Just in time for Thanksgiving, The Fifth Annual California Piglet Book is out, brought to you by Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) and Tom Schatz, the President of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW). The city of Los Angeles will now be able to cross off the six $300,000 toilets that… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Rose Institute
Don’t Think So, Bill…
Bill Cavala accuses the press of bias in its coverage of the term limits initative because of its love of redistricting reform: …the next step was the manipulation of the issue by the Governor. Because Legislative leaders supported the initiative, Schwarzenegger attempted to use that fact to extort action from them on redistricting. Because the… Continue Reading
CGS California Term Limit Report
Shane Goldmacher of the Sac Bee‘s Capitol Alert notes the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) Termed Out: Reforming California’s Legislative Term Limits (pdf), well timed by Sasha Horwitz. Ed Mendel of the San Diego Tribune‘s Newsblog also has a post on it, as does the California Progress Report, which says: With well financed campaigns on… Continue Reading
Sac Bee On The Consequences of Avoiding Redistricting Reform
The Sacramento Bee opines: “By nixing redistricting reform, legislative leaders may have doomed Proposition 93.” It is becoming clear to everyone these days (if it wasn’t already) that the attempt to lift term limits without some kind of redistricting reform was a colossal blunder. For a while, it appeared that Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and… Continue Reading
Walters on Boyarsky on Unruh
Dan Walters reviews Bill Boyarsky‘s Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics in the Sacramento Bee. Here’s a snippet that begins by refering to Unruh’s promises to the people of the fruits of the full-time legislature he helped create: Initially, the promises appeared to be coming true as Sacramento generated an outpouring… Continue Reading
House Seats & the 2010 Census: Who Wins, Who Loses?
James L. of the Swing State Project follows up on his post describing the fastest and slowest growing House districts by commenting on and pointing us to Polidata’s projections of “the states that stand to gain and lose House seats after the 2010 Census.” Check out the comments. Continue Reading
Boyarsky on Unruh
An excerpt in the L.A. Times from Bill Boyarsky‘s Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics touches on redistricting: Unruh reached into the streets of South Central Los Angeles and, for the first time, brought substantial numbers of African Americans into power in the California legislature and Democratic Party. “Jesse genuinely believed… Continue Reading
Weekend Reading Assignment
What with all the news of the $10 billion plus state budget shortfall these days, we highly suggest you simply go over to the Legislative Analysts Office website (which is always chock full of goodies for citizens and experts alike) to see what all the fuss is about. Just watch Legislative Analyst-in-Chief Elizabeth Hill’s webcast… Continue Reading
FEC Nominees and Redistricting Politics
Via Election Law. In this Weekly Standard article, Edward Blum of the American Enterprise Institute criticizes Barak Obama’s criticism of Bush FEC nominee Hans von Spakovsky. Redistricting is in the mix: Continue Reading
Common Cause on the Voter’s FIRST Act
Josh Zaharoff of Common Cause, in a round-up of the organization’s actions for election reform throughout the states, sums up their recent actions for redistricting reform in California: Continue Reading