Our friend Jim Lacy has published a book entitled “Taxifornia.” You can join the book release celebration on Jan. 7, 2013, from 5 pm to 6:30 pm, at Morton’s Steakhouse, located at 1641 West Sunflower Ave., in Santa Ana.
Co-hosts of this event include OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh; Assembly Member Diane Harkey; Jon Fleischman, publisher of the Flash Report; and Dana Point Councilman Scott Schoeffel.
Here is what this book is all about: Continue reading
Howard Jarvis and the Power of Prop. 13
By James Lacy, California Political Review
In the mid-1970s, when I was a law student at Pepperdine and California state chairman of a conservative volunteer group, the Young Americans for Freedom, we began to get visits at the YAF offices from a brusque older gentleman named Howard Jarvis.
I had heard Jarvis during his appearances on Ray Briem’s late-night talk show on KABC radio, on which Jarvis made the case that real property taxes were too high and that somebody damn well ought to do something about them. When he started dropping by our offices, at 1250 Wilshire Blvd, just west of downtown Los Angeles, he emphasized how important it was that our members’ “college-aged students” know all about real property taxes and help him circulate petitions to qualify a ballot proposition to lower them. When I invited Howard to speak to the University of Southern California chapter of YAF in 1977, he readily agreed — and managed to convince about 20 clueless teenagers that they should be concerned about real property taxes that none of them even needed to pay. Continue reading