I’m sure that most FR readers already know what a "RINO" is — but for those who don’t, it stands for Republican In Name Only, and rather than me telling you more about RINO’s, you should check out this entry on Wikopedia — it’s pretty extensive! And it not only says WHAT a RINO is, but helps you to learn who many of them ARE. Enjoy!… Read More

This is perfect — left-wing Senator Dianne Feinstein wholeheartedly supports the dumb McCain-Feingold laws that infringe on First Amendment rights, and then is featured as a federal candidate on a commercial for the big band bonds that appear on the same ballot as her.

Now the Committee that is airing these commercials featuring DiFi (and Arnold) is facing an official complaint, filed by the CRA and the CTPC. Read about that here:

There’s a relatively new taxpayers group in San Diego, and they’re playing in this election…statewide.

The TaxpayersAdvocate.org PAC has raised about $190,000 and sent out over 400,000 pieces to swing voter households, saying "John Garamendi Wants to Raise Your Taxes." Tim Clark at Johnson/Clark was the project’s consultant. See the piece here.

TaxpayersAdvocate.org (check out the website) is headed by Scott Barnett, former Del Mar City Councilmanwho served seven years as executive director of theSan Diego County Taxpayers Association.

If you take a look at TA’s statewide ballot recommendations, you’ll actually see a hard position against tax increases. Since this is a taxpayers group, we understand the no position on parental consent and Jessica’s law, but the rest of the list reflects exactly what the State GOP’s recommendations SHOULD look like.

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Poll after poll shows Gov. Schwarzenegger easily winning re-election next Tuesday. However, the fate of the other Republicans running for the statewide offices is not so easily predicted.

But polls do show Sen. Tom McClintock, the darling of California conservatives, running ahead of Insurance Commissioner, Democrat John Garamendi. It will be a sweet victory for McClintock, who has run and lost statewide races before. McClintock has run a smart campaign and, to many people’s surprise, stayed pretty quiet while the guy at the top of his party’s ticket was busy signing Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’ legislative agenda into law.

After spending nearly twenty years in the legislature, McClintock,… Read More

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were on hand at the Reagan Library earlier this week to recognize the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s first election as Governor of California. Earlier in the week we featured the streaming video of the event, and now (courtesy of an e-mail from the Governor’s Office) I am attaching a transcript of the Governor’s remarks. As long as you hurry through the small part of his speech where he somehow tries to evoke bipartisanism in the name of Reagan (the Gipper would most certainly have NOT approved of ‘bipartisanship’ to place four massive bond measures on the November ballot), the remarks are pretty good. The photo shown is the Governor and Mrs. Shriver with Nancy Reagan at the Library.

My favorite line in his remarks:

Yesterday morning I opined that the Democrats strategy was to hide, hide, hide. Apparently, I was way out front of Drudge on this.… Read More

This slate mailer arrived at Casa Cunningham earlier this week:

It’s paid for by the Democrats, and it urges a straight Democratic ticket vote for all the state constitutional offices.

My only question is why did it come to our house? It was addressed to my wife, who was Deputy Chair of the Republican Party of Orange County 2004-2005. And our household has three voters — all Republicans.

Personally, I hope the Democrat-funded slate hit lots and lots and lots of similarly GOP households. That would be a satisfying waste of money.… Read More

Whilea bunchinvite-only VIPs will be partying with the Governor on Election Night at the Beverly Hilton and because of that CRP has no plans, Doug and Linda Boyd (and the LA County Party) are organizing a Election Night event for grassroots volunteers.

The Tower – Beverly Hills The Rooftop VIP Party Room – “Suite 360” 1224 S. Beverwil Drive (corner of Pico Blvd.) Beverly Hills, CA 90035

Tuesday, November 7, 2006 8 p.m. to midnight

It’ll be a great place to come watch the returns come in.

[Publisher’s Note: Please take to heart the part of Brandon’s post that suggests that there should be a place for all hard working Republicans to go and watch returns. Then if you are among the vast majority of FR readers that do not reside anywhere near Beverly Hills, you should contact your local Party HQ to find out where Republicans are gathering.]… Read More