Gov. Brown

• LAO: California Needs to Address $340B in Debt
    LAO: California Needs to Address $340B in Debt by Tonya Chin, Bond Buyer, 5/9/14 LOS ANGELES - California is facing $340 billion [...]
• No Money ($45 Billion)—No EIR—No Route—No Approvals—Guv Brown Still Building Delta Tunnels
    State plunges ahead to build twin tunnels Central Valley Business Times, 5/9/14 • DWR opening design and construction office • No [...]
• Seiler: Gov. Brown Excuses Toyota Move With Schumpeter
    Gov. Brown excuses Toyota move with Schumpeter By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 5/3/14 It was free-market economist Joseph Schumpeter who coined the phrase, [...]
• Will Guv Brown Force Poor/Middle Class to Pay More Taxes So Billionaire Elon Musk Can Make MORE $$?
    Gov. Brown to decide on tax break for companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX A SpaceX rocket stands in Cape Canaveral, Fla. [...]
• Gov. Brown, Don’t Raid California’s Savings to Pay Down Its Debt
    Gov. Brown, Don’t Raid California’s Savings to Pay Down Its Debt by Anthony Randazzo, Breitbart, 4/23/14 The special legislative session in [...]
• California politicos admit failures in seeking rainy day fund
    California politicos admit failures in seeking rainy day fund By Dan Walters, Fresno Bee, 4/20/14 When you get past the political fuzz [...]
• How Jerry Brown Hoodwinks Reporters
    How Jerry Brown Hoodwinks Reporters By David Crane, Bloomberg, 4/14/14 State governments have a surefire strategy for hoodwinking the public and the [...]
• State of California to STOP Subsidizing Luxury Cars for Rich—Great Decision
    ARB, Tesla at odds over rebate cuts for electric vehicles by JOHN HOWARD Capitol Weekly, 4/11/14 Electric vehicles costing more than [...]
• Sacramento Senate Democrats pass FORTY Budget Bills—Not a Single Word in Them—NOT a TYPO
    Why Won’t Democrats Let the Public See Their Budget Proposals? State Senate Republican Caucus, 4/10/14 SACRAMENTO – Senate Democrats today voted for [...]
• One California for me, another for thee
    One California for me, another for thee By Victor Davis Hanson, 4/2/14 No place on the planet is as beautiful and as [...]
• Guv Brown: “Budget is Balanced”—April Fool’s Joke—NOT Funny
    California’s budget is ‘balanced’ based on fanciful logic Steven Greenhut, Public Sector, 3/31/14 California’s governor and legislators have been almost giddy about [...]
• State Beginning Process of Taking Over Groundwater—ALL the Groundwater
    County Water Commission considers state groundwater plan, what does the state have in store? Chico Enterprise-Record, 4/1/14 The Butte County Water Commission [...]
• California to open illegal alien-only DMV facility
    California to open illegal alien-only DMV facility Dave Gibson, Examiner, 3/27/14 In a few months, a new DMV facility is opening [...]
• What Recovery? Home sales drop in February for fourth straight month
    Home sales drop in February for fourth straight month Central Valley Business Times, 3/27/14 • Distress sales drying up • “Supply [...]
• Did Guv Brown Misuse $400 Million of Money Meant for Homeowners Abused by Banks—to “Balance” his Budget?
    Mortgage lawsuit against Gov. Brown reopens old wounds By James Poulos, Calwatchdog, 3/22/14 It’s a hallmark of modern-day government: Allocate money for [...]
• Why is California so Expensive for Business? Frivolous Lawsuits
    Appeals Court Sides With Newhall Ranch Developer By Elliot Golan, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, 3/20/14 A state appeals court on [...]
• Texas governor returns from yet another California job poaching trip
    Texas governor returns from yet another California job poaching trip Allen Young, Sacramento Business Journal, 3/20/14 Texas Gov. Rick Perry returned from [...]
• Gone to Texas-California Does Not Want You
    Gone to Texas By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 3/18/14 Texas Governor Rick Perry is returning to California, and to left-leaning [...]
• The Myth of the California Renaissance The New York Times turns a blind eye to the Golden State’s many woes.
    The Myth of the California Renaissance The New York Times turns a blind eye to the Golden State’s many woes. Ben [...]
• Two more years of slow growth in California
    Two more years of slow growth in California Central Valley Business Times, 3/13/14 • Economist says regulation, particularly on carbon, choking [...]
• Appellate court deals a blow to governor’s $67 Billion twin tunnels
    Appellate court deals a blow to governor’s twin tunnels Central Valley Business Times, 3/14/14 • Says state violates Constitution by entering [...]
• Texas Gains 30,000 Jobs in January—California LOSES 31,000 Jobs in February
    Texas will post strong job growth in second quarter, survey says Texas companies could exceed the national average for hiring new [...]
• LAO faults governor’s funding hopes for bullet train
    LAO faults governor’s funding hopes for bullet train Central Valley Business Times, 3/6/14 • Criticizes budget assumptions • “We recommend that [...]
• Gov. Jerry Brown seeks redevelopment replacement
    Gov. Jerry Brown seeks redevelopment replacement By JOHN HOWARD, CAPITOL WEEKLY, 3/2/14 Two years after Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature dismantled [...]
• Another California Technology Company Moves HQ to Texas
    California telecom supplier relocates HQ, manufacturing facility to DFW Dallas-based AT&T Inc. is one of the company’s that Channell Commercial Corp. [...]
• Guv Brown Uses CURRENT programs to Claim NEW Aid for Drought
    Gov. Brown redefines ongoing programs as emergency drought aid By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 2/19/14 Thirty-four days after California Gov. Jerry Brown [...]
• Occidental Petroleum: Moving HQ From California to Houston
    Occidental to spin off California assets, move HQ to Houston Reuters, 2/14/14/ * Expects to complete spinoff by 2014-end or early 2015 * [...]
• Texas surpasses California as top tech exporter
    Texas surpasses California as top tech exporter By Nick Swartsell, Dallas Morning News, 2/11/14 WASHINGTON–Texas is tops for tech exports, a [...]
• Gov. Brown under fire for campaign contribution from choo choo train contractor
    Gov. Brown under fire for rail firm campaign contribution By John Hrabe, Calwatchdog, 2/5/14 Governor Jerry Brown is under fire for the [...]
• Will Guv Brown be Forced to Use BitCoins to Pay for Choo Choo Train?
    He Thinks He Can Jerry Brown is trying to will California’s high-speed rail into existence. By DAVID DAYEN, Politico, 2/8/14 Jerry Brown is not, shall we [...]
• Guv Brown Protecting Dangerous Child Care Facilities—Why?
    California’s lack of online child care records leaves parents in dark Katharine Mieszkowski,cironline, 1/30/14 Denise Davis, shown in her daughter’s bedroom in [...]
• Guv Brown: Protect the Illegal Aliens—Cut the Honest Seniors and Disabled
    Careless: Gov Brown Is Harming California’s Seniors and Disabled … and the People Who Care for Them Written by Gary [...]
• Jerry Brown’s State of the State: Long-Term Liabilities ‘Enormous,’ ‘Growing’
    Jerry Brown’s State of the State: Long-Term Liabilities ‘Enormous,’ ‘Growing’ Ben Boychuk, Public Sector Inc. 1/23/14 California Governor Jerry Brown delivered his [...]
• California State Budget Increases 9%, Includes Raises for Unionized State Workers
    California State Budget Increases 9%, Includes Raises for Unionized State Workers By Jon Coupal, Union Watch, 1/17/14 Shortly after Jerry Brown was [...]
• California’s Economic Dissonance-Brown Unable to Tell Economic Truths
    California’s Economic Dissonance by Carson Bruno, Defining Ideas, Hoover Institute, 1/22/14 Despite reports of a Golden State recovery, its citizens are feeling [...]
• California’s Potholed Road to Recovery — Not Under Guv Brown
    California’s Potholed Road to Recovery by Joel Kotkin, New Geography, 01/21/2014   California’s economy may be on the mend, but prospects for [...]
