What Immigration Reform will Look Like
Slowly but surely the biggest political story of 2013 is taking shape: passage of comprehensive immigration reform. A visit to Sacramento last week by Rep.
Tony Quinn
March 6, 2013
It’s Time to Get Rid of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
The US Supreme Court seems poised to declare Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, at least according to Wednesday’s oral arguments. Good
Tony Quinn
February 28, 2013
Immigration and the Republican Base: A Response
John Seiler, an Orange County writer, takes issue, at least in part, with my recent Fox and Hounds post that Republicans need to get behind
Tony Quinn
February 22, 2013
Are Republicans Finally Learning to Count?
The Republican Party is despised, rejected, a party of sorrows, and its 2012 candidates acquainted with grief (with apologies to Isaiah and George Frederick Handel).
Tony Quinn
February 19, 2013
A Coming Republican Wipeout?
A final look a the 2012 election results suggest this was not nearly as a bad a year for Republicans in California as it could
Tony Quinn
January 23, 2013
Voters Ice the Tea Party
It may not be what the Democrats and their amen chorus in the media want to hear, but the fact is that the Tea Party
Tony Quinn
January 7, 2013
The Tough Job Facing Jim Brulte as GOP Party Chair
So Jim Brulte wants to be Republican Party chair to rebuild the party. To me, restoring the Republican Party seems nearly impossible in California, unless
Tony Quinn
December 10, 2012
The Final Indignity: How Republicans Lost a Safe Seat
For 26 days, Lancaster council member Ron Smith, a Republican, was an Assemblyman-elect, that is until the very last votes were counted in Los Angeles
Tony Quinn
December 4, 2012
The Democratic Party’s Problem with White Folks
Demographics cuts both ways. While numerous commentators have skewered Republicans for alienating Latino and other minority voters in 2012, and the GOP is paying a
Tony Quinn
November 26, 2012