Steven Greenhut: If you wonder why the GOP is having such hard times, one need only look at the goings-on in Orange County, where Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh is pulling out all the stops to ensure the election to the board of supervisors of Todd Spitzer, the former Assemblyman who is a close union ally and someone who proudly increased pensions for his deputy sheriff union friends and then stood by that action right until he started getting political heat for doing so.
Why is the GOP forever shrinking in CA? It’s the incongruity!
May 23, 2012 By
Jerry Brown is the Great Dissembler
May 23, 2012 By
Steven Greenhut | More Gimmicks, Less Honesty | California continues to play budget games | 17 May 2012
As the Sacramento Bee reports, “The state budget deficit had grown by a remarkable 70 percent since January, but fiscal experts said the economy had little to do with it.” If not the economy, then what could possibly explain the shortfall? The answer: Brown and his administration embraced overly optimistic budget projections—what the Legislative Analyst’s Office described as “an aggressive forecast.” In January, Brown had claimed a budget deficit of $9 billion; today, it stands at $16 billion.
Should I Stay or Should I go? Greenhut says Conservatives should stay in CA
May 23, 2012 By
Yes, There’s a Case for Staying in California: Steven Greenhut
“Just as California progressives view their first-in-the-nation ideas such as cap-and-trade as a means to push the entire nation to the left, so too could conservatives and centrists use California as a model for a back-from-the-brink rescue.”
