Earlier today I blogged about the importance to taxpayers of being able to vote for candidates for office that are willing to pledge, in writing, that they will oppose tax increases. I am pleased to report that, despite the new “top two election” system in place because of Prop. 14, we still have very few viable Republican candidates who have not signed a written pledge. While perhaps less ideal than simply posting a long list of everyone who has signed the No New Taxes pledge, I’ve compiled a list below of viable candidates in safe Republican or competitive seats that have not signed it. If a candidate took their own No New Taxes pledge, publicly, that was similar enough to the No New Taxes pledge, we counted that as well for our purposes as a signer. You could go to the Americans for Tax Reform website to see which candidates have signed the federal or state level pledge. But they get behind with their updates at crunch time, and of course they wouldn’t have anyone listed there who took their own public, written pledge.

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Today Americans across the country woke up to the report of another month of abysmal jobs numbers. But these numbers aren’t news to the millions of people unemployed or underemployed, these numbers simply codify what they already know to be true: our country is hurting and it isn’t getting better.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)announcedthat only 69,000 jobs were added in the month of May, far below market expectations and well short of the 150,000 jobs that BLS says are needed every month just to keep pace with population growth. While the announcement of any new jobs is welcomed, May marks the fourth straight month of slowing job growth and demonstrates that Americans continue to suffer through a painfully tepid recovery made even slower by the president’s failed policies.

Remember when President Obama promised that if we passed the “Stimulus,” we could keep unemployment under 8%? The unemployment rate in May increased to 8.2 percent, marking an inauspicious milestone—the 40th consecutive month that unemployment has been at or above 8 percent under President Obama. The “Stimulus”… Read More

Once every generation comes along a unique political leader.

Carl DeMaio is the real thing. In an age of political defeatism and angst, Carl earned San Diego citizens trust when they elected him to the city council. With a platform of fiscal reform, Carl offered honest and real solutions to San Diego’s financial melt-down. Carls’s ideas and approach are drawing national attention – and his success is winning converts and being imitated across the country. So much so that big labor has made him a top target to defeat in this election.

Today San Diegans face a stark choice. Ronald Reagan’s leadership was built on the idea of “raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors “. We must support those candidates with conservative, fiscally responsible values.

The resurgence of the Republican Party in California will depend on candidates advocating a reform agenda and Carl DeMaio’s campaign is the model for such resurgence.

You have probably heard of his opponent, Nathan Fletcher. Nathan worked for me twice. First with I ran for state chairman of the California Republican Party, then when I appointed him as… Read More

“I pledge to the voters in my district that I will vote against any tax increase, and oppose any efforts to raise taxes.”

This taxpayer protection pledge that every Republican legislator save two in the State Legislature has made (every California Republican in Congress has made a similar pledge) is so very simple and straightforward, and yet this year especially has been an issue of controversy when there’s really nothing that controversial about it.

The premise here is that if there is a political pendulum in the State Capitol, liberal Democrats have dominated… Read More