How Proposition 30 and 32 Killed the Republicans
The good news for Republicans is that they are no longer a dying party. The bad news is that they are dead, and the final dagger into the corpse was the huge turnout of young voters on Tuesday – the exit polls show that 18 to 29 years olds made up 28 percent of the […]
Brown Again Shows His Political Savvy
After his years of success in California politics, maybe it’s time for California politicians and pundits to admit that just maybe Gov. Jerry Brown knows what he’s doing. In the past couple of weeks there have been plenty of stories –- including mine — about how Brown’s Prop. 30 tax measure was tanking. For pols […]
In Search of the Missing 9 Million
The election results are in, and the postmortem examination has been all over the Internet. Generally grim news for conservatives and Republicans in California. Most of the analysis has focused on broadening appeals to minorities and women. That may well bear fruit but I wanted to focus on something else – the voters that didn’t […]
Giving a Voice to Family Businesses
Taking a Stand to Protect a Driving Force in California’s Economy It seems amazing that family businesses have never been represented at our state capitol, or any capitol, for that matter. There are several organizations that represent certain types of family businesses and those that provide services to family businesses, but did you know that […]