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Prop. 23 will set you free
John Seiler: The California Jobs Initiative, which effectively will suspend Arnold’s AB32 jobs-killer, was given a number today: Proposition 23. So I’ve come up with a slogan: Prop. 23 Will set you free. Boo boo boo To AB 32 Kind
Read MoreBoxer, Fiorina MIA on war
JUNE 28, 2010 As usual, American policy-makers, the media and California’s political candidates avoid the big issues while they make a huge deal out of the small stuff. The latest example is Afghanistan, where Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. and
Read MoreBoxer the protectionist?
John Seiler: Barbara Boxer just said of Carly Fiorina’s tenure as CEO of HP: She fired 30,000 plus workers and shipped their jobs to China. It’s a record that is not a good one…. And I don’t think that people
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Dems vs. 'Grizzly Mom' Palin
John Seiler: Democrats are being foolish in attacking “Grizzly Mom” Sarah Palin for endorsing Carly Fiorina for U.S. Senate. Carly is smart for welcoming Sarah’s support. Dems forget that the one time John McCain led in the election against their
Read MoreMeg flips Left
John Seiler: It was inevitable as California having beautiful weather that Meg Whitman, after a brief jaunt to the Right to defeat Steve Poizner in the primary, would flip back to the Left. She’s now courting Latinos by opposing Arizona’s
Read MoreArizona Boycott Initiates Sacramento Recall
Katy Grimes: With Sacramento City Council voting this week to join Los Angeles and San Francisco in the Arizona business boycott in response to the states’ recent immigration bill, many Sacramento residents are scratching their heads. Maybe because some back-scratching
Read MoreVote for the Democrat
John Seiler: Mike Villines, the taxpayer-assaulting Assembly Republican, has pulled ahead in the Republican race to be nominated to be insurance commissioner. Yet he voted for Arnold’s record $13 billion 2009 tax increase. John and Ken, the KFI radio guys
Read MoreRunning From California Government
Katy Grimes: More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward
Read MoreFPPC investigates ‘No on 17’
JUNE 14, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Proposition 17 may have been defeated at the polls, but that doesn’t mean the work is over for the campaign that successfully fought the measure on June 8. The Fair Political Practices Commission has
Read MoreGOP 'manifesto' trumps unions
JUNE 14, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT A political candidate can take on the public-employee unions in a nasty street rumble and emerge bloodied but victorious. That’s the message from Tuesday’s election to fill a board of supervisors seat in Orange
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