Villaraigosa’s Non-Announcement Announcement
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa came as close as one can to making an announcement about running for governor without crossing the line as he responded to a question at Town Hall Los Angeles yesterday. But if he wasn’t over the line, the shadow of his future ambition was way past it. Asked how […]
Blame Dems and Brown for High Initiative Signature Costs
Don’t blame the victim when it comes to signature gathering. But in a Calmatters piece on the very high costs of signature gathering for statewide initiatives right now, the victim – initiative sponsors – got blamed. And that’s weird—since initiative sponsors are the ones paying the high prices. While gamesmanship among initiative sponsors can boost […]
Trumpism: America’s Berlusconi Moment
Trump envisioned and created today’s city of white boxes for rootless new money types, who dominate the city even as they leave little mark here. An old joke—that in heaven, the Italians do the cooking; in hell, they run the government—feels a lot darker now that American politics are taking an Italian turn. Since the […]