• Guv Brown to ADD 1600 Union Bribe Payers to State Payroll—At Taxpayers Expense
    Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget calls for more state workers, less job outsourcing By Jon Ortiz, The Sacramento Bee, 1/19/14 After several years [...]
• California Economy Could Cost Jerry Brown Re-Election
    California Economy Could Cost Jerry Brown Re-Election By Lanhee Chen, Bloomberg Opinion, 1/14/14 The release of California Governor Jerry Brown’s 2014-15 [...]
• Grimes: LAO questions legality of plan to use cap-and-trade $ on bullet train
    LAO questions legality of plan to use cap-and-trade $ on bullet train By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 1/14/14 The governor’s just-released 2014-15 budget [...]
• Grimes: Gov. Brown’s budget largely ignores massive debt
    Gov. Brown’s budget largely ignores massive debt By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 1/10/14 SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday released his state budget proposal for fiscal [...]
• Guv Brown to Change Prop. 98 Government Education Funding Law
    Brown’s new mission: remake Prop. 98 by Kimberly Beltran, Cabinet Report, 1/10/14 (Calif.) Last year Gov. Jerry Brown set out to fundamentally [...]
• What’s coming in governor’s leaked budget
    What’s coming in governor’s leaked budget Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget raises general fund spending by about $8.3 billion from the current [...]
• Open letter to Guv Brown: tell the Truth About the Budget, Spending and Pensions
    An Open Letter to Governor Jerry Brown David Crane, Govern for California 1/6/14 Dear Governor Brown, Nearly a year has passed since the [...]
• Grimes: How will Brown budget proposal address pensions, taxes, debt?
    How will Brown budget proposal address pensions, taxes, debt? By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 1/6/14 California’s budget battles will begin on Friday when [...]
• Democrats Love Deficits—Even when they have to Lie
  LA’s Part Time Budget & Finance Chair Paul Krekorian: MIA! Written by Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA, 12/31/13 LA WATCHDOG-The Second [...]
• Judge Rules State Can’t Withhold Goleta Tax Revenues-Flood Control More Important Than Brown Covering Deficit in RDA Dispute
      Judge Rules State Can’t Withhold Goleta Tax Revenues in RDA Dispute The Department of Finance has questioned the use of $18 [...]
• Only I-5 Route makes Sense for Choo Choo—Still, NO Riders
    “COURT RULING A CHANCE TO MAKE BULLET TRAIN SENSIBLE” Tom Elias, California Focus, 12/17/13 Whether it’s the possibility of a magnetic levitation [...]
• Guv Brown has Slush Fund to Reward Favorable Corporations—With YOUR Tax Dollars
    Brown Gets Incentives Pot to Lure Companies to California: Taxes By Michael B. Marois, Bloomberg, 12/19/13 California Governor Jerry Brown has a [...]
• What recovery? Gloomy outlook for California’s economy
  Gloomy outlook for California’s economy Central Valley Business Times, 12/19/13 • California Lutheran University economists see a state of declining opportunity [...]
• Barely getting by: The story for many Californians
    Barely getting by: The story for many Californians Central Valley Business Times, 12/12/13 • Covering basic living expenses poses big challenge [...]
• Special Interest Groups Demand Brown Return $500 Million to Cap and Trade Slush Fund
    Groups Call For Repayment Of $500M Loan To California General Fund Amy Quinton, Capital Public Radio, 12/11/13 A coalition of business, environmental and [...]
• California November Cash Deficit $19.6 BILLION—Up From $2.3 Billion on July 1, 2013
    Controller Releases November Cash Update State Controller John Chiang, 12/10/13 SACRAMENTO – State Controller John Chiang today released his monthly report covering [...]
• California recovery split between coastal haves, inland have-nots
    California recovery split between coastal haves, inland have-nots LA Daily News, 12/5/13 While California overall has made a strong recovery from the [...]
• Leftist Want Minimum Wage to go up Almost 100% National—Overnight
    Strikes for higher minimum wage hit CA, USA By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 12/2/13 Anti-Walmart protests struck across California and the rest of [...]
• Court Decision Could Force Guv Brown to Give $3.3 Billion Back to the Feds for His Christmas Gift—the Choo Choo Train to Nowhere
    High-speed rail: Judge’s decision also endangers $3.3 billion in federal funds By Jessica Calefati, Oakland Tribune, 11/28/13 TO SEE COMPLETE ARTICLE CLICK [...]
• Will Gov. Brown’s ‘small is beautiful’ sink water plan?
    Will Gov. Brown’s ‘small is beautiful’ sink water plan? By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 11/20/13 During California Gov. Jerry Brown’s first term [...]
• Brown’s Gains in California Imperiled by Lingering Ills
    Brown’s Gains in California Imperiled by Lingering Ills By James Nash & Michael B. Marois, Bloomberg, 11/18/13 Napa Valley vintner Michael Marston [...]
• City of Bakersfield wins $4.2 million in property tax suit
    City wins $4.2 million in property tax suit BY THEO DOUGLAS, Californian, 11/15/13 Two low-income and veterans housing projects near downtown should [...]
• Jerry Brown Claims California’s “Attractive” Poverty Is Why State in Depression
    Jerry Brown and California’s “Attractive” Poverty by Bill Watkins, New Geography, 11/12/2013 Jerry Brown is supposed to be a different kind [...]
• Grimes: Guv Brown NOT Obama Causes Californians to Lose Health Care Insurance by Fiat
    Covered California required health insurers to cancel plans By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 11/8/13 President Obama just apologized for the millions of insurance [...]
• CA not enjoying TX-sized boom in revenues from oil
    CA not enjoying TX-sized boom in revenues from oil By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 10/31/13 California increased its revenues last year by [...]
• Americans Keep Moving to States With Low Taxes and Housing Costs-From California to Texas
    Americans Keep Moving to States With Low Taxes and Housing Costs Michael Barone, Townhall, 11/1/13 Where are Americans moving, and why? Timothy [...]
• State of California in Depression—Stealing From Cities Pushes Them Into Bankruptcy
    Cash Crunch Crimps Struggling Cities Wall Street Journal, 10/31/13 FRESNO, Calif.—In April, the mayor of this Central California city stood in front [...]
• Brown inconsistent on local-control issues-Is ‘subsidiarity’ little more than a platitude?
    Brown inconsistent on local-control issues Is ‘subsidiarity’ little more than a platitude? By Steven Greenhut, San Diego U-T, 10/30/13 Brown inconsistent on local-control [...]
• Guv Brown Acts Like Obama: Kills 190,000 Future and Current California Jobs
      California minimum wage hike will cost 190k jobs, according to conservative think tank By JOSEPH LAWLER, Washington Examiner, 10/24/13 California’s planned increase [...]
• Guv Brown Steals $57 Million From Santa Monica to “Balance Budget”—Money Meant for Fire Stations, Earthquake Proofing Buildings
    City settles RDA lawsuit for nearly $57M By David Mark Simpson, Santa Monica Daily Press, 10/23/13 CITY HALL — City Hall will [...]
• Guv Brown “Balances Budget” by NOT Paying Bills
    Rural County Representatives Asks State to Make Past Due Payments to Counties California County News, 10/21/13 The Rural County Representatives of California [...]
• Gov. Brown’s school plan pushes money, not reform
    Gov. Brown’s school plan pushes money, not reform By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 10/18/13 A year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown convinced voters to [...]
• Brown approves prevailing wage for charter cities-takes away rights from city governments
    Brown approves prevailing wage for charter cities Capitol Weekly, 10/13/13 In a major victory for organized labor, Gov. Brown signed into law [...]
• Grimes: Do union activists work for Gov. Brown, farm board?
    Do union activists work for Gov. Brown, farm board? By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 10/14/13 SACRAMENTO — The revolving door among political consultants, [...]
