The Big Story… There was a ton of political news coverage in San Diego last week. I’ll get to some of that in a minute.

Because, politics or not, there was certainly no bigger story in San Diego than at week’s end, last night on a change-up induced strike-out, placing the Padres’ Trevor Hoffman in a first place tie with Lee Smith for all-time Major League Baseball saves at a whopping 478. The fact that Trevor reached the mark while leading the NL in ’06 saves at nearly 39 years of age, all during a home-stretch pennant race with the hated Dodgers, is simply icing on the… Read More

Since thousands of volunteers who support the re-election of the Governor read this page every day, this seems like a good time to start to have a dialogue about that will happen in Sacramento when Arnold is re-elected by the voters! Given his very wide lead at the moment, and how his opponent Phil Angelides can’t seem to put it together, I think that everyone who prefers to see Governor Schwarzenegger in January and not Governor Angelides can start to look at the rest of the picture — what kind of environment will Arnold Schwarzenegger be operating in when he returns? (This is not an opportuntiy to slack in your hard work, by the way, but rather an invitation to start to think about the bigger picture). For core Republican voters, I would submit that besides whom we elect Governor, there are two major areas in which we need to focus. One is the defeat of all of spending measures on the November ballot (this includes both the measures that raise taxes to spend, and also the measures that would put our children in debt in order to spend) — and the other is electing down-ticket Republicans into statewide office. We will be talking… Read More

Believe it or not, we are quickly approaching the FlashReport’s one year anniversary as an on-line website. Before that, it was an e-mail newsletter for years. You can read the full history of the FR (and find out who it was the inspired me to start it) by reading the entire history of the FR here.

Today I am asking for your help. I am going to update the links menus above this coming week and want to ask for your help in the following four ways:

1) Try the links. If you get time, try to visit some or all of the links to newspapers, editorial pages, cartoons, websites, or blogs. Let me know if the links have a problem, or if they can be pointed more directly than where they take you now.

2) Look over the links and let me know what I am missing. Are there websites that should be on our referral list that are absent? How about blogs that you rely on that you think… Read More

If you are into the history of New York City, and some of its most amazing buildings, then you would know that some of the signature tall towers in Manhattan and beyond bear the distinguished “Bing & Bing” trademark. Back in mid-Twentieth century, brothers Alexander and Leo Bing were know for having perfected the art of developing luxury apartment buildings and more. Today, many amazing building around New York City stand as a living legacy of the hard work and ingenuity of the Bing Brothers.

Unfortunately, one of the brothers, Leo Bing, left us another ‘living legacy’ that is bad news for anyone who believes in limited government, liberty for Americans, and the kind of free-market system that allowed two brothers, back in the day, to amass a fortune larger than the annual budget of many countries. Stephen Bing is the grandson of Leo, and his share of an inheritance from the Bing family fortune was estimate, when he got it, to be worth between 400 – 600 million dollars! Stephen dropped… Read More

The Los Angeles Times spent weeks hiring a researcher to search every naval record concerning US GOP Senate Nominee Dick Mountjoy. I’m sure they spent time researching everything else in his bio as well.

We all know the LA Times will print anything if it hurts Republicans. I’m sure they have no researcher checking Feinstein out.

The amazing thing here is that this will be more money spent on the campaign than anything the California Republican party will do. To be fair some county chairs in San Diego, LA and San Luis Obispo have been helpful, but the state party won’t even include Dick on the door hangers. They are following the Governor’s lead in not supporting the entire team. Also the LA Lincoln Club maxed out to Dick, but again nothing from the Party.

To date, they allowed Dick to speak at the CRP Convention, but didn’t include him in the candidate profile book.

It is a sad day when the liberally biased LA Timesspend more trying to "torpedo" a campaignthan the State Party is willing to do on behalf of their nominee. Shame.… Read More

Great news! Today Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed Senate Bill 927 which we have written about here on our site and which is one of our "Twenty Worst Bill" that are on his desk.

This Bill would have hiked up fees (taxes) on cargo going in and out of the state via Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors.

When I heard about the veto, I immediately got in touch with Jon Coupal over at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (they had vigorously opposed this legislation) and Jon had this to say:

“Governor Schwarzenegger made taxpayers and the business community breathe a little easier today by vetoing a host of “fee” increase proposals. The democrat majority in the California Legislature has increasingly characterized tax increases as “fee” increases in order to avoid certain constitutionally… Read More

This morning, the Orange County Register had a story that I pulled for the main page. Its about a bill authored by Senator Jim Battin (R-Palm Desert – pictured to the left) to tackle voter registration fraud that was signed by the Governor yesterday.

The Register, out of all the papers in the state, chose to run this story because there were incidents of registration fraud that popped up in the county earlier this year. A canvassing business employed by the Orange County Republican Party deviated from instruction and the law and improperly re-registered people from their chosen party affiliation. It looks bad for Repubicans at first… Read More

In California and some other states, it is illegal to ask a voter to show proof of identification that they are the voter they claim to be. Therefore, I could go to your polling place, pretend to be you, and the poll worker could not ask me to prove I’m you even if that person knew who you were. That’s a law that promotes fraud. That is nuts. Bills have been introduced nearly every year in the California State Legislature to change this pro-fraud law. They have always failed on party-line votes. This week the House passed HR 4844, The Federal Election Integrity Act,by a vote of 228-196. The vote was almost entirely on party lines with only 4 Democrats voting in favor. The bill will require voters to show a photo ID when voting in federal elections (Congress, Senate, President) beginning in 2008, and in 2010 those IDs will be … Read More