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Meg's bad exemplars
It’s bad enough that Meg Whitman’s campaign chairperson is Pete Wilson, whose governorship almost destroyed the state with wild tax increases. Now, her campaign is looking at two hideous politicians from elsewhere as models for her campaign: Current NY City
Read MoreAnswering A Lie Within 24 Hours
Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown famously once said, “in politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.” In The Sacramento Bee this past Sunday April 11, 2010, former Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown had an
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CA's Chamber of Gutlessness
I was pleasantly surprised to see the California Chamber of Commerce launch a hard-hitting TV ad targeting Jerry Brown. The Left always depicts California’s business community as a counterbalance to the power of the state’s well-funded and surly public employee
Read MoreJerry Brown on Bill Clinton
“If Clinton didn’t exist, the Trilateral Commission would have to invent him because he has deprived and drained the radical energy out of environmental movements, out of the African American civil rights community, by just being there and being not
Read MoreJerry Brown's quote of day
Brown on debt and the “nonexistent” Soviet threat: “The national debt waits like a hungry tiger to pounce on President Clinton’s new programs. Despute urban despair and ecological disaster, Congress won’t appropriate money even when it’s clearly needed. Yet Reagan
Read MoreMoonbeam is as Moonbeam does
APRIL 5, 2010 Now that Attorney General Jerry Brown has officially announced his candidacy for governor, we’re getting to re-live some California political history as pundits and reporters think back to Brown’s first stint as governor along with some of
Read MoreAmateur Carly
I was perusing a Web attack ad by Carly Fiorina: Boxer and Campbell both Supported the Gas Tax Boxer and Campbell are both Wrong for California But at the top of the Web page — the part above where it
Read MoreRemember Jerry's radio show?
One thing I’m looking forward to in this campaign is what Meg’s campaign finds out about Jerry’s radio show in the 1990s. Before he re-launched himself into politics, in the 1990s Jerry Brown was an excellent talk show host, one
Read MorePublic financing on ballot
March 29, 2010 By JOHN SEILER With California’s politics messed up seemingly beyond repair, it’s not surprising two reform initiatives are on the June 8 ballot. I earlier wrote about Proposition 14, the “Top Two Primaries Act.” The other initiative
Read MoreEastin defends nutrition boondoggle
March 26, 2010 By K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY The current issue of The Atlantic features a letter from Delaine Eastin, former California Superintendent of Public Instruction. Her letter does not include any episodes from her tenure in that post, every bit
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