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Final Election Results Are Here at Last, and California’s GOP is Still in Decline

December 20, 2022 6:51 amDecember 20, 2022 7:42 am

On December 16, nearly 40 days after the November mid-term elections, California’s Secretary of State finally released the “Statement of Vote.” This document is the official and final record of the winners and losers. What is belatedly certain is what...

Sacramento Bee Claims Prop. 187 ‘Sought to Ban Immigrants From Receiving Social Services’

December 20, 2022 2:57 amDecember 20, 2022 6:43 am

A Sacramento Bee reporter made a serious false claim in an article Monday highlighting California’s four newest Latino GOP state lawmakers being barred from the Latino Caucus because they are Republicans. The Globe wondered, “What about equality, equity, tolerance and inclusivity?”...

Majority of California Latinos Favor Ousting Newsom

August 28, 2021 2:32 amAugust 28, 2021 3:00 am

One of the largest demographics in favor of recalling Governor Gavin Newsom this year has come as something of a surprise: Latinos. According to polls conducted earlier this month, Latino voters are far and away supportive of the recall, with...

Statue of Former Gov. Pete Wilson Placed Back in San Diego Park

December 3, 2020 6:01 pm

On Wednesday, a statue of former Governor Pete Wilson in San Diego, that was removed in October after calls by activists, was placed back in Horton Plaza. The statue had been originally removed less than two months ago due to activists,...

Statue of Former California Governor Pete Wilson Removed from San Diego Plaza

October 15, 2020 5:31 pmOctober 16, 2020 3:32 pm

On Thursday, the state of former San Diego Mayor, Governor, and Senator Pete Wilson was removed from Horton Plaza in San Diego following calls by activists to remove the statue in the past week. The statue had been seen as...

Is California a ‘Permanently Blue’ State?

December 2, 2019 10:06 amDecember 1, 2019 10:00 am

“The very rapid decline of California’s Republican Party,” writes Dan Walters of CALmatters, “from near-dominance in the 1980s and early 1990s to its current irrelevance has been one of the state’s most dramatic political events.” Walters has been writing on...

Newsom and the Nineties

November 16, 2019 2:42 amNovember 18, 2019 8:10 am

“America in 2019 is California in the 1990s,” California Governor Gavin Newsom recently told Politico. “The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that....