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Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
John Seiler: I’d rather have Jerry Springer as governor than Jerry Brown. For one thing, it would get the ex-Cincinnati mayor’s show off daytime TV when kids watch it. But, due to Meg’s amateurish campaign, it looks like we’ll be
Read MoreMeg's "management" style
John Seiler: Meg’s campaign boasts of her management prowess. But compare this. Here’s how Meg ran eBay: She didn’t go out and hire retired GM, Ford or GE managers. Instead, she hired young hotshots hungry to create the Internet future.
Read MoreDebates: Meg & Jerry should do 25
John Seiler: Meg Whitman is OK with three debates until the November election, Jerry wants 10. But what we should have is two debates every week. That would be about 25. My idea comes from the JFK-Goldwater debates of 1964.
Read MoreCity muddles tax cut verbiage
JULY 26, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Ballot language for a Sacramento city utilities initiative that would rollback rates — proposed by the city attorney and approved by the City Council last week — is so confusing and unreadable that even
Read MoreMeg & Carly Sell Out
John Seiler: Meg and Carly might be rookies at politics, but they’re fast learners. They’re already selling out the positions they took to win the primaries. One of Meg’s primary ads featured Gov. Pete Wilson calling her “tough as nails”
Read MoreThe greening of the state
JULY 21, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Sacramento’s Mayor Kevin Johnson hopes that the controversial former “Green Czar” Van Jones can bring a different sort of green with him to the Sacramento region. As part of a statewide push on climate
Read MoreCracks in the ‘Tea’ pot
JULY 20, 2010 By KATY GRIMES As a largely leaderless organization, the anti-tax Tea Party movement experienced a brouhaha this week from within, demonstrating there are struggles and turf battles between competing Tea Party groups. Billed as a “vile, disgusting
Read MoreLame Jerry ad vs. Meg
By John Seiler: Jerry needs a new campaign team. I was reading this article on LewRockwell.com’s great libertarian Web site. The articles there usually have ads with a libertarian or conservative theme, such as against Obama (which it does as
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No more talk, talk, talk!
JULY 16, 2010 First the awful news. But don’t worry – we’ll get to the ugly stuff later… That’s right, folks: the state Employment Development Department has put out its latest monthly jobs report, and the unemployment situation – as
Read MoreThose who can’t, organize
JULY 16, 2010 When did nurses, teachers, cops and firefighters become card-carrying union brotherhood and sisterhood thugs? Service jobs used to be defined as jobs where caring for others was the priority; teaching children, providing health and medical care, and
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