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

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 glance, but let me tell you why I think we… 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

Liberal Democrat Tom Umberg (pictured to the right) is soon to be a retired member of the State Assembly, as his bid to move up to the State Senate was dealt a fatal blow when he did not capture his own Party’s nomination. That said, Tom Umberg is hoping that his legacy as a legislator will be defined by a piece of legislation that he has passed onto the Governor’s desk (with only one GOP vote) that would, if signed, cause California to participate in a scheme to end-run the United States Constitution, and the electoral college that is used to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. Right now, on a state by state basis, depending on who wins a state, each state (by and large in proportion to their population) sends Presidential electors to Washington, D.C. to cast votes on behalf of that state in the Electoral College. We see the physical manifestation of this when we are glued to the television or our computers where we see not only which states go red or… Read More

In case you need a reminder that the main stream Democrat establishment is intent on electing Phil Angelides to be Governor of Claifornia, here is your opportunity. A friend of mine (h/t to DS) is actually on the John Kerry e-mail list.

Come November, Phil Angelides can become a member of the John Kerry LOSERS club. LOL.… Read More

Right now, there is a discussion taking place in the echelons of the California Republican Party about whether the party’s direct mail and e-mail communications will include the Party’s positions on the various statewide ballot measures. This seems like a common sense thing to do. After all, everyone knows which candidates the party supports since they have their party affiliation next to their names — but the ballot measures are not given a partisan label. To help make it more clear, here is an example of a box that can and should appear on every piece of direct mail from the party, whether the party is mailing on behalf of the Governor and the ticket, legislative races, or any particular measure…

The CRP Board of Directors will meet tomorrow — and I think that they should make the inclusion of this chart a requirement for use of the party for sending out postal mail and e-mail. Understand, I don’t agree with all of the party’s adopted positions — but they are the… Read More

This afternoon I had the chance to call into a "Bloggers Briefing" being hosted by the House Republican Conference on the issue of Illegal Immigration – more specifically on border security.

The main speakers on the call were three leaders in Congress on the Illegal Immigration issue — House Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, and two Californians, Dan Lungren and Ed Royce.

Blunt (pictured to the right) opened up the call with an affirmation of the commitment of House Republicans to keep a sharp focus on border security issues. Blunt talked about how last week the House passed a significant measure to build a lengthy stretch of fencing along the border. He also talked about how the House passed legislation to move away from the current "catch and release" border patrol method to a "catch and return" method. He also mentioned legislation to actually make it a federal crime to tunnel beneath our borders, which is not currently… Read More