Jon Fleischman

If you like Obamacare, you’re going to love Proposition 45, the ballot initiative that would give one politician– liberal Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones–complete authority over health care costs and benefits for individuals and small businesses in California. Worse, the trial

A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the challenges that transportation network companies (TNC’s) like Uber and Lyft are facing in the California legislature. Taxi companies, Insurance Companies, and trial lawyers have all backed legislation that could at

Immigration is only the 6th-most-important issue for Latino voters in California when casting a vote for a candidate for U.S. Senator or for U.S. Congress, according to a statewide survey conducted by Univision.  When registered Latino voters were asked to

Today marks the beginning of the California legislature’s first self-imposed month-long fundraising ban. Ostensibly, it has been put into place to give voters confidence that the legislature is above reproach when it comes to ethical standards.   However, the fundraising

Earlier this week, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association filed a legal action seeking to remove an “advisory measure” pleased on the ballot by California’s ultra-liberal legislative Democrats, working in tandem with an equally left-of-center Governor Jerry Brown, in a in

California is a huge state, and nowhere is that more evident than in the sheer size of its Congressional delegation of 53 members. Nearly one in twelve members of the House of Representatives is from the Golden State!   In

Former San Diego Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham last week was granted an early release from post-prison monitoring by the very same federal judge who sentenced him to more than eight years in prison, reports the San Diego Union Tribune.  In 2005, the

On January 28, 2014, State Senator Rod Wright was found guilty of eight felonies by a jury of his peers in a courtroom in Los Angeles. All eight crimes were related to the fact that while Wright had declared that

This November, voters in California will face six ballot measures–and the state legislature could add more until as late as early August.  Proposition 43: The Water Bond Years ago, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with the legislature to place a bloated

Nothing speaks more to the sheer power of the free marketplace than innovation – and changes in the way we do business.  There may be no better example today of swift moving, fundamental change than the rise of transportation network

This morning in San Diego, Governor Jerry Brown signed California’s new, bloated state budget. Negotiated between the Democrat Governor and Democrat leaders in the legislature, this spending plan represents the priorities of a single political party, here in our blue

With the announcement that House Rules Committee Chairman and former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) had abruptly dropped out of the race to succeed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who lost his primary last Tuesday night,

Today, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), who lost his primary race yesterday, made it clear that he would like his protégé and good friend, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), to succeed him as Majority Leader. While insiders and pundits had

As the shocking news last night of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor losing his primary traveled like lightning around Capitol Hill, pretty much everyone was taken by surprise. After all, since the inception of the position of Majority Leader, no

While there are still hundreds of thousands of late absentee and provisional ballots left to be counted before the final certification of last Tuesday’s primary election, there aren’t enough votes left to change the fact that Democrat state Senator Alex

Two years ago, in California’s 7th congressional district–located east and south of Sacramento–incumbent Republican Dan Lungren lost to Democrat physician Ami Bera by 5,696 votes. In 2012, President Barack Obama also swept this state by 21 points. Since then, Rep.

California is home to 53 members of Congress, far more than any other state in the union.  Thanks to a decennial redistricting that favored Democrats–and to the state’s relatively new election rules that junk traditional party primaries for a “top

This year Californians are going to pay a steep price for their decision to lock in one-party governance in their state government. You see, Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has introduced revisions to his proposed budget for fiscal year 2014-2015

On Thursday, Governor Brown and legislative leaders of both parties announced that an agreement had been reached to place a “Rainy Day Fund” measure on this November’s ballot. As described by the Wall Street Journal, “The deal announced Thursday would increase

U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) blasted California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly for his recent comments accusing gubernatorial rival Neel Kashkari of association with Islamic sharia law during Kashkari’s tenure at the U.S. Treasury.  “There is

While California is home to just over five million registered Republicans, with our state’s massive population, the GOP piece of the overall pie is just 28.6% of all voters. And that slice is diminishing: in 2002 Republicans had a 35%

This morning the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Neel Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official and financial investment executive, announced that he has been endorsed by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.   The endorsement by Bush incomes on the heels of

Despite the fact that California these days is politically dominated by the axis of big government–public employee unions and radical left-wingers–there are still a lot of conservatives here in the Golden State. And we care about the future of our

On April 3, Republican Mike Morrell gave up his seat in the California State Assembly as he was sworn into the State Senate–he had recently won a special election in a Senate District in the Inland Empire. One of the