Three Ballot Initiatives, Not Quite As Awful As Usual
You gotta take your good news where you can get it when it comes to California’s dangerously inflexible system of initiative and referendum. So this year’s three ballot initiative – Propositions 45, 46, and 47 – qualify as good news. It might be more precise to say: those three initiatives are less awful than usual. […]
What Happened to Jerry Brown, the Reformer We Once Knew?
“Write the best campaign, lobbying and conflicts of interest reform legislation that you can.” That was the instruction that Secretary of State Jerry Brown gave me when he hired me as his office’s Elections Counsel in 1972. He indicated that he didn’t think the legislature would pass any extensive reforms because it was not in […]
What You Can Do for California
In the good times, it is important to remember the bad times. One of California’s most serious governance challenges is the volatility of General Fund tax revenue. No other state has a revenue system that produces higher booms and bigger busts. As a result, everything from schools to services for the elderly are subjected to […]
Your Vote Can Help Stop Lawsuit Abuse
This week, supporters of California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse recognizes Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week, a week dedicated to raising awareness about the impact lawsuit abuse has on our society. There is no doubt lawsuit abuse is taking a tremendous toll on our economy. California’s legal climate is consistently ranked number one in having among the […]
You’re Killing Us On LA’s Westside – A Two-Fer Visit Week Of First Biden, Then Obama, Is Driving Us Mad Here!!
During the week of Oct. 6-10, residents of LA’s “Toney” WestSide have been repeatedly tortured by a Two-Fer of, first, Veep Biden’s visit early in the week, followed, like a one-two punch (a right cross, and an uppercut to the chin, gridlockwise) by POTUS himself, visiting for the end of the very same week. Both come here, repeatedly, far too often […]