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The 11th district’s congressman, Jerry McNerney has raised serious questions today about his commitment to renewable energy and his ethics with his vote against an amendment to include more clean energy sources… Read More
Well, the human face of the purported recall of Assemblyman Jeff Miller has finally been revealed to the public. It’s an interesting young man, accented not only by a bare-shouldered party dress, but also complete with carefully applied lipstick, mascara and eye liner. That all of these quality accessories and cosmetics are adorning the face of a man may strike some as unusual, but no matter your views on people who dress in drag, all of this only contributes to the further absurdity of a shameful farce.
Blaine Jenks is 22 years old, a recent graduate of Orange County’s Vanguard University and still lists his mother’s home as his address. But rather than inquiring if he/she should move out of mom’s place, let’s focus on the actual address for a moment. Blaine’s voter registration card still lists his mom’s Placentia address as his home. And for those outside of Orange County, Placentia is well outside the lines of the 71st Assembly District.… Read More
Welcome to the second part of our two-part feature on the FlashReport “Winners & Losers of the May 19 Special Election.” Yesterday we presented the winners. Today we introduce to you the losers – those people or groups who, from our perspective, suffered in their stature, standing and reputation as a result of the outcome of Tuesday’s vote. It’s always more challenging to call out losers than winners, and occasionally (but not usually) someone takes it personally. We understand if you do — but to you we’d say, suck it up. This whole stupid special election didn’t need to happen, but it did, and you tried to raise my taxes, and… Read More
I wrote this column for The Fox Forum on why Props. 1A through 1E went down to ignominious defeat:
California voters have overwhelmingly rejected the 5 “budget reform” propositions cobbled together by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislature, rejecting them by 30-point margins. Even in leftist bastion of San Francisco, these tax-and-borrow initiatives are going down.
The focus of voter ire was Proposition 1A, a soft-spending cap that also extended a massive, two-year tax hike for an additional two years. The tax extension was a partly successful bid to buy public employee union support.
The “Yes” and 1A-1E campaign possessed all the conventional advantages of winning a statewide initiative campaign: favorable ballot descriptions written by the legislature rather than, as is customary, by the Secretary of State; the support of nearly the entire ruling class from the governor… Read More
Over the next two days, we will be presenting to FlashReport readers our “Winners & Losers of the May 19 Special Election” feature… Today we will be presenting the winners – those people or groups who, from our perspective, increased their stature, standing and reputation as a result of the outcome of yesterday’s vote. Let me say that you will not find on the list below any of the labor groups (and there were some) who opposed Proposition 1A. Our position is that, given the ineffectiveness of the alleged “spending cap” in 1A, these groups have actually done themselves harm – though we are okay with that.
So, without further commentary, and in no particular order, our Winners…
FR’S WINNERS OF THE MAY 19 SPECIAL ELECTION
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I’m not sure who won on Dancing On The Idle American Star Search last night but I do know thatall taxpayingCalifornians got a win with the election results of last night. If the legislature hasn’t "gottenit" yet with dismal poll ratings,the No On Prop 93 to term limit extensions result, the Tea Parties that have and will continue to happen all over the US andCalifornia, then maybe the Prop 1F resultwill send themessage. See that gesture legislators?Basically, theF in1F stands for finger, as in the middle fingerlegislators have just beengiven by many Californians.Don’t tax us more, get it right, don’t trick us with baddeals made at midnight.
With the state’sconditions as they are, there isn’t really muchcause to celebrate but a sense of relief that patchwork fixes did not get passed, aspending cap was not encased in the Constitution that doesn’t cap anything [which would’ve thereby ended the debate for good] that the debate must continue and a sober re-evaluation of what and how the state operates must occur. Indeed it is a 2nd chance to get it right.… Read More