Gerrymandering
Give Me Party or Give Me Death
The idea of open primaries has the two Dead Old Parties running scared.
February 20, 2009 | Read More
Hell Getting Chilly: Corrupt Incumbent Loses
They’re making snow angels in Hades. A lifetime incumbent actually lost his seat.
December 8, 2008 | Read More
Newsflash: People Don’t Trust Career Politicians
The latest opinion polls show only 4% of Californians trust policy makers to … make policy. So how come nearly 70% of voters supported them in the only opinion poll that matters, the election?
December 4, 2008 | Read More
The Partisan Sideshow Continues
Another year, another massive budget deficit in California, and yet more partisan bickering while nothing gets solved
November 26, 2008 | Read More
California Political Weather Report: Status Quo With A 100% Chance Of More Of The Same
A survey of California election returns shows just how bad gerrymandering has skewed the state’s voting districts.
November 25, 2008 | Read More
House Committee Fight Takes A (Small) Bite Out Of The Rigged Seniority System
Democratic representatives voted this morning to give Henry Waxman of California control of the enormously powerful Energy and Commerce Committee over its longtime chair John Dingell of Michigan. Waxman’s victory at least shows that someone with less seniority can beat a more tenured colleague. Miracle of miracles! But Waxman didn’t win today purely on merit. He won by the tried and true rules of pay-to-play politics.
November 20, 2008 | Read More
Another Stab At Slaying Gerrymandering
California’s “Governator” is taking another shot at fixing the state’s gerrymandered congressional districts.
November 3, 2008 | Read More
East Is East, West Is West And Bloomberg Is A Hypocrite
When Kipling wrote, “East is east, west is west and never the twain shall meet,” he wasn’t predicting Michael Bloomberg’s geographically shifting political views, but he could have been. Bloomberg is stumping for a voter referendum in California to take power away from career politicians while, at the same time, he is engineering a virtual coup by career politicians in New York to overturn a … voter referendum.
October 16, 2008 | Read More
Bloomberg’s Term Limit Scam Hits A Snag
Michael Bloomberg and the other would-be career incumbents in New York are trying to undo term-limits. But their quest has hit a snag in the form of the city’s campaign finance rules. What are they going to do? Why, change the laws again, of course. Why not? They’re already working to contravene the will of the people on term limits, why not rewrite the campaign finance laws, too? Once you start letting politicians make their own rules, you might as well grant them all permanent rights to their seats.
October 14, 2008 | Read More
Reason #1: The Dance of the D.O.P.es
When I was a student at UCLA, I used to debate members of the American Communist Party in Pershing Square in downtown L.A. They tried to argue that the Soviet Union was a “worker’s paradise,” but I knew that was a fantasy. The USSR was nothing but a repressive dictatorship, with communist party bosses hoarding all the goodies while the “workers” beneath them barely got enough to get by. Back in those days I would have never dreamed that we’d wind up in a similar situation here in America. But that nightmare has come true.
We’re facing an almost Soviet-style manipulation…
August 25, 2008 | Read More
