The CA GOP’s Alamo
What’s left of the California Republican Party could be making a last stand in 2020 to uphold a core foundation held by the state’s GOP for half-a-century and more: checking the rise of taxes. Call it the GOP’s Alamo moment. Yes, in the history of the fight for Texas independence the defeat at the Alamo […]
An Answer for the GOP: Jack Kemp’s Philosophy
About now, the California Republican Party – surely licking the deep wounds it suffered during the mid-term election of 2018 – must be asking itself “What now?” Here’s an answer: How about an injection of some Jack Kemp? Kemp, now deceased, was an 18-term Member of Congress and Bush (41) cabinet secretary – and an […]
Those Switching Orange County Maps Aren’t a Triumph. They Are a Tragedy
On Twitter and Facebook, I see people celebrating that screen shot of two maps of Orange County. The maps divide the county into Congressional districts. The map on the left shows a mostly red county, with two blue districts, as it was previous to this year’s elections. The second map shows the county all blue. […]
State Auditor’s Highly Critical Report on High Speed Rail Released. Will it Also be Ignored?
Last Thursday, the California State Auditor released its much anticipated audit of the High Speed rail project. Opponents of the project had pushed for an audit for several years, but had always in the past been rebuffed with no support to authorize any audit from the State’s Democratic controlled transportation committees, in both the Assembly […]