NOV. 5, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT Those of us who applauded the national backlash against the Obama administration’s big-government overreach have been straining to find good news in California, which defied the national trends by electing a slate of liberal Democrats and approving an initiati...
November, 2010Mostly Good News On CA PensionsFriday, November 5th, 2010California Was Impervious To ChangeThursday, November 4th, 2010This article was first published in City Journal. NOV. 4, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT No state is in a bigger fiscal jam than California, with its structural budget deficit and massive unfunded liabilities for well-compensated public employees. The state’s business climate is atrocious, an... Gerrymandering Muted CA Tea PartyThursday, November 4th, 2010NOV. 4, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The Tea Party movement couldn’t overcome the mathematics of political gerrymandering on Election Day Nov. 2 in California. All that the some 240 groups of the Tea Party movement in California had to show were possibly two pickups of congressional seats out of 5... Which Color, California?Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010NOV. 3, 2010 by KATY GRIMES If you just look the big offices in last night's election -- governor, attorney general, U.S. Senator, et al -- then it looks like the state of California is just a giant solidly blue state, cut adrift, as it were, from the red tide that washed over the rest of the ... Dems on Budgetary Hot SeatWednesday, November 3rd, 2010NOV. 3, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Five of the nine ballot measures on Tuesday's ballot dealt with taxes or the budget. The biggest one, Prop 25, replaced the Legislature’s required two-thirds vote of budget approval with a simple majority. It passed easily, leading some to speculate that wit... Give Us Liberty Or We’ll Get DemsWednesday, November 3rd, 2010This article first appeared in the Orange County Register. NOV. 3, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT President Barack Obama saved the Republican Party from itself. In a two-party system, when one party makes a mess of things, the only choice is to reward the other party and hope that, eventually, one... Departed Californians Swing ElectionTuesday, November 2nd, 2010NOV. 2, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Given that a couple of million Californians have left the state in the past 20 years, most of them Republicans, it's surprising that Democrats didn't do better. Jerry Brown, as I write, won by only 5 percentage points over Meg Whitman for governor; Gavin Newsom by... Election Night Live BloggingTuesday, November 2nd, 2010CalWatchdog will be reporting and live blogging tonight as election results come in. We'll be at various election events and downtown election hot spots, reporting, opining and analyzing. You can also check in tonight for on-the-spot posts and comments on our Twitter page, and sign up to be a Fac... Even Many GOP Voters Oppose Prop. 23Monday, November 1st, 2010NOV. 1, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The California Field Poll, reportedly one of the most accurate public opinion polls in the U.S., indicates that about one third or more of Republicans are tending to vote in favor of Green Power and Green jobs (or against Prop 23, which would put a halt t... Lockyer, Others Deny Pension CrisisMonday, November 1st, 2010NOV. 1, 2010 News Analysis By BRIAN CALLE Apparently the ideological left, public employment unions and some the state’s top financial officials still don’t get that we have a public employee unfunded pension liability crisis, or they are just in denial. Late last month, I attended t... |