ACORN and other assorted nuts appear to be on the run in recent days, if you haven’t noticed.

This just in. San Diego County Supervisors Pam Slater-Price and Bill Horn have agendized a board item, requesting the CAO conduct an audit of the 2008 area elections so as to fully investigate any voter problems associated with ACORN, and to consult with the DA as to whether any recent allegations of misconduct by ACORN employees warrant criminal investigation.

This follows calls in the last two days by the Governor, the Califirnia Republican Party, the local GOP and others for similar investigations of ACORN.

See the attacked memo/agenda item from the two county supervisors.… Read More

Once again all rational people in California cane take a deep sigh – the legislature has finished up it’s regular legislative session. Things can’t get any worse for us. Or can they? The Governor has hundreds of, frankly, very bad bills on his desk and we hope that “Arnold 3.0” will put his veto pen in overdrive (today FR presents its annual Top Twenty Bills The Governor Should Veto column).

As the Governor is busy contemplating of these bills before him, I want to share an observation about an interest group central to many of those pieces of legislation, and an important player in campaigns for Democrats — the unions!

Years ago, a very smart and visionary leader reached out to union and non-union workers and told them that he cared about their jobs and would do all he could to restore America. Working people responded and joined conservatives to elect and re-elect Ronald Reagan.… Read More

Once again all rational people in California cane take a deep sigh – the legislature has finished up it’s regular legislative session. Things can’t get any worse for us. Or can they? The Governor has hundreds of, frankly, very bad bills on his desk and we hope that “Arnold 3.0” will put his veto pen in overdrive (today FR presents its annual Top Twenty Bills The Governor Should Veto column).

As the Governor is busy contemplating of these bills before him, I want to share an observation about an interest group central to many of those pieces of legislation, and an important player in campaigns for Democrats — the unions!

Years ago, a very smart and visionary leader reached out to union and non-union workers and told them that he cared about their jobs and would do all he could to restore America. Working people responded and joined conservatives to elect and re-elect Ronald Reagan.… Read More

This is a short and sweet observation that I will make on a Friday afternoon. People keep talking about “fixing” Californias troubled state government by calling a Constitutional Convention.

Forget it. Drop it. Don't bother.

Until the outrageous and pervasive influence of our state's public employee unions can be curbed, the vast amount of money at their disposal ensures that, relative to a Constitutional Convention, they will either co-opt it and use it to try and further feather their nest, or they will completely demolish the results of the Convention when they are before the public for a vote.

Any time spent chasing this pipe dream (and similar ones) of making state government work again are going to be almost impossible until paycheck protection, or maybe a measure to just outlaw public employee unions altogether is passed. And THAT necessary battle will be WWIII.… Read More

The scandal surrounding ACORN has been spreading around the country as videos have been released on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website (based here in California) showing ACORN employees saying all kinds of outrageous thinks to a pair of actors coming into their offices posing as a pimp and a prostitute. The videos are amazing to see, and are definitely newsworthy.

As these videos have been released and the ACORN scandal has unfolded, I have kept an eye (as many California politicos do) on the various main stream media blogs here in the Golden State. While I didn’t see any coverage of the ACORN scandal at the beginning, I figured once the scandal hit California (recent videos expose workers in ACORN offices in San Bernardino and San Diego Counties) that they would write on it for sure, and link the videos (most of these blogs routinely embed videos — especially when they are easy to grab — Breitbart has these on Youtube). Nope. Nada.

In fact, we really didn’t see any California MSM political blog coverage at all until Governor Schwarzenegger yesterday afternoon… Read More

The last couple of days as I have been surfing innumerable websites gathering interesting political links for FlashReport readers, I have noted something interesting over at the venerable RedState website, one of the leading national conservative places on the web. Below is a clip from their main page this morning, and below I have attached a full sized image (click on the link).

Look who is showing serious love to our friends at RedState!

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The Governor has asked the Attorney General Jerry Brown to investigate ACORN. Based on the video sting in San Bernardino and San Diego that is a good first start.

Congress just cut off funds to ACORN. But, the question I have gotten over the last few days is what does ACORN get from the state. ACORN is made up of an array of organizations. Some of this organizations may be getting funds from various agencies may be granting them funds for "outreach", housing, voter registration etc…

I asked the Governor to find out if money is going from these agencies to ACORN and if it is shut it off. Of course we shouldn’t fund these types of groups with state dollars to begin with. But, we should be able to stop this one.… Read More

The nanny state is alive and well in Sacramento. Some group came out with a study that concluded, with what may be shocking news to some, but not to this blogger — sugar-filled soda pop causes weight gain when consumed regularly!

Is there someone out there that would like to pay me to conduct a study on whether eating chocolate bars regularly will do the same? Probably not.

Oh well, the study having been conducted, it’s results were telegraphed in MSM articles up and down the state, and invariably there will be magazine articles, and the study-authors will probably pen some sort of book on the subject. That’s the ideas marketplace at work — telegraphing information out there so that, in this case, parents can decide the value of it and if or whether they are going to do anything because of it.

That said, I was unimpressed to find out (h/t CapitolAlert) that the California legislature has (I am not making this up) a "Select Committee on Obesity and Diabetes" and that it’s Chairman, Alex Padilla, wants to convene hearings on this… Read More