I just got off the phone with City of Highland Councilman Larry McCallon (pictured right), who is currently at the Fox News studios in Los Angeles preparing to tape a segment of The O’Reilly Factor that’s scheduled toair today at 5 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. Pacific time. His counterpart on the program is scheduled tobe Willie Brown, former Mayor of San Francisco and former longtime "Ayatollah" of the State Assembly.

As you may recall, in my February 15post I called on Fox News to get on this developing local story in San Bernardino County about the City of Highland, whose Council recently enacted a policy prohibiting its employees and public officials from spending taxpayer dollars attending conferences, seminars or forums in San Francisco — basically boycotting the City by the Bay. This was in response to San… Read More

On his website today, Hugh Hewitt shares more pearls on the startling revelation that Rob Reiner sits as Chairman of the State Prop. 15 ($$$) Commission solely, at this point, at the discretion of Governor Schwarzenegger, who can terminate Meathead by merely naming a new commissioner to replace Reiner.

I’ve already suggested that Reiner be replaced with Hewitt! Another FR reader has suggested that FR contributor Mike Spence, a local school board member, be named in Reiner’s place. FR READERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO POST THEIR FAVORITE SUGGESTIONS FOR WHO WOULD BETTER SERVE CALIFORNIANS ON THIS COMMISSION THAN ROB REINER!

Here is the beginning of Hugh’s latest, which contains and excerpt from an interview he had on the air with LA TImes political reporter Dan Morain on Reiner. Click through to Hugh’s site to read more. … Read More

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of Eugenia Eyherabide to a judgeship in the San Diego County Superior Court.

Eyherabide, 46, of San Diego, has been a prosecutor with the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office since 1995. Previously, she was an assistant attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia from 1992 to 1995. Eyherabide earned a Juris Doctorate degree from University of Santa Clara School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She will fill the vacancy that will be created by the retirement of Judge William Pate effective February 28, 2006. Eyherabide is a Republican.… Read More

In response to my commentary this morning, where I call on Governor Schwarzenneger to can ultra-liberal Rob Reiner from the state’s Children and Families Commission, one reader suggested that the Governor cannot ‘terminate’ Reiner because he has been appointed to a four year term.

Actually, if you go to page 183 of this document available on the Governor’s webpage, it shows the the Governor gets three appointments to the commission. Reiner was appointed by now-recalled Governor Gray Davis on December 13, 2000. His term expired on December 12, 2004!

So, Rob Reiner, who is Chairman of this important and influential commission, is only there because he has not been replaced (apparently you serve until you are replaced)!

His term is done, and the taxpayers of California can’t afford to have this hold-over from the Davis Administration as chairman of the Children and Families… Read More

I’m not sure how I did it, but in the 2004 primary election, I was chosen by GOP voters in the 70th Assembly District to represent them on the Orange County Central Committee. Even better, our Chairman, Scott Baugh, appointed me to OC GOP’s Executive Committee.

Well, today at lunchtime, I took a trip to the Orange County Registrar of Voters to fill out paperwork and pull my papers to run for re-election – for the first time I get to run as an incumbent!

While I was waiting for the appropriate paperwork to be prepared, I took a gander through the printout on the desk of candidates who have filed for the various offices in the county.

When I turned to the 34th State Senate District, I was not surprised to see on the GOP side that Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher had pulled her papers and paid her filing fee on the 17th. Another candidate, Lupe Moreno, had done the same. But AWOL in the area of pulling papers was GOP Assemblyman Van Tran.

Whether this is because he had not… Read More

Today the San Gabriel Valley Tribune had an editorial addressing the gerrymandering of the 59th Assembly District and the impact on the race to replace Dennis Mountjoy. See it hereGone unnoticedby the so-calledMSM (Main Stream Media) is the potential candidacy of law enforcement union boss Kevan Otto. Otto took out his papers to run in this district yesterday. His candidacy was first discussed on FR four days ago. See the post here.His candidacy and the possibility of big union money in this race changes the dynamics for both Adams and Lancaster.… Read More

The furor surrounding Rob Reiner’s continued presence on the State’s Children and Families Commission continues to grow ever since it became common knowledge that Reiner maintains his seat on this commission by virtue of the fact that Governor Schwarzenegger has not appointed a replacement – which he can do at any point.

FR buddy Bill Bradley over at his New West Notes blog (always accessable via the FR Blog Roll above) mentions that he called the Governor’s Press Secretary about Reiner:

Since Reiner’s post is now a political issue, I asked the Governor’s Office about his status as chairman of the state commission, as his term there expired more than a year ago.

Gubernatorial press secretary Margita Thompson’s [pictured] careful statement: “His term expired in 2004. He has subsequently… Read More

The news cycle is no longer measured in days or in hours, but in minutes. It is a natural phenomenon that the Main Stream Media political types would be developing blogs of their own, in order to stay ahead of the curve. Those of us that maintain weblogs outside of the press welcome the entry of our normally paper-bound reporters to the blogging world. We only want to get as much content to our readers as possible and the more places from which we can get it, the better!

There are a number of places where MSM folks are really doing well on the blog scene — last year, I spent a lot of time checking out the San Francisco Chronicle’s 2005 Special Election Blog. Well, they have recently rekindled their political blog, and have put their capable team of political reporters into the mix: Jim Brewer, Zachary Coile, Edward Epstein, Paul Feist, Lynda Gledhill, Carolyn Lochhead, Greg Lucas, Carla Marinucci, Mark Martin, Andy Pollack, Marc Sandalow and John… Read More