War Games
“We have met the enemy and he is us,” opined Pogo, that sage possum of the Sunday comics. That could have been the theme of the recent California Democratic Party Convention in Sacramento. There is a pertinent rule of political thumb: “A party is never more united when it’s out of power, struggling to get […]
Obscure State Fund Takes Center Stage…Again
An obscure state fund, the Pooled Money Investment Fund, has taken center stage in California’s political theater with a proposal by Gov. Jerry Brown to borrow from the fund to help pay down the state’s massive public employee health care and pension debt. This is not the first time that this fund found its way […]
A Message to Congress: Don’t Miss your Golden Opportunity on Tax Reform
We are now passed the 100 day mark of the Trump Administration and Republican-controlled Congress. It is important that we remind our elected officials why they earned our votes back in November. For many, that reason was simple. President Trump vowed to bring an “America first” agenda to bring jobs back to the states, partially […]
Please Don’t Name That Freeway for Obama
The California legislature is about to do something pathetic: Naming a stretch of the 134 Freeway between Pasadena and Glendale for President Obama. I understand the historic rationale. That stretch of freeway sits above the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, home to Occidental College, where Obama spent his first two years of college. And […]