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New ad campaign calls Nunes out over effort to hold Sessions in Contempt of Congress

Have you heard about Rep. Devin Nunes’ effort to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Contempt of Congress? If you live in Nunes’ district and you haven’t, you will soon.

The Swamp Accountability Project, a c4, is running this ad for at least one week starting today on stations in Nunes’ district. The ad will air during the Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Lars Larson and Laura Ingraham shows:

Here’s the script:

Jeff Sessions. He’s a conservative hero. An icon. A legend.

Sessions was one of the first rock-ribbed conservatives to endorse President Trump.

He was an original creator of so much of the Trump agenda that has America winning again.

He’s been loyal to his principles, no matter how hard liberals attack him.

But now, Devin Nunes wants to hold Sessions in contempt of Congress.

Sounds like a scheme Nancy Pelosi cooked up over in San Francisco, don’t you think?

Tell Nunes to stop playing games and get back to work. Congress is… Read More

Katy Grimes

Fundraising Stunt by Firearms Coalition Attacks Pro-2A Senator

California Republican Senator John Moorlach has authored a bill to protect people attending peaceful rallies and public events by prohibiting thugs at these events from carrying weapons of all kinds.

However, in what appears to be a fundraising stunt, the California Firearms Policy Coalition claims Sen. Moorlach “is attacking your Second Amendment rights.”

The Need for SB 1099

“Antifa,” which promotes anarchy and communism, and disingenuously defines itself as “Anti-fascist activists,” is the most active, violent fascist group in America currently.

Antifa mobilized across the United States during President Trump’s election, and over Conservative speakers on college campuses. They have justified their use of violence as needed to combat perceived “authoritarianism.”

While most rational Americans identify Antifa as the real fascists, we watched in horror as Antifaprotesters hurled glass bottles and bricks at police officers at a march in Portland, Oregon in 2017. They attacked peaceful protesters at a “No to Marxism in America” rally in Berkeley, CA, with 2×4 boards, pepper spray, and beat people… Read More

Katy Grimes

California Democrats Push Communist Holiday Over President’s Day

California’s elected Democrats are pushing for a communist holiday, at the expense of a U.S. President’s Day. Remember during the Cold War when “better dead than Red?” was the thinking?

History repeats itself because evil never goes away.

Democrat AssemblymanMiguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles,authored… Read More

State Senator John Moorlach

Gov. Brown’s May Revise Shows No Need for Gas Tax Increase

The first takeaway from Gov. Jerry Brown’s May Revision of his budget for 2018-19 is that California didn’t need that $5.5 billion yearly gas-tax increase the Legislature passed last year. The proposal shows we have $8 billion in revenues in excess of projections.

In one area I persistently agree with Governor Brown, “Despite strong fiscal health in the short term, the risks to the long-term health of the state budget continue to mount.” Unfortunately, according to the governor’s budget revision, we have $291 billion in long-term costs and the legislature has done little to fix the state’s fundamental problems.

In his budget announcement and press conference, Brown emphasized the volatility of tax revenues, especially capital gains-tax revenues, shown in this chart:

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Richard Rider

Should it be illegal for traveling CA state workers to save taxpayers money?

Here’s further proof that California is run BY and FOR the labor unions — public AND private. The hotel workers labor unions are pushing through a bill to make permanent a 2015 law that temporally banned state workers traveling on business from using “shared economy” services — primarily rider sharing (“Uber”) and airbnb rentals. See the article below.

Doubtless this union effort is also backed by the dying taxi businesses and the rental car companies. I suspect the hotel industry is split on the issue, as the measure seeks to limit government worker stays at UNION staffed hotels — a long standing push by labor unions. MOST hotels are non-union, I believe.

These special interest groups — led by the “Unite Here” hotel lobby group — have informed their sycophants in Sacramento that henceforth state workers traveling on business shouldn’t be able choose a better service (highly responsive ride sharing is much quicker than cabs most of the time) that saves taxpayers money. Moreover, the state will be prohibited from negotiating better rates with Uber, Lyft, airbnb, etc. The fact that state… Read More

Katy Grimes

Dem George Soros Dumps Big $$$ In California DA’s Races

The man who broke the Bank of England, Democratic mega-donor George Soros, is using his wealth and influence in United States elections. And now he is trying to flip District Attorney races across the country. The Soros-funded California Justice and Public Safety PACis investing heavily in the district attorney’s races in Sacramento and San Diego.

It is no secret that Soros uses his billions of dollars to influence government politics. He is credited with and has acknowledged orchestrating coups in Croatia, Georgia,… Read More

Jon Fleischman

CAGOP Convention Winner: Lt. Governor Candidate Cole Harris

The California Republican Party’s state convention is now in the rear-view mirror and the election is upon us. Millions of absentee ballots are being mailed out today and Californians will start voting later this week.

There are a lot of observations to be made about the weekend confab — but out the gate I am going to name the clear big winner of the convention – businessman Cole Harris, who is running for Lt. Governor of California — and who is now the officially endorsed candidate of the State GOP.

Harris wins the FlashReport Winner of the Convention honors for two reasons. The first was his ability to run a… Read More

Richard Rider

Texas 2015 COL-adjusted median household income is 32.0% higher than CA — UPDATED April 2018

I’ve updated (April, 2018) my salient household income comparison of California vs. hated Texas. My original figures were from 2009. Since then it’s gotten even better — for Texas.

According to the most recent U.S. census figures I can find, the 2015 median household income in California is significantly higher than Texas:

CA — $64,500 TX — $55,653 — 13.5% less than CA (vs. 18.1% less in 2009). TX is only $122 below the national average of $55,775. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/acsbr15-02.pdf But compared to the national average cost of living, the California cost of living (2017) is 41.0% higher than the national average, while the Texas COL is 8.8% LOWER than the national average. https://www.missourieconomy.org/indicators/cost_of_living/index.stm Read More

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