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Voting on a Recall Petition

December 4, 2019 10:01 amDecember 4, 2019 10:05 am

As provided by the California Constitution in Article II, Section 13, the “recall is the power of the electors to remove an elective officer.” The process is initiated by filing of the petition alleging a reason for the recall. However,...

Tax fighter Howard Jarvis, author of Proposition 13

CA Commercial Property Owners Facing Pervasive Tax Increases if Prop. 13 Split Roll Initiative Passes

December 3, 2019 3:08 pm

‘California’s assessable property is now worth $6.5 trillion with just last year’s increase resulting in $75 billion in revenue.’ Despite California’s record budget surplus of $7 billion in reserves, the Proposition 13 “split roll” property tax ballot initiative could...

Relations Between The Governors Office and Trade Unions Worsens

December 3, 2019 9:06 amDecember 11, 2019 9:14 am

After almost a year of a growing rift between California labor unions and the Governor’s office, new warnings of an economic downturn and further cost-cutting in the state budget are bringing the situation to a head. From support to discontent...

California Pioneers Subsidized Housing for Public Employees

December 3, 2019 2:25 amDecember 3, 2019 12:12 pm

Instead of building practical infrastructure and limiting zoning laws and building codes to practical necessities, they have institutionalized a system of rapacious yet totally legal corruption, masked by moral imperatives. When it comes to affordable housing, what California’s state legislators...

Driver Leasing Companies Surge in Popularity a Month Before AB 5 Becomes Law

December 3, 2019 2:05 amDecember 2, 2019 8:28 pm

Driver leasing companies in California and other states are seeing a surge of Californian business due to the impending implementation of AB 5. AB 5 and Loopholes AB 5, which was written by Assemblywoman and former San Diego AFL-CIO CEO...

Recall Effort Against Governor Newsom Gains National and International Exposure

December 2, 2019 2:56 pmDecember 3, 2019 12:31 pm

The recall petitions against Governor Gavin Newsom reached a high not seen since 2003 and made national and international news this past weekend. Making national news Major newspapers across the country, from the San Francisco Chronicle to publications in New...

Is California a ‘Permanently Blue’ State?

December 2, 2019 10:06 amDecember 1, 2019 10:00 am

“The very rapid decline of California’s Republican Party,” writes Dan Walters of CALmatters, “from near-dominance in the 1980s and early 1990s to its current irrelevance has been one of the state’s most dramatic political events.” Walters has been writing on...