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Independent “Citizen” Commissioner Concealed Partisan Political Activities, History of Latino Activism & Connections to Redistricting Interest Group JULY 15, 2011 By JOHN HRABE The California Citizens Redistricting Commission, the 14-member independent panel of average citizens, was created to end partisan
Read MoreBankruptcy Bill Hijacked By Senate
JULY 15, 2011 By KATY GRIMES An Assembly bill requiring cities and counties to go through a mediation process before filing for bankruptcy has been hijacked by the Senate Rules Committee, but the reason why is fuzzy. In February, freshman
Read MoreDeadbeat California Needs a Payday Loan
JULY 15, 2011 By CHRISS STREET For the State of California and its counties and cities, tax collections tend to be lumpy during the year due to half of all income, corporate and other taxes being collected in the two months
Read MoreRent Seeking Coastal Commission
Lloyd Billingsley: California’s Coastal Commission does a fine job of preventing California’s working people from living near the Pacific Ocean but is now taking things to a new level. The CCC now wants to limit the amount of time coastal residents can
Read MoreFed Debt Default Imperils CA Budget
JULY 14, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Purgatory is a temporary place of agony, torment and suffering between heaven and hell. that is apparently where California’s state budget might be headed if the federal government, by failing to raise the federal
Read MorePension reformer files 3 state initiatives
JULY 13, 2011 Editor’s Note: The following is a statement from the California Center for Public Policy regarding three initiatives it filed with the state attorney general on Tuesday: The California Center for Public Policy submitted three initiatives for titles and
Read MoreHahn Victory Portends Obama Defeat
JULY 13, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Yesterday Democrat Janice Hahn beat Republican Craig Huey to fill the 36th Congressional District, a severely gerrymandered district covering much of Southwest Los Angeles. But her victory total, getting just 55 percent, was a
Read MoreDems Trying to Destroy Initiative Process
Note: This first appeared in City Journal California. JULY 13, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT A series of bills pending in California’s state legislature would severely curtail the use of voters’ initiatives and referenda — and have already sparked a long-overdue
Read MoreAmazon Rallies Affiliates to Fight Tax
JULY 12, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Amazon.com didn’t waste time in working to repeal the so-called “Amazon” tax. The tax was passed last month by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. The tax is
Read MoreHahn-Huey Dogfight for Cong. District
JULY 11, 2011 By KATY GRIMES After the February resignation of Democratic Rep. Jane Harman from the 36th Congressional District, most political observers assumed that it would be just another ho-hum political race. They expected a Democrat would easily win in
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