Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle featured an article entitled, “State tax refunds on way, but new crisis looms.” In the piece the State Controller warned that plummeting revenues could hammer state finances again with February revenue down a billion dollars from projections. The Democratic Controller further warned that last [...]
Lawmakers in California just agreed to mixture of tax increases, spending reductions, accounting shifts, and federal stimulus money to close a massive $42 billion budget deficit. The open question remains: Will this be enough, or will the $12 billion per year tax increase, the largest state tax increase in U.S. [...]
Americans for Tax Reform announced that I will chair the Taxpayer Protection Caucus in the California State Assembly. The Caucus consists of all signers of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and provides a single voice on tax issues among pro-taxpayer legislators.
From ATR’s press release:
“Throughout the budget impasse, Chuck DeVore [...]
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford flew out West to address the California Republican Party convention on Friday, February 20. The 48-year-old two-term Palmetto State governor, former Congressman, husband, father of four boys, Eagle Scout, and MBA is thought by many to be examining a race for President in 2012.
Sanford had [...]
DIVORCE PERSONALITY FROM THIS BUDGET AND VOTE NO BECAUSE IT IS A BAD DEAL FOR CALIFORNIA
Assemblyman Chuck DeVore
February 14, 2009
California is facing a $42 billion deficit through June 2010.
How California got in this situation is fairly simple: we spent too much when times were [...]
You can find pictures from the Shorty Awards on TweetForChuck.com
Also be sure to read Chuck’s latest on Big Hollywood:
‘Syphilis Phil’ and the Stimulus [...]
California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s campaign for United States Senate announced today that the campaign won a “Shorty Award” for the best producer of political content on Twitter in 2008. Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging utility.
Chuck DeVore and Justin Hart, DeVore [...]
“The Internet’s bottom-up nature is more suited to the opposition and grass-roots insurgents, something Republicans are now forced to become. Few have internalized that message more than a little-known California assemblyman named Chuck DeVore. The 46-year-old former aerospace-company executive has already begun contesting the U.S. Senate seat held [...]
Yesterday’s awful vote on Timothy Geithner aptly demonstrates that Washington has lost its bearings. For this purpose I’ve created a new calculator to show you just how your taxes will work moving foward. It’s pretty straight forward:
[...]Last night I was featured on one of America’s longest running television shows, PBS’s NOVA. NOVA detailed California’s landmark 2006 law, AB 32, and its aggressive mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in 11 years. The only two elected officials NOVA featured in the show were me and [...]
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Let’s go on a trip down memory lane to the not-too-distant past.
In 1986, Linda Chavez left her high ranking post in the Reagan Administration to run for the U.S. Senate against Maryland liberal Barbara Mikulski (a political clone of Barbara Boxer, but that’s another story). In a [...]
On Monday, January 5, President-elect Obama selected former Cong. Leon Panetta to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Panetta’s chief qualification is his utter lack of intelligence experience – meaning that he has not been involved with any of the intelligence activities in the past 7 years that have [...]
Film is power. As with ideas and the words that convey them, film can inform, inspire, and move people to act - for better or for worse. Some films need to be made. Others are better left unmade for [...]
On Monday, January 5, President-elect Obama selected former Cong. Leon Panetta to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Panetta’s chief qualification is his utter lack of intelligence experience – meaning that he has not been involved with any of the intelligence activities in the past 7 years that have [...]
I just released the following news release:
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I’m beat. It’s December [...]
Today’s Sacramento Bee features a column by Dan Walters entitled, “Greenhouse gas plan has big shortcomings.”
He starts his column with the observation that, “Arnold Schwarzenegger is a proponent of the all-gain-and-no-pain school of public policy, especially when he peddles the notion that California can radically reduce its greenhouse gases [...]
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I have a [...]
Less than 24-hours after Sen. Harry Reid made the news saying, “In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol,” the DeVore for California campaign released its first web-ad criticizing Barbara Boxer for her support of the $621 million [...]
I’ve opposed all the mega-billion dollar bailouts – they reward failure and bad decisions and leave us and our children to pay the trillion dollars in new debt. And, if you think this out of control spending is bad now with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barbara Boxer in Congress [...]
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Chuck DeVore, [...]
Sen. Barbara Boxer was one of 13 Democrats voting to bounce Sen. Joe Lieberman from his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — 42 Democrats, including, apparently, Dianne Feinstein voted to retain Sen. Lieberman as chairman.
As if we needed more evidence that Sen. Boxer is extreme and [...]
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I am a candidate for the United States Senate in 2010. California deserves strong, [...]
According to a PUC report, California’s unprecedented drive to generate one-third of its electricity from renewable sources will cost $60 billion. $60 billion to build wind turbines, solar thermal farms, and geothermal fields and the transmission lines to connect them to where people live. $60 billion in extra “investment” between [...]
Sadly, that seems to be all that’s on Gov. Schwarzenegger’s mind these days.
I’ll be going on KFI 640’s John and Ken Show at 3pm to discuss Schwarzenegger’s tax increase plans — AGAIN. To listen live: http://www.kfi640.com/cc-common/ondemand/player.html?world=st.
Yesterday, while calling an unprecedented post-elections special session, the governor called for [...]
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Scratch the surface of Sen. McCain’s 24.3 percent loss in California, with President-elect Obama [...]
The Governor’s comments towards nuclear power are positive, but he still has not yet worked up the courage to change the status quo in California which blocks new plants from being built. Baby steps, baby steps…
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1365206.html
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Does anyone find it as inconsistent and hypocritical as I do that Obama’s big victory party in Grant Park in Chicago – the scene of violent leftwing protests in 1968, no doubt supported by Bill Ayres – will require the 65,000 attendees to present a ticket and government photo ID [...]
Cen-sor, n. A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
For much of the time since being elected, I have been asked by the Los Angeles Times-owned Daily Pilot (yes, the same Los Angeles Times that [...]
