Gov. Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement in recognition of President Ronald Reagan’s birthday: PROCLAMATION Ronald Reagan was a man who kept his word. Whether the promise was to protect swimmers as a young lifeguard or defend the Constitution of the United States as President, he always delivered. In 1966, Californians gave him a chance to govern a state facing challenges in education and infrastructure, skyrocketing taxes and deep social unrest. It was Reagan’s characteristic optimism and can-do attitude that helped meet those challenges, and eight years later, he left office as one of California’s greatest governors. As the 1970’s came to a close, our nation was… Read More

This mornings results for the Prop 93 question show that NorCal voters didn’t buy theterm limit scam. The top 5 "no vote" counties are all in the 2nd AssemblyDistrict!

1. SutterCounty 63.8 %* also #1 statewide in voting for the recall 2. Tehama 63.3 % 3. Glenn 63.2 % 4. Butte 61.6% 5. Shasta 61.4%

It’s great having the smartest constituents, way to go North California!… Read More

Voters in Downey rejected an attempt to change term limits for local offices. It was losing with 2/3rds of voters saying NO!. What made the council put it on this ballot anyways. Just plain dumb.… Read More

While it’s clear McCain has won California – and surged to a fairly commanding lead in the delegate count nationally, several California Congressional District Presidential Delegations are still up in the air. And with delegates at stake, I wouldn’t be surprised if election lawyers start descending on our ROV’s across the state to monitor final counts.

Having lived through many close elections (I have a t-shirt that reads “6 F-ing votes!” to commemorate one memorable win), I think its safe to advise Presidential Delegates in a number of districts not to pack their bags or cancel their flights just yet.

With Debbie “let them use paper” Bowen’s push back to paper ballots, the large turnout, and the early primary, there are still many votes left to be counted.

Here are just a few samples where it’s probably just too close to call:

CA-03 (Sacramento County) *John McCain 22,028 39.06 Mitt Romney 22,001 39.01 -26 vote difference with hundred’s of late AB and provisional ballots left to count (including my wife’s!)

There are a number of others that… Read More

Let me start off my commentary this morning with a congratulatory message for United States Senator John McCain. Senator, your win here in California was impressive, and your overall performance around the country gives you bragging rights to be able to say that in 2008, it was Super McCain Tuesday. Congrats on your big win! A lot of folks were working hard on the McCain efforts in the final push, and so I also want to congratulate all of them.

Tomorrow I will be devoting my column to sharing more thoughts with FR readers about a John McCain nomination, but for today, I want to devote the rest of my column to a very important victory — THE DEFEAT OF PROPOSITION 93!! As FR readers well know, since I have devoted so much ‘cyber ink’ to Proposition 93, it was a terrible measure constructed out of the hubris of now-retiring Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. The entire campaign to pass the measure, which contained a specific provision to allow dozens of termed-out California State Legislators to serve well beyond even the new terms articulated in 93, was constructed around what had been labeled, THE BIG LIE. Attorney General Jerry… Read More

Let me start off my commentary this morning with a congratulatory message for United States Senator John McCain. Senator, your win here in California was impressive, and your overall performance around the country gives you bragging rights to be able to say that in 2008, it was Super McCain Tuesday. Congrats on your big win! A lot of folks were working hard on the McCain efforts in the final push, and so I also want to congratulate all of them.

Tomorrow I will be devoting my column to sharing more thoughts with FR readers about a John McCain nomination, but for today, I want to devote the rest of my column to a very important victory — THE DEFEAT OF PROPOSITION 93!! As FR readers well know, since I have devoted so much ‘cyber ink’ to Proposition 93, it was a terrible measure constructed out of the hubris of now-retiring Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. The entire campaign to pass the measure, which contained a specific provision to allow dozens of termed-out California State Legislators to serve well beyond even the new terms articulated in 93, was constructed around what had been labeled, THE BIG LIE. Attorney General Jerry… Read More

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the results of last night at virtually every level demonstrate that we have a polling problem.… Read More

If one was going to make a list of winners looking at the results of last night’s results in California — the BIG list is short — John McCain, Hillary Clinton, the Indian Tribes whose compacts were upheld, and last but certainly not least, STEVE POIZNER, because he led the successful effort to stop Proposition 93 from passing.

Night owl that he is, Insurance Commissioner Poizner sent over the following for FR readers:

Yesterday, the voters of California sent a resounding message to the politicians in Sacramento — stop trying to fool us, stop insulting our intelligence and stop putting your own careers ahead of the job we elected you to do.

Voters from virtually every age group, political party and geographic region saw through this… Read More