Published originally in LA City Watch, November 3, 2016 – the charts were inadvertently omitted in original post and are included here, below. Recently I wrote in support of Proposition 62 to repeal California’s death penalty in the name…
Published originally in LA City Watch My oldest son, Matthew Benjamin Butcher, was murdered in a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary on June 24, 2010. It is in his name and his memory that I offer a few political…
“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a…
Originally published in CityWatch – August 29, 2016 BUTCHER ON LA – “Reform” of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is on the November ballot as Charter Amendment Measure RRR and it’s just (w)Rong, (w)Rong, (w)Rong! Wrong for…
Last week I was honored to sit in with the founder of the Mixed Martial Arts Fighters Association (MMAFA) and two MMA fighters at a meeting with my congressman’s district staff. I won’t use the fighters’ names because at…
Good News, LA! Go, Nancy Melendez, next Mayor of Riverside!…
Julie's endorsements for June 7 election!…
LA is hiring! Start the application here or attend an event at Trade-Tech this week!…
There's a Mayoral Election in Riverside? On June 7?!? …my first impressions and two cents about the Riverside League of Women Voter’s mayoral candidate forum, Stratton Center at Bordwell Park, April 28, 2016…
The LA City budget is released on 4/20 because it's the law! Watch these guys! It's important! …