Candidates, when you get a letter from the Feds calling into question the credentials of the hired help, it’s probably best not to ask the hired help to handle it.

(This is also your 32 months out — or 32 years, for that matter — campaign advice.)… Read More

A classic veto from the Guv…

To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 1759 without my signature. This bill is one more attempt to solve an extremely complex problem through over-regulation, micromanagement and the placement of unnecessary requirements in the contracting process – all without actually solving the underlying issue. Health coverage is expensive. It’s getting more expensive every day. Requiring sophisticated buyers, brokers and health plans to statutorily notify each other that costs may increase throughout the … Read More

Once again, the Democrats have gone dirty rather than try to win on the issues.Meg Whitman’s housekeeper “scandal” breaks days after she receives an endorsement from comedian and actor Paul Rodriguez, the day after a solid debate performance and the week before Whitman and Brown are due to participate in a debate that will be televised in Spanish around the state. What’s her big sin?Her husband forgot to mention a letter to her that notified them that their "legal" housekeeper might have an issue with her Social Security number.Her critics say that from that day on, Whitman knew that her housekeeper was illegal.From everything I know about these letters, they explicitly tell employers that they cannot take any action against an employee because of the letter.They are simply to give the letter to the employee—which is what Whitman’s husband did. Should Whitman’s husband have told her?Maybe, … Read More

Comedic actor Jon Lovitz, formerly of Saturday Night Live, used to portray a great character, Tommy "The Liar" Flanagan. Tommy was a member of the "Pathological Liars Anonymous" who once lied on-screen about being the "official spokesman for NBC, yeah." But in the last few days you’d think Tommy The Liar was working for the Brown for Governor campaign.

Brown’s campaign is just full of lies. Real life spokesman Sterling "The Liar" Clifford lied about me during this campaign season, saying I was a "birther" to try to sully efforts to get information out on television about Brown’s performance in office. That was clearly a lie, with about 24 news stories directly to the contrary, but the lies just kept on coming despite being confronted with the truth. And they got their flunkies at the San Francisco Chronicle to help spread the lies, too.

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Governor Schwarzenegger, today is the last day for you to act on legislation on your desk. As you know, along with State Senator Mimi Walters and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, the FlashReport has urged to specifically veto the Twenty Worst Bills on your desk. Many of these you have saved to today, the last day to act. We urge you to veto them all!

Among those bills still on your desk are the two that I think are truly the worst of the worst — so bad I gave them the FlashReport’s "Golden Trashcan Award" – a dubious distinction. Assembly Bill 1602 and Senate Bill 900 establish the California Health Benefits Exchange — and are what we call the "Rush To Obamacare" — as these bills put an onerous centralized health care bureaucracy in place (with serious taxpayer accountability issues) — and does so in a hurry (Obamacare doesn’t require some of what is in these bills be enacted until 2014).

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As a candidate, if you’re spending more time campaigning on Facebook and Twitter than you are making fundraising phone calls and engaging in direct voter contact, it could be you deserve to lose.

(Oh … if you don’t know the definition of direct voter contact, you really are in trouble.)… Read More