Looking for Tax Protest or Tea Party coverage in the LA Times? Don’t bother

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  March 9th at 08:39 PM  | 

8,000 angry anti-tax protesters don’t rate the same coverage… …as “Hundreds of Vietnamese Americans demonstrated Saturday outside a provocative art exhibit in Santa Ana that had featured Communist symbols that protesters claimed mocked their painful experiences as political refugees.” Really? Not even “About 100 demonstrate outside Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, upset that the pastor opposed to gay marriage was chosen by Obama to give | Read More »

California up in arms! Finally we’re paying attention

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  March 8th at 09:32 PM  | 

Suddenly American Idol is less important, or because football season is over, or…Maybe they finally really hit the wall? After recently passing the largest tax increase in state history, people in California are finally waking up to what it is exactly the legislature did to us here. The LA Flagship station for Rush Limbaugh, KFI AM 640, held an event in the Orange County city | Read More »

Stimulus for Calif: Enabling We Can Believe In

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  February 1st at 01:18 PM  | 

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 »

More California Scheming?

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  January 27th at 12:28 AM  | 

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 »

CA: Some GOP Legislators put Taxes Back on the Table

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  January 23rd at 12:49 PM  | 

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 »

In California, Atlas Twitches

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  January 18th at 02:40 AM  | 

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.T. Deceased Local GOP

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  January 11th at 02:48 PM  | 

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 »

An Example to the So-Called Republican Governor of California

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  January 7th at 09:27 PM  | 

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 »

Arnold’s “Budget Cut” Package More Democrat Sleight of Hand

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  January 6th at 02:23 AM  | 

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 »

California Democrats Close to a Deal with Ah-nold

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  December 27th at 09:52 PM  | 

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 »

Christmas Vacation…Terminated!

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  December 20th at 09:50 PM  | 

“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 »

California’s Coming Fiscal Enema

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  December 20th at 03:04 AM  | 

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 »

The California Nuclear Tax Option

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  December 18th at 09:03 PM  | 

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 »

California Dems Try To Backdoor Their Constituents

By: Erick Brockway (Diary)  |  December 17th at 10:35 PM  | 

Operation “BOHICA” underway in California (Bend Over Here It Comes Again), as California Democrats Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Senate Pro Temp Darrell Steinburg (who replaces “Mafia” Don Perata) are even at this late hour are trying to circumvent California Proposition 13 by not calling them “Taxes” but instead calling them “Fees”. Proposition 13 was passed back in 1978, and in part, it requires a | Read More »