The California Taxpayers Association ("Cal-Tax") is one of the leading pro-taxpayer organizations in Sacramento. I cannot tell you how many assaults take place on California taxpayers that only come to light because of the work they do focusing on the vast amount of terrible legislation proposed by Sacramento liberals.

Leading up to tomorrow’s 30th anniversary of Proposition 13, Cal-Tax President Teresa Casazza (pictured to the right) unveiled a new study today that lbusts a myth perpetrated by -the spending lobby. According to the Tax study, “Revisiting Proposition 13,” the landmark initiative has NOT shifted the property tax burden from businesses to homeowners, as the liberals constantly claim. Cal-Tax says: “Since passage of the initiative, the assessed value of non-homeowner property subject to Proposition 13 has grown an average of 8.5 percent per year, while homeowners’ property has… Read More

Downtown Long Beach’s military recruiting station was scrawled with anti-war graffitti. Did Democratic hate speech help cause it?… Read More

The California Taxpayers Association ("Cal-Tax") is one of the leading pro-taxpayer organizations in Sacramento. I cannot tell you how many assaults take place on California taxpayers that only come to light because of the work they do focusing on the vast amount of terrible legislation proposed by Sacramento liberals.

Leading up to tomorrow’s 30th anniversary of Proposition 13, Cal-Tax President Teresa Casazza (pictured to the right) unveiled a new study today that lbusts a myth perpetrated by -the spending lobby. According to the Tax study, “Revisiting Proposition 13,” the landmark initiative has NOT shifted the property tax burden from businesses to homeowners, as the liberals constantly claim. Cal-Tax says: “Since passage of the initiative, the assessed value of non-homeowner property subject to Proposition 13 has grown an average of 8.5 percent per year, while homeowners’ property has… Read More

Last night, San Bernardino County Supervisor (and former FR blogger) Brad Mitzelfelt handily avoided a run-off in securing his election victory. (In these multi-candidate skirmishes, if a candidate gets a single vote above 50%, it’s game over).

Brad’s ~62% obviously cleared that hurdle with room to spare.

So imagine his shock when the local newspaper came out this morning (at oh,4ish) withcoverage of the race included the headline "Vogler Still Has Chance At Win For County Supervisor."

Newsflash – Um, no she doesn’t.

I guess this is the High Desert’s version of "Dewey Defeats Truman."… Read More

Without a doubt, the Republican primary for California’s Fourth Congressional District was the highest profile legislative race taking place in yesterday’s statewide elections in California. Whether you look at how the race shaped up locally, or how it was covered Inside The Beltway, the battle between conservative State Senator Tom McClintock and moderate former U.S. Representative Doug Ose was truly looked to as an election-day indicator of where the heart and soul of the GOP was, and whether Republicans want to see change in direction that their party has taken in the United States Capitol.

Despite the massive financial advantage of Doug Ose, who cracked open the family’s platinum piggy-bank to spend a staggering some of personal money, well over $3 million, McClintock was victorious last night. Not only did McClintock win, he won in what can only be characterized as a blow-out, with the… Read More

Here are the final, unofficial results from key or interesting Orange County primary races:

29th Senate District Bob Huff 68.4% Dennis Mountjoy 31.6%

33rd Senate District Mimi Walters 73.6% Harry Sidhu 26.4% 60th Assembly District Curt Hagman: 59.8% Larry Dick: 40.2%

71st Assembly District Jeff Miller 57.7% Neil Blais 42.3%

73rd Assembly District Diane Harkey 73.3% Mark C. Patlan 26.2%

1st Supervisor District Janet Nguyen 56.6% Dina Nguyen 27.7% Hoa Van Tran 15.6%

3rd Supervisor District Bill Campbell 79.4% Donald Ritze 20.6%

County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1 Long Pham 51.1% Felix Rocha, Jr. 48.9% Superior Court, Office 4… Read More

Without a doubt, the Republican primary for California’s Fourth Congressional District was the highest profile legislative race taking place in yesterday’s statewide elections in California. Whether you look at how the race shaped up locally, or how it was covered Inside The Beltway, the battle between conservative State Senator Tom McClintock and moderate former U.S. Representative Doug Ose was truly looked to as an election-day indicator of where the heart and soul of the GOP was, and whether Republicans want to see change in direction that their party has taken in the United States Capitol.

Despite the massive financial advantage of Doug Ose, who cracked open the family’s platinum piggy-bank to spend a staggering some of personal money, well over $3 million, McClintock was victorious last night. Not only did McClintock win, he won in what can only be characterized as a blow-out, with the… Read More

I just returned from the Placer County Republican Party election night victory party where a jubilant crowd was celebrating Tom McClintock’s win over Doug Ose. With 70% of precincts reporting as of this posting, it appears that McClintock has won a decisive double-digit victory over Ose. Despite being outspent by millions (this was the second most expensive congressional race in U.S. history), McClintock and the conservative message won.

It was clear from the beginning of this race that the 4th CD campaign would be a microcosm of the larger battle within the Republican Party between moderates/liberals and conservatives. As Senator McClintock declared in his address to supporters tonight, the nation was watching the voters of our district, and tonight the message is clear: the conservative movement is alive and will soon spread across the nation. In his speech, McClintock boldly stated that in years to come America will look back on this evening as the beginning of a movement that will return America to its founding principles. For the sake of our nation, I hope that is true and I know that Congressman Tom McClintock will be one of the “Founding Fathers” of this… Read More