Subject: Tax Policy

• The Party's Over

  Our R. Scott Moxley reports that, by the end of the night at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, the older Republicans in the room showed on their faces exactly what they felt: worry, frustration, indignation. But the Young Republican types in their 20s and 30s were not missing a beat--or a drop of hooch--as they had a ball like it was any other chance to party. By the way, Moxley--who has been covering these GOP monster truck pulls since 1994--would like to readjust his crowd figures. In an earlier post

  November 8, 2006

• Speaking of congressional races ...

  Check out this little ray of sunshine from Bloomberg (the news service, not the mayor): Candidates Ignore $1.35 Trillion Minimum Tax `Bomb' By Ryan J. Donmoyer Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional candidates this fall are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying quiet about an imminent legislative challenge: how to stop a tax increase that will hit more than 20 million households next year, some with incomes as low as $50,000. The rest is here.

  October 31, 2006

• The OC GOP Way: extending taxes is NOT raising taxes

  Besides spam for our riches locked in a Nigerian prince's bank vault, a better head of hair and just plain better head, Clockwork's virtual mailbox has been filling lately with messages from the Committee to Renew Measure M. Now, normally when PR maven Meg Waters, Congressman John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) and the Orange County Business Council have a meeting of the minds on something, we RUN FOR THE HILLS! AIIIIEEEEEE!!!! Just kidding. These moral high horsers most certainly stand against rais

  September 7, 2006

• Taxing Education

  November 25, 1999

• Tax day: A Diary of My Pain

  May 3, 2001

• True Liar: Gov. Schwarzenegger brings deceit to real life

  "All [California lawmakers] know how to do is spend, spend, spend . . . Then they realize they are spending too much and so they tax, tax, tax. I will not raise your taxes. I will not cut education."--Arnold Schwarzenegger in October 2003, while campaigning to unseat then-Gov. Gray Davis in a recall election because Davis wanted to raise taxes to end an $8 billion budget crisis. Fast forward to today and Gov. Schwarzenegger, the liar, has proposed raising taxes by a whopping $14.3 billion and cu

  December 31, 2008

• Mission Viejo Recall Target Fires Back

  Lance MacLeanMission Viejo Mayor Pro Tem Lance MacLean sent out a press release a little more than an hour ago responding to the recall petition presented to him two Mondays ago. Here is the 200-word statement to voters that he's legally asked to issue:"I have been honored to represent you since 2002 and I am proud of my verifiable accomplishments.  In conjunction with ALL my City of Mission Viejo council colleagues Kelley, Ury, Ledesma and Schlicht, I have delivered on my promise to improv

  February 11, 2009

• Saddleback Republicans to MacLean: Resign Now, RINO!

  A good number of the people sitting on the Mission Viejo City Council got their political start back in the '90s by holding positions in the Saddleback Republican Assembly, a chartered unit of the California Republican Assembly that serves Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Laguna Woods and Laguna Hills. It endorsed Lance MacLean, Mission Viejo's current Mayor Pro Tem, back when he was elected in 2002. Yesterday evening, their board of directors weighed in on the recall drive against MacLean, voting un

  February 20, 2009

• Welcome to the Poorhouse: Ring-Ring-Ring!

  Please do not take it personally if I do not answer the phone when you call. Bill collectors used to call my home every morning beginning at 8:30. Then it was 8 a.m. Now it can be any hour of the day. They now call my home,  my cell phone and my work lines. One called my wife's main office line, for a bill that is under my name. After she pointed that out--ripping them a new one in the process--they stopped calling her there.My cell phone's history of received calls is now a collection of a

  March 6, 2009

• John and Ken Go After Red County Blog (Again)

  *Originally posted on March 13; moved up by Gustavo 'cause the conversation is HOT!The hosts of KFI-AM 640 The John and Ken Show are ripping Orange County's right-tilted Red County blog once again. (You can listen here.) What set off the anti-tax crusaders--whose recent live Tax Revolt 2009 broadcast (pictured) drew 8,000 people to the Slidebar Café in downtown Fullerton--was a post by Assemblyman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Pie) shilling for Prop 1A.Like Cook, our Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

  March 16, 2009

• DeVore Now Bugs Henley, Boxer AND Scrooge McDuck (Updated)

  Barbara BoxerWe vowed to be more sparing in our blog coverage of Irvine Assemblyman/2010 senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore's publicity campaign to seem like the most affably goofy nuclear-power lobbyist in the state. But it's time for an update, because DeVore's gone and made another Don Henley parody. This one jabs at Barbara Boxer, his 2010 opponent (contingent on the highly dubious assumption that DeVore will win the Republican primary)It's called "All She Wants To Do is Tax," a rip-off of H

  April 14, 2009

• Burning Bush

  July 8, 2004

• Burning Bush

  April 8, 2004

• Letters

  November 6, 2003

• Wholly Without Merit

  September 4, 2003

• Mr. Bigs Sack

  April 10, 2003

• Letters

  January 30, 2003

• Fool's Gold

  January 16, 2003

• Now You See It, Now You Don't

  June 14, 2001

• Lie the Friendly Skies

  March 2, 2000

• This Week In OC Republican-On-Republican Homo Action

  Larry CraigThe game of hot potato being played by California republicans in response to the  state's budget crisis and recently defeated ballot measures is turning into quite a spectator sport. Actually, "hot potato" isn't quite right. More like... "smear the queer"? Or... "12-year-olds calling each other names"?As I posted yesterday, south-county professional gadfly Jim Lacy nailed State Assemblywoman Diane Harkey in the latest issue of the Dana Point Times for flip-flopping on her special

  May 28, 2009

• Where Have All the Anti-Tax Crusaders Gone?

  When he wasn't running for governor, Fountain Valley's George "Nick" Jesson was associated with the We the People Congress, an anti-tax group that bought an ad in USA Today in 2001 challenging the government's right to tax income. Indeed, Orange County used to be crawling with anti-tax crusaders who claimed filing income tax returns was "voluntary" or "unconstitutional." Take one of their courses and they'd show you how to live tax-free. Well, the gubment shut those classes down licke

  August 20, 2009

• Republican Assemblyman Republicans Are Targeting for Recall Blames Orange County Republicans, Newport Beach Insiders

  Local Republicans are gunning for Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia). Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia), who has been targeted for a recall election because he voted for a state budget that included billions of dollars in new taxes, swung back at his opponents today, blaming "Orange County Republicans" and "Newport Beach activists" for his current predicament.

  October 7, 2009

• Local Republicans Back Recall of Mission Viejo's Lance MacLean... Again

  ​The Mission Viejo Dispatch reports that the Saddleback Republican Assembly has voted to endorse the recall of Mission Viejo Mayor Pro Tem Lance MacLean. "But wait!" you, faithful Navel Gazing reader, pleads. "Didn't they already do this?"Yeah, back in Febuary, the SRA--a sanctioned branch of the state Republican party--called for MacLean to resign shortly after he was presented a petition expressing a desire the behalf of more than 50 citizens to see him recalled for office. Then, they called

  October 19, 2009