Road Funds as Political Football
Too much traffic, too many potholes–California road conditions stink. While some money is in place to deal with the roads both federal and state authorities weaponize taxpayer funds intended to fix the roads to try and bend other government entities to their will. The losers are taxpayers and suffering commuters. The latest episode is the […]
Did Trump Secretly Write AB 1451?
AB 1451, legislation sponsored by people who call themselves Democrats, is such a nasty and dishonest attack on California democracy that it’s fair to wonder if President Trump wrote it. As I’ve explained before, California has a weak, rickety and highly expensive system for qualifying state and local ballot measures. AB 1451 makes that system […]
One More to Veto
As Governor Newsom considers signing or vetoing hundreds of pieces of legislation before the Oct. 13 deadline, allow me to suggest another veto-worthy bill. As it relates to adding debt, SB 268 (Wiener) will once again limit government transparency and prevent the public from knowing the true costs of bond measures when they appear on […]
Proposition 13 works and remains popular. So why are special interests attacking it?
Backers of an initiative to eliminate Proposition 13’s protections for some groups finally acknowledged something we have known all along: the measure is fatally flawed, would be bad for California and would shortchange school districts contrary to the stated purpose of the initiative. This admission came after they spent millions of dollars to place the […]