• Judge Rules No State $$ for Choo Choo-State says federal funds can be used to start bullet train work
    State says federal funds can be used to start bullet train work California officials argue in court filing that U.S. grant [...]
• Happy Talk From State Controller Hides Growth in California Cash Deficit—Currently $14.7 Billion—June it was $2.4 billion
    Bottom Line: What the Numbers Mean | Receipts | Disbursements State Controller John Chiang, 10/10/13 State coffers welcomed a jump in revenues [...]
• Brown Vetoes Bill to Make Owners of Property Stolen by High Speed Rail Fully Paid
    Brown veto aids eminent-domain use By Steven Greenhut, San Diego U-T, 10/3/13 One of the few bills that Gov. Jerry Brown has [...]
• Guv Brown:”I will Decide if Criminals Are Sent to Jails, Feds or Back to Our Streets”
    California won’t turn arrested illegal immigrants over to feds By Sharon Noguchi and Patrick May, San Jose Mercury News, 10/7/13   Reversing his [...]
• Gov. Brown likes those tax check-off boxes
    Gov. Brown likes those tax check-off boxes By Greg Lucas, Capitol Weekly, 09/30/13 The California Arts Council gets a second chance at a [...]
• Brown/Obama Forcing Thousands of New Patients on Santa Barbara Hospitals/Doctors—While Severely Cutting Reimbursements—Dept of Health: 75% CUT
    Safety Net: Providers Facing Double-Edged Sword with New Health-Care Law More people will have insurance, but officials at hospitals and clinics [...]
• Guv Brown Delta Tunnel: Up to $54 Billion to Kill Tourism Industry and Jobs
    Boating industry hammers Bay Delta Conservation Plan Central Valley Business Times, 9/24/13 • Warns that BDCP could cripple Delta’s boating and [...]
• Guv Brown Policies of Generation Ago Killing Central Valley Farming Today
    Central Valley awash in water worries By Mark Grossi, The Fresno Bee, 9/21/13 The state has not declared a drought after [...]
• Guv Brown Theft of Money Causes City to Cut Police Services—Claimed he was “helping” Cops
    WILDOMAR: City hangs on despite lost revenue   BY MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS, Press Enterprise, 9/16/13 CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, [...]
• Greenhut: Guv Brown a “States Rights” Advocate?
    California pols chart an ‘exceptional’ path By Steven Greenhut, San Diego U-T, 9/18/13 SACRAMENTO — “There go those wacky Californians, again.” That’s [...]
• Radical Left “Proud” of Guv Brown and His Killing of Jobs
    Governor Jerry Brown Surprises Us Again by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron, 9/18/13 Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown proudly announced his support [...]
• California’s current debt load: $132 billion—“Only” $127 Billion a few months ago
    California’s current debt load: $132 billion California state government is currently paying down $132 billion in general obligation bonds and [...]
• Brown Offers ANOTHER Payoff to Unions—This Time Using Pension Money
    Brown offers pension deal to unlock transit funds By Michael Gardner, San Diego U-T, 9/4/13 Gov. Jerry Brown has offered the Obama [...]
• Bay Delta Conservation Plan would hurt delta, farm economy
    Bay Delta Conservation Plan would hurt delta, farm economy By U-T San Diego, 8/31/13 The U-T San Diego Editorial Board in recent [...]
• Court Allows Serial Rapist Prison Release—Served ONE Year for Each of 38 Rapes
    California high court allows convicted serial rapist Christopher Hubbart’s release KPCC, 8/29/13 The California Supreme Court has denied Los Angeles County’s [...]
• On prisons, governor still dancing to a disco beat
    On prisons, governor still dancing to a disco beat By Steven Greenhut, San Diego U-T, 8/29/13 SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown was [...]
• Wohlgemuth, Collins: California business basks in Texas warmth
    Wohlgemuth, Collins: California business basks in Texas warmth By Arlene Wohlgemuth,Savannah Collins, Austin Statesman, 8/25/13 California and Texas are worlds apart on [...]
• Richard Rider: CA vs. the Other 49 states — revised 8/20/13 Why CA is in a Depression
    CA vs. the Other 49 states — revised 8/20/13 by Richard Rider – Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters, 8/20/13 Here’s a [...]
• Even Environmentalists Admit Guv Brown a Liar
    Environmental group accuses state of subterfuge Central Valley Business Times, 8/19/13 • Brown’s Twin Tunnels are based on lies, says group [...]
• Guv Brown: I Want Choo Choo Trains Instead of Health and Dental Care for Children
    Students with dental disease face new obstacle in Medi-Cal rate cut By Jane Meredith Adams, Edsource, 8/16/13 In a move that affects millions [...]
• California tax was bait-and-switch-how government does business
    California tax was bait-and-switch DJ Jaffe, San Diego U-T, 8/14/13 California voters in 2004 enacted a 1 percent tax on millionaires to [...]
• State scales back some of the twin tunnels plan — for the moment
    State scales back some of the twin tunnels plan Central Valley Business Times, 8/15/13 • Would move location of intakes • [...]
• Lost in the Noise: October, 2012, Guv Brown Vetoed Bill to Protect Your Privacy From Government
    Governor Brown Vetoes California Electronic Privacy Protection. Again. Hanni Fakhoury, Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 1. 2012 Location privacy took a hit [...]
• Mexican Mafia/Drug Cartel Responsible for Prison “Hunger” Strike—Why is Guv Brown Negotiating With Them?
    Calif. Prison Hunger Strike Leader Targeted in Federal Drug Trafficking Probe by Michael Montgomery, KQED, 8/8/13 In the month since state inmates [...]
• Guv Brown Provides Phony Numbers to His Delta Tunnel Payoff to Unions
    State claims twin tunnels plan justified by the numbers Central Valley Business Times, 8/5/13 • Brown Administration predicts $5.4 Billion in [...]
• Is Brown Caving In to Imprisoned Criminals?
    Prisons chief to meet with advocates for hunger strikers Julie Small, scpr, 7/31/13 In his first year on the job, California prisons [...]
• California Regulations SO BAD Even Washington Calls Them Excessive
    Landmark California regulations under federal fire Companies are going through Congress to fight California’s stricter workplace, consumer and environmental laws. Gridlock [...]
• Brown Sets Up ObamaCare System “Health Exchange” Based on Fraud
    Obamacare problems: doctor shortage, honor system: Thomas Elias By Thomas D. Elias, Press Telegram, 7/22/13 Add between 1 million and 2 million [...]
• Guv Brown Environmental Impact Report Considered “Insufficient”—Delta Tunnel NOT Approved by Feds
    ‘Insufficient’ By Alex Breitler, Stockton Record, 7/22/13 That’s how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service describes the 20,000-page twin tunnels environmental impact [...]
• Brown tackles debt wall ($127 Billion), but other walls loom large
    Brown tackles debt wall, but other walls loom large John Myers,News10, 7/18/13 When Gov. Jerry Brown first compared California’s growing debt problems [...]
• Brown Appoints anti-Israel, Anti-Jewish Student to Board of Regents—Why Are Democrats Bigots?
    First Muslim student regent approved by UC board Los Angeles Times, 7/18/13 TO SEE COMPLETE ARTICLE CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE Rabbi Aron [...]
• Why is California in a Depression? $900 Million lawsuit Against Paint Companies—for Paint Jobs Going Back Decades
    Paint Makers’ Trial Starts in California Lead Lawsuit By Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg, 7/15/13 BP Plc (BP/)’s Atlantic Richfield Co. is among [...]
• Farmers Fight Back against Brown/CalTrans Sign Stealing Bullies
    Anti-tunnel group says Caltrans should keep its hands off its signs Central Valley Business Times, 7/11/13 • Accuses state of unequal [...]
• Guv Brown/CalTrans STEALING Anti-Delta Tunnel Signs on PRIVATE PROPERTY
    Caltrans confiscating anti-tunnel signs in Delta Central Valley Business Times, 7/9/13 • Property owners face $10,000 fines • State says messages [...]
