[Tenacious 1]

The doomsayer critics playing with demographics typically cite three reasons for the state’s woes: Business taxes are too high, development regulations are too strict, and planners are dictating lifestyles that people don’t want.

Yep.

Meanwhile, the people of California wonder if some of these claims are true.

Only the ones that are still there and haven't started planning their egress yet.

This professor is trying to convince citizens of rainy weather on a sunny day while pissing on their leg. I'm waiting for some of the establishment politicians in CA start blaming talk radio for the bad press and mass exodus. Oh wait....

He doesn't see ANY correlation between the numbers of people and business going away and the states fiscal and regulatory policies? None? Really? He's a professor of what again?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

He's a professor of what again?

He's the Jerry Brown Professor of Moonbattery at USC. Not that they call it that.

[Old North State]

And there is no political gridlock in California, the democrats own the State at all levels.