According to The Hill newspaper, right now California Congressman Duncan Hunter has more Congressional endorsements in his bid for the Presidency than former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Of course, maybe that actually helps The Mayor, since Congress isn’t so popular these days. Congratulations to Hoover Institution Fellow and FR friend Williamson "Bill" Evers who was tapped by W. to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. Perhaps while there he can advise that "federalizing" education through programs like No Child Left Behind is a bad thing. In his Silicon Valley appearance yesterday, GOP Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani talked a lot about global warming. I don’t remember it being a big part of his talk to Republican leaders at the State GOP Convention last weekend… If Joel Stein’s column today in the Los Angeles Times where he describes the cloistered work of fellows at the Hoover Institute at Stanford is even close to accurate, we should all be lining up to spend time there. If you buy into the argument that all … Read More

I just received my California Republican Assembly Newspaper, and this is the issue that contains the CRA’s annual ranking of State Legislators. CRA President Mike Spence says the info on this will be online soon, but this is a good chance to give a ‘shout out’ to the legislators who scored a perfect 100% on the rating: Chuck DeVore, Bob Huff, Doug LaMalfa, Dennis Mountjoy, and Mimi Walters! Congratulations!

We’ll delve more into these ratings in the coming weeks. Some of the scores will surprise you!

It should come as a surprise, and a foreshadowing of the 2007 rated CRA bills, that all four of the major bond measures last year (1B, 1C, 1D, 1E) and the bloated state budget were all scored.… Read More

Over at the new Inside the Beltway newspaper Politico’s website, former House Majority Leader Tom "The Hammer" DeLay (pictured to the right) has a column in which is rightly draws a lot of concern about the big money that is being spread all around the left of America starting with hundreds of millions being lavished by billionaire George Soros. In his piece, DeLay blames this sizable and well financed liberal coalition of groups with the loss of Richard Pombo in California’s 11th District. In his column, DeLay says:

It would be the goal of any aspiring member of the State Legislature to have an unobstructed primary in a safe seat, right? Of course. FR friend Nathan Fletcher may be well on his way to this lofty goal in his super-charged candidacy for Assembly in San Diego County’s 75th District. Fletcher already had just about everything going his way already, but today he put the cherry on the sundae with his announcement that the popular termed-out incumbent, former Assembly Republican Leader George Plescia, has endorsed him.

Game… Set… And well on his way to match..… Read More

Los Angeles County has two GOP County Supervisors. One is moderate Don Knabe, the other is conservative, Mike Antonovich. They have both decided to go with the Rudy Giuliani for President campaign. They are both part of an upcoming fundraiser. This is a nice catch for the Rudy folks.… Read More

Brand New Trivia Question: Who is the only head coach to lead their team to the best regular season record of any NFL team in a particular year, only to be fired at season’s end?

Answer: Marty Schottenheimer (14-2 record last year with the San Diego Chargers), yesterday.

And, this has to do with politics why?

Simple. If a political consultant consistently won hard fought primaries for their candidates, but couldn’t get any of them a win in the run-off, they wouldn’t be political consultants very long.

Life does parallel sports.… Read More

This past weekend, 1500 Republican leaders from all around the Golden State gathered for the biennial organization convention of the California Republican Party. Despite the rainy weather outside of the Capitol Hyatt Hotel and the Convention Center, inside Republicans were excited to be able to elect new Party leaders, and they selected some great ones. Lots has been and will be written about the weekend, and frankly I am ready to take some time off after spending months on the campaign trail myself. But I will take a few minutes to pen some brief observations from the weekend. My first one — our Republican Party remains 100% committed to our core Republican values. It was clear our new Chairman, Ron Nehring, and our new Vice Chairman, Tom Del Becarro, are committed to seeing the GOP win in elected by pushing our winning issues with the voters, not capitulating and adopting the positions of the liberal Democrat Party. As a matter of fact, there was a strong, vibrant campaign for Vice Chairman waged all weekend long at the convention, and both of the candidates were equally as conservative, both emphasizing the need for our Party to strike a… Read More

This past weekend, 1500 Republican leaders from all around the Golden State gathered for the biennial organization convention of the California Republican Party. Despite the rainy weather outside of the Capitol Hyatt Hotel and the Convention Center, inside Republicans were excited to be able to elect new Party leaders, and they selected some great ones. Lots has been and will be written about the weekend, and frankly I am ready to take some time off after spending months on the campaign trail myself. But I will take a few minutes to pen some brief observations from the weekend. My first one — our Republican Party remains 100% committed to our core Republican values. It was clear our new Chairman, Ron Nehring, and our new Vice Chairman, Tom Del Becarro, are committed to seeing the GOP win in elected by pushing our winning issues with the voters, not capitulating and adopting the positions of the liberal Democrat Party. As a matter of fact, there was a strong, vibrant campaign for Vice Chairman waged all weekend long at the convention, and both of the candidates were equally as conservative, both emphasizing the need for our Party to strike a… Read More