Jerry Brown as Bill Russell
For Democratic legislators, the politics of the single payer health care plan is tricky. They have to satisfy the most activist members of their party who support the concept without putting forward a complex scheme that would break the state bank and jeopardize spending on other budget priorities. But legislators have a way to cover […]
California Democrats Should Retract Praise for Trump’s Fraudulent Infrastructure ‘Plan’
Among the supposedly wise folks of Sacramento, there has been much tut-tutting about the fervent anti-Trump opposition of so many Californians. Don’t you understand, they have said, that the president is merely transactional? Don’t you see the great opportunity to get federal money through him to repair and modernize California’s depleted infrastructure? Even Gov. Jerry […]
Will punitive damages no longer be deductible in California?
The California State Senate passed Senate Bill 66, which would disallow a deduction for the payment of punitive damages. SB 66 was introduced on January 5 of this year and passed the Senate last week along party lines, garnering the bare minimum 2/3 vote of 27 senators, with all Democrats voting aye and all Republicans voting no. […]
What Will It Take For California Voters To Change Their Minds?
In Malcolm Gladwell’s famous book, The Tipping Point his central thesis is how events collate together to form a “tipping point,” that changes individuals, companies, governments and society. Has California reached a tipping point? Seemingly it has, then why do voters keep electing the same Democrats, and allow the Republican Party to fade away into oblivion? Moreover, apathetic voters don’t […]