Democrats Foolishly Blow an Easy Win
What’s wrong with those voters in Fresno and Bakersfield? Don’t they know the party bosses pick the candidates and their only job is to troop to the polls and vote for them? Apparently not, since the Democrats just blew a safe Democratic Senate seat in a Central Valley special election in which the bosses achieved […]
Governor’s Race: Thin Field for Reps in 2014, Full Field for Dems … in 2018
A post on Capitol Public Radio’s website asking What GOP’s Governor’s Race? reflects the attitude of a number of political observers that the Republican effort to prevent a fourth term for Governor Jerry Brown is not building much momentum. Brown has effectively implemented his philosophy of rowing his political canoe a little on the left […]
I Know Who Can Save San Diego
Stay classy? That may be too much to ask of San Diego these days. “America’s Finest City” is in the middle of another one of its routine, self-destructive crises of local government. This one is an ugly fight over the fate of Mayor Bob Filner. He either has a nasty habit of intimidating women and […]
Where Did All the Voters Go in the Los Angeles City Council Special Election?
The hullabaloo around this week’s birth of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge started me thinking about another British royal of the same name, King George III. Remember him? His abuse of power and tyrannical rule combined with colonists’ rejection of virtual representation sparked the American Revolution, giving birth to our representative democracy. After observing […]