
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, one of California’s most prominent Republicans, told Breitbart News Wednesday that the Jeb Bush campaign used his name on a fundraising invitation without permission.
by Jon Fleischman17 Dec 2015, 6:21 AM PST0

On Tuesday night, the candidates vying for the Republican nomination for president gathered at the Venetian Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip for the last GOP debate of 2015. Below are some observations from various conservative and Republican leaders around the Golden State.
by Jon Fleischman16 Dec 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

In Orange County, long considered one of the few bastions of conservatism in California, voter registration trends have been decidedly poor for the Republican Party, with GOP registration dropping below 40% of registered voters for the first time ever.
by Jon Fleischman11 Dec 2015, 4:31 AM PST0

Recently, the Los Angeles Times exposed that special interest groups representing certain “business” interests in Sacramento have put serious pressure on the California Republican Party not to fund the potential candidacy of Assembly Republican Leader Kristin Olsen in a bid against incumbent State Senator Kathleen Galgiani, a Democrat.
by Jon Fleischman30 Nov 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

There seems to be universal consensus that between the reduced number of participants, and the quality of the debate questions and follow-up from the panelists, the Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate was the strongest by way of policy substance thus far.
by Jon Fleischman11 Nov 2015, 5:41 AM PST0

Speaker Ryan’s remarks were, for the most part, inside baseball. Multiple times Ryan referred to “regular order,” which to the common person sounds like a reference to getting the same fast food at McDonalds every time you go.
by Jon Fleischman30 Oct 2015, 5:37 AM PST0

California Republicans are reacting to Wednesday’s GOP debate, hosted by the CNBC in Boulder, Colorado.
by Jon Fleischman29 Oct 2015, 4:35 AM PST0

The play for the grocers might actually be to spend big bucks to defeat SB 270 at the ballot box and keep plastic bags after all.
by Jon Fleischman17 Oct 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

On Sunday, roughly one thousand delegates to the California Republican Party’s semi-annual convention adopted the party’s new platform, which drops the term “illegal alien.”
by Jon Fleischman21 Sep 2015, 6:04 AM PST0

California Republicans face a tough platform fight over immigration policy at this weekend’s state GOP convention in Anaheim.
by Jon Fleischman18 Sep 2015, 5:16 AM PST0

From my really great position, playing a bit of Romper Room, I was able to look down and see the “VIP” section. There was a host of big GOP establishment money types (not a whole lot of clapping for Trump from that last group).
by Jon Fleischman17 Sep 2015, 11:52 AM PST0

Early Saturday morning, after midnight, the California legislature ended its regular session, and two special sessions. Despite an immense amount of pressure on them from the Governor, their Democrat colleagues, and powerful special interests – Republicans held the line and successfully
by Jon Fleischman12 Sep 2015, 12:43 PM PST0

California Gov. Jerry Brown wants over three billion dollars in new taxes, including a $65 tax on every vehicle, plus increases in gasoline and diesel excise taxes. The money will go to paying for transportation needs that he ignored in his recent budget.
by Jon Fleischman4 Sep 2015, 5:37 AM PST0

When I see “The Donald” trying to tug on those same emotions that I still have, and recycling the same songs to fire me up, I actually have a sense of clarity that eluded me those many years ago.
by Jon Fleischman27 Aug 2015, 9:11 PM PST0

California billionaire Tom Steyer–the biggest megadonor in the last election cycle–dumped $74 million of his personal fortune in 2014 to lose most of the elections in which he played. Now Steyer can chalk up yet another political failure: the disastrous implementation of the California “green jobs” initiative (Prop. 39) that he bankrolled with $30 million in 2012.
by Jon Fleischman20 Aug 2015, 6:58 AM PST0

Republicans in Sacramento will face a key decision on taxes–and a choice about whether state Democrats go into 2016 on defense for not funding infrastructure needs, or whether Democrats score the double win: billions in new taxes and a fractured GOP, ready to be slaughtered in 2006.
by Jon Fleischman13 Aug 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

California Republicans are reacting to Thursday’s GOP debate, hosted by the Fox News Channel in Ohio.
by Jon Fleischman7 Aug 2015, 5:49 AM PST0

Activists enraged by California’s runaway spending have begun a campaign for the “Stop Blanks Check” ballot initiative. The measure, sure to make the ballot next November, thanks to $3 million in contributions and loans from wealthy Stockton-area formers and business owners Dean and Joan Cortopassi, aims to make sure that big-ticket multi-billion dollar spending projects have to be approved by the voters before they can move forward.
by Jon Fleischman31 Jul 2015, 7:28 AM PST0

When someone asks me to name the seven dwarves invariably I fall short. Let’s see, there’s Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy, Happy, Dopey….Darn it, there are a couple more. That’s kind of how it is when I try to actually write out
by Jon Fleischman23 Jul 2015, 2:55 PM PST0

In case you are wondering exactly how aggressive Governor Jerry Brown and his Democratic colleagues in the California legislature have been in trying to erase the distinction between people residing in California legally versus those here in violation of U.S. immigration law, here are seven startling but very real ways that they have done so.
by Jon Fleischman9 Jul 2015, 3:45 AM PST0

Just as Brown signed the largest state budget in California’s history, weighing in at over $115 billion, he has called upon the California legislature to raise new taxes to fund transportation infrastructure–roads, highways, bridges and the like.
by Jon Fleischman3 Jul 2015, 5:38 AM PST0

Today the Supreme Court of the United States released it’s much-awaited ruling in the case Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission – deciding in a 5-4 decision for the Commission, and upholding the right of an independent commission to draw Congressional districts.
by Jon Fleischman29 Jun 2015, 9:35 AM PST0

The governor and Democrat legislative leaders are presenting GOP legislators, who have enough votes when unified to block any tax increases, with a false choice: either increase government revenues or let our roads, highways and bridges crumble.
by Jon Fleischman21 Jun 2015, 6:43 AM PST0

It would appear that the appetite for increasing the size and scope of state government in Sacramento is insatiable. The Democrats who control all of the levers of power are about to pass the largest state budget in the history of California–but that is not good enough or big enough, it would seem.
by Jon Fleischman12 Jun 2015, 5:32 AM PST0

The appetite of Democrats in the California legislature for raising more and more taxes is voracious, and seemingly knows no bounds. If you don’t believe me, just keep reading. And when you do, you’ll realize that there is a lot of
by Jon Fleischman4 Jun 2015, 5:53 AM PST0