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The Smartest Article I’ve Ever Read From An Attorney in the 21st Century!

by Mark Cabaniss
Re-published; originally published on CalWatchdog.

The politicians in charge of “doing something” about the ongoing California pension debacle like to play a little game. It goes like this:  They decry the high costs of pensions that have already been granted, pretend to want to do something to rein in future pension obligations Read More…

Newport Mesa Tea Party Meeting – June 14, 2012

–by Nina Davar

Chairman of the OC GOP, Scott Baugh
Elizabeth Emken – candidate for US Senate
Allan Mansoor, candidate for 74th Assembly District

One can say many things about a tea party meeting but dull and boring aren’t one of them. Thursday evening was no exception.  On June 14, Newport Mesa Tea Party held their monthly meeting to introduce recent primary winners and give members/constituents an opportunity to get to know the candidates better.  Elizabeth Emken, who will be running for U.S. Senate against Diane Feinstein Read More…

Houston, Houston . . . we have a problem!

CA Teachers Association Spent $6.5 Million Lobbying;
CA State Council of Service Employees Spent $4.9 Million Lobbying;
It’s Time For them to Go!

The California Teachers Association (“CTA”) is poised and ready to throw substantial money to help convince us to vote for Governor Brown’s November ballot initiative to raise state income and sales taxes.  Substantial money means they will twist and turn the facts, scare the hell out of you, tug on your heart strings with their advertisements, their mailers, and their hit pieces in the media.  Read More…

Newport Mesa Tea Party – Congratulations to the City of Costa Mesa!

I went to the Newport-Mesa Tea Party meeting last week.  It was about the City of Costa Mesa, which has an obligation of $230 million in retirement benefits.  However, it seems the City has recently had a resurgence of common sense and patriotism in the last year.  Read More…