California GOP May Cave on Jerry Brown’s Health Care Tax
By Jon Fleischman
Governor Jerry Brown has continued to demand that a new managed healthcare organization (MCO) tax be imposed by the state legislature.
Brown and his fellow liberal Democrats who run the State Capitol are, no doubt, put out by the fact that, due to GOP gains in 2014 that denied the Democrats a supermajority, they can no longer raise taxes on a party-line vote. Continue reading→
The Libertarian Party of Orange County voted at their business meeting tonight to endorse the Fullerton Recall (of three lousy Council Members – Dick Jones, Pat McKinley and Don Bankhead).
LPOC Chairman Tom Hanson moved to support the Fullerton Recall after I brought up the issue. I happily seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. With this move the Libertarian Party of Orange County becomes the first political party in Orange County to endorse the Fullerton Recall! Our party has been growing – we now have almost 12,000 voting members in Orange County – as such this endorsement does matter in what will be a heated recall election. Continue reading→
The Fullerton Recall team made news this week when they turned in well over 50,000 signatures from Fullerton voters to initiate a recall election of Fullerton Council Members Don Bankhead, Dick Jones and Pat McKinley, according to the FFFF Blog.
Did you know that Bankhead, Jones and McKinley all have something in common? They were all endorsed by Congressman Ed Royce. (Supervisor Shawn Nelson endorsed Bankhead and Jones as well – which you have to believe he regrets now! Shame on whatever squish convinced him to make those awful endorsements). Continue reading→