Business Should Imitate CTA Advocacy Effort
The California business community should take a page from the game plan of the state’s most powerful public employee union to build an argument for a healthy business climate. The California Teachers Association recently released a series of radio and television commercials promoting the profession. The ads do not advocate for a ballot measure or […]
Prop. 47’s Benefits Are Clear
Well, they’re at it again – the fear-mongers that malign smart, common sense ideas because they’re afraid of changing the status quo. But when it comes to our bloated, ineffective prison system, the status quo needs dramatic changing. That’s why I and other conservative Republicans (like Newt Gingrich) have joined law enforcement, crime victims and […]
Kashkari Represents Another Failure of the Top Two
Neel Kashkari should be the embodiment of what backers of the Top Two (it-is-not-a-primary, don’t call it a primary) promised us. He is moderate. He is willing to depart from the doctrine of his own party. He presents himself as less partisan. He talks all about working together. Trouble is, the top two makes it […]
Senator Boxer, Trial Lawyers and Prop. 46
No this is not a lead in from Ed McMahon for Johnny Carson’s Carnac the Magnificent. The more than 50,000 grassroots supporters of California CALA have been saying for years that the lawsuit system needs reform because it mainly supports the interests of lawyers rather than ordinary people. How? By perpetuating a cycle through which personal […]
Let’s Protect The Good Jobs We Have
The level of schizophrenia within the State Capitol appears to be hitting a new high when it comes to the topic of job growth in the state. Lawmakers know that manufacturing jobs provide high wages and a ladder to the middle class, and this legislative session they delivered much-needed bills to attract new investment and […]