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Steven Greenhut: The Sacramento Bee reported today that the Orange County Employees Association, the union representing OC’s miscellaneous county workers, and Sen. Lou Correa, the “moderate” Democrat from Anaheim who authored 1999 legislation that started the “3 percent at 50”
Read MoreThe California Players
DEC. 28, 2010 It’s the end of the year, which means it’s time for nostalgic looks back and fond retrospectives on 2010’s most memorable events and personalities (this is due, in great part, to the fact that nearly everyone in
Read MoreArnold the Buffoon
John Seiler: I’m already enjoying Arnold’s exit from his gubernatorial throne. He’s thrashing around, trying to appear relevant, as he drops off into irrelevancy. Listen to the Gropinator grope for meaning in life: “I’m a very big believer in environmental
Read MoreThe Tweet Before Christmas
Wayne Lusvardi: (With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore) ‘Twas the tweet before Christmas that was looking for a nugget, For a Governor-elect to invent a balanced budget, Balance it high or balance it low, Either way would work as long
Read MorePaper Campaign Records Doomed
DEC. 15, 2010 Yesterday marked the final formal hearing of the Political Reform Act Task Force. Since early September, I’ve watched the 25-member panel, convened by Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) Chairman Dan Schnur, thrash out ways to improve, tighten
Read MoreAssemblyman Gorell Set To Deploy
DEC. 13, 2010 By KATY GRIMES When Jeff Gorell decided more than two years ago to run for the state Assembly, he never dreamed that he would be deployed to the Middle East again, this time to Afghanistan. But not
Read MoreDancing At California’s Funeral
DEC. 9, 2010 After watching the swearing in of the Assembly on Monday, and feeling the party-like atmosphere in the room, I couldn’t help but feel as if I was watching dancing at a funeral. Apparently, some in the Assembly
Read MoreArnold Rewards Tax Traitors
John Seiler: In California, no bad deed by a politician goes unrewarded. Gov. Arnold “Taxpayer Terminator” Schowarzenegger got six Republicans in the Legislature to sell out their “no new taxes” pledges, betray taxpayers, and vote for his record $13 billion
Read MoreForgetting Pearl Harbor Day
Anthony Pignataro: So I just got back from a week’s vacation and saw that still-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed yesterday to be Pearl Harbor Rememberance Day. “The morning of December 7, 1941 is truly a date that will never be forgotten,”
Read MoreStart Of A Post-Prop. 25 Assembly
DEC. 7, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Aside from the gaiety and festive mood during the swearing in of the new members of the Assembly on Monday, noticeably absent was acknowledgment of the gravity of California’s precarious financial state. Anyone observing
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