonesty in securing $97,000 from California taxpayers as a member of the California Unemployment Insurance Board to which she was appointed in 1993 by her boyfriend Willie Brown, then-Assembly Speaker, while simultaneously paid by Alameda County taxpayers as an Alameda County deputy district attorney, supposedly a full-time.

Jun 15, 2024 | westsideobserver.com | Quentin L. Kopp |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar

• • • • • • • • • • April 27, 2024 • • • • • • • • • • President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while still New York state’s governor in 1932, warned: “Any government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.” California’s deficit must be cured by June 15, 2024 under California’s Constitution (Article IV, Sec. 12 [c].

Mar 5, 2024 | westsideobserver.com | Quentin L. Kopp |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar

• • • • • • • • • • November 2023 • • • • • • • • • • As we prepare to pay out our federal and state income taxes pursuant to two extensions granted this year by the always-benevolent Internal Revenue Service and Franchise Tax Board, I’m reminded of quips meriting reiteration, such as: “Sorry people feel the government owes them a living! The rest of us would gladly settle for a small tax refund.” Dissection of electing supervisors by 11 districts continues, although not destined for the...