Politics and Elections

Pelosi Should Resign
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

JOHN SEILER: "60 Minutes" ran a scathing report on how Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, used her position to enrich herself. She's the former House speaker and current Democratic leader. Woman of the people? Yes, multi-millionaire people like her. All her gabbling about helping the poor and d...

Tax Fighter Backs Pension Spiker
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Steven Greenhut: The endorsement business can create some strange bedfellows, but I was still shocked to read that Lew Uhler, the well-known anti-tax activist, endorsed one of the most fiscally irresponsible politicians in Southern California, Todd Spitzer. According to a Spitzer for Supervisor pres...

Liberal Dem Governor Cuts Taxes
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
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John Seiler: A year ago, California elected the wrong liberal Democratic governor. We got burned out old Jerry Brown, whose last new idea for California came when Steve Jobs was just starting up Apple with Steve Wozniak. In office, Jerry has been obsessed with placating the government-worker unio...

Robbed Dems Feel Our Pain
Thursday, October 20th, 2011

JOHN SEILER: I'm loving it! California Democrats finally are getting a dose of their larcenous policies. Several of them, including Sen. DiFi and the Sanchez Twisted Sisters, allegedly were looted of millions of dollars by their campaign finance honcho, Kinde Durkee. They should be happy. T...

Watch Todd Spitzer, Demagogue
Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Steven Greenhut: As former Assembly member Todd Spitzer becomes heir apparent to the Orange County board of supervisors seat now that his conservative foe Chuck DeVore has withdrawn from the race to move to Texas, his defenders are trying to portray him as some sort of conservative. Indeed, many GOP...

Too Crazy Even for Jerry Brown
Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Steven Greenhut: Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed union-backed legislation that would promote the unionization of child care providers. If a kid receives public assistance, then the Service Employees International Union would get to organize workers, grab union dues and insert themselves more deeply into the...

Brown’s Phony Reg ‘Reduction’
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

John Seiler: Jerry Brown snookered a Mercury News reporter -- and a lot of other people -- when the governor signed into law two bills that supposedly loosen environmental regulations. "We're going to protect the environment, but we're also going to do it in a practical way. There are too damn ma...

The Senator Doth Protest Too Much
Monday, September 26th, 2011

Katy Grimes: In response to two stories I recently wrote about sneaky amendments added to legislation under the cover of the last-minute gut and amend process, San Francisco State Sen. Mark Leno (D) wrote an op ed on September 16 for the San Francisco Examiner titled, Claims Against CCA Bill U...

DiFi Should Wave Bye-Bye
Friday, September 23rd, 2011

John Seiler: The hardest thing for politicians to do is give up the reins of power -- especially if they've been in office a long time. Politics is intoxicating. Politicians blather about how much they're helping us. But at bottom, as George Washington said, it's force. It's telling other peop...

Eco-Arnold Splurges Big Time
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

John Seiler: Ex-Gov. and famous adulterer Arnold Schwarzenegger presents himself as an eco-friendly Green politician who advanced AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. But he splurges big time himself. Reported The Mail, a Brit paper: They are supposed to be working out ways to sol...