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6B Daily News – Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Obama ditching DC to mingle with voters WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the next few days the country will get a glimpse of a President Barack Obama rarely seen in recent months — the one who engages with voters, not lawmakers, and kicks back in Midwestern diners, not just the Oval Office. The president set out Monday for a three- day bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois that will give him a chance to hear directly from the public in a region that helped launch him to the White House in 2008, and where Republican presidential hopefuls are now battling it out. It comes after the president spent much of the sum- mer holed up in the nation’s capital enmeshed in bitterly partisan negotiations on the debt crisis that cratered his approval ratings and those of Congress amid a falter- ing economy and high unemployment. Eager to get out of Washington, Obama even appeared more casual even as he left, ditching his suit and tie for a sports coat and khakis. The president will get a chance to absorb the public’s anger and try his best to respond as he holds five town hall events in three days. In between he’ll drive long stretches on farmland and rural highways, likely mak- ing unscheduled stops here and there at local eateries and other gathering places. It begins midmorning Monday when he arrives in Minneapolis before heading by bus about 40 miles south to Cannon Falls, Minn., for his first town hall event. It’s an official White House tour, not a campaign swing, but it’s also the first bus trip Obama has embarked on since he toured the country seeking the presidency. And with the 2012 campaign already under way the trip will surely take on a cam- paign feel at times, especially when Obama visits Iowa just after voters there have con- ducted the first test vote of the GOP presi- dential primary, selecting Michele Bach- mann in the Iowa straw poll. En route to Minnesota, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama’s trip was ‘‘unrelated’’ to the surge by Bachmann, the Republican lawmaker from that state. Carney defended the campaign-style bus trip as a normal part of ‘‘doing what presidents do’’ — getting out in the country and talking with people about the economy and his ideas to help it. The president faces no primary challenge within his party. Obama is unlikely to engage any of his potential GOP rivals by name, aides said, but he’s already indicated plans to draw sharp contrasts between his ideas on the economy and the Republican approach, which the president recently dismissed as a ‘‘bill of Legal Notices Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles. In the matter of the Estate of CONSTANCE D. BEELER, de- ceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell at private sale, on or after August 25, 2011, at the office of HINOJOSA & WALLET, 2215 Colby Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90064; 310/473-7000, to the highest and best bidder, and subject to confirmation by said Superior Court, all right, ti- tle and interest of said deceased at time of death, and all right, ti- tle and interest in the estate has additionally acquired, in and to all the certain real property situ- ated in the County of Tehama, State of California, described as follows: NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Case No. BP100237 Unimproved Lot 56 of Oak Knoll County estates as per map filed in the Office of the County Re- corder of the County of Tehama, May 25, 1965 in Book O of Maps at Pages 130, 131, 132, 133 and 134. Subject to: covenants, condi- tions and restrictions contained in declaration of restrictions as recorded on May 25, 1965 in Book 471 at Pages 236 through 244 inclusive, of Official Records of Tehama County. Assessor’s Parcel No: 022-050- 39-1. goods’’ that amounts to little more than slashing spending on vital programs like education and Medicare. At the same time, aides say that coming off a debt deal that included deep cuts with- out raising any taxes, the president is braced to hear complaints from disaffected Democ- rats tired of his compromises with Republi- cans, and from a public generally sick of dysfunctional Washington. After his event in Cannon Falls, around midday, Obama drives south into Iowa where he holds another town hall Monday afternoon in Decorah. On Tuesday the pres- ident holds what the White House is billing as a ‘‘rural economic forum’’ in Peosta, Iowa, near the Illinois border, where he’ll be joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vil- sack to announce some initiatives for rural areas. He’ll wrap up Wednesday with town hall meetings in Atkinson in northwestern Illinois, and then in nearby Alpha, Ill., before returning to Washington. On Thurs- day he flies with his family to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts for his annual summer vacation. The bus tour itinerary takes Obama through three states he won in 2008 but where he now needs to shore up his stand- ing. In Iowa, Obama returns to a state that handed him a key victory over Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008 but where Republicans have now been blanket- ing the state in preparation for its first-in- the-nation caucuses, attacking the president at every turn. Obama made a similar outing last year, traveling the Midwest in a two-day, three- state tour in April 2010 that took him to Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. There was no bus, but the president’s motorcade made hours-long drives through rural areas, pass- ing school children waving American flags and seniors sitting on lawn chairs. The trip gave the president a chance to engage in some of the grassroots politicking he perfected in 2008 during weeks spent campaigning in the small towns that would help carry him to victory in places like Iowa. