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BOE Member George Runner

Legislation grants good attendance awards to state prisoners

Granting prisoners early release credits for “continuous incarceration” is a win-win policy according to proponents of SB18XXX who claim the proposal will save money while improving the morale of lazy inmates. The idea of rewarding prisoners for doing nothing is not new and has long been advocated by the same legislators who support social promotion for public school students with failing grades. In fact the failing student population and the prison inmate population substantially overlap.

In fact, SB 18XXX, strikes the following words from the existing law: “Worktime credits shall apply for performance in work assignments and performance in elementary, Under current law, a convicted felon can earn early release credits as follows: “For every six months of full-time performance in a credit qualifying program, as designated by the director, a prisoner shall be awarded work time credit reductions from his or her term of confinement of six months.”

Accordingly, a felon newly convicted of carrying a loaded… Read More

Jon Fleischman

Duvall Scandal Makes Drudge Report…

Duvall scandal makes Drudge Report… This means MILLIONS of readers… Drudge Report has had 24, 448, 564 hits in the last 24 hours…

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Jon Fleischman

Duvall: “I made a mistake…”

At some point this morning a short statement from Assemblyman Mike Duvall appeared on his campaign website, and we reprint it for FR readers below: "I made a mistake and I sincerely apologize. I deeply regret the comments I made in what I believed to be a private conversation. This is a private matter and I ask that everyone respect the privacy of all involved." — Assemblyman Mike Duvall … Read More

Jon Fleischman

DUVALL SCANDAL MEDIA LINKS **UPDATED**

While the breaking story of Assemblyman Mike Duvall talking graphically about extramarital affairs on an open legislative microphone continues to be a top story, we’ll keep bumping this to the top of the blog when new links are added.

**IT IS BECOMING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE STORIES. GO TO A GOOGLE SEARCH OF MIKE DUVALL’S NAME FOR NEWS STORIES. BE PREPARED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME. WE WILL KEEP UPDATING THE LIST BELOW…** Here is the link to the original KCBS/KCAL story…Read More

Jon Fleischman

Bass Dumps Duvall From Committees; Blakeslee Dumps Duvall From GOP Leadership

The Sacramento Bee has reported that GOP Assemblyman Mike Duvall has been removed from the Assembly Rules and Utilities and Commerce Committee after the startling revelations about his extra-marital affairs with Capitol lobbyists. Also, the leader of Assembly GOPers, Sam Blakeslee, has dumped Duvall from his leadership post in the Republican Caucus.

In the story are statements from Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Assembly Republican Leader Sam Blakeslee:

"I am saddened and disappointed in the recent comments made by Assemblymember Mike Duvall. There is no question his comments were inappropriate. … The Assembly has some very important policy work to complete in the next couple of days and we will not allow this situation to become a distraction." — Speaker Karen Bass

"I am terriblyRead More

Jon Fleischman

OC GOP Chairman and Former Assembly Republican Leader Calls On Duvall To Resign

OC Weekly’s Scott Moxley has just posted a follow up piece to his breaking story of last night on the ever-growing scandal of Mike Duvall.

In his latest piece, Moxley reports that well respected Orange County Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh, formerly Assembly Republican Leader, has called on Mike Duvall to resign his office.

An excerpt from Moxley’s piece…

"There’s nothing defensible in what I saw or heard," Baugh said about the airing of video capturing Duvall graphically boast to a colleague during a public committee hearing about his sexual conquests with lobbyists. The key memorable line from the boasting was his gleeful observation that one of the lobbyists had complained that the assemblyman was "dripping out" of her when she walked up stairs after a sexual interlude. "My heart goes out to Mike’s family," said Baugh. "ButRead More

Jon Fleischman

Duvall Scandal Goes International: Headlines in UK Paper

The pseudo-news, tabloidy UK Daily Mail has decided to run with the Duvall scandal, choosing to tie the story to, of all people, Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s worth a read to see how this is being portrayed over in jolly London… THE LINK: The spanking senator: Politician friend of Schwarzenegger caught on camera bragging about extra-marital affairRead More

Michael Der Manouel, Jr.

Another Head Scratcher: Meg Whitman “Huge Fan” of Van Jones

Like many conservatives in California, I regret ever getting on the Arnold bandwagon. Although he has been very good for the past two months, he squandered his political capital on nothing, then aided the State’s freefall into the abyss by not being even remotely fiscally conservative. I have the same misgivings about Meg Whitman. That sinking feeling that she is not authentic, too quick to praise leftist radicals, and not resolute enough to stand up to the leftists in this State largely responsible for our debt and deficits.

Conservatives throughout California got a glimpse of a very naive Meg Whitman this week in her video praising former Obama Green Czar Van Jones.

Whitman, who didn’t even register as a Republican until 2007, said thatRead More

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