Today in Capitol Weekly, Democrat Party operative (and former Deputy Chief of Staff to both Speaker Fabian Nunez and Karen Bass) Steve Maviglio pens a column on why he thinks selling the water bonds to voters will be a tough sell.

In his piece, Maviglio takes an uncalled for at the integrity of Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.Normally I wouldn’t reprint this garbage, but Coupal has penned a response to Maviglio that is best understood in context:

Maviglio’s Cheap ShotNote to water bond proponents: before you even buy office furniture, the first campaign check should be written to the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation. Jon Coupal, the Foundation’s director, has hemmed and hawed on this thoughts on the bond. Translation: he’s open for business on support.

Jon Coupal RespondsIf all you have is a hammer, all problems start to look like… Read More

I read with interest about a recent speech our state’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Ron George, gave about how the initiative system in our state is responsible for “dysfunction” in Sacramento. In my opinion, Democrat dominance in the legislature is more the cause of dysfunction, not the initiative process. To say that the initiative system is the cause of all our state’s problems is very wrong – because it blames the People of our state. In my opinion, the People, any subdivision of them; the first 120 names in the Fresno phone book, for example, would be far less dysfunctional leading our state than Speaker Bass and Company. The People want lower property taxes, the death penalty, and chickens to be treated humanely. What’s wrong with that? What does the legislature want? Not good stuff, that is for sure!… Read More

In response to the self-serving and dismissive way in which Attorney General Jerry Brown summary announced that his own investigation of his own office for potential criminal wrongdoing concluded that nothing criminal had occurred — strains credulity.

The California Republican Party has just unveiled a hard hitting web-presentation on the subject, worth a minute of your time, and one quick phone call…

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The Sacramento Bee today (and Jon’s post here on FR earlier this morning) brought back the wonderful memory of how I spent my Valentine’s Day this year. Instead of taking Sharon to a nice dinner, I was locked in on the Senate floor with 39 of my closest friends fighting to keep get California’s spending in line with revenues. This is not how I would recommend anyone spending their Valentine’s Day and it highlights an ever growing problem in the Legislature – all night sessions that yield poor public policy.

The ink on the page isn’t even dry before we are called by the Pro Tem to vote on legislation that has dramatic implications for the entire state. These policies are negotiated in backroom deals that have no public input and are never debated through the proper legislative process. Members aren’t afforded time to read the bills let alone given enough time for our policy experts to scrutinize the legislation and draft complete and accurate analyses. This unfortunately leads… Read More

California Republican Lawyers Association Demands Attorney General Allow for an Independent Investigation Calls on the District Attorneys of Alameda and San Francisco to Conduct the Investigation

In response to the office of Attorney General Jerry Brown attempts to close an internal investigation surrounding the resignation of his Communications Director Scott Gerber, the following letter was sent to the Attorney General today by Steven Baric, President of the California Republican Lawyers Association and former prosecutor.

Furthermore, given the need for an unbiased and transparent handling of this matter to ensure the integrity of the Office of the Attorney General to California’s taxpayers and voters, Mr. Baric sent the following letters to the District Attorneys of Alameda County and the City… Read More

Check out the latest from ReasonTV…

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Following yesterday’s breaking news by Andrew Breitbard’s BigGovernment.comthat a San Diego ACORN official was recently caught on tape claiming a whitewash by Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office of the ongoing investigation of the organization (also hilited on today’s FR mainpage), the Republican Party of San Diego County today demanded answers.

Chairman Tony Krvaric shot off a letter to Brown, as well as hand delivered a letter to the local ACORN office in National City. The KGTV Channel 10 video of today’s GOP activities sums up the entire story very nicely (make sure you click on the video to the right of the linked page)…

http://www.10news.com/news/21588591/detail.html

Krvaric had the following to say…

We can recall the appalling videos from the National City office of ACORN, where an employee was caught on tape… Read More

I’m a little concerned…… we have a Governor today that, in order to prove his environmental "credentials", signed AB 32 into law, "greenhouse emissions" legislation that will slam another nail into our faltering economy and drive away industry.

Now, we have yet another "Republican" running for Governor with the same close ties to radical environmental interests. I am really, really puzzled by this.

On Monday, I blogged on Meg Whitman’s personal foundation donating thousands of dollars to the Environmental Defense Fund in 2007 to protect the delta smelt and that Whitman personally embarked on a climate change cruise in 2008 with Jimmy Carter and Van Jones.

Yesterday on the Capitol Hour with Eric Hogue, Meg… Read More