Brown’s public pension plan cuts existing benefits and sets up a “hybrid” system to include a 401(k) component. Is the love affair between labor and Brown over, this time for good?
The love affair may be waning, but they remain
Pull the plug on high-speed rail or go ahead with the project? What’s your take?
Mass transit projects have rarely lived up to their billing, our political leaders should concentrate on other ways to create jobs. But politics will get
Jerry Brown is presenting his proposed overhaul of public pensions this week. So what’s wrong with public pensions and what should Brown do to fix them?
“Airtime” purchases defy intellectual gravity; that practice should be grounded immediately. Spiking should be
Is the Occupy movement the real deal? If so, what impact will it have on next year’s elections in California or nationwide?
Maybe they’ll nominate William Jennings Bryan for president and resurrect the Free Silver movement. But it is the
“Jerry Brown has finished his cycle of bill signings and vetoes for the year. How would you characterize him – conservative, moderate, liberal, or something else entirely?”
Jerry Brown has been, is, and always will be “something else entirely.”
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“Organized labor gets Brown elected governor and Brown smacks them in the face (vetoes of child-care unionizing, card check, etc). Disloyalty or good politics?”
We’ll see whether it’s good politics or not next year, when Brown will need labor to
California was solidly Obama country in 2008. What about next year, given the deep unemployment, the still-weakening economy, the voters’ unhappiness with government and disenchantment from the left with Obama?
All true, but way too soon to tell. Libs have
“Are Capitol Republicans out-of-step with Republicans out there in the real world? The latest Field Poll suggests exactly that — at least on whether ballot initiatives should all be pushed to November. What do you think?”
Well, I don’t understand
The Kinde Durkee scandal is spreading. A number of politicos have lost campaign funds, and there may be more. What impact, if any, will this case have on elections next year?
Because there are contribution limits at both the federal
“Given demographics and voting trends, realistically, what is the future of the Republican Party in California?”
Their immediate future (this political generation), appears to have ended in 1994 when Gov. Pete Wilson declared war on “illegal aliens.” Bye, bye, Latino