San Diego, CALIF. - The California Supreme Court has stayed a lower court ruling allowing proposed tax increases for earmarked purposes, like the one planned to pay for a new NFL stadium in downtown San Diego, to pass via a simple majority.
It's looking more and more like at least 3 presidential candidates will win electoral votes this cycle, something that hasn't happened since 1988 when Lloyd Bentsen received one electoral vote from faithless elector Margaret Leech.
But it hasn't been an uncommon occurrence for more than two candidates to win electoral votes, happening 21 times out of the 56 presidential elections so far.
While Congress has continued to diversify over the last decade in terms of both gender and race, one element that has not changed is the average age of the institution’s members. The 113th Congress had an average age of 57 years and with Senators, it was 62 years old.
However, there are some notable millennials (18-33) running for Congress this year. In order to run for Congress, one needs to be 25-years-old and 30 to run for Senate, so only the older group of this generation can even run for Congress.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Wednesday that a new election reform bill, SB 450, has cleared the State Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee. According to Padilla, the purpose of the bill is to “make the voting experience smoother and more convenient” as it provides more options for voters to cast a ballot.
Under SB 450:
Vote-by-Mail Ballots: Every registered voter would be delivered a ballot 28 days before Election Day. This applies to any county that adopts the new election model.
Most media news outlets are calling this year’s Pennsylvania Senate race one of the most competitive this election season. Politico ranks incumbent Pat Toomey’s seat (R-PA) as the 5th most likely to see the incumbent defeated in November.
Better for America (BFA), a nonpartisan organization seeking ballot access for an independent presidential candidate, announced Wednesday that it filed a motion in federal court to join Level the Playing Field's (LPF) lawsuit to open the fall presidential debates to a candidate outside the two major parties.
Disability discrimination is a relic. Or is it? Is it discrimination if an able-bodied person is paid 20 times that of a disabled person? Is it discrimination if an able-bodied person is paid their bonus every time they make their target but a disabled person only gets it once?
A reasonable person can see these are rhetorical questions. Of course disabled people should be paid and treated the same as able-bodied people. So, why are there still pockets of disparity in our modern world?
Spoiler alert!
Is it Perot? Is it Nader? No, it’s Gary Johnson.
Like clockwork, immediately following the introduction of a political candidate from outside the two-party system, pundits do not hesitate to discuss how this one individual will “spoil” the election of one dominant campaign.
Will Johnson pull his support from the fallouts created by the #NeverTrump or the #NeverClinton campaigns?
Sacramento, CALIF. - California voters will get t0 decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana. Secretary of State Alex Padilla said initiative proponents have turned in more than enough signatures to place the question on the November ballot.
The initiative is promoted by a well-funded and politically connected coalition spearheaded by former Facebook president Sean Parker.
The flirtation with and conversations of a contested GOP convention in Cleveland continue to surface. Although not a done deal, it’s intriguing to watch and see whether this summer fling is a media created catfish or should actually be taken seriously. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump can’t dismiss rumors that the Republican cabal want a convention filled with multiple chances for love. And while one rose is all that’s available, the chorus of calls for multiple convention votes just won’t go away.