Assemblywoman Mimi Walters plays a strong hand, with support from the outgoing Senator as well as fellow nested Assemblymen Todd Spitzer and Chuck DeVore. Can you say frontrunner?

“Mimi Walters is a strong conservative who understands the proper role of government and who is committed to improving our business climate and keeping taxes down,” said Ackerman. “I am confident that she will be an outstanding representative for the 33rd Senate District.”… Read More

Regarding Jill Buck’s and Doug LaMalfa’s earlier posts, here’s what Eddie Money looks like not-circa-1981, since Jill was being nice….

As for "Take Me Home Tonight," all I can say is good luck.

Hey, Jon, I like these newer bloggers digressing from politics a bit. Perhaps Joe Justin will consider returning, now that the site has gone Rock n’ Roll.

Ok, perhaps we should lay off, I feel the Jill-coined e-towel snap coming from Fleischman.

Speaking of politics, although this is quite a stretch, when I was in Sacto on Monday, I stopped into your office, Doug (LaMalfa), to see if I could collect on your July 13 Rock On challenge for a bag of Butte County… Read More

The ever informative Target Book justsent one of their “Hot Sheet” emails to subscribers. In it, a fascinating bit that seems to dovetail nicely on Mike Spence’s CRP Reform piece this morning…

The Target Book segmented the results in absentee voting versus Election Day voting. With our $20 million GOTV “juggernaut” in place, let’s take a look at how the votes went down.

In the LG Race:

Among Absentee/Mail voters: McClintock: 49.5 Garamendi: 44.6

(A 4.9% edge)

As I reported at the time, Tom was up before Election Day hit.

But amongElection Dayvoters: McClintock: 41.1 Garamendi: 53.1

(A 12% deficit)

16.9% in the LG Race (it was 16.8 in the Gov race). That’s the swing. Something went wrong, and we’d be foolish if serious efforts weren’t made to figure out what did.… Read More

The Scales of Justice depicts a figure that, in order to achieve a fair measure and balance, is blindfolded. The method of redrawing legislative district lines every decade that is currently in place is not a fair measure or balanced. The only blindfold involved is the one that those defending this system try to keep pulled over the voters on this issue. Politicians drawing their own district lines is too great a temptation and self-interest to entrust to them as just a cursory look at the map from 2001 would reveal.

A measure back in the 80’s to remove this self-interest from politicians was defeated after heavy runs of TV ads featuring Jack Lemmon and others. Speaker Willie Brown later cackled about how they pulled a fast one on California voters.

The measure last year with similar goals, Prop 77 was defeated with heavy opposition from Democrat leadership as well as a smattering of Republicans. All sorts of reasons were concocted about the makeup of the panel, 3 retired judges, being too out of touch or too white to draw… Read More

Stephen Moore is one of the more gifted editorial writers out there — over at the Wall Street Journal, has penned an outstanding piece, entitled, The Market and Its Medicine: Solving the health-care "crisis" means not more government involvement but less.

It begins:

This morning’s Commentary from Mike Spence concerning the California Republican Party has already spurred a few e-mails to me — so I just wanted to let any stakeholders in the CRP know that if you would like to weigh in with your thoughts about the CRP, feel free to contact me. I’m happy to arrange to post your thoughts up on the site!… Read More

In the late nineties some GOP leaders pushed to take over the CRP and local GOP county committees with a simple mantra: Ideology doesn’t matter, what matters is the "nuts and bolts" of party building. Basically, the goods they sold said the party should focus on registering voters, GOTV etc…. Of course most were moderates (who would lose campaigns if ideology was a factor) and their successful campaign culminated in the much-heralded CRP Parsky Commission reforms of 2001. … Read More

I’m running for Vice Chairman, South, of the State GOP. Here are some thoughts from some prominent supporters:

"Jon Fleischman is a leader in the California Republican Party. Please join me in supporting him for Vice Chairman, South" – Tony Strickland, GOP Nominee for State Controller

"As State Chairman of the California Republican National Hispanic Assembly I feel that it is paramount that we have a strong… Read More