CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 05/12/2018

Chad Mayes Continues Effort to Keep Death Spiral of Republican Party on Track

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:25 pm
Last week, self proclaimed conservative Assemblyman, Jordan Cunningham, of San Luis Obispo, tweeted that he was happy that Arnold Schwarzenegger was trying to change the Republican Party.  Cunningham join Chad Mayes, Rocky Chavez and four other GOP’ers in the Assembly to pass a DEMOCRAT cap and trade bill, that included a 72 cent gas tax […]

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California Lawmakers Want Expedited Action On Salton Sea Restoration

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:23 pm
I love the headline, “California Lawmakers Want Expedited Action On Salton Sea Restoration”.  Expedited?  When Sonny Bono was Mayor of Palm Springs and then Congressman, he was begging Sacramento and Washington to save the Salton Sea.  Now a Democrat makes a statement and it is as if 25 years of fights for the Sea did […]

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Silicon Valley Water Rate Payers to have Massive Tax Increase to Pay for Legacy Project of Guv Brown

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:21 pm
The water ratepayers in Los Angles are bound to spend billions for the Delta Tunnel scam—via higher water rates.  Now the Silicon Valley, home of the nerds, shows itself to also to be home to the economic illiterate and believers that government is honest. “The project, officially known as California WaterFix, looked to be in […]

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Is the Midwest the Next South for the Democratic Party?

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:19 pm
America is changing.  The Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia primaries were won by the best possible Republicans, conservative, able to raise money and not easily charged with anything more than supporting the Trump White House.  The South is strongly Republican, Trump won in 2016 because of the Mid West—is it possible that this section of […]

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Housing Commission Budget Reflects Shift Away From Housing

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:16 pm
Did you really think that government would tell the truth about the purpose of a commission, committee or department?  In San Diego there is a housing commission—that is pushing as its chief reason for existence, fighting the battle for the homeless.  Instead of creating opportunities for housing for families and others, it is concentrating on […]

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The Dissapearing Male College Student

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:14 pm
We need diversity on our college campuses.  That means we need affirmative action for males to attend higher education facilities.  They are being discriminated against by the politically sensitive weak kneed Administrators. “In fact, girls will earn 141 college degrees – at all levels – for every 100 earned by males. This year the college […]

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Elias: Why California polls are wildly variable this spring

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:12 pm
In 2016 the polls were clear.  Trump could not get the nomination and if he did, Hillary might carry 45-48 States.  Looks like a lot of people either lied or refused to participate in polls in 2016.  Today we have polls in California that show a total unknown, James Bradley just one point behind Kevin […]

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USC student put on trial after debating peers on Facebook

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:10 pm
If you have an opinion that the Left does not like at USC—the University of Moscow extension in Los Angeles—has made it clear, have an opinion that even slightly approves of freedom and you can be punished and maybe expelled.  Donors:  stop giving money to the totalitarian USC. “The University of Southern California has long […]

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California taxes: $228.7 Billion—PLUS Fees!

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:06 pm
Can you afford to live in California? “California state and local governments received $419 billion from taxes, fees and federal funding in 2015, the most recent data available from the U.S. Census Bureau. Of that, $93.3 billion came from Washington, while state and local governments raised $325.7 billion from a combination of taxes and fees. […]

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Mathews: Here’s Your California Democracy. Would You Like Fries With That?

By Stephen Frank on May 11, 2018 09:03 pm
Democracy—that was gone long ago in the Confederate State of California.  Gray Davis killed it with his gas tax increase.  Though the voters Recalled him from office, we got Arnold, who raised taxes and used AB 32 to kill jobs in California.  Brown passed TWO gas tax increases, stole water from people and gave it […]

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