From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail… How Green Is Brown? LOS ANGELES — Jerry Brown wants to be governor of California again and is making jobs and industrial revival a centerpiece of his election campaign. Unfortunately for Mr. Brown, these themes conflict with an important piece of unfinished business in his current job as California attorney general. Mr. Brown has locked horns with conservative activists who are hoping to push a pro-jobs ballot initiative to suspend the state’s global warming law, known as AB-32, until… Read More

The main page will be up a little late today as we’ve been working with our development team on a widening of the main page. This minor change on the main page will allow us to feature more content there. We’ll write more about the changes, but you can check them out now.… Read More

[Cross-posted from RedCounty.com]

"My research has taken me on a frequently unpredictable, always fascinating, odyssey. Like most good journeys, I did not end up quite where I thought I would, nor did I take the path I thought I might. Where I had anticipated concluding that business must play an ever-growing role if we are to adequately address the education concerns of our nation, I have ended by deciding that although business can and must play a vital role, it also must be necessarily limited. Where I began as a proponent of “States’ Rights” in education, I have ended by believing that we will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role; unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric."

These words were written by Carly Fiorina in the introduction to her 1989 doctoral dissertation for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which came into this blogger’s possession a short time ago. Later this afternoon, Iwill post here at Red County the entire dissertation.

Entitled… Read More

Our modifications to the main page have met with some technical difficulties in publishing up today’s news links on the main page, and some functionality of the blog scan feature relative to the new main page tool. We are working on resolving the issues.… Read More

This weekend themembers of the California Republican Assembly, the state’s premier conservative grassroots GOP organization, will meet in Orange County for their annual convention. At this event, the CRA will consider making endorsements in Republican statewide primaries.

Below is a letter that was sent out to CRA convention delegates from well-respected former State Legislators and former CRA State President Dick Mountjoy — urging delegates to support an endorsement of Steve Poizner.

From what we hear, it will either be a Poizner endorsement or none at all — Whitman’s not in the hunt to gain support from this key group. But she’s making a play to try tstop Poizner from getting the required and tough 2/3rds vote. Both Poizner and Whitman are speaking at the event.

It is worthy of note that Poizner was endorsement by the CRA in his successful 2006 bid for Insurance Commissioner.

The Mountjoy Letter…

CRA Delegates: … Read More

It’s only early March and we already have "attack ring tones" being released. Below you can play this ditty released by the Whitman campaign. Their campaign advises that at CantTrustSteve.com you can download the ring-tone to your your phone – nice, just in time for the State GOP convention!

I hear Joe Mathews may have downloaded it already!

Always quick with response is Poizner’s Comm Director Jarrod Agen…

"When you’re an out-of-touch billionaire, it is easy to waste millions on negative ads in an attempt to be ‘humorous,’ but unfortunately there are millions of Californians out of work and struggling to find jobs. Meg Whitman has offered no plans to solve California’s economic crisis and all the jingles in the world won’t hide her endorsements of Barbara Boxer and Al Gore or her opposition to across-the-board tax cuts."… Read More

You are probably going to have to look pretty far to find a Republican in the Capitol (well, with the exception of Abel "I’ll vote for anything to get confirmed" Maldonado, who is going to sign up for the latest proposal from newly minted Assembly Speaker John Perez to have the legislature pass budgets by majority vote.

Don’t get me wrong, from a philosophical perspective, it makes sense. Let the Democrats own the budget, and get out of this terrible system where Republicans are plied into voting for what is typically a terrible spending plan for California.

That said, the practical reality is that Republicans have very little leverage in the Capitol as it is, and the Democrats are doing such a, frankly, horrific job on the public policy front, that it would be almost criminal to give them even more unfettered and unchecked authority in the building.

In addition, I certainly didn’t hear Perez offering up anything concrete as a "trade off" as he asks his Republican colleagues to turn into Cheese-Eating Surrender… Read More

Coming as no surprise to many political watchers, while ending months of speculation for others, Assemblyman Joel Anderson (R-77) today made it official that he is seeking the San Diego-Riverside area Senate seat currently held by a term-limited Dennis Hollingsworth.

"I’m running for Senate because my work in the legislature is not done," Anderson said. "California is at a tipping point and our state needs a strong conservative voice to stand up against calls for higher taxes, one who will fight to bring jobs back to our Golden State."

Anderson’s recent legislation includesthe IOU Taxpayer Protection Act. The bill was recently praised as a model for bipartisanship by new Democratic Assembly Speaker John Perez in his inaugural address.

Anderson has earned Straight A’s from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and 100% ratings from the California Taxpayers Association. The California Republican Assembly has given him a perfect voting record for each year since 2006 he has served in the Assembly.

He has been endorsed for Senate by Congressman Duncan Hunter and the California Pro-Life Council.

Other… Read More