As reported in my earlier post, there is a breaking news story tonight in San Diego concerning an unusual financial relationship between San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn and his Chief of Staff Joan Wonsley. The essence is that Horn owns a big home Carlsbad, and that Wonsley lives in it with her children, and pays rent to her boss. But there is a serious of seemingly unusual irregularities with required paperwork surrounding such a relationship. I admit as I was watching the television story that I was caught a little off-guard when the reporter clearly implies that unnamed neighbors say that the Supervisor in fact stays at this home on occasion, which the Supervisor denies in the video.

Anyways, you can see the News 8 Video right here.

Or you can read a transcript of the… Read More

Sharon Runner is one of the most respected among the California State Assembly’s Republican members, and she will be re-elected.

Assemblywoman Runner has represented the 36th District for the past two terms after succeeding her husband, now-Senator George Runner, in 2002. She serves as Assistant Republican Leader and asVice Chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee.

So why would Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford file to run against Runner in the upcoming Republican primary? Well, I believe it’s time to shed some light onto the man who wouldchallenge someone who recently co-wrote the Jessica’s Law initiative andconvinced 713,000 California citizens to signpetitions to put Jessica’s Law on the November ballot.

Most of the 36th District’s elected officials, including Congressman Buck McKeon, L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich and San Bernardino County Board… Read More

March 5, a street in the middle class city of Lakewoodis rocked by the expolsoion of ILLEGAL fireworks. The fire destroys a home and damages a few others.

City Council members must act. They know the solution ban LEGAL fireworks.

The brightest that Lakewood citiznescould elect have scheduled a November election to ban all fireworks in the city. If passed it will cut off funds to various non-profits.Don’t worry taxpayers will pick up the tab for the non-religious ones. See the story here.

Take that illegal firework merchants.… Read More

Governor Schwarzenegger’s came into Fresno yesterday and outlined his aggressive support of vocational education. He laid out a comprehensive policy agenda which you can read here.

That said, it was his trip over to the editorial board at the Fresno Bee that has been burning up the blogosphere. While meeting with the Bee folks, when the subject of Rob Reiner came up, for the first time, the Governor was not silent. He said that he has no plans to appoint a new Chairman to the Children and Families First Commission and thus ‘retire’ Reiner. You can read more about this on… Read More

Governor Schwarzenegger’s came into Fresno yesterday and outlined his aggressive support of vocational education. He laid out a comprehensive policy agenda which you can read here.

That said, it was his trip over to the editorial board at the Fresno Bee that has been burning up the blogosphere. While meeting with the Bee folks, when the subject of Rob Reiner came up, for the first time, the Governor was not silent. He said that he has no plans to appoint a new Chairman to the Children and Families First Commission and thus ‘retire’ Reiner. You can read more about this on… Read More

As I write at 10:45 a.m., SD County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price is announcing her endorsement of Alan Uke for the 50th C.D. seat. The U-T and North County Times are at the announcement, so the FlashReport is breaking the news here.

The Slater-Price endorsement is significant in that Pam was long rumored to be interested in the seat, and while leaving many guessing into February about her intentions, she would have been a major contender. She is very popular in her Sup district, which for the most part IS the 50th congressional. Contrary to rumors of Uke slowing his spending, this likely means he will spend big to tout Pam’s support of his candidacy.

Philosophically, Slater-Price is a GOP moderate and believes that it takes similar views to win the district. As I recall, she has called the area "Fiscally conservative, socially moderate, and environmentally liberal." Morrow, Kaloogian and Roach may not see it that way.

Whether this puts Uke in a position to compete with Bilbray’s more moderate record, or… Read More

It is being reported today by Fresno Bee editorial board member gail Marshall that in an interview that the Bee Ed Board conducted with Governor Schwarzenegger, he told them that he will not fire Rob Reiner as Chairman of the California Children and Families Commission. Marshall, in her blog post, says that: "Schwarzenegger said there is only an "appearance" of a problem with Reiner, and he sees no reason to remove him at this point. The governor said it isn’t right to dump Reiner without evidence of wrongdoing."

First and foremost, this is bad news. Bad because the reason to appoint a new Chairman of the Commission (remember, Reiner’s term of four-years to which he was appointed by Gray Davis has long expired) is because there should be someone in charge of this Commission who shares the Governor’s vision and philosophy. Specifically, Reiner has decided to go ahead and put a massive tax increase measure on the upcoming ballot. Reiner has made himself the issue by being such an outspoken, partisan… Read More

This writer is bearish on the Governor’s chances this November and I have written extensively about his struggles. In today’s Fresno Bee I made some commentsabout why our GOP base is depressed. Its quite simple, and not entirely Arnold’s fault.

First, the federal budget deficit and immigration reform are not being addressed. Bush and Congress have created this mess and are failing, while in the majority, to tackle other problems. This negatively impacts the passions of Republican voters in California – and hurts Arnold.

Second, Arnold has allowed State spending to careen only marginally less out of control than under Gray Davis. He has lost his moral authority as a fiscal conservative and doesn’t appear to care. We understand that he would never run his companies this way, yet he runs the Government with structural deficits. Where is the business acumen?

Third, the base doesn’t like borrowing and spending and this is the centerpiece of Arnold’s program. We view borrowing and… Read More