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A Closer Look at the Appropriations Committees’ Suspense File Outcomes

May 20, 2023 7:20 amMay 20, 2023 7:30 am

On May 18, 2023, the California Senate and Assembly Committees on Appropriations took votes on the measures on their respective Suspense Files. This article takes a look at the specifics of the committees’ actions. Senate Appropriations Committee Actions The total...

Republicans at a Crossroads on Abortion

April 29, 2023 9:06 amApril 29, 2023 9:26 am

For the longest time, the issue of Social Security was considered the “Third Rail” of politics. Touch it in any way—even if common sense adjustments were your call, and it all but guaranteed electrocution at the polls. And that still...

The Pat Brown Republicans

March 11, 2023 2:29 amMarch 11, 2023 8:18 am

California old timers can remember the state’s first Governor Brown, Jerry Brown’s father Pat Brown, who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. It would be difficult to imagine anything the elder Brown did that would be...

What It’s Like to Run for Assembly as a Republican in San José

February 2, 2023 6:32 pmFebruary 3, 2023 7:24 am

Against odds that the Public Policy Institute of California pegged at 200 to 1, I ran as a Republican in California Assembly District 25, which takes in central and eastern San José. The Republican registration in this district of some...

Sac Bee Lectures Rep. Kevin Kiley on How to Do His New Job

January 30, 2023 9:00 amJanuary 31, 2023 8:54 am

The Sacramento Bee, the State Capitol newspaper of record, has a real problem with newly elected Congressman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) – enough of a problem they wrote a hit piece wagging their finger at him, telling him how he is...

Rep. McClintock on New House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

January 11, 2023 6:53 amJanuary 11, 2023 7:26 am

Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-05) spoke on the House floor January 10, 2023 in support of H. Res 12, establishing a Select Subcommittee to investigate the Weaponization of the Federal Government. These are the Congressman’s remarks: Mr. Speaker: In order to...

‘Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground’ – A Comparative Study

December 14, 2022 2:45 amDecember 13, 2022 8:54 pm

So “Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground” is from David Letterman’s “Top 10 Courses Taken by Basketball Players at UNLV” from decades ago about basketball players take. That nasty great aunt you haven’t talked to in years has finally...