How Proposition 30 Can Still Win
Gov. Jerry Brown can still emerge victorious with his tax increase Proposition 30 but he needs a different electorate than the one we are seeing today. Voting has been underway for two weeks now and we are beginning to see the outlines of the November 6 electorate. Some 8.6 million Californians can now Vote By […]
The $11 Million Gift to Jerry Brown
The mysterious $11 million dropped into the No on Proposition 30 and Yes on Proposition 32 campaign last week is proving a godsend for Gov. Jerry Brown and his union allies because they can now scream about money laundering by shadowy out-of-state groups rather than defending the merits of the Brown tax proposal that is […]
A Democratic Turnout Problem
The final results are in for the 2012 primary election and they show a serious Democratic Party turnout problem in California. While the primary results do not suggest President Obama is in any danger of losing California in November, they do pose serious warming signs for Gov Brown’s tax increase initiative and for labor’s effort […]
Jerry Brown’s Election Grab Goes to Court: The Rule of Law or the Divine Right of Kings?
The Divine Right of Kings was a great idea, in the 18th Century. “L’etat, c’est moi” “I am the State,” said King Louis XIV. Now Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Legislature have tracked Louie in their defense of rigging the November election to help Brown pass his tax increase initiative. They did this by […]
Little Red Molly Hood Meets the Big Bad Wolf
The sad story of how the Democratic political establishment unhorsed liberal activist Molly Munger and her ballot measure is really proof once again, if we needed it, that amateurs don’t belong in California politics. You may recall that when the Secretary of State listed the ballot measures for the November ballot, Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax […]
If they Cannot Be Honest About the Tax Election, Why Should we Trust them with the Tax Money?
The novelist Mary McCarthy once wrote of Lillian Hellman that, “every word she wrote was a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.” The same could be said of the legislature’s conduct in trying to give Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax increase initiative a leg up by moving it to the top of the November ballot. By appearing […]
Gov. Brown and his Friends Try to Rig the Election
Ah, the sweet mysteries of rigging elections. That’s what Gov. Jerry Brown, the legislature, the Secretary of State and Los Angeles elections office are trying to do, and they might succeed but for a Sacramento judge last Friday sticking his nose into their business. Stealing elections is a fine old American tradition. It used to […]
Independent Expenditures – California’s Super PACS
The big story in this primary election, and probably this fall, will not be the candidate campaigns, it will be the independent expenditures lavishly spent by all sorts of groups to elect favored candidates. We saw this in the primary; we’ll see it in November. This is, of course nothing new, it has been going […]
The Real Threat to Obama’s Re-Election
Could the coming European financial crisis doom President Obama? That’s a question that seems worth asking after a ten day trip to Europe this month. On June 17, voters in Greece will attempt to form a stable government; they will probably fail and Greece could be forced to leave the common European currency known as […]
The End of Illegal Immigration, and its Political Implications
Well, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown have finally succeeded. The dearth of jobs on their watch has finally solved the illegal immigration problem; illegal immigrants are no longer coming to California; those here are going home. That’s the finding of the Pew Research Center in a just released study: immigration from Mexico, legal […]