No Party Preference is No Key to Elected Office
The idea that candidates can escape the two party system with independent runs for office fell flat in Tuesday’s election. While a growing number of California voters declare themselves unaffiliated with any political party – No Party Preference is the official label – candidates that chose NPP as their ballot designation did not break through […]
I Take It All Back. I Love Top Two
I would like to take back everything bad I ever said about the top two. Heck, I’ll even call it a primary, even though it isn’t. The results in June’s general…er… first round… er… jungle cluster-thing elections were delicious. For those of us who always knew California politics was a joke, the top two has […]
Kashkari Win Good for GOP
The Republican primary math is interesting: Neel Kashkari 18.70% Tim Donnelly 14.90% Andrew Blount 2.30% Glenn Champ 1.90% 37.80%
I Voted, But Sort of Wish I Hadn’t
I headed to the polls Tuesday morning wondering if I was doing the right thing. In general, I try not to participate in frauds. Given how broken California governance is, how constrained elected officials are, and how our media and government keep calling June elections “primaries” even though primaries were eliminated in 2010, California elections […]
Government Employee Unions – The Root Cause of California’s Challenges
Spokespersons for California’s government employee unions perpetuate a myth of staggering absurdity and tragic consequences – that they are protecting working Californians from wealthy corporations and wealthy individuals. The reality is that government employee unions are focused on one thing: Expanding government employee pay, benefits and privileges. This requires expanding government, and that priority comes […]