• Texas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote-Pass this along
    Texas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote by Dan Mitchell, 1/14/11 I’ve already had a couple of blog posts commenting on how [...]
• California to give ObamaCare subsidies—WITHOUT Income Verification—Massive Fraud by Illegal Aliens and Others Easy—For at least one year
    Not Qualified For Obamacare’s Subsidies? Just Lie — Govt. To Use ‘Honor System’ Without Verifying Your Eligibility Avik Roy,Frobes, 7/6/13 Marilyn [...]
• Brown/Democrats Adds 10% to Gas Tax—Starting Monday—Money Goes to “Mass Transit” (choo choo train)
    California’s gasoline tax to jump nearly 10 percent on July 1 Steven E.F. Brown, San Francisco Business Times California will raise [...]
• Guv Brown and Democrats Caught Lying: California in the red by $127.2 billion, state auditors say—Total Budget $230 billion
    California in the red by $127.2 billion, state auditors say By Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times, 4/1/13 A financial report issued by [...]
• Seiler: Guv Brown REFUSED to Defend State Constitution—Because HE Opposed Prop.8
    Governor as dictator By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 6/27/13 “Hail Caesar!” Gov. Jerry Brown likes classical references. So that’s one we should salute [...]
• California: Cash Deficit $3.2 Billion—Total Debt and Deficit=$127Billion
    California sees higher revenues for another month Central Valley Business Times, 6/10/13 • May cash receipts 12.4 percent above budget • [...]
• Guv Brown wants to do right by ALL CA businesses—will Legislative Democrats allow this?
    All businesses could get state tax perks Breaks would no longer be limited to firms in economically challenged areas By Jonathan Horn, [...]
• Who Will Pay for Jerry Brown’s Father Complex?
    Who Will Pay for Jerry Brown’s Father Complex? By Steven Greenhut, Bloomberg, 6/4/13 It’s full speed ahead for mammoth infrastructure projects [...]
• Greenhut: California Can Top New York as Nation’s Worst State
    California Can Top New York as Nation’s Worst State By Steven Greenhut, Blomberg, 6/4/13 Whenever a free-market research or business group releases [...]
• Democrats Want Government to Act in SECRET—AB 246 Allows Secret Deals Between Governor and Counties
    Measure would exclude public from some meetings AB 246 adds governor to list of public officials KCRA, 6/4/13 Certain meetings between Gov. Jerry [...]
• Guv Jerry Brown is a LIAR: California has a massive deficit
    The truth about California’s finances By U-T San Diego Editorial Board, 6/1/13 There is a basic problem with recent news accounts and [...]
• CA Policies Stop Google From Bringing High Speed Internet to State-Texas Wins AGAIN
    Wish they all could be California gigabits? ‘Actions have consequences,’ Google Fiber official says Google’s headquarters is in Mountain View, Calif., [...]
• Brown/Democrats Set Up “Reserve”—While “forgetting” $127 Billion in Debt/Deficit
    California Senate challenges governor’s budget plans The California Senate’s Budget and Fiscal Review Committee rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s version of [...]
• Great news for the California Budget—Doctors and Hospitals Cut 10%-How Many Will Continue Providing Med-Cal
    Court upholds retroactive Medi-Cal cuts Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 5/24/13 A federal appeals court has denied a request from California providers [...]
• Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man
    Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man Bill Boyarsky, City Watch LA, 5/17/13 One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brown. [...]
• Guv Brown Steals $73 Million From Orange County—So HIS Budget Looks Good
    Amid Uncertainty, County Unveils Its $5.4-Billion Budget By NORBERTO SANTANA JR., voiceofoc, 5/13/13 While Orange County finance managers Monday unveiled a largely [...]
• CA has “Image problem” Per Guv Jerry-no Policy or Tax Issues Killing Jobs
    How California will tackle image problem: Q&A with GO-Biz director GO-Biz, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, is the [...]
• How will Brown balance oil, environmental interests?
    How will Brown balance oil, environmental interests? By Daniel Weintraub, HealthyCal, 5/13/13 California’s economy has been powered for decades by technology, trade [...]
• Guv Brown Cap and Trade Endangers Rain Forest, Per Progressives
    California Cap-and-Trade Scheme Could Endanger Rainforest Peoples Common Dreams, Friends of the Earth, 5/7/13 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - May 6 - Under California’s [...]
• Sen. Runner: Obama Steals Jerry Brown’s Playbook
    Obama Steals Jerry Brown’s Playbook By George Runner, Board of Equalization, 5/1/13 Given California’s chronic problems, it’s hard to imagine anyone sees [...]
• Foreclosure-relief funds earmarked for California mostly unspent
    Foreclosure-relief funds earmarked for California mostly unspent Only about a sixth of the $2 billion available to help troubled homeowners in [...]
• Large and Small Ways: California “Recovery” a Lie to Cover Depression
    KCET lays off about 22 staffers, announces reorganization By Kevin Roderick LA Observed, 4/19.13 The merger last fall of Los Angeles public [...]
• California says to China “Here we come” Brown Wants $$ for Train and Gas Stations!
    California says to China “Here we come” California Economic Summit, 4/9/13 California’s unofficial state song famously opens with the words “California Here [...]
• Lawyers Tell Guv Brown: You Can’t Steal Money From Prop. 39 for “Schools” (pensions actually)
    Leg Counsel says Brown can’t count Prop. 39 money toward school guarantee By Tom Chorneau, Cabinet, 4/5/13 A legislative legal [...]
• Just the Beginning of the Cost Increases: for the Choo Choo Train—Add $97 Million
    High-speed rail price tag jumps another $97M for taxpayers A map of the proposed high-speed rail route connecting the Bay Area [...]
• Do You Trust Guv Brown With the Education of YOUR Children?
    State still has a role in supporting and holding districts accountable By Erin Gabel, EdSource, 3/3/1/13 With the passage of Proposition 30 and [...]
• Greenhut: Obama/Brown Attack of the Artificial Crises
    Attack of the artificial crises By Steven Greenhut, Calwatchdog, 3/25/13 SACRAMENTO — Not many of my friends or neighbors are sitting on pins [...]
• The radical roots of Jerry Brown’s school finance reform plan
    The radical roots of Jerry Brown’s school finance reform plan By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 3/22/13 California Gov. Jerry Brown’s recently proposed radical [...]
• After Hawaii, California Least Affordable State in Nation: Guv Brown is Proud!
    Rentals in the OC, Thousand Oaks Are Not Very Affordable by Eve Bachrach, LA Curbed, 3/12/13 The National Low Income Housing Coalition [...]
• Should California Governor Jerry Brown Take a Victory Lap? Confused Guv Thinks we have balanced budget.
    Should California Governor Jerry Brown Take a Victory Lap? by Joel Kotkin, New Geography, 03/11/2013 “Memento Mori” – “Remember your mortality” – [...]
• The California Mordida
    The California Mordida Jerry Brown assumes you’ll be willing to pay for the privilege of coastal living. By Victor Davis Hanson, National [...]
• Guv Brown Smiles While Californians Understand They are in a Depression
    Most Californians see economy as being in bad times Central Valley Business Times, 3/1/13 • Do not foresee improvement in the [...]
• Jerry Brown Thinks Stopping Abuses of Tax $$ by Government is “Boring”—sign of Corruption or Confusion?
    The Boredom Factor By Jon Coupal, HJTA, 2/24/13 Gov. Brown recently stated that he found the scandal involving the state Parks and [...]
• Guv Brown Claim of Balanced Budget Has Become National Joke
    Conn Carroll: The California spending rush Conn Carroll, The Washington Examiner, 2/26/13 California’s budget is balanced … or at least that is [...]
• CA Legislative Analysts Office: Guv Brown Energy Plan INVITES Manipulation of State Constitution
    California analyst rejects Gov. Jerry Brown’s clean energy plan Sacramento Bee, 2/21/13 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE The nonpartisan [...]
