The food industry spent $45 million to defeat California’ Proposition 37, which would have require “organic” labvaled foods to be labeled as GMO, or genetically modified, if they were.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Supermajority
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: Having won a two-thirds supermajority in the Legislature for the first time in more than a century, California Democrats are now facing intense pressure from the left as they prepare for next year’s legislative session.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Arizona Gives the Business
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: An Arizona business group will fly 100 chief executives to Arizona to try to lure their companies into leaving California.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: California’s Moribund State GOP
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: The California electorate is changing in composition and creed. The GOP must change with it or become permanently powerless. Yet it is bogged down on the right and becoming weaker. It’s practically impossible to envision Californians electing a Republican governor in the future, certainly not in the next gubernatorial election, in 2014. Talk to GOP pros and none can suggest a realistic, credible challenger to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Lower the Ladder a Little
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: In the nearly two decades since Californians voted to bar undocumented immigrants from utilizing public schools and hospitals, the state’s electorate has become increasingly tolerant toward people who are in the country illegally, although it remains tough on border security and enforcement, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows. The shift is partly explained by the growing clout of Latinos, who now make up 20% of California voters. But the attitudes of whites also appear to have changed.
The Leveraged Buyout of the United States
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Mitt Romney bought companies through LBOs: borrowing the purchase price using the target company itself as collateral, then selling off the profitable parts and cutting loose employees to turn a profit. Now he’s pretending to have votes polls say he doesn’t have, trying to convince undecided voters who want to back a winner to climb aboard his ersatz winning horse. It’s the attempted leveraged buyout of the United States.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Getting Jerry Browned
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: Bicyclists, reacting to the Governor’s refusal to give them at least three feet of space on California roads, have coined a new phrase for getting clipped by a car: “Getting Jerry Browned.” Lest other California political figures feel left out of popular culture…
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: One Percenter Logic
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: One percenter logic: Charles Munger, Jr., the Stanford physicist and GOP activist, donates $2.3 million to defeat Proposition 30, Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to raise taxes to avoid huge service cuts.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: A Maid’s Job Is Never Done
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes a bill that would have led to meal and rest breaks for nannies, maids and other domestic workers.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Cats and Dogs
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I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: Under a bill approved by the California legislature and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown, landlords who allow pets in their buildings cannot advertise in a way that discourages cats with claws or dogs that bark.
