Brown’s Re-Election Effort Likely To Be Quiet One
Stop the presses. Jerry Brown is running for re-election. Newspapers from the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune all the way down to the Sioux City Journal and the Billings Gazette carried the news Thursday. Web sites and blogs all reported that the governor announced his intentions in a Twitter feed. The statement on […]
Dear Democrats, Don’t Let Your Tim Donnelly Creation Jump the Shark
Let’s give credit where it’s due. The Democrats’ creation of the person known to the world as Tim Donnelly was a masterstroke. I don’t know if it was Ace or Lehane or the boys at Google, and I don’t want to know. I don’t know if the fellow running around the state is an advanced, […]
Will We Have a Pension Tax in LA?
“A Time for Truth,” the January report issued by Mickey Kantor’s LA 2020 Commission, indicated the City was shortchanging its two underfunded pension plans by at least $400 million a year because of its reliance on the overly optimistic investment rate assumption of 7.75%. But this $400 million that financial wizards at City Hall have […]
Wright’s Ticky-Tack Foul Doesn’t Deserve Expulsion
The holier-than-thou crowd is pushing for Rod Wright to be forced from office as soon as possible, even though state law is clear that it shouldn’t happen until trial court sentencing (Gov’t Code 1770). Yes, by fibbing about where he “domiciled,” the senator did the equivalent of driving 65 in a 55 zone, which turns out to […]
Republican Senators Demand Vote on Wright and Calderon
(Editor’s Note: With yesterday’s action to vote on expelling Sen. Wright put off by a parliamentary maneuver, Republican senators have introduced new resolutions seeking a vote on Monday to suspend both Senators Wright and Calderon. A press release announcing those new resolutions is below.) Next up: Votes on Monday to “Suspend” Senators Calderon & Wright Knight, Anderson […]