Politics and Elections

Another Reason to Boycott Government Motors

April 2, 2012 Last fall, Government Motors assaulted the John and Ken radio show by pulling ads from the show because the talk show hosts favored restricting immigration. I wrote it about it then. If Government Motors had been a

Gov. Jerry Brown Resigns

CalWatchdog Staff April 1, 2012

APRIL 1, 2012 By JOHN SEILER SACRAMENTO — Declaring California “ungovernable,” Gov Jerry Brown today resigned from office. “My father built the California water system, the university system and the schools system, and I can’t even get a measly tax

Sneaky Govt Expansion Tax

CalWatchdog Staff March 30, 2012

Katy Grimes: 20,000 California teachers found pink slips in their mailboxes recently. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the termination notices are the result of a more than $10 billion deficit and decades of reckless overspending. With California’s education bureaucracy claiming

S.F. Upholds Right to Hold Public Officials Accountable

CalWatchdog Staff March 27, 2012

Commentary MARCH 27, 2012 By MICHAEL WARNKEN I have been casually watching the events in San Francisco involving Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and the county Board of Supervisors. The sheriff recently plead guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence in an incident involving

Scott Baugh Joins GOP Hypocrites

CalWatchdog Staff March 23, 2012

Steven Greenhut: Orange County Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh has gained much well-deserved publicity for his “Manifesto” declaring that the party will not support candidates who take union support. But Baugh has turned his back on his manifesto, as epitomized

L.A. Times’ Annoying Gatekeeping

CalWatchdog Staff March 22, 2012

John Seiler: I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times’ Sunday edition. So I get access to their online edition without paying more. But it’s annoying. I have virus programs that reglarly get rid of the cookies that retain my log-on

Prop 28: The Latest Political Thriller

CalWatchdog Staff March 21, 2012

MAR. 21, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Proposition 28, the latest ballot initiative attempting to alter the 1990 term limits law, has all of the elements of a good political thriller: Deep Capitol insiders, elite bureaucrats, politicians and the political elite, a

Prolonged Primary Good For GOP

CalWatchdog Staff March 19, 2012

Katy Grimes: There is much sermonizing and opining in newspapers over Republican politics. Most of it these days is full of mockery and disdain. “GOP inflicts its own wounds” is a common theme, as well as one headline that ran

What’s the Deal With Voter ID?

CalWatchdog Staff March 15, 2012

John Seiler: Personally, I don’t think there should be any mandatory government ID cards. Roads should be privatized, allowing the private owners to decide what ID, if any, is needed to use them. Minors buying booze should be determined by

SD GOP Snubs Pro-Union Candidate

CalWatchdog Staff March 11, 2012

Steven Greenhut: The San Diego Republican Party gave its support for mayor to Carl DeMaio, the pension-reforming, no-nonsense conservative, over two other candidates including Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who is closely allied with the police unions and amassed the most liberal