It was about 5:30pm on a cool Tuesday evening, Election Night, 1980. I was managing the reelection campaign of a freshman GOP legislator and we were getting the headquarters ready for what we hoped would be a Victory Celebration (it was) later in the evening. The polls had just closed on the east coast, but California voters still had several hours to cast ballots. Many were headed to polling places from work. I had the television tuned to the local NBC news affiliate, when anchorman Tom Brokaw came on screen

“NBC News has just projected that Ronald Wilson Reagan from the state of California has been elected President of the United States.”

Wow. Reagan was my hero, a man I admired as much for his conservative stand on issues as for his extraordinary skill as a communicator. I also felt a personal connection to him. I was just 24, but many of my parents’ friends had known Reagan personally from his time as governor. And a woman on our campaign staff, 8 years my senior, had been Reagan’s secretary when he ran for president in 1976.

Soon after Brokaw’s announcement,… Read More

"The money was already tainted" according to black commentator, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, flatly stating that the 8.5 millions LA government unions are spending, is "buying an election". Not just any election, buta seat to the LA County Board of Supervisors, District 2.

Former Chief and current councilman Bernard Parks has out raised his opponent union-chattel, Mark Ridley-Thomas,… Read More

"The money was already tainted" according to black commentator, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, flatly stating that the 8.5 millions LA government unions are spending, is "buying an election". Not just any election, buta seat to the LA County Board of Supervisors, District 2.

Former Chief and current councilman Bernard Parks has out raised his opponent union-chattel, Mark Ridley-Thomas,… Read More

President Reagan’s eldest son, Michael Reagan, provided Congressional candidates and the McCain-Palin Victory Funds for Ohio and Pennsylvania $40,000 in contributions this week from his Federal PAC, The Legacy Committee. California candidates receiving late contributions include incumbents Dana Rohrabacher and Brian Bilbray.… Read More

I am trying to get a hold of former Congressman Tom Campbell. If anyone has a good e-mail or phone number for him, can you please send it to me? Thanks.… Read More

MSM PRINT NEWSPAPER CIRCULATIONS DROP, AGAIN Our friends in the main stream media print newspaper continue to feel the hit as readership continues to decline at a fairly rapid pace. More and more former readers of papers are instead turning to outlets like the internet to find their news. It seems like many papers are in a “death spiral” where the circulation drops, then the layoffs come (see here for the latest), and then the circulation drops more… and so on…

Some stats: LOS ANGELES TIMES — 739,147 — (-5.20%) SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE — 339,430 — (-7.07%) SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE — 269,819 — (-3.00%) THE SACRAMENTO BEE — 253,249 —… Read More

If it hasn’t already happened to you, you probably know several people who have had their Yes on Proposition 8 signs stolen right out of their front yard. Although McCain/Palin and other Republican signs have been defaced and stolen, the Yes on Proposition 8 signs are being targeted in particular. In fact, the vandalism and theft of the “tolerant” No on Proposition 8 side has escalated to such a level that now cars and homes are being vandalized. There are so many reports of violence and vandalism that police can’t even keep up. And even with so many politically-motivated crimes taking place, the media have been rather quiet in covering the extent of these attacks.

In my Roseville neighborhood, just as quickly as Yes on Proposition 8 signs are posted, they are defaced or stolen. Thankfully, the local police have been great about responding to the thefts and last night they finally arrested three individuals caught in the act of stealing signs. The thieves’ car contained… Read More

One wouldn’t necessarily think the anticipated/supposed "Obama surge" of 18-30 year-olds would benefit a parental notification measure. But, here’s the explanatory press release from the Yes on 4 folks. Planned Parenthood’s gotta be going nuts, if their poll data is showing the same. Will we see a PP "Obama’s got a lock on California, so you can go ahead and stay home" effort in the next week?

Obama Voters Give Proposition 4 Critical Lead into Election Day Polls Find Wide Approval from Democrats, Latinos, African-Americans Key to Victory… Read More