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New CA GOP seeks to stop Dem ‘recipe for disaster’

March 5, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — The 11th Commandment, according to the gospel of former President Ronald Reagan, is an unwritten rule in the Republican Party discouraging public attacks on other Republicans, particularly GOP candidates. “Thou shalt not speak

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Karl Rove: CA GOP must ‘Get back in the game and fight’

March 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — “Losing has one great benefit to it,” Karl Rove, told a large luncheon California Republican Party spring convention in Sacramento yesterday. “It gives you the chance to start fresh to look everything

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CA GOP Convention: DeVore lays out stark CA vs. TX contrast

Mar. 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Former Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, left the Golden State for Texas in 2011 after he termed out. DeVore returned to his former state Friday night to speak at the dinner banquet of the

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Assembly Dems play politics with sequestration bill

March 1, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — Yesterday in the California Assembly the Democratic majority played fast and loose with a bipartisan bill aimed at urging President Barack Obama and Congress to avert the federal sequestration cuts. SJR 3, by

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New life breathed into Sacramento vanity project

March 1, 2013 By Katy Grimes The NBA cheerleaders at the Sacramento Bee are giddy with excitement today. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson announced during his State of the City address Thursday that the Sacramento Kings are here to stay, and

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Obamacare grants exemptions for everyone but taxpayers

Feb. 5, 2013 By Katy Grimes Obamacare is beginning to directly affect Californians’ wallets — and health. New regulations released last week from the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services made it clear that spouses and children

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Despite Prop. 30, CA revenues likely to miss the mark – again

Feb. 4, 2013 By Josephine Djuhana Will Gov. Jerry Brown get all the revenue increases he wants from Proposition 30, which voters passed last November? Brown recently said in an interview with Jeremy Hobson of Marketplace Morning Report that Prop.

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California a model for other states?

Feb. 3, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — California’s modern-day progressive Democrats keep crowing about the huge success they’ve had in taming the state’s budget deficit, thanks to Proposition 30‘s tax increases and other “reforms,” and now are championing the

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Harry Reid: Your taxes are going up even more

Feb. 3, 2013 By John Seiler I saw Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on “ABC This Week” this morning. He said: “STEPHANOPOULOS: So your position on lifting the sequester, on avoiding a government shutdown, and on extending the debt limit

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Study finds corporate tax breaks are ‘corporate welfare’

Jan. 31, 2013 By Katy Grimes A new study just released by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation and the Reason Foundation found many California tax breaks given to corporations constitute corporate welfare, shows how they actually impede economic growth, and contribute

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