For the next three days, Democrats are reportedly going to hold online town hall meetings about the state’s budget. Here are ten questions that I’m guessing would NOT make it past the screeners:

1. You’ve known that the state had a $19 billion deficit since back in January, why did you just get around to agreeing on a plan this month?

2. On March 5, right after being sworn in as Speaker of the House, Speaker Perez told the Los Angeles Times that he would be making “huge, devastating, difficult decisions” over the “next fifteen days” to close the state’s deficit. What were those decisions and why weren’t they enough?

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This just in from our friends at U.S. Term Limits…

U.S. Term Limits praises Carly Fiorina for supporting term limits for Congress

August 24th, 2010, Fairfax, VA—Term limits advocates echoed agreement with Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, who announced her support for limiting Senate terms this past weekend. “Carly Fiorina has it exactly right when she proposes that Senators should only serve two terms. Our nation was intended to be a citizen government, not one run by professional politicians,” said U.S. Term Limits President Philip Blumel. Fiorina faces three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer, who was first elected in 1992. Boxer has been a steadfast opponent of term limits.… Read More

FlashReport readers anxiously awaiting my post-convention write up will need to wait until tomorrow’s issue. As is often the case, because I am not only writing about the GOP confab, but was a participant in it, I get home not only totally spent (both emotionally and physically) – but I also had to get up in the wee hours to pull together our main page for today.

I will take a moment to share some broader observations about this event. First and foremost is that in talking to the delegates on hand, there is resolve in working to ensure that the GOP tide that is clearly sweeping the nation crash straight into California and sweep a lot of Democrats into the ocean. Meg Whitman delivered a great speech to enthusiastic delegates on Friday night and Carly Fiorina dazzled a large lunchtime crowd with her excoriation of Barbara Boxer. I had the handy FlashFlipCam at the lunch, so here is a great clip of Carly on fire….

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In the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, there was a headline that caught my eye — Whitman softens stance on U.S. Healthcare Law.

What? Whitman is warming up to Obamacare? NO WAY.

Here is a section of the article where you can see the distinction that the reporter is trying to draw between the then vs. now answer:

Several of our FR bloggers attended this weekends CA GOP confab in San Diego, California. Look for some post-script notes in the coming days. For my part I’ll start working on a comprehensive post-convention write-up, to run tomorrow or Tuesday. I’ll also work on trying to upload some video I took of some of our great candidates.

Later this week we will also be publishing our much-beloved "Winners and Losers of the Convention" column!

So, here is your chance for input. If you went to convention, drop me a note. What were your favorite parts? Who did you think had a particularly stellar weekend? Or maybe the opposite? Nominations for winners? losers? All of your input is confidential and you will not be mentioned. If you are uber-paranoid in the upper right hand corner of the site is a button to send us information anonymously.

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I personally believe that the bigger liar to Congress is California’s Henry Waxman, and not former pitching ace Roger Clemens. The churlish California Congressman has told some real whoppers in the Capitol, such as the time he took George W, Bush to task for lying to Congress about the justification for the war in Iraq. Waxman made media hay out of the so-called “16 words” of a Bush State of the Union speech that said British intelligence had reported Saddam Hussein was looking for some uranium. The statement was true at the time it was made, but Waxman’s mode of operation in that case was to lie about what he said was a lie to promote his anti-war agenda. Are you following me? Clemens may have taken steroids – I don’t know. Like Barry Bonds, at the time he might have taken them, they were legal. Clemens problem was responding to a Waxman subpoena. Regardless, if the requirement to get indicted in Washington is to tell lie to Congress, I’m sure the only member of Congress who wouldn’t be in jail today would be Ron Paul, who wouldn’t have the needed mental capacity.… Read More

All along the path of life, we are all constantly forced to make choices. It is those choices that we make the define us as a person

Lots of people in the High Desert of San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties are having financial problems. The number of foreclosures and bankruptcies have been higher the last couple of years than ever before.

It might be understandable that the Democrat nominee for the 36th Assembly District, Linda K. Jones, declared bankruptcy this last February. (See bankruptcy documents linked below.) What can’t possibly be explained is her choice to donate money to her political campaign before paying off the taxes she owes to the state and federal government from 2008, let alone the rest of her lengthy list of creditors.

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It seems that Jerry Brown and his campaign just cannot get away from the issue of state-owned airplanes. Whether it is constant and ongoing references to a state plane that he supposedly sold back in when he was Governor — which he never did — or the more recent revelations that as our Attorney General, he has been using a state plane to see lobbyists and donors.

Well, the latest in the saga of Jerry Brown and planes is brought to you courtesy of our Spanish speaking elves here at the FlashReport. Last week in an interview on Radio Bilingue, Brown campaign spokesman Frank Torres bragged that Brown had saved the state billions (with a b) by selling both the Governor’s mansion and jet. Good grief.

Thanks to the wonders of technology, you can check it out for yourself below — whether you speak Spanish or not.

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