The Tough Job Facing Jim Brulte as GOP Party Chair
So Jim Brulte wants to be Republican Party chair to rebuild the party. To me, restoring the Republican Party seems nearly impossible in California, unless they were willing to swallow really stiff medicine and I’m not sure they are. But if they are, here’s what would need to be done, starting with their biggest problem: […]
Republicans Must Make Their Own Effort on Education Reform
Joe Mathews in these pages has the CA education issue mostly right. Let’s start with where he is dead wrong, dangerously so. This is Part One of two articles on a new CA GOP education vision. Joe says, “Republicans, despite their small numbers, can – by siding with one side or another in the Democratic […]
Evidence Keeps Building Of Flaws In State’s Carbon Auction
California’s cap and trade regulators can’t seem to do anything right. Taxpayers, businesses and even some environmentalists are exposing the serious flaws with the state’s carbon auction. Small businesses have criticized the landmark greenhouse gas emissions law for being “the greatest threat to the growth of our business in California.” On the eve of the […]
The Political Education of Assemblyman Anthony Portantino
Ask just about anyone who has hung around the state capitol a while — reporters, lobbyists, staffers — and they will tell you that 98% of our legislators forget who they are and why they are there within two years of being elected. The external pressure to do the bidding of special interests that supply […]