• Guv Brown to Raise Taxes on Small Business and Middle Class by Ending Most of Enterprise Zone Incentives—Guv Perry HAPPY
    Jerry Brown vs. the locals — again By Amy Wong, Capitol Weekly, 02/18/13 The governor’s efforts to reform California’s 29-year-old enterprise zone system, [...]
• Does Brown really think California’s economy is ‘successful’?
    Does Brown really think California’s economy is ‘successful’? By U-T San Diego Editorial Board , 2/18/13 The war of words between California [...]
• Now Iowa is Poaching California Businesses—Brown Too Confused to Understand Why
    Now Iowa is targeting California businesses Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is in California recruiting businesses to his state. Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business [...]
• Guv Admits Revenues Surge was Anomaly Due to Prop. 30 and Tax Increases
    Finance Bulletin, February 2013 California Department of Finance, February, 2013 Download a printer-friendly version (.pdf, <1 MB) Economic Update At the end of 2012, labor markets [...]
• California new Large Crop? Solar Panels
    A Critical Eye Toward Solar on Farms But Not Deserts by Chris Clarke, ReWire, 2/15/13 As increasing numbers of developers turn their [...]
• California Budget Deficit Fault of Al Gore Radicals—Oil could balance budget and lower taxes
    Santa Maria Energy Aims to Balance Oil-Development Debate Privately held company offers free oil-field tours to share its perspective on industry [...]
• Gov. Brown Uses Tricks to ‘Balance’ CA Budget
    Gov. Brown Uses Tricks to ‘Balance’ CA Budget by Leonard Gilroy, Breitbart, 1/18/13 Gov. Jerry Brown is telling everyone that California’s state [...]
• Seiler: Brown official: You’re our slave people of California
    Brown official: You’re our slave By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 1/26/13 If you listen closely, sometimes government officials tell you what they really [...]
• Who’s Business Model is Best for America—California or Texas?
    Who’s Business Model is Best for America—California or Texas? California Gov. Jerry Brown is fighting back against Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s [...]
• To Balance Budget Brown Does NOT Pay Increased Pension Costs of $62 BILLION for Health Care Costs—and More
    Money not set aside for retiree health benefits By Christopher Cadelago, San Diego U-T, 1/14/13 To see complete story click on blue [...]
• Brown Claims Budget Balanced—By Forgetting Tens of Billions in Debt and Deficit
    California’s debt still a heavy cloud over state’s future Gov. Jerry Brown’s new budget presented a plan to pay back nearly [...]
• Coupal: More Happy Talk
    More Happy Talk By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 12/30/12 A few weeks ago, this column addressed all the “happy talk” [...]
• Someone Forgot to Tell California’s Bankrupt Cities About the Golden State’s Alleged Economic Revival
    Someone Forgot to Tell California’s Bankrupt Cities About the Golden State’s Alleged Economic Revival Matt Welch, Reason, 12/26/12 After California voters narrowly [...]
• Can Jerry Brown Restrain Democrats & Save California?
    Can Jerry Brown Restrain Democrats & Save California? By Lou Cannon, Real Clear Politics, 11/16/12 Be careful what you wish for. As an [...]
• Greenhut: Jerry Brown’s Accidental Legacy Redevelopment in CA remains dead—at least for now.
    Jerry Brown’s Accidental Legacy Redevelopment in California remains dead—at least for now. Steven Greenhut, City Journal, 11/20/12 California governor Jerry Brown staked his [...]
• Frugal Brown Vows Thrift as Californians Open Checkbook
      Frugal Brown Vows Thrift as Californians Open Checkbook By Michael B. Marois, Bloomberg, 11/12/12 California Governor Jerry Brown likes to brag about [...]
• Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions
    Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions By Mark Cabaniss, Calwatchdog, 10/30/12 If you have the stomach, listen to Jesuit seminary dropout [...]
• Greenhut: Jerry Brown Has Pathetic Plan B for California
    Jerry Brown Has Pathetic Plan B for California By Steven Greenhut, Calwatchdog, 11/4/12 California’s Proposition 30, which would raise sales and income [...]
• Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions
    Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions By Mark Cabaniss, Calwatchdog, 10/31/12 If you have the stomach, listen to Jesuit seminary dropout [...]
• Grimes: Gov. Brown goes back to school
    Gov. Brown goes back to school Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 10/29/12 Some say that Gov. Jerry Brown is getting schooled on Proposition [...]
• California: Nine of Twenty Worst Foreclosure Areas in Nation (Top SEVEN)
    Stockton remains nation’s epicenter of foreclosures Central Valley Business Times, 10/25/12 • Still leads despite decrease in foreclosure rate in Q3 • [...]
• Brown Upset With $$ From PAC Against Prop. 30—no problem taking $$ without permission from workers paychecks
    Jerry Brown accuses anti-tax group of illegal money laundering Sacramento Bee, 10/20/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE SAN FRANCISCO [...]
• Guv Brown Prop. 30 LIES Exposed Point by Point
  Proposition 30: Gov. Brown’s Tax Increase California Common Sense, 10/10/12 Summary Proposition 30 would temporarily raise California’s sales tax by 0.25% [...]
• Media Admits Jerry Brown is Misleading Public on Prop. 30
    Would You Buy a Used Car from These Guys? By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 10/8/12 Would you patronize a business [...]
• Guv. Brown Wakes UP—Stopping Rule That Raised Gas Prices a Buck
    California Governor Orders Winter Gas Switch By Michael B. Marois, Bloomberg, 10/7/12 California Governor Jerry Brown told state regulators to immediately allow [...]
• Democrats/Brown Pretend to Help Rail Service From San Diego to San Luis Obispo
    Governor Brown Signs Padilla’s Bill to Improve Passenger and Freight Rail Service between San Diego, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo Senator [...]
• Guv Brown Policy Could Cost Another 150 Californians a Job
    150 VSP jobs in California on hold Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 9/28/12 If California’s health exchange decision doesn’t go VSP’s [...]
• California jobless claims skyrocket by 18,000
  California jobless claims skyrocket by 18,000 Sacramento Business Journal by Melissa Wiese, 9/27/12 California reported the largest increase in new jobless claims of [...]
• Del Beccaro: Jerry Brown Tells Californians They Can ‘Eat High Speed Rail’
    Jerry Brown Tells Californians They Can ‘Eat High Speed Rail’ By Thomas Del Beccaro, Forbes Online, 9/27/12 California has long been a [...]
• Arnold/Jerry Released Prisoner Caught Selling Drugs
      Parolee from Carmichael accused of drugs, weapons offenses Sacramento Bee, 9/11/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE A Carmichael man [...]
• Add to $203 Billion Choo Choo: Brown Wants $53 Billion Water Tunnel
      Water contractors may escape full cost of governor’s twin tunnel scheme Central Valley Business Times, 9/4/12 • Might pay as little [...]
• Gov. Brown Leadership Style: Gov’t by Extortion
      Prop 30 Is a Ransom Note. But Should We Pay It Anyway? By Joe Mathews , nbclosangeles, 8/24/12 Hostage-taking and ransom demands [...]
• Brown’s ‘Denier’ website forced to remove fallacious chart
      Brown’s ‘Denier’ website forced to remove fallacious chart By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 8/21/12 Science is on nobody’s side in the contentious debate [...]
• Brown has Golden State thinking big even in tough times
      Brown has Golden State thinking big even in tough times State Net, Rich Ehisen, 8/6/12 During the 30-plus years Barbara O’Connor [...]
• Brown Pledges to Fix Hidden Funds Debacle
      Brown Pledges to Fix Hidden Funds Debacle Governor discloses new accounting rules meant to prevent future scandals By Kevin Riggs, nbclosangeles, 8/4/12 Gov. [...]
• The Uncertain Future of the California Bullet Train
      The Uncertain Future of the California Bullet Train Ken Orski, Innovators News Brief, 8/4/12 www.innobriefs.com On July 18, at a [...]
