Fleischman thinks he’s hot stuff because of all the mainpage "FlashCam" posts today on Mitt Romney’s visit. If Jon were hip, he’d cruise over to myspace.com and become a "friend" of any presidential candidate he chooses, all of ’em if he likes.

Check out http://impact.myspace.com/and know that every candidate is an Internet predator when it comes to courting the under-30 crowd. As Paris Hilton would say, "It’s hot."

Jon, let’s make this a feature….State candidates’ videos, right on the FlashReport!

Here’s the AP-HiTech story:

Presidential Hopefuls Make Myspace Pages

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Prospective voters eager to learn more about John McCain or to become an Internet "friend" of Barack Obama now have a new online opportunity. MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, on Sunday launched a section dedicated to the 2008 presidential election.

Called the Impact Channel,… Read More

The 60th Assembly District stretches From the Diamond Bar/Walnut area of Los Angeles County Down through parts of Northern Orange County to parts of Orange/Anaheim and takes in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. FR contributor posted his views on the race in the OC blog. See it here. Bob Huff represents the area now. Currently there are three candidates mentioned and all will run as conservatives: Curt Hagman is the first term councilman from Chino Hills. Adam Aleman profiled the first term councilman in FR. Read it here.People in Chino Hills do like him and he … Read More

A few minutes ago, Tony Krvaric was elected unanimously to succeed Ron Nehring as the chairman of the San Diego County Republican Party.

I’m not at the meeting, but I do have my moles.

More to follow. Congrats Tony!… Read More

On February 15th the Governor received a detailed assessment on California’s education system from Stanford’s Institute for Research on Education Policy & Practice. Hardly anyone reading the FlashReport will be surprised to learn that California’s schools are struggling. But some of the conclusions will surprise you. For example, the report concluded that California couldn’t spend its way out of the growing educational crisis – that better, more sensible management is more critical than additional dollars. Even school officials don’t think spending more money is the answer – in fact their top concern was not getting more money or a new program, it was the ability to fire bad teachers. Not a wholesale sweep, but just those who either can’t or simply don’t want to teach children anymore. “Tenure reform” is a hot-button issue for the teachers union – but instead of muscling up against it, they should embrace it and push for higher standards for teachers. In the long… Read More

Not really analysis that Jon would be expecting, simply…LET’S GO PITT!!!! As the former Vice President of the University of Pittsburgh College Republicans I could not resist antagonizing the blogosphere…forgive me Jon.

See ya in San Jose on Thursday.… Read More

This is not the first time I’ve weighed in on the San Diego Ethics Commission and the City of San Diego’s campaign laws that often surpass thoseof the California Political Reform Act in their regulatory ambition. Some are good, some are…well…just waiting for a lawsuit.

I was recently invited to a meeting of a potential SD City Council candidate. The individual is definitely running, yet he is not yet a candidate and the meeting in question was not a campaign meeting…because, you see,the city says so. You can’t announce your candidacy, raise money, or even put up a website until a year prior to the primary election…uhhh, not in SD anyway.

Kinda seems like a regulatory chill on the right of free speech to me.

On March 12, the Union-Trib’s Logan Jenkins penned a hilarious, must readpiece on the absurdity of it all, writing that"Franz Kafka would love this stuff." An excerpt:

For the next 2½ months, dozens of “closet candidates” for… Read More

On February 15th the Governor received a detailed assessment on California’s education system from Stanford’s Institute for Research on Education Policy & Practice. Hardly anyone reading the FlashReport will be surprised to learn that California’s schools are struggling. But some of the conclusions will surprise you. For example, the report concluded that California couldn’t spend its way out of the growing educational crisis – that better, more sensible management is more critical than additional dollars. Even school officials don’t think spending more money is the answer – in fact their top concern was not getting more money or a new program, it was the ability to fire bad teachers. Not a wholesale sweep, but just those who either can’t or simply don’t want to teach children anymore. “Tenure reform” is a hot-button issue for the teachers union – but instead of muscling up against it, they should embrace it and push for higher standards for teachers. In the long… Read More

We have our own John McCain here in Fresno and his name is Alan Autry. Mayor Alan Autry. I’ve never seen a local politico leave so many heads scratching in my life. One minute he’s the MC at the Right to Life Dinner, the next minutes he’s supporting a Democrat for Sheriff against the recommendations of all the other elected officials. Now he comes out against enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. Huh?

I used to be in pretty constant communication with the Mayor. He’s spent most of his second term nowhere near City Hall – letting staff handle most of the day to day duties. He’s a torn man – family life keeps him from really being able to seek higher office – but inconsistent messaging does too. Is he a liberal? A conservative? No one seems to know. We know he is a Republican by registration, but he doesn’t really use the affiliation for anything. One wonders why he continues to fly the GOP flag.

His real name is Carlos Brown, and I think his westside ag roots cause him to sympathize with the plight of the illegal… Read More