Gadfly Radio with Martha Montelongo and CalWatchdog's Steve Greenhut and John Seiler is out to uncover governmental waste and shine the light on the misuse of taxpayer dollars. As part of a new wave of nonprofit, web-based journalism, CalWatchdog adheres to traditional journalistic standards and foc…
Wayne Lusvardi of CalWatchDog.com talk about his Special Report just recently published up at CalWatchDog.com, Brown proposal would force local school tax increases, a brazen betrayal of his word to the voters if they passed his signature ballot initiative, Prop 30 last November.talkback-02-13-2013 Part 3of3
Part 2 of 3: Ben Boychuk of City Journal California and the Sacramento Bee talks about how the Democrats in the California state legislature are working to undermine the initiative process that has kept government excesses in check for the past century. He also talks about California’s efforts to undermine the Second Amendment.
Part 1 of 3: Chuck Michaels from the CA Pistol and Rifle Association and the CA Chapter of the National Rifle Association NRA, joins us on the latest developments in the State’s efforts to disarm citizens or make it so expensive that only the rich can afford to have guns and protection.
I sat in for Chuck Wilder at CRNtalk.com, for his two hour show, this past Thursday. The second hour I talked with Eapen Thampy, Executive Director for Americans for Forfeiture Reform. We talked about the Caswell’s Motel, the recent Federal Court decision, the egregious abuse of this policy, and the danger it poses to everyday […]
I sat in for Chuck Wilder at CRNtalk.com, for his two hour show, this past Thursday. The first hour I spoke with Dave Workman, Communications Executive with The 2nd Amendment Foundation. Chuck Michael, a civil rights attorney with the California Rifle and Pistol Association joined us.
GadflyRadio CA Elections 2012 Tues Oct 16, 2012, Martha Montelongo, John Seiler, managing editor at CalWatchDog.com, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal stir it up on Policy and Politics with a focus on CA. Prop 30, 32, AB 32, and Public Employee Union significance and challenge
Tu Oct 9, 2012. Part 2: Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, and Ben Boychuk,discuss CA Legislative races and Prop 30 and 32. Due to redistricting and the new top two Open Primary, there will be more competitive races for congress and the state legislature this November than we have seen in this state in over […]
Tu Oct 9, 2012. Part I: Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, and Ben Boychuk, welcome Allan Hoffenblum, Publisher of the California Target Book, owner of Allan Hoffenblum & Associates. Due to redistricting and the new top two Open Primary, there will be more competitive races for congress and the state legislature this November than we […]
Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, managing editor at CalWatchDog.com, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal welcome Mark Cabaniss, and Chris Reed.
Martha and John talk with Lisa about Nov ballot initiatives Prop 30, and 38. Two Fridays ago, Lisa and her husband were part of a gathering of activists invited to a private screening of the film, Won’t Back Down. We’ll get her thoughts about the movie and the message.
Martha Montelongo, Larry Sand, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler.
Tuesday September 11, 2012, at 10 AM PT, Martha Montelongo, with Wayne Lusvardi, contributing writer at CalWatchDog.com, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal welcome Richard Rider, Chairman of the San Diego Tax Fighters.
Martha Montelongo and John Seiler are joined by Adam Elmahrek, reporter with the Voice of OC, who last week reported dynamite allegations of intimidation of Costa Mesa city officials by a law firm affliliated with the local police union. Then later on the program, CalWatchDog writer Wayne Lusvardi discusses some dangers in Proposition 31, a […]
Ben Boychuk, John Seiler, Martha Montelongo and guest, Troy Anderson on Gadfly Radio. The Tsunami of Bankruptcies facing California- Any relief in sight? Is the public aware? Does Wisconsin offer hope?
Jack Humphreville, LA Watchdog of LA CityWatch, on the central role of Public Employee Pensions in the Tsunami of of fiscal bankruptcies coming to cities throughout the state of California, and why he advocates a Yes on Prop 32. David Phelps, new National Communications Director for The Parent Revolution on the shocking hubris of the […]
Former CA State Senator Gloria Romero, DFER stands up to Union Bosses, for “Yes on Prop 32.″ Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, Managing Editor at CalWatchDog.com, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal.
