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Meg: Stop lying about Jerry and taxes
John Seiler: Meg Whitman continues running commercials based on disproved assertions about Jerry Brown and taxes. It’s especially grating that she is using a Bill Clinton quote attacking Jerry from the 1992 presidential campaign. First, Clinton is a notorious liar.
Read MorePress "One" For Customer Service
Katy Grimes: When calling PG&E customer service to complain about something, the recording says, “press one for account payment or billing.” “Press two to turn gas on or off, or for an appointment.” “Press three for information on an outage or
Read MoreWater Keeps CA's Welfare State Liquid
SEPT. 14, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Book Review: Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions To Conserve Our Most Precious Resource (Palgrave, 2010). Mark Twain once wrote: “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt” using a malapropism on
Read MoreProp. 25 Sparks Debate Over Tax Hikes
SEPT. 14, 2010 By KATY GRIMES A ballot initiative designed to make it easier for the Legislature to pass the annual budget has supporters and opponents up debating the actual intent of the initiative, as well as the ballot measure
Read More$10,000 is a Powerful Symbol
Anthony Pignataro: Symbols are everything, Governor Jerry Brown used to tell his cabinet, according to former Employment Development Director J.D. Lorenz’ magnificent 1975 memoir The Man on the White Horse. “Blacks are the wrong symbols for the 1970’s,” Brown would
Read MoreEngland for Lt. Gov.?
Steven Greenhut: It’s more than a rumor — California conservatives are actively recruiting a write-in candidate for lieutenant governor in response to Abel Maldonado’s refusal yesterday to sign onto the state’s appeal of the ruling overturning anti-gay-marriage Prop. 8. No
Read MoreGaines, Niello Love Big Government
Steven Greenhut: I turned on the Eric Hogue radio show this morning and heard Assemblyman Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, discuss his Senate race with liberal Republican Roger Niello of Fair Oaks and conservative former Assemblywoman Barbara Alby of Folsom. Niello is
Read MoreIs Real Cal Unemployment At 25%?
SEPT. 14, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Welcome to the desert of California jobs. Officially, California’s unemployment rate was 12.3 percent for July, the latest month calculated. That’s bad enough. But the real number is twice as much: at least 25
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