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Pension Reform Mirrors Brown Proposal

FEB. 22, 2012 By KATY GRIMES With the recent pension reform ballot initiative defeated before it ever made it onto the ballot, many in California believed that taxpayers would never get a change to vote on the escalating pension debt

HR 1837 Bill Reignites Water War

CalWatchdog Staff February 22, 2012

FEB. 22, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California’s historic water social contract been held together by force, fraud and sometimes the consent of the governed. The result has been Northern California giving up water to Central Valley farmers and Southern California

Not Another Teen Regulation Bill

CalWatchdog Staff February 22, 2012

FEB. 22, 2012 By KATY GRIMES According to legislators, teenage boys in California are violent. Therefore, only an Assembly resolution can save the unsuspecting teenage girls from the inevitable violence. February 2012 has been dubbed “Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.”

Even Dogs Have A Nanny In CA

CalWatchdog Staff February 21, 2012

Katy Grimes: A California state Senator has authored a bill which would regulate pet grooming and require dog groomers to pay a whopping $350 for a state-issued license. As if the state Legislature’s attempt to require helmuts for skiers and snowboarders,

Assemblyman Defends Maxine Waters

CalWatchdog Staff February 17, 2012

Katy Grimes: I sat through a State Assembly session this morning wondering why I was there. It was obviously a thinly veiled excuse by legislators to capture the $142 per diem payment. There were the usual speeches honoring the recently

Freeze! Drop The Lunch Box!

CalWatchdog Staff February 16, 2012

Katy Grimes: Last week, a 4-year old had her homemade lunch confiscated by a “state inspector.” At a North Carolina elementary school the inspector told the little girl that the lunch her mother prepared for her, consisting of a turkey and cheese sandwich,

Guarded Optimism For CA Military

CalWatchdog Staff February 16, 2012

FEB. 16, 2012 By KATY GRIMES It could have been an episode of “The General, His Wife, The Staff, and the Military,” a movie about the scandal-plagued California National Guard. But instead, after four hours of grueling testimony at times,

General Opposes Brown’s Nominee

Katy Grimes February 15, 2012

FEB. 15, 2012 California National Guard Brigadier General Charlotte L. Miller has announced that she will voice her opposition to legislators today about Major General David Baldwin’s nomination to the top position of the state National Guard. Miller will testify

More ‘Rights’ For State Employees

CalWatchdog Staff February 14, 2012

Katy Grimes: Since public employees have so few workplace protections and are so under-paid, Democratic Assemblyman Roger Dickinson has authored legislation to give the unionized state workers more protections from workplace discipline, and priority on state government work over private sector workers. It’s

Legislature Advances Dental Socialism

CalWatchdog Staff February 14, 2012

FEB. 14, 2012 By KATY GRIMES As voters are growing increasingly wary of ObamaCare, the President’s nationalized healthcare plan, voters in California are also growing skeptical of legislators’ attempts to increase statewide healthcare. Fully implementing health care for all has drawn