Last month, a proposed bill that was introduced by state Senator Patricia Bates was voted against on a bipartisan vote. The proposed bill, Senate Bill 401 (SB 401), was seeking to place limits on contributions that may be made to and received by candidate-controlled ballot measure committees. In other words, the purpose of SB 401 […]

In late March, California sold $600 million in bonds to help pay for the high-speed rail project. Unfortunately, a key source of funding for the project is actually bond money. In 2008, voters approved $10 billion in bonds and the state routinely sells them. However, the project is estimated to cost $77 billion due to […]

California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom just decided to grant amnesty to California death row inmates. Gavin Newsom is ignoring the will of the voters, ignoring the horrific crimes committed, and ignoring the pain and suffering felt by the victims and their families.  We have learned that Scott Peterson has started the “Gavin Newsom Fan Club” at San Quentin […]

In January, the California Bail Reform Act (Senate Bill 10) was put on hold after a referendum qualified to let voters decide if cash bail will be abolished in California. The law was scheduled to take effect this October, but the fate of SB 10 will now be decided by voters in November 2020. According […]

Earlier this month, the California Department of Motor Vehicles stated that it discovered that it sent the Secretary of State’s Office 23,000 erroneous voter registrations. The DMV claimed that the errors occurred within the state’s Motor Voter program, which allows eligible applicants getting a driver license to be automatically registered to vote. Apparently, the errors […]

The Los Angeles Times By: George Skelton February 12, 2018   We could be headed into another drought. There’s little Sierra snow and valleys are dry. Is California ready this time? Not really. Good signs: There’s still a lot of water stashed in reservoirs from last year’s abnormally wet winter. And we’ve become better at […]

According to a survey from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS), 58 percent of voters oppose Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), which was recently passed to fund transportation projects. Of those 58 percent that oppose SB 1, 39 percent responded that they strongly reject the legislation. SB 1 hopes to raise $5.2 billion annually […]

According to state officials, Los Angeles County’s Measure H quarter-cent sales tax, which is meant to help homeless people, has been pushed back to October because several cities in Los Angeles County have reached their sales tax caps. Measure H was approved by over 60 percent of voters this past March to deal with the […]