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APRIL 21, 2010 Nearly every person I talk to is either feeling the crush of the bad economy or knows people who are really suffering. Which leads me to believe that most California legislators don’t run in the same circles
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The Polite Sacramento Tea Party
The tax day Tea Party held at the state capitol in Sacramento was a bustling event, attended by colorful, patriotic and well-mannered people from all walks of life. No angry outbursts… no fights… just thousands and thousands of very polite
Read MorePunitive Sales and Use Tax Modified
The Board of Equalization (BOE) has an unusual deadline for the payment of Sales and Use taxes by California businesses, making it very easy for payments to be considered late, mounting large interest payments. The Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
Read MoreAnswering A Lie Within 24 Hours
Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown famously once said, “in politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.” In The Sacramento Bee this past Sunday April 11, 2010, former Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown had an
Read MoreCities create own traffic fiefdoms
APRIL 6, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO According to aides to Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, a Long Beach police officer recently gave a Torrance resident a choice: get a speeding ticket for violating the state’s Vehicle Code, which will go on the
Read MoreRail plan's unanswered questions
APRIL 5, 2010 By LARRY GILBERT Assessing the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) bullet train is reminiscent of the U.S. Senate vote on the national health care legislation where senators were voting before having all the facts. Last November,
Read MoreIs Public Transit Bankrupt?
March 31, 2010 By KATY GRIMES With the announcement this week by Sacramento Regional Transit that it is reducing bus and train service by 22 percent, it’s never too late to address the problems faced by the chronic deficit-plagued transit systems in
Read MoreFighting Without Skin in the Game
Usually when two sides fight over a contentious issue, both have skin in the game. But when the government fights American citizens, it’s with bully tactics, intimidation, threats and not about the well-being of anyone. Which is probably one of
Read MoreJob Creation Means Unions Jobs
I recently gave a speech to two-hundred Republican women on the current state of politics in California and how businesses are being destroyed by the majority party’s regulations, taxes and now, global warming laws. During the speech I asked the
Read MoreImportant government hearings
In case you were assuming that our legislators are working on the state’s broken budget, the following is from today’s Senate Daily File and is a Governmental Organization committee hearing: GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION WRIGHT, Chair 9:30 a.m. – John L. Burton Hearing
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