• Editorial: Guv Brown Needs Tax Increase to Waste More Money and GROW the Deficit by Stephen Frank
        Editorial: Guv Brown Needs Tax Increase to Waste More Money and GROW the Deficit by Stephen Frank Stephen Frank for the [...]
• CA Gov. Brown Allegedly Took $3 Million from 9/11 Fund
    CA Gov. Brown Allegedly Took $3 Million from 9/11 Fund by AWR Hawkins, Big Government, 8/2/12 As California teeters near default in [...]
• Jerry Brown Uses Religion to Promote to Tax Increases to Expand Gov’t Instead of Lowering Deficit
      Jerry Brown invokes New Testament in Prop. 30 tax campaign Sacramento Bee, 8/2/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON THE BLUE HEADLINE OAKLAND [...]
• Calif. default risk turns Gov. Brown into a capitalist-but not a serious one
      Calif. default risk turns Gov. Brown into a capitalist By Chriss Street, Calwatchdog, 8/2/12 There is nothing like the threat of insolvency [...]
• Cities In California Are Declaring Bankruptcy To Avoid Governor Brown’s Tax Increases
      Cities In California Are Declaring Bankruptcy To Avoid Governor Brown’s Tax Increases Michael Boskin, Project Syndicate, 7/30/12 While central governments’ fiscal problems plague [...]
• Brown Says CA in ”Recovery”—26,244 NEW Unemployed—What is he Smoking?
      California jobless claims rocket up by 26,000 Los Angeles Business from bizjournals by Melissa Wiese, 7/26/12 California reported the largest increase in [...]
• Grimes: Gov. Brown legislating by legacy and vanity
      Gov. Brown legislating by legacy and vanity By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 7/26/12 First there was the bullet train to nowhere. Now there [...]
• Guv Brown wants to move CA into bankruptcy quicker: has found a way.
      Calif. to begin bringing back inmates in out-of-state prisons In face of overcrowding, 9,500 are serving sentences in Arizona, Mississippi and [...]
• Why Does Jerry Brown Spend His Days Thinking of Ways to PUSH CA Into Bankruptcy.
      Delta tunnel is a big drain compared to bullet train By Wayne Lusvardi, CalWatchdog, 7/11/12 Who could have guessed it? A proposed [...]
• Governor Brown Priority: Choo Choo Trains Over Food for the Hungry
      Study: Nearly 4 million Californians cannot afford enough food Joanna Lin, California Watch, 7/12/12 For Larry Sly, executive director of the Food [...]
• High Speed Rail—Brown Style—Is Illegal per Bonds and Prop.1A
      Ex-rail booster calls new bullet train plan ‘mangled,’ perhaps illegal Kings County Board of Supervisors files lawsuit after Senate approves high-speed [...]
• Brown Wants $203 Billion Choo Choo and $47 Billion Tax Increase.
      Bullet train could shoot down Brown’s tax initiative California voters may not be inclined to support higher taxes if the governor [...]
• Radical Group Claims Brown Tax Increase NOT Connected to Realignment (freeing of criminals)
      Is There Really No Connection Between Jerry’s Taxes and Realignment? By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles, 7/3/12 Prop Zero and your blogger were criticized [...]
• Grimes: Jerry Brown: An Enlightened Despot?
      Jerry Brown: An Enlightened Despot? By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog, 7/2/12 It is becoming rather difficult to distinguish California as part of a [...]
• Gov. Brown: Great Press Release Policies—Reality? Just a Show Horse
      Exclusive Interview: Jerry Brown’s State Budget Dream Governor Jerry Brown struggles to bridge California’s now perennial budget gap. In a rare, [...]
• Lockyer Admits $10 Billion Deficit—Controller adds $2.5 Billion More—Jerry Adds $8 Billion in Non existent Tax Revenues—Deficit 7/1/12=$20.5 BILLION
      Controller’s spokesman says budget is “$2.5 billion off” “The people of this state suffer the most when we don’t pass a [...]
• Groups Unhappy About Governor’s Plan For Housing Settlement Money
      Groups Unhappy About Governor’s Plan For Housing Settlement Money By Marianne Russ, California Capitol Network, 6/12/12 California Governor Jerry Brown wants to use [...]
• Brown approves Illegal tax to pay for new state employees
        Illegal tax pays for new state employees Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog, 6/7/12 California lawmakers apparently didn’t get the message voters sent on [...]
• World’s Most Predictable Headline: “Buyers’ Remorse For California’s ‘Bullet Train To Nowhere’”
      World’s Most Predictable Headline: “Buyers’ Remorse For California’s ‘Bullet Train To Nowhere’” Written By : John Hawkins, Right Wing News, [...]
• Lawsuit Filed Against Guv Brown Theft of One Billion From Public-$$ Given to Special Interests Instead
      Lawsuit Filed to Halt Illegal California PUC Agreement Alleges Secret Agreement Denies Ratepayers Nearly $1 Billion Owed and Creates Electric Vehicle Charging [...]
• Guess What? Guv Brown Has Declared Halloween is here.
      Governor warns of drastic cuts if tax initiatives not passed         Written by Abby Hamblin, San Diego News Room, 5/23/12   Governor [...]
• Jerry Brown 2012-13 Budget: All included? $210 Billion
        Jerry Brown’s deficit teeter-totter game By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 5/23/12 Imagine a teeter-totter with a chubby boy on one end and a [...]
• Jerry Swings for the Fences-California Strikes Out
      Jerry Swings for the Fences By Peter Hannaford, American Spectator, 5/18/12 He thinks he has California taxpayers right where he wants them. School [...]
• Is the Governor Joking With California Taxpayers?
      Is the Governor Joking With California Taxpayers? By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 5/21/12 In announcing that his estimate of the [...]
• California Reaping What Jerry Brown Planted in the 1970s
    Calfornia Reaping What Jerry Brown Planted in the 1970s By NRTW Committee Staff, 5/18/12 It’s not often that a politician has to [...]
• Jerry Brown’s tax proposal is just extortion
      Jerry Brown’s tax proposal is just extortion By: Melissa Griffin, SF Examiner, 05/20/12 It’s a phenomenon some of us have experienced: Loved [...]
• More Gimmicks, Less Honesty California continues to play budget games.
        More Gimmicks, Less Honesty California continues to play budget games. Steven Greenhut, City Journal, 5/17/12 Jerry Brown returned to the governor’s office last [...]
• Grimes: Assembly Committee Exposes Lies in Guv Brown New Budget—No Surprise
        Assembly hearings expose Brown budget gaps By Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog, 5/17/12 Like a woman with a shopping addiction, California politicians are [...]
• Gov. Brown steals $410 million from ripped off mortgage holders to cover his deficit
        Brown Targets Mortage Settlement Funds For State Budget Gap By Tom Fudge, KPBS, 5/16/12 Brown Targets Mortage Settlement Funds For State Budget Gap Housing [...]
• Jerry Brown tax measure: Your children or Your $$
    A Budget? Or a Hostage Taking? By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles, 5/16/12 The 1975 film “Dog Day Afternoon” is based on an real-life [...]
• Guv Brown Tax Increase Initiative “when it may well make things worse.”
      Jerry, In An Even Bigger Hole, to Keep Digging The big new budget deficit figure shows Gov. Brown’s budget strategy can’t [...]
• Safety Concerns Grow Over Governors Realignment Plan
  
• Transform Society at Age 74? If Deng Could Do It, So Can Jerry
      Transform Society at Age 74? If Deng Could Do It, So Can Jerry By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles, 5/8/12 Is Jerry Brown too [...]
• Jerry Brown Caught Lying While Trying to Steal $9 Billion a Year From You
      BLOG: Jerry Brown’s tax bait-and-switch Written by Gordon M. Webster, Business Journal, 5/3/12 Gov. Jerry Brown has a dirty little secret. He [...]
• Gov. Brown punts on jobs creation
      Gov. Brown punts on jobs creation By Joseph Perkins, Cal Watchdog, 4/30/12 California Gov. Jerry Brown appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” [...]
