Thoughts from Post Election Conferences
I participated in a couple of post election conferences last week, one sponsored by the California Chamber of Commerce and the other by the Pat Brown Institute at Cal State LA. The Cal Chamber panel was on November’s initiatives; the Pat Brown Institute panel discussed the top-two primary and redistricting reform. On the governor’s success […]
City Hall’s Values: Screwing the Next Generations of Angelenos
This statement was made by Council Member Paul Krekorian, the Chair of the City Council’s powerful Budget and Finance Committee, to over 100 budget representatives of the City’s Neighborhood Councils who gathered at City Hall for the Mayor’s Community Budget Day on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, the lack of values of our fiscally irresponsible Elected Elite […]
Voters Should Not Be Ignored on Legal Reform
The Great Election of 2012 is over and now we all need to get down to business. Washington has its problems with a fiscal cliff and California has serious financial and unemployment issues. The voters want leadership and results and they really do not want to have to deal with it every other year on […]
Remedies for the CA Republican Party
Tony Quinn’s article, How Propositions 30 and 32 killed the Republicans has the usual excellent analysis. Quinn’s insight – that the California Republican Party is now de facto led by Charles Munger, Jr. – may (groan) be correct. If so politics in California truly has changed. Likewise Quinn’s portrayal of the anti-tax zealots is accurate. […]