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Nov. 13, 2012 Katy Grimes: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The California Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit today to halt and “invalidate” the California Air Resources Board’s cap and trade auction scheduled for tomorrow. The Chamber is arguing that the California Air Resources Board
Read MoreFour years later, media still spreading the AB 32 Kool-Aid
Nov. 12 By Chris Reed In the Bush 43 era, some pundits on the left took to decrying the media practice of treating quotes from the White House with the same respect as quotes from its critics. They said this
Read MoreRepublican leader wins despite election losses
Nov. 11, 2012 Katy Grimes: Despite losing two important Republican Assembly seats in the election and handing state Democrats a supermajority, California’s Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway, a Republican, was surprisingly and handily reelected to her leadership position Thursday. “It
Read MoreRegistration edge no longer guarantees GOP victory
Nov. 11, 2012 By Chris Reed Republican strategists for years have looked contentedly on the fast-growing Inland Empire as a future source of GOP strength, seeing all the suburban bedroom communities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties as a bulwark
Read MoreNational microtargeting drove youth vote, not Prop. 30
Nov. 10, 2012 By Chris Reed I have interviewed Tony Quinn for my old radio shows several times and acknowledge he knows way more about California politics than I do. But he is flatly, simply wrong when he writes the
Read MoreGreenmail lives in San Diego, making PLA ban irrelevant
Nov. 9, 2012 By Chris Reed In June, San Diego voters overwhelmingly approved a ban on project labor agreements. But they can’t do anything about greenmail, so guess what: CEQA threats have persuaded Mayor Jerry Sanders to give in to
Read MoreDoes supermajority portend Maldonado-style gamesmanship?
Nov. 9, 2012 By Chris Reed In 2009, state Sen. Abel Maldonado made Democrats in the Legislature jump through an awful lot of hoops before the Santa Maria Republican would be the final vote needed for temporary tax hikes. The
Read MoreSelfish vote won over philosophical vote, again
Nov. 9, 2012 Katy Grimes: After every election one party has to retreat and lick its wounds while the other party revels in the mandate. But elections are changing. Voters are changing. America is changing, and California is leading that
Read MoreGOP doomed no matter what
Nov. 8, 2012 By John Seiler More than by the election, I’m amused by the aftermath comments. Consider this one, an analysis by Patrick May and Matt O’Brien for the Santa Cruz Sentinel: “As California goes, so goes the nation.
Read MoreCA Legislature now a Dem supermajority
Nov. 7, 2012 Katy Grimes: Many in California expected the Democrats to gain a supermajority in the state Senate. But few thought that a Democrat supermajority would happen in the Assembly. Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez announced that Democrats have secured a
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