Fox and Hounds Daily Black Bart Award for 2011

Fox and Hounds Daily’s Black Bart Award as Californian of the Year in Politics goes to: John Chiang. Consensus of our committee was that the state controller’s growing impact in state politics and his involvement in issues from the state budget, to workers salaries to auditing corrupt governments (think Bell) lifted his office from the […]
California Office Pool 2012
The late, great New York Times columnist William Safire made a habit of writing a year-end column he called Office Pool. In it, Safire offered, multiple-choice style, a series of possible news events that could take place in the year ahead. At the column’s end, he let you know which ones he thought would occur. […]
More Proof Dems Manipulated Redistricting
Crossposted on CalWatchdog Over the summer, Calwatchdog published a series of articles documenting the way that the political Left exploited the redistricting process to assure strong gains for the Democratic Party. The report included an exclusive interview with a redistricting commission member who alleged partisan behavior by his supposedly non-partisan commission colleagues, but the series […]