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This article was first published in City Journal. NOV. 4, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT No state is in a bigger fiscal jam than California, with its structural budget deficit and massive unfunded liabilities for well-compensated public employees. The state’s business
Read MoreGerrymandering Muted CA Tea Party
NOV. 4, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The Tea Party movement couldn’t overcome the mathematics of political gerrymandering on Election Day Nov. 2 in California. All that the some 240 groups of the Tea Party movement in California had to show
Read MoreWhich Color, California?
NOV. 3, 2010 by KATY GRIMES If you just look the big offices in last night’s election — governor, attorney general, U.S. Senator, et al — then it looks like the state of California is just a giant solidly blue
Read MoreDems on Budgetary Hot Seat
NOV. 3, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Five of the nine ballot measures on Tuesday’s ballot dealt with taxes or the budget. The biggest one, Prop 25, replaced the Legislature’s required two-thirds vote of budget approval with a simple majority. It
Read MoreGive Us Liberty Or We'll Get Dems
This article first appeared in the Orange County Register. NOV. 3, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT President Barack Obama saved the Republican Party from itself. In a two-party system, when one party makes a mess of things, the only choice is
Read MoreTraitorous tax increasers lose
John Seiler: One good result from the election. Traitorous tax increasers Abel Maldonado and Mike Villines lost their statewide races, respectively for lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner. Both Republicans betrayed the taxpayers they had pledged to protect when they signed
Read MoreExpect More Population Flight
NOV. 2, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Given the predictably one-sided recent election results in California, a new trend may be soon emerging called “red flight” to describe the rapid mass out-migration of residents from cities and counties that are insolvent
Read MoreDeparted Californians Swing Election
NOV. 2, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Given that a couple of million Californians have left the state in the past 20 years, most of them Republicans, it’s surprising that Democrats didn’t do better. Jerry Brown, as I write, won by
Read MoreElection Night Live Blogging
CalWatchdog will be reporting and live blogging tonight as election results come in. We’ll be at various election events and downtown election hot spots, reporting, opining and analyzing. You can also check in tonight for on-the-spot posts and comments on
Read MoreAAA Double Wrong on Propositions
John Seiler: Today I got in the mail the Automobile Club of Southern California’s ballot recommendations, limited to four of them. I’ve belonged to AAA for 25 years, and have gotten their insurance for 23. CEO Thomas V. McKernan writes:
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