No One to Blame But Ourselves: Jessica’s Law is a California Voter Approved Disaster

In 2006, California voters were warned that residency restrictions for sex offenders does not work. The law passed anyway. How’s it been going since then? Well, it turns out that residency restrictions for sex offenders does not work.

Three Former Governors Honestly Explain California’s Government and Budget Problems

In this morning’s email, we found this video of UCLA- sponsored 2005 panel discussion between former Governors Jerry Brown, George Dukemajian, and Gray Davis.   The topic is “How Can California Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century.” If you ever want to understand California’s budget problems, why the government is so dysfunctional, and how it [...]

New Poll: California Wants Ballot Prop Reform

We’re off today preparing some big-like posts and articles. But here’s a coupla things you should know. Public Policy Institute of California releases a new poll about all sorts of issues.  Of course, we’re most interested in the ballot prop stuff:  77% of those polled favor a system of “review and revisision to avoid legal [...]

Humboldt County’s Measure T Declared “Null and Void” – A Lesson in Basic Campaign Finance Law

So in the Prop 8 aftermath, there’s been a lot of anger directed at “out of state” money that flowed in to the Prop. 8 campaign.  We here at Johnny California received many a question about why people and organizations from out of state are allowed to seemingly dominate the ballot proposition process. The answer [...]