Campaign 2012: Final Remarks
THE TARGET RACES Prior to the November 6, 2012 General Election, the California Target Book, which I publish, identified ten congressional districts, four state senate districts and six assembly districts as targets. These are twenty districts that both political parties – and several of their like-minded independent expenditure committees – spent serious dollars in an […]
What Taxpayers Should Know About Brown’s Budget
We’ve always thought it a bit odd how every January, when the Governor releases the proposed state budget for the following fiscal year, there is barely a drop of ink used by the main stream media about the impact to citizen taxpayers. Sure, as a spending document, the interests that receive government largesse — welfare, […]
My Choice for GOP Chairman: Howard Jarvis
If the California Republican Party wants to revive its fortunes with the selection of a new chairman, the best choice is clear: Howard Jarvis. Jarvis remains widely revered not only among the Republican rank and file, most of whom are old enough to remember him, but also among many Californians. His signature triumph, Prop 13, […]
California’s Demographic Dilemma
It’s been nearly 20 years since California Gov. Pete Wilson won re-election by tying his campaign to the anti-illegal immigrant measure Proposition 187. Ads featuring grainy images of presumably young Hispanic males crossing the border energized a largely white electorate terrified of being overwhelmed, financially and socially, by the incoming foreign hordes. The demographic dilemma […]