A judge in the Ruben case made a tentative ruling which indicated his belief that, he could not say as a matter of law whether letting the minor party candidates participate in a June primary is sufficiently close to the general election to serve as an adequate alternative to allowing the minor parties to participate in the general election.
The Independent Voter Project, authors of California’s new nonpartisan open primary (Proposition 14) will be filing a new initiative that would prohibit the State of California from using taxpayer dollars to fund partisan activities.
Former Congressman and Democratic Mayor of San Diego Bob Filner took the unusual step of publicly calling for jury nullification in the prosecution of Ronnie Chang, who faces 60 felony charges for violations related his ownership of dispensaries San Diego and Riverside Counties.
The truth of the non-partisan primary is that the consequences are on the one hand uncertain in terms of who is elected, but on the other, more certain in terms of who these new crop of representatives represent.
Nowhere in our political system is power more institutionalized than in the pocket books of the political players. However, a little discussed, and even lesser questioned reality is that the source from which the parties draw much of their funds are not their own, but from the taxpayers they are elected to represent.
Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) H.R. 952, the “Main Street Revival Act,” would allow new small businesses to defer first year business taxes over a 4 year installment plan. On Wednesday, the bill got a new co-sponsor, from Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY)…
Adam Gray could have abstained from voting against his party on AB 1401, the non-citizen jury service bill, and the result would have been the same. But in a political era defined by partisanship, the freshman Assemblyman may have, knowingly or not, made a larger statement with his vote.
