With a h/t to commenter Colin Parenton a blog post over at the venerable SD Rostra website, we present to you the banner across the top of Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher’s official website — containing a tremendous panoramic view of the San Diego city skyline! Of course, downtown San Diego isn’t exactly a stone’s throw from Fletcher’s home and his Assembly District. Yet another sign that a run for San Diego Mayor is in the cards for the second-term Assemblyman…

We’re actually not compulsive-obsessive about Nathan’s future plans here at FR, we just thought it a fun observation, and a great way to give a shout out to the Rostra.… Read More

Assembly Speaker John Perez is a product of his environment. He spent his entire adult life working full time for labor unions (most recently the United Food and Commercial Workers) before being elected to the legislature (he never even lived in his Assembly District until he moved there to run). If you look at his voting record, he votes the left-wing/union position 100% of the time.

As the Speaker, Perez should be focused exclusively on figuring out how to resolve California’s short-term and long-term state budget mess, right? Wrong. (Apparently).

While I won’t criticize him for his odd habit of collecting ducks (seriously), it seems like every legislative session he introduces a bizarre, obscure piece of legislation about which he becomes… Read More

This column appears today in Capitol Weekly… GOP Convention: Opposition to Special Election Taxes By Jon Fleischman Last weekend about 1,500 Republican leaders from all around California gathered at the Hyatt Regency Hotel across the street from the state Capitol for our biennial organizational convention. As is pretty much always the case, if you read the headlines blazing across MSM newspapers and reporter blogs, you might think that the convention was a bloodbath of epic proportions. It was not, of course. I spent a lot of time at the convention talking to delegates… Read More

U.S. Representative Tom McClintock has sent the following letter to President Obama concerning recent U.S. military actions in Libya… March 23, 2011 The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr.… Read More

Recently conservative State Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries announced that he will be running for his local seat on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors in 2012. This, of course, was not welcome news for the longtime incumbent of that office, Supervisor Bob Buster, who has announced his intention to seek election yet again to the office he has held since 1992.

There will be a number of key issues on which Buster and Jeffries disagree, but it would appear that one of the most significant is going to be the question of whether taxes are too high or too low. Yesterday Buster voted with a majority of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors (Benoit and Stone voting no) to endorse Governor Brown’s local government realignment plan, which is, of course, predicated on the voters of California passing the… Read More

Straight out of the "If you didn’t see it you wouldn’t believe it" files — ace political reporter Carla Maranucci has a blog post up over at the San Francisco Chronicle website with UNBELIEVABLE video from U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer where she takes a couple of minutes to DEFEND President Obama’s use of the military to instigate and maintain a "no fly zone" over Libya.

Before you click through the link below to Marinucci’s post, I encourage you to take one painful minute and watch this video of Boxer speaking at an anti-war rally.

Link to Marinucci’s piece with video of Boxer supporting the U.S. military presence in Libya.

In case you might find it hand, here is a link to the definition of the world hypocrite.… Read More

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Haven’t we see this movie before? The anti-hero makes an unacceptable take it or leave it proposition to the heroes. Being nice people they politely say No. The chorus aka the media chimes in declaring that No is not an answer. So the heroes say how about an idea that lets the voters decide if taxes should go up or should go down? True democracy at its finest where the people decide their own fate. But the anti-hero rejects this proposal and while the chorus declares him wonderful.

In the next scene the chorus declares our heroes to be inflexible, anti-democratic, not worthy of their paychecks somehow this pricks them enough to make them take the risk of bargaining with the anti-hero. Lets trade an election on taxes for pension reform? No. For spending limit reform? No. For environmental review reform? No For regulatory reform? No. After each rejection the chorus declares the anti-hero to be unbelievably flexible and our heroes to be terribly naive. How dare you make a pledge to your constituents and now refuse to ignore it!

After weeks of alternate romancing and threatening the anti-hero… Read More