Tom Steyer’s Political Blackmail
In an act that gives political thuggery a bad name, hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, whose 2012 ballot measure raised California business taxes by a billion dollars, has decided his next cause is to blackmail a candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts. Californians will remember Steyer for his Proposition 39 on the November ballot […]
Ballot Proponents Should Have Standing in Court
One way the United States Supreme Court can decide the Proposition 8 case is to determine that the proponents of the measure defending the law should not have standing to appear in the court. That would be wrong. The proponents stepped in when state officials refused to defend the law passed by the voters. If […]
Main Street Menace of the Week: Assembly Bill 10 (Alejo) – Minimum Wage Hike Wiping Out 68,000 Jobs
While the legislature is in session, the National Federation of Independent Business/California will be profiling anti-small business bills and initiatives and the adverse effect they would have on California’s job creators. This is the third column of the 2013 series. Today, NFIB released a study revealing that if Assembly Bill 10 by Assemblyman Alejo becomes […]
Get Ready for Court Funding Cuts
The Los Angeles County Superior Court recently announced plans to eliminate 511 positions by June in a sweeping cost cutting effort to close an $85 million dollar budget shortfall by the beginning of the next fiscal year. The Presiding Judge, David Wesley, said all of the cuts are necessary. Including cuts made over the past four years, […]