Congrats to Brian Jones in AD 77!

Take a look at the mail used by Jones to win the AD 77 primary:

Click the links to see four examples of the mail used by the Jones campaign to win the GOP primary to become the hands down favorite to succeed Joel Anderson in the conservative 77th Assembly District…

Jones 1 – Conservative Track Record Jones 2 – Santee Firefighters Jones 3 – We Must Control the BorderJones 4 – Had Enough – Don’t Believe the Smears Here’s the Thank You… Read More

Who cares? I mean who gives a rat’s a** how Carly Fiorina feels about Barbara Boxer’s hair?

I learned about the gaffe watching The Today Show and was not so much stunned about the less-than-guarded moment than the fact that The Today Show thought it was so important that it was in the lede of the morning telecast, followed by an introduction by former View co-host Meredith Viera (yes, The View…the epitome of female cattiness) in which the video was shown and then went to a commercial break…with no comment. Both of these happened at the top of the hour…seriously, at the top of the hour while we deal with the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico by BP, two wars, a $1.5 trillion deficit, a $14 trillion debt, a totalitarian government seemingly emasculating every aspect of American life, and the biggest disaster of all – the Obama presidency.

The lack of Today Show commentary was acknowledgment that it wasn’t actually news but rather a gratuitous whack at Fiorina in her challenge to liberal icon Boxer.

Do I wish Fiorina had not done it? Of course. It was not the most… Read More

I was looking through the Federal Election Commission disclosures and noted that Republican Congressman Gary Miller, who recently won his re-nomination (congratulations) has already spent out of his political committee close to $2,000 this election cycle on — flowers. I wanted to review Miller’s reports to try to learn the secret of success in a heated Congressional election. Its’ flowers. And one sure can’t argue with success.

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County government in California saw some major changes on Tuesday. Around the state we saw a number of Supervisors lose to challengers.

In Butte County Supervisor Jane Dolan lost to Larry Wahl.

Inyo County saw Supervisor Beverly Brown earn 333 votes while challenger Rick Pucci was able to get 702 or 51.66% of the vote and prevent a November run-off. Pucci is the former City Manager for Bishop. It is not too common to see someone make that transition.

In Lassen County Supervisor Lloyd Keefer was defeated by Larry Wosick. Wosick got 1,086 votes.

In Mariposa County Supervisor Brad Aborn was beaten by Lee Stetson.

Merced County Supervisor and former Merced County Republican Party Chairman Mike Nelson was surprised by Linn Davis. This one was a shocker.

Nevada County Supervisor John Spencer appears to… Read More

Orange County consultant Brandon Powers heads to DC today to be a part of Politics Magazine’s (formerly Campaigns& Elections) "Rising Stars of Politics." Each election cycle, the trade publication for political professionals identifies up-and-comers of all parties and Brandon joins that list for 2010. Occassionally, they make bad choices…like me in 2002.

See this year’s Republican list here.… Read More

The combined Republican primary vote in the 47th Congressional District exceeded liberal Democrat incumbent Loretta Sanchez’s vote in the Democrat primary by 2,000 votes. Time to get on the Van Tran bandwagon.… Read More

Overmy next few posts,in no particular order, will be a bunch of miscellaneous facts or observations from yours truly on various aspects of the state of things in Washington, D.C. today. Unlike some of my ramblings, these will all be short. I’m not sure that this is accurate to say, since this stuff emanates from the seat of the nation’s enormously bloated government, but I’ll say it anyway – Enjoy!

Apparently, Congress will not take up or pass a budget this year. The Budget Act requiring an annual budget was passed in 1974. The House has never failed to produce and pass a budget since then…until this year. The person responsible for producing that budget, Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-SC) famously remarked in 2006 "if you can’t budget, you can’t govern." I guess the Democrat majority can’t govern. Can you say dysfunctional? The so-called Financial Reform Bill has now passed both the House and the Senate. But the versions are quite different from one another,so a conference committee is currently resolving those multiple differences and it will have to pass both chambers again in … Read More

As her campaign re-tools for the general election, GOP Gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman has re-launched her website (check it out) and has launched a new ad…

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