Good news today from Pacific Legal Foundation & Ward Connerly: “In a legal settlement responding to a Proposition 209 lawsuit by Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has rescinded its policy of race-based discrimination in teacher assignment.” You can read the whole PLF release here. Fourteen years after voter approval, Prop. 209 continues to win fight after fight.It is because the initiative was well written and clearly thought out, from a legal perspective.And then it was vetted by some of the sharpest legal minds in the nation (Eugune Volokh, Gail Heriot, Clint Bolick, Manny Klausner and more).Throughout … Read More

This in from longtime FR friend Rob Stutzman, who among other hats, is a senior consultant to the Meg Whitman for Governor campaign… CRP Convention Highlights Whitman’s Allies, Exposes Brown’s Faults By Rob Stutzman Think Barbara Boxer is happy about running with Jerry Brown? Someone should ask her. Think California Democrat Party Chairman John Burton, who once said, Jerry Brown is “the most self-serving, inept politician that I have… Read More

I’ve penned out my first draft on a CRP convention update going into detail on how things occurred with Rules, Resolutions and Initiatives over the weekend. It’s too long, goes into too much detail, and I need to double-check it because there were a lot of moving parts. I should be able to get it up this afternoon, though!

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Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with far flung friends, but who knew it was a great way to spot potential campaign finance violations in real time?

The very talented Sacramento-based Democrat consultant Robin Swanson wrote on her Facebook page yesterday: “Random visitor of the day – Jerry Brown strolling into the office to meet with my office-mate, George Landers. With no entourage. And since he asked me to "like" him on Facebook, I figured I’d pass it on: http://www.facebook.com/jerrybrown”

George Landers, according to his LinkedIn, is the executive director for the UFCW western states council and their former political director. That organization has joined with and contributed nearly $300,000 to California Working Families, one of the union groups who have spent $15 million propping up Jerry Brown’s campaign. The law requires these expenditures to be done independent of a campaign,… Read More

This just in from our friends at U.S. Term Limits…

U.S. Term Limits praises Carly Fiorina for supporting term limits for Congress

August 24th, 2010, Fairfax, VA—Term limits advocates echoed agreement with Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, who announced her support for limiting Senate terms this past weekend. “Carly Fiorina has it exactly right when she proposes that Senators should only serve two terms. Our nation was intended to be a citizen government, not one run by professional politicians,” said U.S. Term Limits President Philip Blumel. Fiorina faces three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer, who was first elected in 1992. Boxer has been a steadfast opponent of term limits.… Read More

We have exhaustively covered the annual attempt by the enviro-whack community to assault the freedom grocery store owners and their customers (us!) to use plastic bags to take home our groceries. This notion is so extreme and impactful on people that it has never become law. That said, this year the legislation (contained in AB 1998) got further than it has in the past.

To be honest, that has been due to the greed of the California Grocers Association and its members. Under the current legislation that has been passed in the Assembly, but not the Senate, in addition to banning plastic grocery bags, there would also be a state-imposed free of at least five cents a bag (if you did the math, this turns into the collection of hundreds of millions of dollars annually) — but that money doesn’t go into some enviro-whack state program, it goes right into the pocket of grocery store owners (predominantly massive outfits such as Safeway Foods). It a very bad… Read More

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For the next three days, Democrats are reportedly going to hold online town hall meetings about the state’s budget. Here are ten questions that I’m guessing would NOT make it past the screeners:

1. You’ve known that the state had a $19 billion deficit since back in January, why did you just get around to agreeing on a plan this month?

2. On March 5, right after being sworn in as Speaker of the House, Speaker Perez told the Los Angeles Times that he would be making “huge, devastating, difficult decisions” over the “next fifteen days” to close the state’s deficit. What were those decisions and why weren’t they enough?

3. On March 16,… Read More