The Fall of the State GOP
The California Republican Party wipeout is complete. From the defeat of Trumpian hard liners like Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to moderates who are offered as examples of Republicans who can work across the aisle like Assemblywoman Catharine Baker, they are all gone. Many obituaries on the California GOP have been written the last week. The brand […]
Fact-Checking Snopes and PolitiFact on California Wildfires and SB 1463
The fact-checking sites Snopes and PolitiFact have called into question my Senate Bill 1463 from 2016. I am going to fact-check their fact-checking. Snopes wrote: “Claim: Jerry Brown vetoed a wildfire management bill in 2016, contributing to the prevalence and risk of wildfires in the ensuing two years.” So, Snopes itself is claiming two “claims” […]
Karen Bass for Speaker of the House
I’m not a Democrat. But with the Republican Party turned Trumpian, I find myself having to root for the Democrats to win. Is this what it feels like to be a Mets fan? This brings me to Nancy Pelosi’s foolish effort to install herself again as speaker of the house. I don’t want to rehash […]
California Needs A New Economic Model
Already anointed by The New Yorker as the “head of the resistance,” Gavin Newsom could well think he’s also king of California politics. He can both sell himself as the model of progressive virtue and also lord of the world’s fifth-largest economy, home to three of the world’s most powerful and influential companies. California, along […]