I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: Two weeks after taking office, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey has reassigned a political rival she beat in the November election from a prestigious high-profile job to a post where he will no longer try cases — a move he contends is a backward step for his career.
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: University of California officials said they were trying to project a “forward-looking spirit” when they replaced the university system’s ornate, tradition-clad logo with a sleek, modern one. What they got was an online revolt complete with mocking memes, Twitter insults and a petition to restore the old logo. Students and alumni have taken to Facebook and Photoshop to express their displeasure, showing the new symbol ready to be flushed down a toilet and as a permanently stalled computer operating system. One critic suggested the controversial image be tattooed on its creators’ foreheads as punishment.
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to take up the issue of gay marriage in California as soon as Friday morning. The moment has prompted nervous debate within the gay-rights movement about the best path to achieve gay marriage. If the justices opt not to hear the Proposition 8 case, then a federal appeals court ruling that found the 2008 state ballot measure banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional would stand, clearing the way for marriages to begin. If the justices take up the case, a ruling would not come until next year and gay marriage would remain on hold until then, or longer depending on how the court rules.
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.
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.
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.
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: After a long and grueling campaign marked by unprecedented spending on negative attack ads in the media, the people vote. It’s all calm…for now. The next round of elections is Spring 2013.
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.
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…
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.
