…with the worst credit rating of any state It took some doing, but California finally beat out Louisiana for the bottom spot on the state credit rating list, making us number one if you hold the list upside-down. With everything pretty much upside-down in California anyway…you get my drift. California and Louisiana had been tied for last place, A-plus on the S&P state ratings list | Read More »
Fed’s Stimulus allows California to pretend-again The Stimulus is rapidly approaching the US Senate, after passing the House with no Republican support, and California legislators are fairly salivating over the chance to stave off fiscal collapse, if only for a few months. The “Stimulus” itself, being a Democrat Christmas Wish List of pork and pork by-products, seems to do little to create real permanent jobs, | Read More »
Is it even possible? Yes, it’s possible. Insane, but that’s what we’ve come to expect. What do you think The California State Lands Commission would say to a plan that would be worth billions of dollars for the state treasury, was supported by local Democrat lawmaker Lois Capps, and such environmental groups as the Environmental Defense Center, and did I say would be worth billions | Read More »
What do you do with a friend who’s self-destructive? Someone who maybe overindulged for whatever reason, and is now addicted to their drug of choice? Do you ignore the problem, hoping it’ll go away on its own? Maybe confront the person, and risk losing a friend, hoping to save a life, but in the end losing the friend and the life because they refused to | Read More »
I did my taxes today. I’m screwed next year when my daughter turns 18 as instead of basically being a single Dad, I’ll be a single white male. Slime in California. Turns out I’ll get a whopping $69 back from the Feds (or so), and almost a $600 check (IOU) from the State of California. Whoohoo. But if California Democrats have their way, not only | Read More »
It finally happened, as it usually does, state Democrat legislators seem to have been able to reach a few “reasonable” Republicans and get them to agree to tax increases under “certain conditions”. In a “Read my lips” moment California GOP legislators signed a State Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which set in stone their commitment to all Californians to not allow California Democrats to simply tax and | Read More »
It seems over the last several years quite a few stories have cropped up in the news of Californians abandoning the state. In 2005, they were headed to the Midwest; A growing number of people are leaving California after a decade of soaring home prices, according to separate data from the Census Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service and the state’s finance department. Last year, a | Read More »
I just had the pleasure of speaking with one Chris Collier, newly assigned Executive Director of the Ventura County Republican Party. I’ll say one thing about this man, he’s energetic! He’s a self-described “Tech Geek”, with a head full of ideas and a plan to paint the County of Ventura bright red, as it was once. The local site should be up soon, and the | Read More »
RE: Plans for the future? Within 24 hours of my sending an email to our Ventura County GOP, an answer was received by the new Executive Director. My sense is, as a state all but abandoned by the National Republican Party, there are probably money issues. Hard to fathom in a state the size of California, and “my sense” isn’t verified as yet by anyone | Read More »
[The following email I sent to members at the Ventura County GOP website] My name is Erick Brockway, and I want change. Not “Change”, or “Change We Can Believe In™“, but real change from Blue back to Red. I’m noticing there are no events scheduled, no updates on the website since February of last year. Ventura County has gone blue (albeit slightly), and we need | Read More »
And yet they wonder; why is Ventura County, California going blue? I last wrote about this here, and after that I thought I’d wait a bit and see if maybe local GOP leaders were just getting over the holidays. Maybe they needed time to commiserate the presidential defeat together or alone, or possibly they won a couple of local races and thought their job was | Read More »
California State Senator Tony Strickland (R- 19th Senate Dist) finally came back from the holidays with an article in the local Ventura County Star newspaper. Like all state GOP legislators, he is a signatory to the State Taxpayer Protection Pledge; I, ____________, pledge to the taxpayers of the _____ district of the State of _________ and to all the people of this state, that I | Read More »
Well, it seems Governor Arnold’s “Budget Cuts” are more smoke and mirrors. Turns out the package he proposes would make ol’ Gray Davis proud; $11 billion spending cut claim calls $4.7 billion in borrowing a spending cut! The governor’s staff has pushed back over the downbeat tone of my last post on his new budget proposal. Turns out I wasn’t remotely downbeat enough. I would | Read More »
(Hat tip to paulag1955) The California budget fiasco is about to hit the headlines soon, with Democrat legislators still trying their end-run on the California state constitution. Looking for leadership, I’m personally forced to turn to Chuck Devore (R CA-70) down in Orange County for leadership. Here locally, Ventura County, formerly a GOP bastion, has recently turned Blue, albeit barely. The latest numbers: 150,066 Democrats | Read More »
Well this isn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done, but a drunk driver is in jail. Some of you may have read this post about my daughter being in an accident caused by a drunk driver. I tow cars for one of my part-time employers and deal with the carnage caused by DUI drivers nearly every weekend. To have her nearly killed by one really | Read More »
California state Democrats in their quest to bypass the constitutionally required 2/3 vote to raise taxes in California are reportedly “closer to a deal” with “Republican” Governor Arnold. From the Sacramento Bee; “Democratic leaders emerged Friday from a nearly three-hour meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger claiming they are “very close” to a deal they believe could resolve almost half of California’s gaping budget deficit. “The | Read More »
“Get back to vurk!” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling state Legislature back for yet another special session to get what he wants on the state budget deficit. “I will sign an executive order and call them in again for a special session to continue working on this problem,” Schwarzenegger said while making an appearance at a Fresno high school. “I believe that we can solve | Read More »
Well, it’s coming to a head on the left coast, and pay attention because it’s probably going to be the microcosm of the coming Federal fiscal mess to come. Think of it, years of Democrat leadership, taxing and spending their way to the brink of an abyss, and the problems California had when they started are worse now instead of better. Any problem seen, the | Read More »
Well it was an exciting day for watching our wallets drain in California. The state GOP held the line against out of control spending coupled with massive wished-for tax increases. The State Democrat Majority decided to not only side-step the line, but ignore its existence completely. For insight into the way the Democrats think here, check this out; “I’ve got some breaking news for ya,” | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick. You knew this would happen in California, right? In Claremont, California (county of Riverside) there exists as in many schools across the nation a celebration of Thanksgiving where children dress up in construction paper costumes as Indians or Pilgrims, and have school plays and parties. A four-decade tradition in Claremont, kindergartners at Condit and Mountain View elementary schools take turns | Read More »
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