From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail…

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UPDATE: GOP candidate Matt Kokkonen has now signed the ATR pledge and faxed it in. His campaign consultant assures me that when Kokkonen ran for Asembly a few years back he signed the pledge at that time as well. We are hopeful that "Katcho" Achadjian will also sign and fax in the pledge as well. This will allow Republicans to unifty againt the Democrats this fall on the tax issue. ORIGINAL POST : 7:18AM A few weeks ago, FlashReport contributor Matt Rexroad brought to our attention an editorial… Read More

"Battle Tested" and "Conservative" Fiorina take on Senator Boxer on the issue of national security as the former HP Chairman starts to shift her campaign into a general election posture…

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To the average voter, it sounds so innocent.

Levy on tax on lobbyists to finance a “pilot project” that would pay the campaign expenses of candidates in the next two elections for Secretary of State.

But like many ballot initiatives that promise one thing and deliver something quite different, Prop 15 is not what its backers say it is.

Prop 15 doesn’t stop with two elections. It would repeal the ban on tax-supported campaigns statewide. With a simple majority vote, legislators could finance their own campaigns with taxpayer dollars. The same is true for city councils and boards of supervisors.

And it doesn’t stop with the lobbyist tax. Prop 15 invites legislators to use the General Fund or “other sources” to pay for campaign expenses. Those “other sources” include new taxes and fees – not to pay the salaries of police officers and teachers, but to pay for negative ads and junk mail.

Four years ago, 74 percent of voters said NO to Prop 89, a plan to tax businesses to finance political campaigns. In 2000, two-thirds of voters rejected another public campaign financing scheme, Proposition… Read More

In case you need some sort of poignant reminder of exactly how whacked out Capitol Democrats are — and how they literally are continuing to over-regulate California, and expand the "Nanny State" — we need only publish for you a list released by the State Senate Republican Caucus highlighting what are just some of the terrible pieces of legislation coming up for a vote in the Senate (it’s just as bad in the Assembly!)… Republicans are opposed to all of these… And before you comment or ask, YES, these are FOR REAL. We did NOT make these up.

TAXES SCA 6 (Simitian) – Lowers threshold to raise local taxes–Undermines taxpayer protection. Amends the Constitution to permit school districts, community college… Read More

Meg Whitman has launched a new anti-Poizner ad — very similar to one previously launched, with some new video shots of her opponent…

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Influential blogger Erick Erickson at Redstate.com has endorsed Jim Patterson in Congressional District 19. You can read his post by clicking here.… Read More

This morning the Poizner for Governor campaign will announce that their candidate has 72% support amongst conservative tea party activists around California.

To be specific, Marc Harris, one of the leaders of California’s tea party movement has released the results of an survey that he and other tea party leaders undertook — the straw poll was conducted by a combination of telephone (1,417 respondents), and emails forwarded within and among one hundred eighty seven (187) established, grassroots Tea Party groups.

The other twenty-eight percent (28%) broke down as follows: Undecided 18%; Meg Whitman 8%; Other Candidates 2%.

In a similar poll taken in the first week of March, 2010, (sample size: 814) the percentages were: Undecided 53%; Poizner 14%, Whitman 23%; Larry Naritelli 9%; Others 1%.

In conjunction with the release of this "straw poll" of tea party activists, Southern Cal Tea Party leader Harris also released an extensive memo on why he thinks that Poizner is the best… Read More