Tag: Jerry Brown

According to the executive director of Cal State University Sacramento’s Center for California Studies, the only way Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari can unseat Governor Jerry Brown is if an asteroid hits earth, reports the San Jose Mercury News.  Steve Boilard, formerly a

The Sacramento Bee has tried to paint California Governor Jerry Brown as the fiscally prudent partner in his squabble with his cohorts in the state legislature over the state’s budget. The reality is that Brown’s budget calls for the state

BEVERLY HILLS — Rick Perry makes “no apologies,” he says, for his efforts to recruit California businesses to his state. He is proud that Texas has surpassed California as the top exporter of technology, and proud of the low-tax, low-regulation

Common Core in California is getting a boost from over 300 California businesses, nonprofits, and children’s groups that released a statement approving of the Common Core State Standards. The statement was circulated by Children Now, a non-profit advocacy group, and

The new buzz in the Beltway is the emergence–or, rather, return–of the “reform conservatives.” Politico’s David Nather reports that these “policy wonks” share a desire to “move the GOP beyond its Reagan-era script of cutting taxes and shrinking government and

A new $5 billion Tesla Motors plant, called a “Gigafactory,” which could employ as many as 6,500 workers, is being competed for by Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and California.  California lawmakers and CA governor Jerry Brown’s administration are attempting

Neel Kashkari’s victory for a distant second place in California’s gubernatorial primary means he will have another opportunity to get trounced by Governor Jerry Brown in November.  Former U.S. Treasury official and Goldman Sachs guru Kashkari, considered to be the

Governor Jerry Brown has easily advanced in Tuesday’s primary election with over 55% of votes in his favor against his two main rivals, Republicans Neel Kashkari and Tim Donnelly. According to polling data released by the Los Angeles Times, Brown

L.A. Weekly, the ubiquitous guide to popular culture and urban style in Los Angeles, features a Republican wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit as part of the illustration to its cover story this week on the GOP’s candidates for governor

A Sunday feature in the Sacramento Bee suggests–indirectly–that a bipartisan consensus may be emerging in the California State Assembly on the need for additional dams to increase the state’s water storage and fight future droughts. Currently, California is suffering one of

In the wake of Tim Dickinson’s article in Rolling Stone last year pronouncing Gov. Jerry Brown’s “miracle” in California comes John Nichols’s paean in The Nation, entitled: “How Jerry Brown Got Californians to Raise Their Taxes and Save Their State.” While

Gov. Jerry Brown raised eyebrows recently when he dismissed concerns about California’s tough economic environment, which has chased companies like Toyota away: “[S]mart people figure out how to make it,” he said. An increasing number of elite graduates from across

Neel Kashkari swings an axe in his ubiquitous television commercial. But he hasn’t found an axe big enough to cut into Tim Donnelly’s lead among Republican voters. A new Hoover Institution “Golden State” poll shows that Kashkari is only pulling 5% of

California Governor Jerry Brown got some kudos from Republicans for not funding new boondoggles and promising to focus on paying down the $166.9 billion in unfunded state liabilities for the teachers’ pension plan. Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar)

Prior to this week, estimates suggested there were over 13 billion barrels of recoverable oil in California’s Monterey formation. Now a new report, being seized on by environmentalists hoping to see a fracking moratorium in the state, suggests the true

California’s state capitol is no exception to calls from Governor Jerry Brown to stall the use of water in one of the worst droughts in the state’s history. In fact, the capitol’s browning lawns are among the once-lush but now-dead

BEVERLY HILLS — With less than two weeks to go until the Golden State’s June 3 primary elections, the race for State Senator Ted Lieu’s 26th district seat is heating up in one of California’s most competitive contests. And despite

Republican moderate Neel Kashkari has closed the gap with Tea Party favorite Tim Donnelly in the race for California governor, while both trail incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown by a wide margin, a new poll reveals. The Public Policy Institute of

California’s public school districts may be hit hard financially as state officials consider moving funds into the retirement fund for teachers. Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to pour money into the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, which would trigger schools

Governor Jerry Brown told a group of scientists in a speech on Monday in Sacramento that California is the “epicenter” of global warming. Moreover, the New York Times reported, Brown affirmed that the state’s drought and the wildfires in San

Now that San Diego’s wildfires have been contained and are cooling, according to the Los Angeles Times, Governor Jerry Brown announced on Sunday that California’s real battle is with global warming.  Appearing on an ABC Sunday morning show, Brown asserted that

Gov. Jerry Brown defended his record in a meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board last week. In addition to touting his record on job creation, defending the troubled high-speed rail project, and claiming that Toyota’s departure from the state

ANAHEIM, CA — Republican Neel Kashkari’s campaign paid the accommodation costs of supporters who showed up at the May 15 gubernatorial debate between Kashkari and rival Republican Tim Donnelly. During a recent local Republican Central Committee meeting, one Central Committee

Many Hollywood forces want California to boost the number of tax incentives given to filmmakers to keep projects from fleeing the state. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti is one of the biggest proponents of the potential increase. Gov. Jerry Brown, however,