Our friends with Americans for Prosperity, California, were participants in yesterday’s massive anti-tax rally in Fullerton, and they sent this over for your reading pleasure. Below are a few photos from the days event…

Americans for Prosperity joined KFI radio personalities John and Ken for "Tax Revolt Day" in California. Speaking to a crowd of 15,000 people, AFP California’s Statewide Chairman Peter Foy spoke of the recent outrage over the $45 billion tax increase recently levied on taxpayers by politicians in Sacramento. Peter Foy reminded the crowd that the recent tax increase from Sacramento is costing taxpayers $21 Million dollars per day, equivalent to 913,000 per hour, 24 hours per day.… Read More

From the “Wake up and don’t smell the tobacco” department… Thanks to the Federal Strategy Group for sending along the quote of the day:

“They’re telling you how to live and what to do, and they’re doing it right here in America.”

–Edith Frederickson, 72, a smoker in Belmont, California, where a strict antismoking law effectively outlaws lighting up in all apartment buildings (New York Times, 1/27/09) From the “It’s not only Republicans mad at some of their legislators” department… This excerpted from a recent San Diego Democratic Club email call-to-action, and starring Assemblyman Marty Block:

Last Monday … the California State Assembly voted on HR 5, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano’s resolution declaring that the Assembly believes that Proposition 8 was an improper "revision" of our California Constitution rather than an "amendment" that could be rightly placed before voters as the Proposition 8 proponents did last fall. In… Read More

This was sent out statewide to the members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association after yesterday’s massive, successful anti-tax rally in Fullerton…

At least 10,000 angry taxpayers (one official estimate was over 15,000) participated in the 2009 Tax Revolt rally in Fullerton today. A big Thank You to all the HJTA members who joined the protest against higher taxes and Proposition 1A, the $16 billion tax increase scam placed on the May 19 special election ballot by the Legislature. We know that many HJTA members were not able to travel to Fullerton, but were with us in spirit. This event was just the kickoff of the campaign to defeat Proposition 1A that is being deceptively marketed by… Read More

I can imagine the assignment editors hanging out in the Los Angeles Times newsroom when the fax comes over from KFI’s John & Ken show informing them of a "tax revolt rally" taking place in Fullerton. Never mind that the Times’ Orange County coverage is becoming more and more sparse, given the attention lately on the quickly growing discontent amongst taxpaying Californian’s in the wake of the passage a few weeks ago of the largest tax increase in this history of this state (or any state, for that matter), you would think that they would have assigned a reporter to cover the event. Perhaps maybe they might have also sent a photographer to snap some "clicks" of the crowd.

Invariably, though, the editors, who were probably leaders in PETA or Greenpeace on their college campuses before turning to a life in journalism (following most of their campus-left activists), just scrunched up the fax and tossed it into the trash.

That is certainly one conclusion that you could come to as you turn the pages of the Los Angeles Times print edition this morning, as my mom and dad did — they live in LA. My mom confirmed for me… Read More

I can imagine the assignment editors hanging out in the Los Angeles Times newsroom when the fax comes over from KFI’s John & Ken show informing them of a "tax revolt rally" taking place in Fullerton. Never mind that the Times’ Orange County coverage is becoming more and more sparse, given the attention lately on the quickly growing discontent amongst taxpaying Californian’s in the wake of the passage a few weeks ago of the largest tax increase in this history of this state (or any state, for that matter), you would think that they would have assigned a reporter to cover the event. Perhaps maybe they might have also sent a photographer to snap some "clicks" of the crowd.

Invariably, though, the editors, who were probably leaders in PETA or Greenpeace on their college campuses before turning to a life in journalism (following most of their campus-left activists), just scrunched up the fax and tossed it into the trash.

That is certainly one conclusion that you could come to as you turn the pages of the Los Angeles Times print edition this morning, as my mom and dad did — they live in LA. My mom confirmed for me… Read More

I’ve heard from a lot of FR readers, who are upset at the legislature’s passage of the largest tax increase in the history of any state, and a good number of them ask me why Assemblyman Roger Niello should be treated any differently, in terms of culpability, than Senators Ashburn, Cogdill and Maldonado, and Assemblymembers Adams and Villines.

These readers bring up a good and valid point. While it is true that unlike the other five, Niello did not sign the Americans for Tax Reform No New Taxes pledge, that doesn’t let him off the hook for being a deciding vote to slam Californian’s with two years of higher taxes (to the tune of an estimated $16 billion or more!).

The reality is that just like the others, Roger Niello used plenty of anti-tax rhetoric in his campaigns and in his speechifying — he’ll tell you right now, to your face, how terrible it is to raise taxes.

So, relative to the "non-pledge taker," one has to say … Read More

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I am pleased this morning to share a guest commentary from a very esteemed reader of the FlashReport, Bruce Herschensohn. Herschenshon, who is a senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, was for many, many years a commentator on KABC television in Los Angeles. In 1992, he was the Republican nominee for United States Senate. Herschensohn is widely considered to be one of the country’s leading experts on foreign policy issues — and a great mentor and friend to this website publisher.

By Bruce Herschensohn

Chuck DeVore is not merely qualified for to be California’s next U.S. Senator; he has performed service for… Read More