The Daily Kos has a potentially interesting post for redistricting buffs entitled “Did GOP Gerrymander Itself Out of Power?” Continue Reading
Category Archives: Rose Report
Business Climate: Location, Location, Re-Location
PPIC has another report out this month, Business Location Decisions and Employment Dynamics in California, which sounds interesting: Much recent debate about the state’s economy has focused on the narrow issue of whether California businesses are moving to other states—taking jobs with them. In this report, PPIC researchers Jed Kolko and David Neumark examine the… Continue Reading
Changing Birth Rates in CA
Dan “Propagandist for the extremists who control today’s GOP” (see below) Walters has an interesting post up pointing to a PPIC report detailing the ever changing demographics of our fair state. The PPIC summary says: Teen birth rates in California are dropping dramatically, and last year were the lowest the state has ever recorded. In… Continue Reading
Unruh’s Disputed Legacy
Nevermind the biased press Bill Cavala sees while observing coverage of the ill-fated Proposition 93. In another recent post about Sac Bee columnist Dan Walters’ aforementioned book review, Cavala claims that “‘Pop’ historians like Walters are really propagandists for the extremists who control today’s G.O.P.” As one might guess, redistricting history is a part of… Continue Reading
Douglas Johnson in the Press Enterprise
From an article by Doug Haberman in today’s Press Enterprise: But Doug Johnson, an elections expert and fellow at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College, was critical of Dunmore’s handling of the election. If it was too difficult for her team to verify and count eight ballots one night,… Continue Reading
The California Piglet Book
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
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