Brulte for Governor in 2018?
There is a new form of punishment for those who dared to chair the California Republican Party: you have to run for offices that you know you can’t win. This take-one-for-the-team reality has become a trend. Former party chair Ron Nehring made a no-hope run for lieutenant governor last year (and wrote some interesting emails […]
Jeffe: Koch Money and 2016 California Initiatives
The news earlier in the week that the Koch brothers’ network had a budget of $889 million to spend on political activities during the 2016 election cycle made it into discussions at the UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies symposium that was designed to review the last election. It was suggested at the opening panel […]
Main Street Menace of the Week: Senate Bill 8 (Hertzberg)
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 first column of the 2015 series. Each time a new crop of legislators comes to Sacramento, I along with small business […]
Should We Have A Tax Convention?
Perhaps the moment has come to convene a Tax Convention in Sacramento to address the chronic dysfunction of a system in California which is largely attuned to the vagaries of ballot measure tax gimmicks and emergency responses as a basis for administering government. The one constant for running government at any level regardless of size, […]