{"id":10300,"date":"2012-05-25T10:18:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2013-02-08T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:21:29","slug":"scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/25\/scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarafone challenges Stone for supervisor role"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joe Scarafone, Riverside County 3rd District candidate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Joe Scarafone, Hemet, is challenging incumbent Supervisor Jeff Stone for Riverside County\u2019s 3rd Supervisorial seat. Whoever garners a majority of the vote will be the next supervisor. This election will not continue onto the November ballot.<\/p>\n

Scarafone, a retired border patrol agent and current contractor, is a relative newcomer to electoral politics. Nevertheless, he has strong views on how to improve the county\u2019s operations as well as those of all other levels of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe I can bring a solution,\u201d he said proudly. \u201cMy first plan of attack is to improve jobs or commerce. You can\u2019t conduct commerce with licenses or permits at maximum cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scarafone\u2019s solution is significant relaxation of the county\u2019s building permit and regulation apparatus. He believes, based on personal experience, that setting fixed and stable fees, rather than those dependent on deposit-based, work involved schedules, would create a level of certainty for housing and commercial construction. <\/p>\n

If assured of the total permit cost, Scarafone argues that banks would lend more and builders could begin working knowing what their sales points would need to be. \u201cWhy should any money go to code enforcement?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

He also believes money can be saved through pension reform. As a former federal employee, he advocates a shift in the pension program to one more similar to the current federal employee program, like a 401(k). \u201cWe can\u2019t afford to pay retiree\u2019s 95 percent of their salaries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He wants government to attend to fundamental government services such as public safety and education and step out of the exotic and, perhaps, private sector roles. As an example, he referred to the county board\u2019s approval of an export finance assistance center at last week\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n

In Scarafone\u2019s view, the federal Export-Import Bank can handle this function or, better, private financial institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cRich people put up the investment, but it\u2019s the government that guarantees it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Despite the potential merits of his message, Scarafone lacks the political capital to share it throughout the district. While Stone has collected nearly $100,000 in contributions, Scarafone has less than $5,000 and that came from a few close friends, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Scarafone, Hemet, is challenging incumbent Supervisor Jeff Stone for Riverside County\u2019s 3rd Supervisorial seat. Whoever garners a majority of the vote will be the next supervisor. This election will not continue onto the November ballot. Scarafone, a retired border patrol agent and current contractor, is a relative newcomer to electoral politics. Nevertheless, he has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[369,30],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nScarafone challenges Stone for supervisor role • Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/25\/scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"description\":\"Almost All the News \\u2014\\u00a0Part of the Time\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/25\/scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/JoeScarafone.jpg\",\"width\":106,\"height\":159,\"caption\":\"Joe Scarafone, Riverside County 3rd District candidate.\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/25\/scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/25\/scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role\/\",\"name\":\"Scarafone challenges Stone for supervisor role • Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/25\/scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-25T17:18:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-02-08T21:21:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/aeae3367986290257fc0e23a23079bb5\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2012\/05\/25\/scarafone-challenges-stone-for-supervisor-role\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/aeae3367986290257fc0e23a23079bb5\",\"name\":\"JP Crumrine\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/289a47b0cbb194a66eb24aa93f19f915?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"JP Crumrine\"},\"description\":\"JP Crumrine is news editor of the Idyllwild Town Crier newspaper.\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17743,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions\/17743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}