• FPPC Chair Wants to Fund Agency With George Soros/Al Gore $$?
      FPPC chair backs away from mandatory disclosure of blogger payments By John Hrabe, Cal Watchdog, 4/30/12 Following widespread criticism from online pundits [...]
• CA Depression: Added 885K to jobless rolls in a decade
      California added 885K to jobless rolls in a decade Sacramento Business Journal, 4/30/12 California has seen a far greater rise in unemployment [...]
• Greenhut: How Big Government Is Killing California
      How Big Government Is Killing California When you’ve lost the entrepreneurs, free-spirits, and dreamers, you’ve lost the Golden State. Steven Greenhut, Reason, [...]
• Brown needs to cut moonbeams, not welfare
      Brown needs to cut moonbeams, not welfare By Wayne Lusvardi, CalWatchdog, 4/20/12 California Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown recently issued a phony challenge [...]
• CA declares land war on families
      California declares land war on families http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/04/18/california-declares-land-war-on-families/?utm_source=CalWatchdog+April+18%2C+2012&utm_campaign=CALWATCHDOG+EBLAST&utm_medium=email By Wayne Lusvardi, Calwatchdog, 4/18/12 Everyone knows that California has water wars. But it also has [...]
• Governor wants to trim 718 unnecessary reports-Why Didn’t Arnold Do That?
      Governor wants to trim 718 unnecessary reports Sacramento Business Journal by Melissa Wiese, 4/18/12 California Gov. Jerry Brown, who has been busy [...]
• Man Up? You First, Governor
      Man Up? You First, Governor By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles, 4/16/12 Bulk your macho man up with his favorite protein shake from the [...]
• Guv Brown Admits: Deficit Higher than $9.2 Billion (Truth: It is $35 Billion TODAY)
      Jerry Brown tells Legislature to ‘man up,’ make cuts Sacramento Bee, 4/13/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “The Democratic governor, [...]
• Grimes: New High-Speed Rail biz plan crashes into reality
      New High-Speed Rail biz plan crashes into reality By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog, 4/14/12 What a train wreck. Barreling down the tracks in [...]
• State Deficit to Go Up by Millions Court Declares. “Professional” Guv Jerry Caught Violating Another State Contract
    Judge leaning toward furlough back pay for California state engineers, scientists Sacramento Bee, 4/12/12 Roughly 13,000 state workers could receive [...]
• Coupal: Brown Says “We’re All Millionaires Now”
      We’re All Millionaires Now By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 4/8/12 Thanks to Jerry Brown, we’re all millionaires now. The governor has [...]
• Putting high-speed rail on fast track may just slow down train
  Great news for road safety—Jerry Brown no longer supports high speed rail. Now he supports a $68 billion choo choo [...]
• Jerry Lies About “New Costs” for Slush Fund High Speed Rail—Forget to Mention NO Longer High Speed or Lack of Riders
      California lawmakers skeptical of lowered price tag for high-speed rail By David Siders, Sacramento Bee, 4/1/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Brown Uses Settlement $$ Owed Citizens for Special Interest Waste
      NRG Settlement Funds California’s ‘Electric Expressway’ EV Charger Network $120 million will buy thousands of chargers ordered by Governor Brown that [...]
• CA Worst State for Employment—Texas, North Dakota Best.
    Texas, North Dakota are rare states with private-sector employment gains The Business Journals by G. Scott Thomas, 3/26/12 Texas has posted the [...]
• Seiler: Jerry Brown Wants CA to have Nations Top Tax Rate of 13.3%
    Jerry Brown: ‘Governor 13.3%’ John Seiler, Cal Watchdog, 3/26/12 A Wall Street Journal editorial headline today branded Gov. Jerrry Brown: “Governor 13.3%.” [...]
• Brown Confused About His Tax Increases—So is the Public
    Stories Don’t Match on Compromise Tax Hike By Joe Mathews, nbclosangles,3/26/12 In the ongoing story about the last-minute, compromise tax-hike initiative that [...]
• LA Times Skelton: Brown Tax Plan is Misleading
      Brown not shooting straight on tax plan Mark Lacter , LA Observed, 3/22/12 The governor keeps insisting that his proposal to temporarily [...]
• Greenhut: Hope for sparing parks from Jerry Brown budget ax
      Hope for sparing parks from budget ax Steve Greenhut, Calwatchdog, 3/19/12 For a state that prides itself on innovation and alternative ideas, [...]
• Analyst Sees $2 Billion Less In Brown Tax 2.0
      Analyst Sees $2 Billion Less In Brown Tax 2.0 Posted by John MyersKQED, 3/16/12 Governor Jerry Brown is no doubt happy that [...]
• Guv Brown calls Catholic Leaders, Bishops, “crazy”—He is a “CINO”
      Brown Assaults Religious Liberty John Seiler, Cal Watchdog, 3/11/12 Gov. Jerry Brown likes to brag how he attended a Catholic Jesuit [...]
• Brown’s Tax Is Ahead, But Why Not By More?
  Brown’s Tax Is Ahead, But Why Not By More? Posted by John Myers, KQED, 3/7/12 A brand new statewide poll shows Governor [...]
• CA slipping toward bankruptcy, again
      California slipping toward bankruptcy, again By Conn Carroll, Washington Examiner, 3/5/12 California is going broke. Again. The state controller has estimated that [...]
• CA Recovery? Sacramento County home prices hit low
  Sacramento County home prices hit low Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• California home prices down due to distressed properties -Depression Continues
  California home prices down due to distressed properties Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• 80% of murderers eligible for parole released by Guv Brown
    80 percent of murderers eligible for parole released Nannette Miranda, KABC, 2/10/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “The state parole [...]
• Obama ADDS Over $500 Million to CA Deficit
    Obama administration rejects California’s Medi-Cal copays Sacramento Bee, 2/6/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “Vanessa Cajina, legislative advocate [...]
• Spain Shows Guv Brown How Choo Choo Train Can Bankrupt CA as Well
  Minimal impact on cities, farms helped Spain avoid high-speed rail opposition Tim Sheehan, California Watch, 1/22/12 LA ESTACIÓN, SPAIN – [...]
• Grappling with the $11billion water bond-created for and by politicians
  Grappling with the water bond John Howard, Capitol Weekly, 2/2/12 “Steinberg said it was conceivable that the bond could be reduced [...]
• Facebook seen filing $5B IPO plans -Guv Hoped for $90 Billion-to get Tax $$
  Facebook seen filing $5B IPO plans Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, 2/1/12 Facebook Inc. will reportedly file for a [...]
• Jerry Brown As Insurance Commissioner? To Force Special Interest $$$
        Jerry Brown As Insurance Commissioner? by Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 1/30/12 Wait. We know that Jerry [...]
• Senator Joel Anderson: Governor, Get Serious About Corruption
  Governor, Get Serious Anderson urges Governor to clean house at Caltrans and asks AG to investigate department’s alleged malfeasance and cover-up Senator [...]
• Indian Tribes Betting Big On Jerry Brown-Getting Taxes on Us, NOT Them
  Indian Tribes Betting Big On Jerry Brown Gaming tribes open checkbooks for governor’s tax initiative By [...]
• Wells Fargo economist says ‘true’ CA housing recovery could be decade away
      Wells Fargo economist says ‘true’ housing recovery could be decade away San Francisco Business Times [...]
• Jerry Brown: Economic Illiterate or Not a Truth Teller? His Budget #’s Don’t Add Up
  Brown’s Budget: Fuzzy Math Again Someone in California government has to take a math class. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/prop-zero/Browns-Budget-Fuzzy-Math-Again-137719958.html By [...]
• Federal Judge Adds $100 Million to CA Deficit
  Federal judge blocks budget cuts to California in-home care program By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee, 1/20/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Democrats/Guv. Brown Demand the Closing of State Parks
  Senate Republicans Veto Override Effort to Fund State Parks Blocked Senator Sam Blakeslee, 1/19/12 Sacramento — Senate Democrats today blocked an [...]
