Main Street Menace of the Week: Assembly Bill 1522 (Gonzalez)
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 second column of the 2014 series. Sometimes the proposals that the legislature comes up with are enough to make small employers […]
Cesar, The Brand
Today students in selected schools will either have the day off or will hear of the achievements of Cesar Chavez and his movement in California’s Central Valley in the late 60’s. They will hear a narrative about the struggle against grape farmers in Delano, CA. They will hear about the insurmountable obstacles Cesar Chavez and […]
When Constituents and Small Business Owners Speak, Legislators Listen
Recently, I wrote a blog post titled, “The World Is Run By People Who Show Up,” about how constituents can greatly affect the positions of their elected officials – but only when they speak up. California CALA recently held our fourth annual CALA/Civil Justice Association of California Day at the Capitol where we talked to […]
Whom do you trust: ‘Shrimp Boy,’ the FBI or neither?
Observers have likened the federal case against state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, and 25 others to the film “American Hustle,” about an FBI Abscam-like sting that used a small-time con man to win corruption convictions against public officials. I hope it is not like another Hollywood film, “The Departed,” about a well connected FBI informant […]