Category Archives: Rose Report

Kosmont-Rose Survey Cited

The Attack Machine blog posts quotes from an article on our annual Kosmont-Rose Cost of Doing Business Survey: Recent business surveys by Kosmont & Associates, a private consulting group, and the Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College rank the city as the second most expensive in which to do business in California.Larry Kosmont, co-author of… Continue Reading

Welch on Governor Schwarzenegger

Reason’s Matt Welch blogs on the Governor’s recent remarks on term limits, etc.: Arnold has tried and tried to push through much-needed redistricting reforms, but has gotten nowhere. He tied it up with extending term limits in order to finally make it palatable to legislators, but even that fell through. Well, at least the governor… Continue Reading

Dr. Pitney on CA Budget Deal

From Steve Harmon’s January 20th article in the San Jose Mercury News: That leaves Democrats with one other possibility: Offer to agree to a constitutional spending cap on the budget in exchange for Republican support to put a tax package before voters. Such a deal would help Republicans achieve one goal – reducing government –… Continue Reading

Common Cause and Proposition 93 UPDATEDx2

Last Friday, Shane Goldmacher of Capitol Alert reported that Common Cause, one of the sponsors of the Voters FIRST redistricting initiative the Governor has decided to support, has announced it will support Proposition 93. (See also the California Progress Report, the California Majority Report, and Steve Lawrence’s AP report in the San Diego Union Tribune,… Continue Reading

Dr. Pitney on Economy and the Elections

From Dale Kasler’s article in the Sacramento Bee: With the presidential primary season barreling its way toward California, the weakening economy has suddenly become the hot issue, elbowing Iraq and other concerns to secondary status. That’s particularly true in California, which is suffering from the housing slump more than most states. It’s no coincidence that… Continue Reading

Redistricting Roundup

Redistricting and Prop. 93 come up in Kai Stinchcombe’s op-ed in The Stanford Daily: Once elected, honest people become corrupted by whispering lobbyists and the thrill of power, and arrogantly cease to care about those who selected them. There is ample evidence for this view: consider the districts our legislators gerrymandered for themselves — not… Continue Reading

Rose Institute Alum Armando Navarro, Dr. Pitney on the Latino Vote

From Steven Wall’s article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: Local Latino leaders are hoping to awaken the sleeping giant in advance of California’s presidential primary on Feb. 5.”We believe the Latino vote can be the swing vote for the 2008 presidential election,” said Armando Navarro, coordinator of the National Alliance for Human Rights, a… Continue Reading

The New Political Geography of California

Amy Chance over at Capitol Alert gives some props to “The New Political Geography of California,” edited by Frederick Douzet, Thad Kousser and Rose Institute fellow Ken Miller of Claremont McKenna College. Says Chance: Among the offerings: “Is California really a blue state?” by academic experts Morris P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Abrams. It explores… Continue Reading

PPIC: California’s Post-Partisan Future

Lisa Vorderbrueggen’s article from insidebayarea.com gives the PPIC some press for its recent report, “California’s Post-Partisan Future” (full pdf; press release): GOP spokesman Hector Barajas agreed with Baldessare’s call for redistricting reforms that would strip the Legislature of control over its own district boundaries. The current lines were drawn by both parties to protect the… Continue Reading