Prop 34: Rose Bird’s Revenge?
In 1986, with tape recorder in hand, I traveled around Southern California interviewing relatives of murder victims and district attorneys and former D.A.s in order to create radio pieces to be used in the campaign to unseat Rose Bird in her confirmation vote as California’s Chief Justice. The major reason that Bird faced the unusual […]
GOP Voters Hold Key to Berman-Sherman Race
Nothing gets nastier than intra-party politics. Exhibit A is the runoff between Congressmen Howard Berman and Brad Sherman in the newly drawn 30th Congressional District. In a debate last week, Sherman blew a gasket and grabbed Berman roughly and seemed to be challenging him to duke it out in the playground. A deputy sheriff intervened […]
Alarming Compensation Trends for State Workers
At an event last night hosted by the San Joaquin Taxpayers Association in Stockton – the largest municipality to declare bankruptcy in the United States due to overly generous government employee compensation – the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation and the Center for Government Analysis jointly released a new study that reveals alarming compensation trends for […]
Prop. 39 bad for business, California consumers
Crossposted Orange County Register The news – that some of the largest companies affected by the estimated $1 billion in corporate tax increases contained in Proposition 39 would not be mounting an effort to defeat the measure – is unfortunate, not only for those companies and others directly hit by the tax increase, but for […]