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Katy Grimes: Alert the media! A Sacramento politician spent record amounts of money while a county supervisor. And now, that county supervisor is in the State Assembly. An exposé done by the Sacramento Bee over the weekend is only two years late;

Union Ally Denies Pension Crisis!

CalWatchdog Staff February 10, 2012

Steven Greenhut: Here’s the dog-bites-man story of the day: Steve Maviglio claims that the pension crisis isn’t real, apparently something manufactured by greedy private-sector workers who don’t understand why they need to work until they are 90 to pay for

Obama Backs High-Speed Boondoggle

CalWatchdog Staff February 10, 2012

John Seiler: Presidents live in a cocoon. Inside the cocoon are a few advisers and Secret Service agents. The cocoon gets smaller and tighter the longer a president is in office. It happened to President Bush, who was totally clueless

Stock Market Not Helping Pension Funds

CalWatchdog Staff February 10, 2012

FEB. 10, 2012 By JOHN SEILER California Pension Reform just suspended its attempt to put an initiative on the November ballot. It ran out of money — sort of like the pension funds themselves. Meanwhile, the stock market seems to

Californians Getting Railroaded

CalWatchdog Staff February 10, 2012

Katy Grimes: Regardless of cost, the Obama Administration is behind California’s plan to build a High-Speed Rail system, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “Despite a series of a cautionary reports by outside agencies and groups, the Obama administration is

Another Black Eye for CA Cleantech

Joseph Perkins February 10, 2012

FEB 10, 2012 A California company is held out as a model for the new green economy. It works its political connections in Washington to score a half-billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy from the Obama administration. It fails to deliver its much-hyped

Other States Bail Out CA Mortgages

CalWatchdog Staff February 10, 2012

FEB. 10, 2012 By CHRISS STREET Just over a week ago I published here on CalWatchDog.com “New California Budget Crisis May Torpedo November Tax Increase Initiative.” The report illuminated how state Controller John Chaing had shocked California’s spendthrift politicians by

Govt. Extorts $26 Billion From Banks

CalWatchdog Staff February 10, 2012

Katy Grimes: California’s Attorney General, together with the attorneys general from 42 states, have pulled off a $26 billion shakedown of private mortgage lenders across the country, in what many are saying is a move to help balance state government. Worthy of a

Leg Administrators Still Get Tax-Paid Cars

CalWatchdog Staff February 9, 2012

FEB. 9, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Proving once again why California needs a part time Legislature, a recent news story about state-funded cars for legislators showed some bad deals and financial abuses. But the rest of the story is not

AB 32 Feeds CA Aristocratic Socialists

CalWatchdog Staff February 9, 2012

FEB. 9, 2012 By CHRISS STREET This year marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations’ Brundtland Report. It defined Sustainable Development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their