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Back to homepageWashington misreads California — again
June 21, 2012 By John Seiler If you’ve ever lived in Washington, D.C., as I did in 1977 and from 1982 to 1987, you know the place lives under a bubble. They have no idea what’s going on in the
Read MoreTop Two destroyed third parties
June 12, 2012 By John Seiler More than two years ago on CalWatchDog.com, I was the first to report that the Top Two voting system would destroy third parties. My article was entitled, “Will Prop. 14 kill third parties?” It
Read MoreWe have been deleting abusive comments
June 8, 2012 By John Seiler We appreciate our commentators adding to our articles. But the past two days I have spent several hours deleting abusive posts, in particular from one commentator who has contributed interesting, civil comments in the
Read MoreCig tax increase cliffhanger
Update: Prop. 29 lost. June 5, 2012 By John Seiler Looks like we might not know until late tonight whether poor smokers will be taxed into penury by Proposition 29, the $735 million tax increase for wealthy cancer “charities.” As of 9 pm,
Read MoreTop Two not revolutionary — yet
June 5, 2012 By John Seiler We’ll have to see how the evening goes. But so far, the Top Two has not proved the revolutionary move to moderation that its backers hoped. In a key race in Orange County, early
Read MoreLiberal Wisconsin rebukes union power
June 5, 2012 By John Seiler Maybe it’s the cheese. Tonight Wisconsin, one of the country’s most liberal states, rebuked its powerful government-worker unions by keeping Republican Gov. Scott Walker in office. As of 8:29 pm California time, with 60
Read MoreCalWatchDog.com election coverage tonight…
June 5, 2012 By John Seiler Shortly after the polls close in Wisconsin at 6 pm Pacific Time CalWatchDog.com will be posting analysis on the Scott Walker recall, followed by even more commentary after the polls close at 8 pm in
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Leslie Daigle supports eminent domain robberies
June 1, 2012 By John Seiler In preparation for next week’s election crunch, I’ve been taking a couple of days off to get in shape with plenty of sleep and bourbon. But something just happened I must report on. At
Read MoreDid California budget deficit sink Wisconsin recall?
June 1, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi New York Times journalist Frank Rich once wrote about the spectacle that surrounded the recall of former California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003: “Eastern snobs who airily condescended to the spectacle as merely another
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