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Laphonza Going La-Gone-za: Sen. Butler Will Not Seek Senate Re-Election

October 20, 2023 8:37 amOctober 20, 2023 8:37 am

In what can only be called a sadly typically au courant Newspeak statement, Sen. Laphonza Butler has announced she will not be entering the 2024 race to try to keep the seat gifted her by Gavin Newsom two weeks ago....

Gascon Polling Disaster Finds Only 14% Plan to Vote for Him in March

October 19, 2023 6:15 pmOctober 19, 2023 6:15 pm

One in seven – that’s how many Los Angeles County residents plan to vote to re-elect George Gascon in the March District Attorney’s race primary. For an incumbent to poll at 14% against a field of nine far lesser known,...

Curious – Where was George?

October 19, 2023 1:37 pmOctober 19, 2023 1:38 pm

There are 10 people who will be on the ballot in the March Los Angeles District Attorney primary vote – nine of them showed up at a debate Wednesday. Guess which one wasn’t there? George Gascon skipping the debate would...

President Julie Su?

October 18, 2023 3:54 pmOctober 18, 2023 3:54 pm

In the case of catastrophe, there exists the presidential line of succession. It starts with vice president, that we all know, but then continues on through the Speaker of the House, the Senate President Pro Tem, and then down into...

This Time, Governor Newsom Lied About the EDD

October 18, 2023 10:28 am

This story has two aspects, one simple and one complicated, complicated with a capital B for bureaucracy. First, the simple part – Governor Gavin Newsom lied. Not an obfuscation, or a missing context thingy, or a matter of interpretation –...

About Last Week: Gavin Spares Fresca!

October 15, 2023 4:17 pmOctober 16, 2023 2:41 pm

In California, you are supposed to shun, disavow, and cancel anything immediately – and do it in front of a television camera if you can find one. Texas? Evil governor of an evil state! Oil companies? Evil profiteers! (no, it’s...

LASD Firing Range Explosion Preventable?

October 14, 2023 4:08 pmOctober 14, 2023 4:11 pm

Tuesday, a mobile firing range parked at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic exploded, severely injuring two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies. The deputies – who may have been trapped in the 53-foot long trailer by an automatic locking...