You have to scratch your at the appointment by Speaker Karen Bass of ultra-left win San Francisco Democrat Tom Ammiano (pictured left) to serve as Chairman of the Assembly Public Safety Committee. While it is not that surprising that Bass made a change in the leadership of this key committee, given that the now-former Chairman was Juan Arambula, a Central Valley Democrat who quit the party of Obama and is now registered DTS, it is eyebrow raising that the Speaker tapped someone so clearly to the far left of public sentiment on law and order issues to replace him.

But wait, there’s more. Believe it or not we have a downtown San Francisco "dream team" of criminal… Read More

The folks over at Washington Watch have created a searchable federal earmarks database for each state, detailing the earmarks of each state’s congressional delegation. California alone has 2,400 earmarks from our delegation. Although their requests don’t seem quite as numerous as the Democrats’, Republicans are unfortunately feeding at the trough too.

h/t Capitol Morning Report… Read More

This just off the transom..

HJTA’S JON COUPAL HITS THE AIRWAVES TODAY AT NOON

Enjoy an hour of news/talk with California’s foremost taxpayer advocate from noon to 1 p.m. this afternoon. Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association president Jon Coupal will guest host the "The Capitol Hour with Eric Hogue" today, Friday, on KTKZ Radio (1380 AM), out of Sacramento. Jon’s guest in the first half hour segment will be Marcia Fritz of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility who will discuss the out-of-control pension benefits given to public employees in California. In the second half-hour segment, Jon’s guest will be Gabriella Holt, President and CEO of Citizens for California Reform, who is leading the effort to return California to a part-time Legislature. Not in the Sacramento area? To hear the broadcast live, click here.… Read More

Are you maximizing your opportunities to stay "plugged in" to the FlashReport? If you arent, you may be missing out on the best way to get the latest on California political news.

FR Twitter Feed: FR Publisher Jon Fleischman (finally) downloaded Twitterberry to his PDA — which means that he is now, on a regular basis, sending out tweets of 140 characters or less to those "following" us on Twitter. Click here to get to the FR Twitter Page.

FR Facebook Page: Join hundreds of others who have become part of the official FlashReport group on Facebook. When things get heated up, we’ll send stuff to this group that no one else… Read More

Before going on Sean Hannity’s "Great American Panel" on Fox News a few weeks ago, I was waiting in the "green room" before the live broadcast. While waiting to go on set, I had the privilege of meeting Daniel Hannan, a British Member of the European Parliament who had just finished a TV interview himself. For those of you who don’t know, this is not a Member of the traditional British Parliament. Countries that are part of the European Union (EU) are able to send delegates to the European Parliament in Brussells, Belgium, where the 27 member countries decide what the EU will do and not do.

Anyway, he asked about President Obama’s socialized medicine plan and what might become of it. After we discussed that for a minute, he gave me a few facts about the socialized medicine plan in Britain, known as the National Health Service:… Read More

During these long days of economic hardship, somewhere along the way the "green jobs" industrywas anointed the Holy Grail of job growth; the savior of economic revitalization.

But really, green jobs have not served in much more than a feel-good, buzz-word capacity, according to many experts, including Joel Kotkin, presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University who said in a recently published op-ed in Forbes that "All told, green jobs constitute barely 700,000 positions across the country – less than 0.5% of total employment.

He goes on to say: "Indeed a recent study by Sam Sherraden at the center-left New America Foundation finds that, for the most part, green jobs constitute a negligible factor in employment – and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future."

Don’t get me wrong; I do not oppose solutions that improve our environment – but I believe we must allow the free market to prevail in creating a truly robust green industry and we should oppose government intervention vis-à-vis… Read More

New signs of unrest amongst the super hard left who dominate the California Democrat Party;

Their target is President Obama’s handling of… Read More

Jon’s commentary today featured the new coalition of small businesses that have formed to combat the ridiculous and dangerous energy policies being imposed upon Californians by the California Energy Commission. The coalition, Californians for Smart Energy, held a press conference in Sacramento today to discuss how the CEC’s latest limits on our energy consumption are further hurting our economy. The press conference mostly covered a lot of the details Jon mentioned in his commentary: the new limits on TV electricity usage would essentially ban big screen TVs in our state. Looks like Super Bowl Sunday will become a major travel day in California as citizens visit friends or family in other states who are allowed to have their big screen.

During… Read More