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John Seiler: As a punctuation point to my recent article, “L.A. spends $30K per student,” the LAUSD is opening it’s new $578 million school. It will have, incredibly, 4,200 students. This isn’t school, it’s an educational gulag. Imagine spending 13
Read MoreParty supports tax-hiking Villines
Steven Greenhut: The Republican Party supposedly was going to withhold its support from candidates who hike taxes, but insurance commissioner candidate Mike Villines is speaking at the luncheon and will receive party support despite his vote to pass a tax-raising
Read MoreCooley: the law-and-order guy!
Steven Greenhut: The Covina mayor is introducing Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley as a tough drug warrior, pro-law-enforcement guy who will be the rare career prosecutor as attorney general — this is red meat for a law-and-order crowd. Cooley
Read MoreFiorina's tough blasts at Boxer
Steven Greenhut: Carly Fiorina is speaking now. “This is a ticket that represents the diversity and prominence and the common sense of California,” which perhaps is accurate in a strange kind of way. She promises to put an end to
Read MoreCommittee Endorses Prop. 22
Steven Greenhut: The GOP’s initiative committee this morning embraced Prop. 22, 9-8, the obnoxious anti-property-rights initiative promoted by the left-wing League of California Cities and the California Redevelopment Association. The GOPers said it was about local control, but this initiative
Read MoreBig Labor Smackdown!
Steven Greenhut: I was on the Big Labor Smackdown panel this morning at the GOP Convention, where we discussed the iron grip of public sector unions on the state government. Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach detailed the importance of taking
Read MoreGOP: dump Meg for McClintock
John Seiler: I don’t know what California Republican Party rules are for getting rid of a candidate who won a primary. But nobody follows the rules anymore anyway — certainly not the California or U.S. constitutions. So, who cares about
Read MoreWhitman critics hold presser
Steven Greenhut: Despite efforts by the Meg Whitman campaign to shut down a press conference critical of her by denying it a room, a group of influential conservatives held a lobby press conference denouncing Meg Whitman’s post-primary positions on the
Read MoreReturn-To-Work Rights Coming Soon?
AUG. 20, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Should permanent employees of school districts and community colleges who are elected to the Legislature be entitled to a leave of absence while serving their term of office and get to return to their
Read MoreWill moderates get their revenge?
Steven Greenhut: The mainstream media background thesis of the GOP convention in San Diego, which I am here to attend and to speak on a union panel, remains to be seen given that the convention doesn’t really get off the
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