Articles with Megan Barth
With the casting couch being front page headlines in Hollywood, New York, Washington D.C. and in California's State Capitol,"unwanted sexual advances" has become the latest unfortunate phrase in today's news pages.
Social justice activist, Sen. Nancy Skinner's hypocritical, perhaps illegal, and anti-woman actions?
Many California Republicans are excited about the federal GOP tax reform bill and anxious for tax relief, but others are warning about the negative impacts on individual taxpayers in high tax states like California and New York.
The California Legislature is a hotbed of indecency, on many levels. Decades of vulgarity, obscene tales of trysts and assignations, and the usual gropes and grabs have made the rounds in local watering holes, and on the pages of newspapers. So when more than 150 women wrote an open letter last month condemning the culture of sexual harassment in the Capitol, news reports joined in the condemnation. Since then, more women have added their names to the letter. But it turns out the culture inside the Capitol is even more uncivil and indelicate than previously thought possible.
As California Governor Jerry Brown burnishes his climate change credentials on his crusade to Rome for talks at the Vatican, his adoring California media are ignoring what he is really doing.
California Gov. Jerry Brown says the world needs 'brain washing' on climate change. Sounding indeed brainwashed, Brown said, "The problem ... is us. It's our whole way of life. It's our comfort ... It's the greed. It's the indulgence. It's the pattern. And it's the inertia."
I hate to be a party pooper but the totalitarian trio of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot also said the world needed brainwashing. But I digress.
Last week the California State Senate held the second committee hearing in two weeks on "hate speech" couched as "Violent Protests and Police Response." Democrats were once again seeking approval for legislation on thought crimes.
More than 140 women working in and around the California State Capitol have written a letter claiming to have been sexually harassed inside the Capitol by lawmakers and staff. The list has grown to 300 now.
Another California Republican Party convention has come and gone, and many are asking, "Why bother?" given that "The outcome of the convention changed the nature of how the party operates and further consolidated power among a very few while continuing support of the terrible Top 2 voting system," as Tom Del Beccaro, former CA GOP Party Chairman says.
