Just got this in at Casa De Flash…

One of the most recognizable slate mailers that comes out is Tim Carey’s California Voter Guide. This go around his program will include over 5 million pieces of mail! Below are examples of his two slates that have mailed. Carey also has an innovative online slate card program, which we’ll feature in a future post… Tim will happily give you a quote for his general election slate…… Read More

The California Fair Political Practices Commission has started publishing "top ten" lists, as if they have nothing better to do. On second thought I guess having them grind their data is a better thing than terrifying campaign treasurers. In March they published a list of the "top ten" slate mailers in California, all political parties, by gross revenue. But they used old data from 2007/2008. Two of my Landslide Communications slate mailers made the top ten for the whole state. Not bad. My friend Tim Carey’s slate mailer was listed number one in gross revenue. Not bad. I look forward to the statistics this next time around, and as Carey and I agreed yesterday, there is nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. Though I think my slates win more elections, and I’m going to ask the FPPC to start sorting through the data that way.

In any event, the most recent top ten list from the FPPC are the top recipients of Independent Expenditure money in legislative races, and it comes as no surprise to seasoned observers that Democrats dominate the money in California elections. Number one was Orange County Democrat… Read More

The National Rifle Association blasts Republican Senate candidate Tom Campbell for being terrible candidate on gun-rights and ownership issues. They like both DeVore and Fiorina. Here is the text of an e-mail they are sending far and wide… Maeve Reston has more on this on the Los Angeles Times PolitiCal Blog…

From the NRA… PROTECT OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS – VOTE FREEDOM FIRST ON JUNE 8 May 15, 2010 Dear California NRA Member: … Read More

I just got this via e-mail from Julie Soderlund over at Carly Fiorina’s U.S. Senate Campaign. The timing was good because I just had read where Tom Campbell had been canceling television buys…

From Julie… Over here at Team Carly, while we are watching our ads on the airwaves increase in frequency, reports over the last couple of days confirm that Tom Campbell has canceled his television AND his radio time – all of it – for this week. The Campbell camp is exhaling a lot of hot air as they struggle to come up with any good reason for why, but we sure have been amused by the excuses so far: … Read More

State Senator and Attorney General candidate Tom Harman has launched a new radio spot… and it’s all about one of his GOP primary opponents, Los Angeles County DA Steve Cooley…

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Not that we typically simply post press releases, but this is significant news, especially considering the philosophical make-up of the conservative 36th Senate District and the high regard area voters have for Tom McClintock…

Congressman Tom McClintock Endorses Joel Anderson for State Senate Most influential conservative in California says Anderson is the "kind of conservative we need to shake up the State Senate"

EL CAJON – California’s leading Conservative icon – Congressman Tom McClintock – has endorsed Assemblyman Joel Anderson for Senate District 36.

McClintock spent 22 years in the State Legislature before being elected to represent the 4th Congressional District in Washington D.C. He stands alone as the most popular conservative elected official in California.

"Assemblyman Joel Anderson is a proven conservative who will say no to bloated deficit budgets, Sacramento’s irresponsible spending and higher taxes. That’s… Read More

In today’s column in the LA Times, George Skelton points to Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to cut the car tax in his first day in office in 2003 "forced [Governor Schwarzenegger] into the budget box he found himself in Friday." Skelton also cited borrowing $15 billion to pay off the accumulated Gray Davis debt as another reason. He later cites other things, which I will address later, but I wanted to address these two first.

Let’s look at the numbers again, just to reiterate the impact of the car tax cut on state revenues. The day the car tax was first cut in 1998, total state revenues were $57 billion (Schwarzeneggger’s cut restored the rate to its 1998 level). Today, those revenues are $84 billion, a $27 billion increase in revenues. The total amount of the car tax cut, even assuming the cut had no positive impact on state revenues (by increasing private sector growth, and therefore increasing revenue) was $5 billion. It is simply illogical to conclude this $5 billion reduction in taxes, and not the huge increases in welfare, education, state government and government health care spending, from $57 billion to over $102… Read More