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What Kind Of Republican Is Poizner?

By El Cid | 08/14/09

Californians are under attack – by their very own liberal-dominated state political machine. The state’s political liberals, never satiated when it comes to taxes, are attacking more fiercely, from every direction and from some unlikely sources. California, referred to as a “Liberal Laboratory of Liberalism” in a July 2009 Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial, “rather than concluding the obvious -- that decade... read more »

Will The Real Steve Poizner Please Stand Up?

By El Cid | 06/07/09

Steve Poizner has been running hard to the Right in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary, frantically trying to claim the anti-tax banner for himself. I'm not one to complain about Republican candidates calling for pro-growth tax reform instead of tax hikes. But words come easily to politicians. What really matters is actions. And it's Poizner's actions in recent years that make it hard to take his anti-tax stances very seriously. In 2000,... read more »

Hypocrisy By Any Other Name

By El Cid | 05/14/09

Say you were a business engaged in unpermitted business activity on your property, such as construction and operations that violated your conditional use permit? Given that vulnerability, would you, in a spasm of NIMBYism, then sue the neighboring property owner and accuse them of flouting the legalities of the planning process? Not if you had any feel for the meaning of the word “hypocrisy.” Unfortunately, there is a... read more »