How California’s Primary Process Will Help Donald Trump and Hurt Ted Cruz
California’s June primary will not really count in the long race for the Republican nomination like it should because the primary here is organized in a way that makes no sense. Instead of one presidential primary on June 7, we will have 54 contests. One contest will be for the statewide winner, and that winner […]
Predictable Supreme Court Split on Friedrichs Case Will Have Wide Effect on CA Politics
Without the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a 4-4 tie on the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case was predictable. While unions hail the tie vote as a victory and reformers bemoan a missed opportunity, the real question that is avoided by this non-decision is how do rank-and-file teachers feel about the chance to withhold their […]
Will California Finally be in Play?
A statewide survey of registered Republicans in California showed Donald Trump leading Ted Cruz by 37-to-30 percent, with John Kasich at 12 percent. But among likely Republican voters, the numbers were Trump 36 percent, Cruz 35, and Kasich 14. What does this Los Angeles Times survey tell us? It’s true that the Times poll, done in cooperation with the […]
California Chamber Releases 2016 Job Killer List
(Editor’s Note: the California Chamber of Commerce released its annual list of Job Killer bills in the legislature. The announcement is below.) The California Chamber of Commerce today released a preliminary list of job killer bills to call attention to the negative impact that 18 proposed measures would have on California’s job climate and economic recovery if […]
Gov. Brown Caved Too Easily to Labor on Minimum Wage Increase, Should Have Forced Labor to Go to Voters
Initially, it looked like Governor Jerry Brown (D) was going to drive a much harder bargain with the public sector labor unions, but in the end he gave in too easily by granting concessions that would primarily benefit his legacy but not the State of California, California businesses and California taxpayers. I know the polling […]