Winners Emerge in Senate District 7 Special Election
Steve Glazer and Susan Bonilla are the big winners in last night’s Senate District 7 special election. The two top vote getters will square off in a May runoff to join the Senate just in time for budget deliberations. But who were the winners and losers among the groups that collectively spent north of $3.4 […]
Senator de Leon’s Green Vision Has Valley Seeing Red
Senator Kevin de Leon, the same Los Angeles State Senator who proclaimed that “no one lives out there in the tumbleweeds” when referring to the Central Valley, has proven that he still doesn’t understand the realities faced by hardworking people who live here. His recent op-ed in the Fresno Bee pitching Senate Bill 350 was […]
Fixing the Legislative Process
Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor in the 19th Century, never visited California. But he could have had the state Legislature in mind when he said, “Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made.” Observers on all sides of the political spectrum agree the legislative process in the Golden […]
To Vote, or Not to Vote
Voter turnout in California is low. Just three weeks ago, the election held in Los Angeles saw an embarrassing 10 percent turnout. And, of course, the statewide turnout just last November was almost as bad. Irrespective of political affiliation, the immediate reaction among those of us who are politically engaged is that low voter turnout […]