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Back to homepageProp. 25 never promised accountability
April 30, 2012 By Katy Grimes California voters were duped by Democratic politicians, and they will probably do it again. Proposition 25, the “no budget, no pay” measure, was the creation of über liberal former state Sen. John Burton. Prop
Read MoreCampaign 2012 war on women
April 12, 2012 By Katy Grimes Since when is being a stay-at-home-mom considered one of the many modern crimes against women? Since the progressive left decided the latest campaign strategy would be to wage war on conservative women. Don’t let anyone
Read MoreCalifornia needs adult supervision
April 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes More than ever, California is a state run by children. Selfish, self-absorbed state officials and lawmakers have been implementing pet policies and legislation for so many decades, they are now arguing among themselves over
Read MoreSneaky Govt Expansion Tax
Katy Grimes: 20,000 California teachers found pink slips in their mailboxes recently. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the termination notices are the result of a more than $10 billion deficit and decades of reckless overspending. With California’s education bureaucracy claiming
Read MoreCA Pols Calling For Change To U.S. Constitution
Katy Grimes: California Democrats are pushing for Congress to amend the United States Constitution, and impose limits on political corporate contributions. Really. At issue is the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision. In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court reached the landmark
Read MoreBored CA Billionaire Groups Merge
JAN. 28, 2012 “Think Forward and Long” or “Think Long and Forward California.” I suggest one of those as the new name for the merging government reform groups California Forward and Think Long. Because the ridiculousness of the name should be as
Read MoreCA GOP Going to Elephant Graveyard?
JAN. 17, 2012 Many in the media say that Republicans are rapidly becoming irrelevant in California, and will become nothing more than an afterthought after the next election. Even a Capitol press club, made up of declining “old media” newspaper,
Read MoreVoting Out the Electoral College
Creating over-reaching solutions for non-existent problems is what California legislators are good at. A textbook example of this is a bill awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature which would change the state’s Electoral College process. AB 459 passed in the Legislature in
Read MoreThieving Signature Gatherers
A new political radio ad running in Sacramento this week is claiming that paid signature gatherers are often identity thieves, convicted felons and forgers. Usually when an ad campaign starts on radio, there is an active political campaign behind it.
Read MoreNew Charges Slam Redistricting Commish
It has turned into the Commission that Couldn’t Redistrict Right. New accusations charge that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission isn’t the non-partisan, citizen-run organization as has been promoted statewide. Earlier CalWatchDog.com news stories revealed two commissioners who failed to disclose campaign contributions. Now
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