Oregon GOP Has a Lesson for California
Republican Chris Dudley, who barely lost the 2010 Oregon governor’s race, is packing up to leave the state – and likely politics – and there’s a lesson here for California’s GOP. If you want to build a political team, you’ve got to give the folks on your bench something to hope for. Or they won’t […]
California Flying Higher on the Back of the F-35 Fighter
In the early 1990s California went into an economic tailspin with the end of the Cold War. Reduction in defense spending on aerospace, one of the state’s prime economic engines, slowed resulting in an economic downturn causing a big hit to the state budget. To a lesser but significant degree, funding decisions involving the F-35 […]
Vote Romney…. In 2014?
Call it the Los Angeles precedent; since we’ve been talking about potential candidates for LA mayor for more than a year even though election isn’t until 2013, it’s now OK to talk about candidates for governor in 2014. When you think about 2014, of course, the immediate thought is about the possibility of Democratic challengers […]
Are We in the Sue-age?
A couple of guys who had been drinking and smoking pot one evening climbed over the fence of Tom Glover’s property. The two guys got into a fight, and one fell back and hit the concrete stairs. He hurt his elbow. He sued Glover. Glover’s insurance company paid the guy $300,000 to go away. That […]