A hearty congratulations from everyone here at Team FlashReport goes out to our friend 
Assemblyman Mike Villines of Fresno. Last week, Villines was tapped by Assembly Republicans (and their leader, George Plescia) to head up their elections and political efforts going into the fall elections. Villines, a strong conservative, is considered by many to be a rising star among Republican legislators in Sacramento because of his political acumen. Clearly this must be a sentiment shared by his colleagues as he has been tapped with a very important post. We’ll try to find out who will be serving on this important committee with Villines.
In the meantime, I caught up to Mike this morning while he was driving across the Fresno County/Madera County line (I kid you not, on his way to a "Flatlanders Parade" — pretty funny). I spoke with him about his new role, and he is pretty excited about it.
"I am looking forward to rolling up my sleeves, and working with my colleagues to increase our majority in the Assembly," said Villines. "We’ve got a lot of great candidates and we’re all looking forward to turning this state around."
Of course, the one downside of his new post is that it means he will be working a lot (by necessity) with our own FR Sacramento Correspondent Joe Justin, who in his day job works on the campaign end of things for Assembly Republicans and the State GOP. Despite having to work with Joe, we know Villines will be very successful!
In a few months, we’ll have to ask Villines if whenever Joe emails him, the email subject lines are all song titles, like with Joe’s posts on this website.
[For you, Joe, we give this post a song title — well, but the important lyric from the song… "The best is yet to come…" Which is the case for Assembly Reps with Villines’ appointment…]