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Steven Greenhut: Today’s quotation of the day goes to to California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring, who discusses an Arizona-like anti-illegal-immigration initiative being circulated for the 2012 ballot. Said Nehring: “Nobody cares what we think their capital gains tax rate
Read MoreGroup Touts New Pension Initiative
DEC. 1, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT A pension reform organization has released a draft initiative plan for the 2012 ballot that would require public employees to pay half their retirement benefit costs, mandate defined contribution plans for new employees, significantly
Read MoreHarris Makes Major Announcement!!
Anthony Pignataro: This just in: Dateline, Los Angeles: Flash! Attorney General-elect Kamala Harris has just announced that she has a bi-partisan transistion team that includes William Bratton, Warren Christopher, George Shultz and Constance Rice! Sigh. I can’t believe I just
Read MoreVows To Renew Ageless Marriage Battle
NOV. 30, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Now that California voters on Nov. 2 put a full slate of Democrats into every statewide office on the ballot, Democrats are being encouraged by the media and opinion polls to put Prop. 8
Read MoreWhy Our State Voted Way It Did
Anthony Pignataro: Wanna understand the 2010 midterm elections? Washington, DC-based Project Vote released a new report today to help explain all the hilarity, both national and state-by-state. According to the 26-page report, written largely by Dr. Lorraine C. Minnite, three
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Reviewing Arnold's Disaster
NOV. 28, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Although Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps insisting he’s not a lame duck, he is. As he leaves office, the best biography of him so far has come out, “The Governator: From Muscle Beach to His
Read MoreRepublicans Lacking Farm Team
Katy Grimes: The dismal results California Republicans experienced in this last election are indisputable. But who is to blame? The California Secretary of State website has the election results listed on one depressing page each for the Assembly, and Senate. It’s too easy
Read MoreWhy Does Cal GOP Lose?
John Seiler Republicans are agonizing about why they keep losing in California, getting wiped out on every statewide race on Nov. 2. The Contra Costa Times yesterday ran a piece quoting a lot of Republican and other bigshots saying the
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Thanksgiving for California
Thank you for your wine, California, Thank you for your sweet and bitter fruits. — “Sweet Virginia,” by The Rolling Stones NOV. 23, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California has a lot of problems, with the budget, unemployment and all. But
Read MoreHouse of Tears
Anthony Pignataro: Newly elected Speaker of the House John Boehner is a cry-baby. That’s the upshot of the not-so-big interview this week with newly elected House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in the New York Times Magazine. To wit: NYTMAG: What
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