Well, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Ace Reporter Carla "Scoop" Marinucci reports that Steve Poizner’s campaign is launching a new ad for the San Francisco Bay Area. This is notable because up until now, Poizner has had no broadcast ads up in that entire area of the state.

Below is the new ad…

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We’re going to start posting up .pdfs of the major slate cards that are dropping around the state (note: are you a slate mailing company? Send us your .pdfs!) — so that you can see what they look like, and who they are featuring for office. Of course each is a sample, so you’ll know who they are carrying statewide, and in the local area that happens to match up with the sample they send.

The first slate is the National Tax Limitation Committee’s Voter Guide, which is managed by Jim Lacy’s Landslide Communications. The piece goes out to 1,400,000 households, targeting GOP voters. Yes, they will mail in the fall. Go to their website if you want to inquire about how to get on it.

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Here is a series of trivia questions for you. All with the same answer.

In the 1994 Republican landslide who was the only incumbent Republican west of the Mississippi to lose in November?

Who has lost Republican primaries to Congressman Howard Buck McKeon, former Senator Pete Knight, former Assemblywoman Sharon Runner and Assemblywoman Jean Fuller?

Who has lost general elections for the State Assembly to Larry Chimbole and for the State Senate to Congressman Jim Costa?

Who has run for office claiming residence (and family roots) in Victorville, Lancaster, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, Phelan, and Hanford?

Who has no problem using endorsements from four years ago like they were just secured earlier in the day?

Who is it that can get Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado and Senator Sam Aanestad to agree that a political new comer would be better in the general election than a man that has served in the Legislature for close to two decades?

Who’s primary opponent for the State Senate has secured endorsements from the following State Senators? Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingworth… Read More

I am going to go out on a limb — and figure that former Governor Pete Wilson does not poll well among Spanish-speaking Californians. I could be wrong, but I think that a new Spanish-language radio ad released this morning by the Poizner for Governor campaign bears out my theory.

The ad actually replays the message from Governor Wilson in a recent Whitman ad…

What I found to be most interesting is the candor of Poizner, telling listeners that he supports the Arizona law…

Here is the translation — and if you want to hear the ad "en espanol" — it is below…

Translation for “Hablando Claro/Tell It Straight”: Narrator:

Don’t you hate it when politicians say one thing to one group and something else to another? That’s what Meg Whitman is doing. Here is the radio spot that she… Read More

On today’s main page, the FlashReport debuted the latest television spot from the Poizner for Governor campaign, which talks about how opponent Meg Whitman didn’t vote for 28 years, missing scores of opportunities to vote against tax increases and such.

You can see the ad here:

The Whitman campaign has responded by directing the attention of politicos to an Associated Press article penned by Juliet Williams that "fact checks" the ad. Spokeperson Sarah Pompei says, “This ad is an absolute and total lie. Meg registered as a… Read More

This mail piece dropped in the primary in Congressional District 19 where State Senator Jeff Denham, former Congressman Richard Pombo and former Fresno Mayor Jim Patterson are duking it out to be the GOP standard bearer in this "safe" Republican Central Valley House seat, where incumbent George Radanovich is retiring… (click on the graphic to enlarge)… Read More

I think the only thing this political cycle that troubles me more than Republican candidates who tout the endorsements from editorial board of major newspapers (said editorial boards packed with liberals trying to mess in the Republican primary when virtually none of these editorial writers are Republicans) — are Republican candidates who are rolling out the endorsements of — public employee unions!

Seriously. I know that everyone likes it when I name names — but for the purposes of this blog post, I will refrain. But today alone I have received emails from two Republican candidates, campaigning as conservatives, bragging that they the choice of public employee unions.

In one case is the endorsement of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and in the other case it is the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, our state and local governments have been hit by a pension tsunami of epic proportions and the state’s public employee unions have been at the forefront of lobbying for unsustainable salaries and benefits — with no seeming regard of whether these… Read More

Barack Hussein Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, upper west side New Yorker Elena Kagan, in 1996, wrote an article for the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.” Kagan argued that government has the right, even considering the First Amendment, to restrict free speech, when the government believes the speech is "harmful", as long as the restriction is done with good intentions.

The problem with these laws that restrict the First Amendment, such as campaign finance rules, are the words "good intentions." Whose good intentions is the question to be asked, and usually those are the intentions of government power and its liberal bureaucrats, who seek to expand government authority and restrict freedom of speech, and not the intent of the Founding Fathers of our constitution, who sought to eliminate rules against fundamental freedoms.

Kagan failed as a nominee to the Federal appeals… Read More