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Katy Grimes: After calling Meg Whitman a “Nazi” last summer, Gubernatorial candidate and former California Governor Jerry Brown, stooped to an all-time low using the word “whore,” to describe his opponent after she landed the endorsement from the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
Read MoreLatest budget deal tarnishes Golden State
Katy Grimes: The sheen has come off of the once-golden state. As the Assembly and Senate sessions began yesterday morning, only minutes before, the three-volume legislative budget bill books were dropped on legislators’ desks… fresh from the state printer. Which
Read MoreCorrections Finally Gets Its Drugs
Anthony Pignataro: In yet another twist in the already twisted tale of the Execution of Albert Greenwood Brown that never happened, today’s San Francisco Chronicle reported that the day after the state Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation cancelled Brown’s execution,
Read MoreDer Arnold's "environmentalism" pose
John Seiler: Oct. 7, 2010 The key to understanding Der Arnold is that everything is a pose. From posing his steroid-pumped muscles before “bodybuilding” competitions to posing before a camera for an “action” movie to posing as a governor. Pose…pose…pose.
Read MoreBudget Is A Fraud
Steven Greenhut: This is what we get from the state Legislature — a fraudulent budget deal more than three months late. As the LA Times explained today, it relies heavily on DC handouts (fat chance) and “if approved would fall
Read MoreBudget Bill Held For Late Today
Katy Grimes: As expected, in the Assembly, the budget bill, and three trailer bills (including the favor-laden transportation bill) went on call for final passage much later in the day. The budget bill only received 39 votes, and the transportation
Read MoreMeg's Sell-Out Earns Union $$$
Steven Greenhut: GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s sell out on pension reform — she’s for reform, but has exempted most public safety employees from the lower benefit — is paying off in the form of a large independent expenditure from
Read MoreA Brief Quarrel With Briefs
Anthony Pignataro: Those guys over at the California Senate Office of Research have it pretty good. It’s a non-partisan shop set up back in 1969. Their job, according to their ABOUT SOR webpage: “serving the research needs of the California
Read MoreRing around the budget
Katy Grimes: Red rover, red rover, send Arnold right over. Capture the flag… Ring around the rosey, a pocket full pf posies… Duck, duck, goose… Four square… Kick the can… King of the hill… Mother may I? Hide and seek…
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Maldo Goes Immigrant Bashing
Anthony Pignataro: The Abel Maldonado for Lieutenant Governor camp recently put out a new radio ad attacking San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s “sanctuary city” policies. “For four years while Newsom was mayor, San Francisco refused to turn dangerous illegal immigrant
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