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way back to Washington, Obama said the trip reminded him of his early days in politics. ‘‘It was a reminder that sometimes there’s a mismatch between the way politics are portrayed in Washington and how people are feeling,’’ the president said at the time. ‘‘I think it’s a less toxic atmosphere.’’ California plumber learns it's best just to pay your taxes WASHINGTON (MCT) — Mark DeVries, a plumber from Bakersfield defied the tax man. Bad idea. DeVries is now prison- bound, sentenced to 27 months by a federal judge in Fresno. He's also on the hook for hefty penalties, newly imposed by a Wash- ington-based court. DeVries, 56, is the latest case study in the perils of a seductive idea: The father of four, married to his high school sweetheart for more than 35 years, was lured from the financial straight and narrow by the same siren song that snared actor Wesley Snipes and thou- sands of others. "Mr. DeVries (said) that, after studying the (tax) code, he learned that all withhold- ing is voluntary," U.S. Tax Court Judge Diane Kroupa wrote in summing up the case. The Washington-based tax court hears taxpayers' challenges to the Internal Revenue Service. Some challenges are well-founded. Some are not. Some become downright criminal. "Some of these people really believe," Joe Kristan, a tax specialist and blogger based in Des Moines, Iowa, said in an interview. "They'll try pretty much anything; they'll run through the whole list of these silly argu- ments." Last week, Kroupa con- cluded that DeVries and his wife, Caroleen, owed a total of some $122,000 in unpaid back taxes and more than $80,000 in penalties for the years 1996 to 1998. Three days earlier, U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger had sentenced DeVries for his conviction on charges relat- ed to evading taxes from 1999 to 2001. The criminal conviction and the tax court civil ruling stemmed from actions taken in different years. Both, however, resulted from DeVries' insistence on evad- ing unwanted tax obliga- tions. "Even now, after his crim- inal conviction, Mr. DeVries has filed a return based on frivolous positions," Kroupa said in her 31-page ruling. Frivolous positions include challenging the legality of the IRS. DeVries also evaded taxes through a web of false identification numbers and shaky trusts, a jury determined. "Through word of mouth, Mr. DeVries found a 'guy out of Fresno' to form his trusts," Kroupa reported, quoting DeVries. "Mr. DeVries paid him 'a couple grand,' even though he was not an attorney, because 'everybody had trusts.' " DeVries still has his sup- porters. Many wrote Wanger to describe an individual whom his attorney called "a family man, hardworking, kind and compassionate, true to his beliefs, religious and always willing to help others." "Mr. DeVries' conduct related to the convictions in this case can best be described as aberrant behav- ior, for an individual who has otherwise led a law- abiding life," Fresno-based attorney Eric Fogderude wrote in a pre-sentencing memo. DeVries, like Snipes and others, had embraced pitches affiliated with entities vari- ously known as the Ameri- can Rights Litigators and the Guiding Light of God Min- istries. The organizations ped- dled tax-avoidance schemes that included the assertion that the IRS lacks the authority to collect taxes. The 68-year-old founder, Eddie Ray Kahn, is serving time for fraud and related crimes. A Kahn-affiliated attor- ney from Gainesville, Fla., named Milton H. Baxley II initially represented DeVries and then was sent to prison himself. The defense was remark- ably aggressive. When an IRS agent sought DeVries' financial records from banks, Baxley sent letters that called the summons ille- gal. The DeVries family tried billing the IRS investi- gator for $1 million, claim- ing "copyright infringe- ment." DeVries sought to obtain the investigator's per- sonnel file and launched an unsuccessful $50 million lawsuit against IRS officials. Officials had to respond to each maneuver, similar to the tactics that other tax resisters employ. It adds up. "The cost to the govern- ment and those of us who pay taxes was staggering," researcher and litigation consultant J.J. MacNab noted in an interview. Kahn at one point had more than 4,000 paying clients. MacNab said these included "a surprising num- ber of dentists and chiro- practors" as well as blue- collar workers and "larger fish" such as Snipes. The onetime star of movies including "Blade" and "Rising Sun," Snipes earned more than $37 mil- lion from 1999 to 2004. Instead of tax returns, he filed what the 11th U.S. Cir- cuit Court of Appeals called "treatises describing theories about why the IRS was pow- erless to collect income taxes from him." Snipes is serving a three- year sentence for failing to file tax returns. He'll proba- bly be released from prison in July 2013, several months before DeVries will. The government "has done a very good job of shutting down key tax- denier promoters," MacNab said, "and the movement has had to adjust ... to focus on other techniques." Legal Notices Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 11-0036722 Title Order No. 110227796 Investor/Insurer No. 1700987189 APN No. 031-153-091 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 03/23/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER." Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by JAMES A. BONOMINI AND KATHY A. BONOMINI, HUS- BAND AND WIFE, AS JOINT TEN- ANTS, dated 03/23/2006 and re- corded 03/28/06, as Instrument No. 2006-006736, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Tehama County, State of Califor- nia, will sell on 08/30/2011 at 2:00PM, At the main entrance to the Tehama County Courthouse, 633 Washington Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080 at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, paya- ble in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest con- veyed to and now held by it un- der said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully de- scribed in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street ad- dress and other common desig- nation, if any, of the real proper- ty described above is purported to be: 1215 ORANGE STREET, RED BLUFF, CA, 96080. The under- signed Trustee disclaims any li- ability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with inter- est thereon of the obligation se- cured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publica- tion of the Notice of Sale is $184,969.85. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total in- debtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings asso- ciation, or savings bank speci- fied in Section 5102 of the Finan- cial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an ’’AS IS’’ con- dition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, re- garding title, possession or en- cumbrances, to satisfy the in- debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as pro- vided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and ex- penses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. DATED: 08/06/2011 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914- 01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone: (800) 281 8219, Sale Infor- mation (626) 927-4399 By: Trust- ee’s Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collec- tor attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. ASAP# FNMA4059395 08/16/2011, 08/23/2011 08/09/2011, Terms of sale are cash in lawful money of the United States on confirmation of sale, or part cash and balance upon such terms and conditions as are agreeable to the personal repre- sentative. Ten percent of amount bid to be deposited with bid, or amount as agreeable to the personal representative. Bids or offers to be in writing and will be received at the aforesaid office at any time af- ter the first publication hereof and before date of sale. Dated: August 9, 2011 BRENDA DEPEW, Personal Repre- sentative of the estate of said deceased Publish: Aug 15. 16 & 22, 2011 CHECK OUT THE HINOJOSA AND WALLET ATTORNEYS AT LAW LYNARD C HINOJOSA 2215 COLBY AVENUE LOS ANGELES CA 90064 (310) 473-7000 CLASSIFIED Legal Notices Legal Notices LEGAL NOTICE Trustee Sale No. 745372CA Loan No. 0024183915 Title Order No. 100737733-CA-MAI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DE- FAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 1/24/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 8/30/2011 at 02:00 PM, RECONVEYANCE COMPANY as the duly appointed Trustee un- der and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded 01/31/2007, Book N/A, Page N/A, Instrument 2007002078, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of TEHAMA County, California, exe- cuted by: KENNETH M. ZEARLEY, AN UNMARRIED MAN AND PAULA E. HENRY, AN UNMARRIED WOM- AN AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., (MERS), SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, BNC MORTGAGE, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORA- TION, IT’S SUCCESSORS AND AS- SIGNS., as Beneficiary, will sell at public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cash- ier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a cashier’s check drawn by a state or feder- al savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and author- ized to do business in this state. Sale will be held by the duly ap- pointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter de- scribed property under and pur- suant to the Deed of Trust. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, ex- pressed or implied, regarding ti- tle, possession, or encumbran- ces, to pay the remaining princi- pal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, estimated fees, charg- es and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably esti- mated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Place of Sale: AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE TEHAMA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 633 WASHINGTON STREET, RED BLUFF, CA Legal Description: As more fully described in said Deed of Trust Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $414,285.12 (estimated) Street address and other common des- ignation of the real property: 19335 HOOKER CREEK RD COT- TONWOOD, CA 96022 APN Num- ber: 004-120-08-1 The under- signed Trustee disclaims any li- ability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". In compliance with California Civil Code 2923.5(c) the mortgagee, trustee, benefi- ciary, or authorized agent de- clares: that it has contacted the borrower(s) to assess their fi- nancial situation and to explore options to avoid foreclosure; or that it has made efforts to con- tact the borrower(s) to assess their financial situation and to explore options to avoid foreclo- sure by one of the following methods: by telephone; by Unit- ed States mail; either 1st class or certified; by overnight deliv- ery; by personal delivery; by e- mail; by face to face meeting. DATE: 8/8/2011 CALIFORNIA RECONVEYANCE COMPANY, as Trustee BRANDON ROYES, ASSIS- TANT SECRETARY CALIFORNIA RECONVEYANCE COMPANY IS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFOR- MATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Cali- fornia Reconveyance Company 9200 Oakdale Avenue Mail Stop: CA2-4379 Chatsworth, CA 91311 800-892-6902 For Sales Informa- tion: (714) 730-2727 or www.lpsasap.com (714) 573-1965 or www.priorityposting.com P862384 8/9, 8/16, 08/23/2011 CALIFORNIA ✓✓✓✓