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Please see the attached links for an overview of campaign fundraising throughout San Diego County for the period of 1/1/2016 – 4/23/2016. Included here are only competitive races for Supervisor District 3, City of San Diego races, and Chula Vista District 4. Enjoy! PDF version Excel version

Rather than waiting for the new California $15 state minimum wage law to be phased in over five years, UC Berkeley decided to accelerate its own minimum wage to $15, starting this coming September (2016). Naturally the Progressives celebrated. Shortly after making that decision, the administration announced the layoff of 500 workers, as the school now has a $150 million …

Here’s an upbeat (if rather bizarre) story from a California jail.  When faced with an inmate security problem in the Santa Clara County jail, there was the $20,000,000, two year government solution, and then there was the $761.24, one week Costco solution.  Kudos to the sheriff for making the right call, and putting it on her own credit card! But …

“Equal Pay Day” — the day in April when women supposedly have to work before reaching parity with men’s pay — is perhaps the biggest hoax in progressive economics.  And that’s saying something! Yet the press seldom looks at the bogus math behind the claim that women make only 77% of what a man makes doing the same job.  Even …

The five reasons why San Diego pro sports teams are perennial losers — in the past, present and particularly in the future.  Taxes play a big part in this tradition. San Diego is a great place to play outdoor sports — terrific weather, low humidity, little rain (let alone snow) and no wind.  But for a star professional athlete making …

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz did an interview with Carl DeMaio on NewsRadio 600 KOGO where he talks about his campaign and several issues important to San Diegans. Listen to the interview here.

I spend much time fighting against ever-higher California taxes. But ask any business person what is worst about California, and “taxes” will NOT be at the top of the list.  I conjecture that California LAWS and MANDATES take the top spot, with our LITIGATION climate in 2nd place, vying with our high COST OF LIVING for that runner-up spot. Included …

Here’s a crucial misconception by the public. It’s a misunderstanding that leads to calls for government mandates such as a $15 minimum wage — with the cost supposedly paid out of “greedy business” profits. A poll asked: “Just a rough guess, what percent profit on each dollar of sales do you think the average company makes after taxes?”   The …

Washington Post… Supreme Court deadlocks over public employee union case; Calif. teachers must pay dues

Hoh boy. It appears that the California state legislature, the governor and the labor unions have “struck a deal” that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $15.  No stinkin’ proposition will be required to enact this requirement into law, with a simple (Democrat) legislative majority easily attainable. The minimum wage (now $10 an hour) will rise in stages, hitting …

Want to start a new tech firm? CA is a good place, primarily because of the talent pool. Want your business to GROW and PROSPER? Flee to Texas, or any other business friendly state. Here’s yet another example to consider. http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/more-jobs-to-texas-san-fran-tech-startup-makes-move-into-texas-with-new-dallas-office/ EXCERPT (and good summary): Want to create ideas? California is still the place. Want job and business growth—go to …

With the candidates qualifying for the Republican Central Committee being final, and with the Secretary of State releasing the randomized alphabet lottery results, I went ahead and put together the list of candidates for Central Committee, based on that alphabet. This would be seemingly important, as popular opinion seems to be that ballot order is strongly correlative to electoral success …

Every so often the California Policy Center takes my turgid, wonky, POORLY formatted “California Is Doomed” fact sheet and converts it into a thing of beauty — reformatted and posted online. The ONLY advantage for my tiny print, narrow-margin Word file is that is squeezed onto a two page handout — a handout that few can bring themselves to read. …

It’s a story too common to even make the news in California anymore:  Pegasus Foods, a Los Angeles firm, announced it is building a new food plant in Texas, employing 325 people.  It’s unclear if the company’s CA HQ will also move — but it seems likely, based on the CEO’s positive comments: “I can’t tell you how excited I …

The full statement from Phil Graham… Friends, I declared my intent to run for California Assembly last summer because I got tired of California entrepreneurs looking to Texas or Nevada as friendlier places to do business. I’d seen one too many comparisons of California’s once-great education system to that of Mississippi. The California Dream had become something to reminisce about, rather …

Carl’s Jr. IS a California company. Always has been. But now it’s a nationwide business, and there’s millions and millions of reasons for the company to move its HQ out of the uber-anti-business Golden State. Tennessee won the HQ sweepstakes — and Carl’s Jr. is only their latest business acquisition. The HQ’s employ only about 150 people. But many if …