California Election Postmortem
California voters yesterday lurched even further to the political Left, the state even more out of step with the rest of the country. In a battle of two Democrats for a U.S. Senate seat, Bay Area leftist Attorney General Kamala Harris trounced Orange County moderate Rep. Loretta Sanchez, two to one – a greater margin […]
Jerry Brown Is Our President
We’ll soon have two presidents, and one will live in Sacramento There’s the guy that a plurality of American voters elected Tuesday. He arrives in office as the most unpopular president elect in U.S. history. He’s reviled – and rightly so – by many for his bigotry and belief in all sorts of discredited nosense. […]
Donald Trump’s Victory
Donald Trump pulled it off. He will be the 45th president of the United States. Hillary Clinton had everything going for her or so it seemed—plenty of money, strong organization, a blue-chip veteran staff, a reasonably united Party, decades of campaign experience and the support of a popular president. It was not enough. Trump had […]
Prop. 55: California Voters Extend Highest Income Tax Brackets to Fund Education and Healthcare
California voters on November 8 passed Proposition 55, which is an initiative constitutional amendment which took effect on November 9. This ballot measure was the successful effort to extend the Prop. 30 highest marginal tax rates promoted by Governor Brown and others in 2012 as a “temporary tax” to help stabilize the state’s General Fund. […]