The Graveyard or the Base? Part 2
In Part 1, I put some of the latest Pew Latino polling on the table and argue that the Republican base has a problem with the left, not with Hispanics per se. I argue that Governor Pete Wilson’s Prop...
View ArticleThe Republican Latino GrowElect Revolution and Malaguena Salerosa
Strolling through the Hyatt Regency after dinner Friday at the CRP convention, I heard the sound of the Latino Republican Revolution, the rhythmic, infectious and joyous music of a mariachi band on the...
View ArticleGay Hopes, Demographic Realities
My good friend Christopher L. Bowman made the front page of the SF Chronicle recently in an article titled, Gays in California GOP see hopeful signs. Chris and I were the Odd Couple of the...
View ArticleOf Data and Dinosaurs, Part One
Four months after the 2012 presidential debacle enough articles have been written about Obama’s data-analytics driven win to make it clear to those paying attention that the GOP needs to radically...
View ArticleOf Data and Dinosaurs, Part Two
In Part One, the need to move rapidly on data-analytics is discussed with the admonition that we need to leap frog the Democrats, not just catch up. The new RNC Growth and Opportunity Project Report...
View ArticleCalifornia High Speed Rail: Part One, Arguments For
Fox & Hounds has given me a huge opportunity— a three part series on California high speed rail (HSR). HSR is so complex and important that the blank canvas—wonderfully large— is still inadequate,...
View ArticleCalifornia High Speed Rail: Part Two, Arguments Against
In Part One, I made a conservative-Republican argument for California high speed rail (HSR). The argument boiled down to millennial demographics, coalitions and a vision for the future. While I...
View ArticleCalifornia High Speed Rail: Part Three, Synthesis
In Part One of this HSR series, I made a conservative-Republican argument for California high speed rail. In Part Two, I sketched a portrait of the CHSRA (the Authority) as an out-of-control agency...
View ArticleG8 in CA, The Scorecard, Part 1
The Gang of Eight Immigration Reform (G8) bill is in full-throated national debate. Breitbart trumpets, “The Wheels Are Coming Off the Bill” while shrieking about “Marco-Phones.” Mark Levin is thumbs...
View ArticleG8 in CA, A Taxonomy and Strategy, Part 2
In Part One, I detail some of the full-throated national debate on the G8 immigration bill. Despite spending hours on the Facebook and comment boards—and having a dozen google alerts— the action is so...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Hyperloop, Part 1, Backgrounder
In a series on CA high speed rail published earlier this year (here, here and here), I ended with a whisper echoing the whisper to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Plastics… plastics! I said that ETT...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Hyperloop, Part 2, Musk and Hyperloop
I noted in Part 1 that Elon Musk doesn’t plan to actually build Hyperloop. Rather, he has thrown down a gauntlet to other visionaries—in technology, business, finance and in government. Musk has...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Hyperloop, Part 3, Newsom or a GOP initiative?
In Part 1, I compared Hyperloop to other ETT (evacuated tube transport) systems and note that in 2011 a Chinese prototype achieved a 700 MPH model speed, proof of concept. In Part 2, I considered...
View ArticleMaldonado Should Go All Out for Governor
Reports that Abel Maldonado fired his campaign team is welcome news. Campaign shakeups are a game of sharp elbows. But tales of Abel’s “reluctance” to raise money sound like the carping of...
View ArticleDonnelly vs. Maldonado
Abel Maldonado is the 2014 gubernatorial standard bearer for a new, pragmatic-moderate coalition emerging from obscurity within the CAGOP. But Tim Donnelly is also running for CA governor, and last...
View ArticleGrow Elect Must Challenge the GOP
At the recent CAGOP convention, GrowElect– the new Republican political action committee to elect GOP Latinos– held a successful panel discussion workshop featuring GOP Latino electeds from all over...
View ArticleAn Immigration Breakthrough?
The latest Pew Hispanic poll is an eye opener. According to Pew Hispanic, 55% of Latino immigrants will settle for a green card that allows them to work but not vote. As a group, Latino immigrants...
View ArticleCharles Munger Jr.’s Positive Influence on Rep Party
If the anonymous blogger cloaked behind the site www.mungergames.netever comes out from behind the curtain, perhaps we could have a public debate about Charles Munger, Jr., the donor who paid my filing...
View ArticleSF Transit Needs More Balance
In San Francisco, conservatives, moderates and (yes Martha) even liberals are fighting back against the anti-auto fervor of the hard core progressive left. A coalition of pissed off voters has formed...
View ArticleDirection of CA Rep Party Could be Set by Tuesday’s Election
Where is the California Republican Party headed after Tuesday? That depends on who wins the right to face Jerry Brown and what they do with that opportunity. There are two answers, one if Donnelly...
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