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Back to homepageState Govt. Will Be Cut 20%
John Seiler: Steven Greenhut reports on last week’s budget deficit powwow of state budget bigshots, including Jerry Brown, legislative leaders and budget experts. Fortunately, Arnold wasn’t there, or his mere presence would have again doubled the budget deficit. At the
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Cal Guards Meeting at Rio Las Vegas
John Seiler: I know California’s economy is in tough shape. But I’m happy that the state’s prison guards are meeting in Las Vegas, where Gov.-elect Jerry Brown just addressed them. Their union leaders have tough jobs making sure every last taxpayer
Read MoreCalifornia's New Depression
DEC. 3, 2010 By JOHN SEILER As California approaches a new year, with a new governor and other statewide officers, it’s worth reviewing what I call “California economic realities.” These are the factors which, at all levels, affect the state’s
Read MoreNew GOP Govs. Eye Cal Biz
John Seiler: The poaching of good California jobs and businesses has just begun. The new crop of GOP governors just elected across the fruited plain is looking to grab what they can from the anti-business Pyrite State. Jim Christie of Reuters
Read MoreGet lost, Arnold
John Seiler: Taking a cue from one of his movies, Gov. Arnold Schwarzendeficit wants a final act. So he just called a Special Session of the new Legislature to resolve $6 billion in deficit spending from the budget he signed
Read MoreBrown's Job Got Twice as Hard
NOV. 12, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Less than a month ago, on Oct. 18, Moody’s Investor Service issued a report calculating California’s situation as “at least $12 billion in future budget gaps.” Now, the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office released a
Read MoreAx the whole state ed bureaucracy
John Seiler Jerry Brown wants to get rid of the education secretary position, a pointless position created by Gov. Pete Wilson (talk about pointless). A better idea: Get rid of the whole centralized, massive, wasteful state education bureaucracy. Turn everything
Read MoreWhy Amateur Meg Lost
John Seiler: If you’ve been reading CalWatchDog.com, you know we called the election all along: that Meg Whitman’s campaign was a disaster. It was aloof and unfocused. I kept calling it amateurish. This link goes to a search of my 12
Read MoreL.A. Times Exhales Prop. 19
John Seiler: I thought the L.A. Times was supposed to be “progressive” and “liberal”? Actually, they’re an establishment, elitist, government-loving paper. As shown by their editorial opposing Prop. 19, which would legalize marijuana in California. It’s the same position taken
Read MoreJerry's Lies on the Capital Gains Tax
John Seiler: Today I got the third mailing of Jerry’s hit piece on Meg’s proposal to eliminate the state capital gains tax. It says, “Meg Whitman’s $5 billion tax giveaway…it’s not for you.” Actually, you lying fraud, it is for
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