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  • Chad Peace
    Thu, Mar 11th 2010

    Whether or not you support Proposition 14, the conduct of the California legislature should make you furious.  With complete disregard for the principles of “due process” and “fair trial,” political leaders inside the California Legislature struck a backroom deal whereby the opponents of Proposition 14 would sue the Secretary of State over the description of the Proposition to appear on Ju

  • Chad Peace
    Fri, Feb 19th 2010

    You won’t believe this until you see it.  In a stunning admission, former Governor of Kentucky and current State Senator Julian Carroll admitted, “I could care less what [independents] want…we operate democracy in this country with a two-party system.”  These comments were expressed following an interview with independent activist Michael Lewis, where the Senator suggested that if ind

  • Chad Peace
    Wed, Jan 20th 2010

    In 1995, Congress addressed this issue with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, sponsored by Republican Senator Kempthorne of Indiana and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.  The purpose of the bill was “to curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on States and local governmen

  • Chad Peace
    Thu, Jan 7th 2010

    Although campaign finance laws limit the amount an individual can donate to a particular candidate, a California Watch Investigation shows that several influential party donors, on both sides of the aisle, are dodging the rules by funneling money through loc

  • Chad Peace
    Wed, Jan 6th 2010

    Former San Francisco Mayor and Speaker of the House has some harsh words to say about the need to reform our civil service:

    "The system was set up so politicians like me couldn't come in and fire the people (relatives) hired by the guy they beat and replace them with their own friends and relatives. 

  • Chad Peace
    Wed, Jan 6th 2010

    Since the Christmas day bombing, it's been popular to trash Obama for his administration's failure to thwart the attack; a failure of intelligence.

    Just a little flash-back, here are some responses from Bush administration officials to the attack on 9/11:

  • Chad Peace
    Mon, Jan 4th 2010

    Following Senator Nelson's infamous "Nebraska Compromise", which forces the other 49 states to pay for Nebraska's new Medicaid recipients, journalists, legislators, and citizens have lashed out for what has been labeled a "sleazy back-room deal" by many folks across the politica

  • Things to throw overboard
    Chad Peace
    Mon, Nov 30th 2009

    In 2007, the modern tea party movement took shape, in a vastly different form than it now presents itself.  Spurred by an impending recession, a government overrun by deception and corruption, and an unprecedented expansion of government under eight years of “conservative” leadership, the first modern day tea partiers had positive ca

  • Friendly Donkeys
    Chad Peace
    Sat, Oct 3rd 2009

    Jonathan Alter suggests that the open primary system will help centralize our system.  In most districts, the biggest election battle happens during the primary.  The winners: whoever can out-Republican or out-Democrat the other candidates. 

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