Stephen Downing, Retired Deputy Chief of Police, L.A.P.D. joins us to discuss the issues with Anaheim. Points to consider for redress. How to foster peace officers to serve and protect, and to work with the communities they serve, and not occupy them. Wayne Lusvardi joins us to talk about the big magic show acts hailing […]
Judge Gray on fatal Police shootings and community unrest in Anaheim, Larry Sand on Professional Development racket Public Ed teachers use to increase their pay, Katy Grimes on the mushrooming uncovering of “hidden” accounts all across the land of public agency offices throughout CA.
Podcast: July 23, Gustavo Arrellano, reporter and editor for The OC Weekly: Anaheim PD’s Criminally Violent Response to Community Anger Over the Fatal Shooting of Manuel Stomper Diaz.
Tues, July 17, Wayne Lusvardi on San Bernardino’s scheme to socialize mortgages, Larry Sand on CTA Rackets that hurt Children, with Martha Montelongo, John Seiler, and Ben Boychuk.
Tuesday, July 10. Who says you can’t fight city hall? Travis Kiger, one of the newest members of Fullerton’s city council, talks with Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler about how a group of activists and bloggers unseated three well-entrenched council members in June. Later in the program, Larry Sand, president of the California […]
This is part two of our show on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Tom Donaldson shares numbers and breaks down demographics and diversity of voters within ethnic groups, especially among Latino voters. Ben talks about forthcoming articles written by him on ObamaCare and the power of the Public Court of Opinion, and Steven Greenhut’s piece on […]
Brian Calle joins Ben and Martha for this segment of the Show on Tuesday, June 3, 2012
Retired Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Stephen Downing, an active voice with LEAP, joins Martha Montelongo and City Journal’s Ben Boychuk, to make the case for legalization of drugs—starting with marijuana, but not ending there. Also, Martha and Ben talk about the latest effort by the state legislature to give Governor Jerry Brown’s tax increase ballot […]
Tuesday, June 19, on Gadfly Radio, Marcia Fritz, C.P.A., and an active voice for Fix Pensions First | FixPensionsFirst.com, joins Martha Montelongo, with CalWatchDog‘s managing editor, John Seiler, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal.
Tuesday June 12, on Gadfly Radio, Wayne Lusvardi joins Martha and John Seiler, managing editor of CalWatchDog, to discuss the election results of the pension reform initiatives in San Diego, and San Jose, the failed recall of Scott Walker in Wisconsin, the victorious recall of three sitting city council members and the election of their […]
Economic historian Robert Higgs, author of Crisis and Leviathan and other great books, discusses the “vulgar Keynesianism” of Paul Krugman. We also preview elections in Wisconsin and California.
Publisher Brian Hews of the Los Cerritos News joins us to talk about the Noguez pay-to-play Million Dollars campaign contributions scandal.
May 22, 2012: Jim Manzi, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, and contributor to National Review Online, joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to discuss his new book, Uncontrolled. In particular, we focus on Manzi’s policy prescriptions for education, immigration, and welfare. How much government […]
Martha Montelongo is on vacation this week. In the first half of the program, City Journal contributor Troy Senik joins Ben Boychuk and John Seiler to discuss his article, “The Worst Union in America,” which delves into the California Teachers Assocation’s sordid history of political activism and opposition to education reforms. (The Los Angeles Times excerpted […]
Ben Boychuk, Martha Montelongo and John Seiler discuss the Kelly Thomas murder preliminary trial and the citizen blogging and activism that helped bring the case to light, and Should the Govt make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinations for their kids? The issue of vaccinations and government regulations that allow exemptions.
May 1, 2012: Peggy Christensen joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to dispel some of the persistent myths surrounding homeschooling (which she prefers to call “open-source learning”). And Jenny Worman, a former board member with the Screen Actors Guild who is running as a Republican in a new Southern California congressional district, discusses […]
April 24, 2012: Republican Al Ramirez, who is running for U.S. Senate in California, joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to discuss how the state GOP is trying to attract Latino voters. In the second half of the program, CalWatchDog.com contributor Wayne Lusvardi discusses his rejoinder to an essay by Heather MacDonald on […]
April 17, 2012: Should public education be considered a “national defense” priority? Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler talk with Bill Evers, a Hoover Institution fellow and former Education Department official, about the federal government’s efforts to centralize education under the umbrella of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. We also talk about the […]
April 10, 2012: Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler talk to Stanford political scientist and Hoover Institution fellow Terry Moe, author most recently of Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools. Is technology the key to breaking the union monopoly? Moe argues that it’s only a matter of time before innovation shakes up […]
April 3, 2012: Martha Montelongo, John Seiler and Ben Boychuk talk with former California State Senator Gloria Romero about the latest developments at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif., where parents are attempting to transform the failing school into a community charter. In the second half hour, Martha, John and Ben are joined by […]
March 26, 2012: Ben Boychuk interviews CalWatchdog.com reporter John Hrabe about the California State University administrative pay controversy. In the second half of the program, Avik Roy, Manhattan Institute senior fellow in health policy, analyzes the arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court this week on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.
