Gaming the (Electoral) System
Many pro-tax increase campaigns supported by government authorities try to game the system to get the results they desire. Look at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s parcel tax. The tax exempts seniors from paying the tax in hoping to gain their votes without incurring any burden and states that an oversight committee will oversee […]
Legislature Should Reject Renewed Attack on Arbitration Agreements – Part 2
While no longer the state’s chief executive, Governor Brown studiously considered two bills that were intended to preclude employment arbitration and he vetoed both bills. He most recently did so last September with AB 3080 (Gonzalez) when he said: “In my veto message of a similar bill in 2015, I referred to recent court decisions […]
Australia’s voters reject environmental fantasies
Following the recent uprisings in Venezuela and France, the results of Australia’s May 18th election may have put California lawmakers on notice that California’s working class and blue collar voters may also be ready to express their opinions at the polls. In a remarkable and most unexpected outcome, Australia’s conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison has […]
Mayoral Mismatch
Mayors have had little success in becoming president, with only one big-city chief executive, Grover Cleveland of Buffalo, later governor of New York, actually making it to the White House. Yet this year’s running of the donkeys includes several: a minor-city chief executive, Pete Buttigieg of South Bend; a former big-city mayor, Cory Booker of […]