• Brown: Proving The ‘Declinists’ Wrong-Via Higher Taxes and Bigger Gov’t
  Brown: Proving The ‘Declinists’ Wrong By KATY GRIMES, CalWatchdog, 1/18/12 Was it Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State address today? Or [...]
• Think Long Opts to Think Longer. Advantage Brown? Pull $10 Billion Tax Increase
  Think Long Opts to Think Longer. Advantage Brown? Posted by John Myers, KQED, 1/17/12 It seems safe to say that [...]
• CA Gov Brown Shuts Down “Recovery Website As State Faces $21 Billion Budget Deficit, 129 Companies Leave
  CA Gov Brown Shuts Down “Recovery Website As State Faces $21 Billion Budget Deficit, 129 Companies Leave by [...]
• Grimes: CA Ballot-Box Budgeting Scheme Taking Billions From CA
  Ballot-Box Budgeting Scheme Katy Grimes.Cal Watchdog,1/13/12 The latest proposed state budget demonstrates exactly why California doesn’t need the new spending scheme [...]
• Brown to welfare clients: work, or else-sounds like a Republican
  Brown to welfare clients: work, or else By Daniel Weintraub, Healthy Cal, 1/12/12 Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing the most far-reaching [...]
• CA’s other deficit: At $10 billion, The Unemployment Insurance Fund is Insolvent
  California’s other deficit: At $10 billion, it’s big bucks By Greg Lucas, Capitol Weekly 01/12/12 It’s California’s other deficit. The one that doesn’t [...]
• Risky revenues cloud state’s budget plans (Actually phony numbers)
  Risky revenues cloud state’s budget plans By Alisen Boada, Capitol Weekly, 01/12/12 Gov. Brown’s latest budget reflects California’s risky, roller-coaster reliance [...]
• LA: Budgeting and Volatility: The Ultimate Challenge-Billion $$$ Deficit
    Budgeting and Volatility: The Ultimate Challenge Paul Hatfield, 1/12/12 Once again, California is facing a budget crisis. No surprise. What did you expect [...]
• Seiler: Why Jerry Will Kill High-Speed Rail
  Why Jerry Will Kill High-Speed Rail John Seiler, CalWatchdog, 1/11/12 It’s High-Speed Rail fanatic Jerry Brown who himself will kill the [...]
• Browns Phony Budget Numbers Exposed-Real CA Budget is over $252 BILLION
  Brown’s Budget Doesn’t Add Up Katy Grimes: Cal Watchdog, 1/9/12 After Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal was released last week, [...]
• Brown Budget: $137.3 Billion “Official” Spending-Plus $70B MORE
  Surprise! The New State Budget Posted by John Myers, KQED, 1/5/12 The unveiling of a governor’s state budget every January is [...]
• Brown: “Politics Works When Everything Is Good’
  ‘Politics Works When Everything Is Good’ By KATY GRIMES, Cal Watchdog, 12/28/11 Every year when the state budget talks get under [...]
• Brown Ignores Climategate Revelations-Illiterate or Corrupt?
  Brown Ignores Climategate Revelations By JOHN SEILER, Cal Watchdog, 12/16/11 Like a teenage blogger using an online thesaurus, Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday [...]
• Report: California’s jobless rate to taper slowly
  Report: California’s jobless rate to taper slowly Central Valley Business Times, 12/15/11 • Worse for the Central Valley • ‘Economic joints are becoming [...]
• Real Message in Brown’s ‘Open Letter’ against the Families of CA
  Real Message in Brown’s ‘Open Letter’ Steve Greenhut, Cal Watchdog, 12/12/11 Gov. Jerry Brown recently released “An Open Letter to the People [...]
• Chapman Forecast More CA Stagnation
  Chapman Forecast More CA Stagnation By JOHN SEILER, Cal Watchdog, 12/06/11 The economic recovery is continuing, but remains weak. That is the [...]
• Brown’s Open Letter Seeking Higher Taxes-WITH Greenhut Translation
  Brown’s Open Letter Seeking Higher Taxes By STEVEN GREENHUT, Cal Watchdog, 12/05/11 Gov. Jerry Brown today released “An Open Letter To The [...]
• Cost of Doing Business: Study Ranks Most Expensive Cities in CA for Business
  The Cost of Doing Business: Study Ranks Most Expensive Cities in CA for Business California City News, 11/30/11 The 17th annual Kosmont-Rose [...]
• Gov. Brown’s Costly Appointments
  Gov. Brown’s Costly Appointments Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog, 11/23/11 The Governor’s office announced yesterday that he has made several new appointments to [...]
• California’s oil industry speaks loud enough for Jerry Brown to listen.-Language? Jobs and Revenues
  The Green and the Black California’s oil industry speaks loud enough for Jerry Brown to listen. City Journal,11/18/11 It took some doing, [...]
• The Most Dangerous Politician in the Country?
  The Most Dangerous Politician in the Country? Posted By Dr. Mercola, 11/15/11 Three controversial bills put into place by California Governor Jerry [...]
• Brown Ripoffs Rural property owners-Like a Good Democrat
  Brown’s Victory: Agreement Reached on Higher Fire Fee for Homeowners in Rural Counties California County News, 11/14/11 After much back and forth, [...]
• Brown About to Create Policies That will Increase Gang Warfare in State Prisons
  Reform could transfer hundreds of inmates out of isolation units Michael Montgomery and Sarah Terry-Cobo, California Watch, 10/27/11 Hundreds of California prisoners [...]
• Pension “Reform”: Brown Wants bad teachers to be in Classroom Till Age 67!
  Pension reform’s impact on teachers Brown would raise new teachers’ retirement age to 67 By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess, 10/28/11 Under Gov. [...]
• Trying to Understand Jerry Brown’s Veto of Calif. Nursing Board
  Trying to Understand Jerry Brown’s Veto of Calif. Nursing Board by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 10/17/11 California Gov. Jerry Brown last week vetoed [...]
• Brown Paddles Left, Right on Bills
  Brown Paddles Left, Right on Bills Posted by John Myers, KQED, 10/10/11 It is easily the most familiar (and perhaps overused) shorthand [...]
• Brown Vetoes San Fran Car Tax-Saves Citizens $65 Million
  No Vehicle License Fee Increase for SF Drivers By Katharine Mieszkowski, Bay Citizen, 10/04/11 Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Tuesday that [...]
• Unions Get Too Crazy Even for Jerry Brown
  Too Crazy Even for Jerry Brown Steve Greenhut, Cal Watchdog, 10/06/11 Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed union-backed legislation that would promote the unionization [...]
• Seiler: Brown’s Phony Reg ‘Reduction’
  Brown’s Phony Reg ‘Reduction’ John Seiler,Cal Watchdog, 9/28/11 Jerry Brown snookered a Mercury News reporter — and a lot of other people [...]
• Jerry Brown: Taxes R’ Me
  Jerry Brown: No New Taxes Without Voter Approval. Well, Except for These Golden State Liberty, 9/27/11 Has any campaign promise in recent [...]
• Grimes: Brown’s Government Expansion Project
  Brown’s Government Expansion Project By KATY GRIMES, Cal Watchdog, 9/26/11 Many in the state say that Gov. Jerry Brown has demonstrated a [...]
• Time to Grow Up, Jerry
  Time to Grow Up, Jerry nbclosangeles, 9/21/11 If you’re looking for dark comedy, take a look at the front page of Wednesday’s [...]
• Jerry Brown Can Be a Hero==to the Unions or the People?
  Jerry Brown Can Be a Hero By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, 9/19/11 As part of his ongoing campaign to raise [...]
• Seiler: Brown’s Moonbeam Jobs Scheme
  Brown’s Moonbeam Jobs Scheme John Seiler:, Cal Watchdog, 9/15/11 Gov. Jerry Brown lately has gotten in touch with his Inner Moonbeam, launching [...]