Martha Montelongo, John Seiler and Ben Boychuk talk to Diane Goldstein, a drug policy reform activist, retired police officer, and spokesperson for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, about the latest developments in marijuana regulation in California. Diane says that although a ballot initiative to “regulate marijuana like wine” is unlikely to appear before 2014, there are some […]
David Crane, co-founder and president of Govern for California, joins Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk, and John Seiler to discuss how to overhaul the state’s dysfunctional legislature.
Martha Montelongo, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler are joined this week by Gabe Rose, assistant executive director of the Los Angeles Parent Revolution, and CalWatchdog.com reporter Katy Grimes. Gabe brings us up to date on the struggle by parents at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto to convert that failing school to a community-run charter in […]
Ben Boychuk, John Seiler, Wayne Lusvardi and Martha Montelongo discuss Bankruptcy threatening Stockton, and Gleickgate a.k.a. Climategate 3.
Listen in on our Podcast! Sound quality isn’t the up to par, and is why we’re moving again, but John Hrabe, Ben Boychuk and John Seiler are hot. Today live with Martha, John Seiler of CalWatchDog.com and Ben Boychuk of CA City Journal, we welcome back regular contributor to CalWatchDog, John Hrabe. John’s written […]
Gadfly Radio with Martha and CalWatchDog: Tonight, Ben Boychuk, John Seiler, with special guests Arun Ramanathan on teacher quality & Diane Goldstein on drug wars in LA County and what does Obama snack on? CA is bust in one month, and Attorney Generals should not write Ballot Titles and Summaries.
Gadfly Radio with Martha and CalWatchDog: Tonight, Ben Boychuk, John Seiler, with special guest Ben Limoine of Fleurish Productions and Producer of a film that documents the transformation of New Orleans schools after Katrina in the film called The Experiment, talks about Nat’l School Choice Week, and the New Orleans Miracle.
Martha Montelongo along with Ben Boychuk of CA City Journal and John Seiler of CalWatchDog.com. Bob Bowdon, founder of ChoiceMedia.TV and the producer and director of the film The Cartel, talks about National School Choice Week. Joel Fox is the Editor at Fox & Hounds political daily, talks about Public Employee Pension Crisis and ballot […]
Gadfly Radio with Martha and CalWatchDog: Tonight, Ben Boychuk, John Seiler, with Special guest, Chris Reed, Journalist, Political Pundit, Honorary Gadfly!
Martha Montelongo along with Ben Boychuk of CA City Journal and John Seiler of CalWatchDog.com. Linda Serrato of the Parent Revolution on The Parent Trigger and tactics the Teacher’s Union have been using against parents who’ve been organizing for change at their school. Steven Greenhut, the Editor in Chief at CalWatchDog, joins us to […]
Martha Montelongo along with Ben Boychuk of CA City Journal and special guest, Joel Mathis. The National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA is decried by watchdogs from all walks of the political spectrum, who believe in and defend civil liberty and civil rights. What is it and why should you care? The Great CA Redistricting Sting, […]
Tonight on Gadfly Radio, Martha Montelongo along with Ben Boychuk of CA City Journal and John Seiler of CalWatchDog.com welcome special guest Yolie Flores of Communities 4 Teaching Excellence, on the web at 4TeachingExcellence.org. We speak with Flores about her decision to leave the L.A.U.S.D. School Board, and more…
Special guests tonight are Dr. Ben Chavis, author of Crazy Like a Fox , and Micheal Steinberg, President of American Indian Model Charter Schools, on the critical role of School Boards in support of the current prevailing paradigm that is our K-12 Public Education System, and Jack Dean of Pension Tsunami on the significant increase […]