2012 Target Races – Part One: State Assembly
This year, due to redistricting and the new top two Open Primary, there will be more two-party competitive congressional and state legislative races this November than we have seen in this state in over a decade. The California Target Book, which I publish, has tagged six Assembly races, four state Senate races and no fewer […]
California’s Empty Chair
Do you feel lucky? Jerry Brown should. He’s lucky that Clint Eastwood wasn’t talking to him. President Obama isn’t the only politician who can be accused of being an empty chair. California and its governor have a similar problem, and we all know it. No one is in charge. No one can get anything big […]
Editorial cheerleads for Jerry Brown
Crossposted CalWatchDog Two editorials in the Sacramento Bee caught my eye on Sunday. One column identified how news media outlets have knowingly become cheerleaders for the Democratic Party; the other proved that. Columnist Kathleen Parker observed that major news media heads “correctly imagined themselves as co-players at the Democratic convention. No one pretends anymore that MSNBC is an […]
Prop 37 Will Increase Food Costs
Many of you already know that CALA (Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse) opposes Prop 37 because it is a lawsuit magnet . There’s more reasons to dislike this proposition than just lawsuits, though. A new study shows that Prop 37 will increase grocery bills for the typical California family by hundreds of dollars per year. By […]