*Note: Updated to include endorsement of Damon Dunn.* Delegates to the California Republican Assembly’s convention endorsed Steve Poizner for Governor and Chuck DeVore for United States Senate.

The CRA’s endorsement is significant, and so congratulations go to Poizner and DeVore. Poizner was endorsed on a second ballot — DeVore won straight out. It takes a 2/3 vote of delegates to receive an endorsement.

Notable was that the candidates that were not endorsed – Meg Whitman in the Governor’s race, and Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell in the U.S. Senate race – all were at the convention. The campaigns of Whitman and Fiorina were running drills, complete with staffers on the ground, to try and prevent the CRA from taking positions in these races.

Also endorsed in his contested primary for Attorney General was conservative favorite John Eastman and for the contested Board of Equalization race in District 2, Senator George Runner. This latter endorsement is a… Read More

There is no group in California that more tired of leadership they are seeing from Democrats in Sacramento than the California Republican Assembly. They see out of control spending, crushing debt and a lack of focus on the issues that matter most: job creation and reinvigorating the economy.

In California, we are fortunate that the top Republican candidate for governor is a dynamic leader with the right kind of experience needed to restore fiscal discipline and prosperity to the Golden State. Meg Whitman is without question that candidate.

Like us, Meg Whitman is committed to the values and empowerment of the free market. For 30-years in the private sector, Meg has been creating jobs and delivering results. At eBay, she created an online free market platform that encouraged innovators and small businesspeople to find success and thrive. And she is the only candidate in the race who has a clear, focused plan to create two million jobs, cut 15 billion in government spending and improve public education.

Republicans stand a good chance of winning in November if we stick to our conservative fiscal principles and offer common- sense solutions. So we need… Read More

The following column from the Honorable Alexia Deligianni was sent over from the Poizner for Governor campaign. Alexia is an elected Board Member of the Orange Unified School Districtand also serves as a Vice President of the California Republican Assembly…

Steve Poizner: The Choice For Values Voters By The Honorable Alexia Deligianni California needs a leader with a moral compass, one who isn’t afraid to express his beliefs and who stands by core conservative social values. A leader who knows that… Read More

***BREAKING NEWS*** (Are you signed up for FR’s Twitter Feed? We break news there first). While it breaks our hearts, truly, to deliver such bad news to California’s Democrat State Controller and Union-Tool John Chiang, his opportunity for an easy road to re-election ends, literally, right now.

I am pleased to make an exclusive announcement that conservative State Senator Tony Strickland will be seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for State Controller. Strickland, as readers… Read More

The FlashReport has gone through a little bit of site construction — it’s now wider than it used to be, as when it was first created, the "norm" for websites was more narrow. The "wider" FR means that more content can appear on the page. If you are having trouble with the new formatting (primarily Firefox and Safari users), our technical experts tell us that you can resolve this by "clearing the cache" on your browser for this site. How do you do this? On a PC you press CONTROL-R and on a Mac you press COMMAND-R. On the main page, we’ve used this "wider" space to place a new column inside of the main links area — this column, which you cannot miss, allows us to provide links to FR’s Facebook and Twitter Pages, highlight a "Video Of The Day" and we have a new tool for you to use that allows you as a user to easily see more information. We call the new tool the "Blog Tracker" and when you first see it, it is always showing the feed from FR’s Blog — so you can see what… Read More

***BREAKING NEWS***

While it breaks our hearts, truly, to deliver such bad news to California’s Democrat State Controller and Union-Tool John Chiang, his opportunity for an easy road to re-election ends, literally, right now.

I am pleased to make an exclusive announcement that conservative State Senator Tony Strickland will be seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for State Controller. Strickland, as readers will recall, was the Republican Party’s nominee against then Board of Equalization Member John Chiang for the office of Controller back in 2006. Strickland raised millions of dollars for that run, but along with the rest of the down-ticket was stifled by an “it’s all about me” candidate at the top of the GOP ticket by the name of… Oh yes,… Read More

Conservative icon U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock endorsed Steve Poizner for Governor today. Since I am at the CRA Convention, and am posting via my Blackberry, I will include an excerpt from Poizner's press release…

FROM THE RELEASE:

Tom McClintock, the conservative standard-bearer in California and champion of Republican principles, today endorsed Steve Poizner for Governor. In making his endorsement, Rep. McClintock called Steve Poizner the “only conservative candidate” in the race and the only real reformer running for governor.

“I trust Steve to restore Republican principles to California government,” said Rep. McClintock. “Steve Poizner is the only conservative candidate in this race and is serious about implementing real reform in Sacramento. I am convinced that Meg Whitman has nothing to offer other than Arnold Schwarzenegger's third term. That is something California cannot afford.”… Read More

Had to read this twice. House Republicans complained for weeks than many of Obama’s political appointeesto the US Justice Dept —defended terrorists. In fact, Congressmen claimed that Eric Holder and Obama were stacking the Justice Dept with top officials sympathetic to "enemy combatants."The problem is simply conflict of interest. Given inside knowledge of terrorist strategies, what are these lawyers doing in top Justice positions? Seriously, whose side are they on, is a fair question.

You can’t make this up. This is truly stranger than fiction.

So here it is from today’s LA Times, word for word about the Sympathetic Seven :

" The Obama appointees identified Wednesday:

Jonathan Cedarbaum, in the Office of Legal Counsel, and Eric Columbus, who works under the deputy attorney general, were part of a legal defense team for Bosnian Algerian detainees and brought a case to the Supreme Court that resulted in the right of captives to challenge their detention.

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