This afternoon, Governor Schwarzenegger endorsed a redistricting reform measure that has been put forward by Common Cause of California, AARP, the League of Women Voters and the Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce. They call is California Voters First (a summary of the initiative is here). This clearly is a big boost for this initiative, which presumably will target appearing on the ballot next November. I’ve not taken a formal position on this measure, and must now give it a more in-depth review. On the natural, anything that is promoted by Common Cause, AARP or the League of Voters would have me opposing it, and requiring convincing me to move me towards support. With the triple-crown of these "we love big government" groups all together on this one, it really makes a conservative like myself want to oppose it on… Read More

Last week I had an opportunity to stop by City of Hall in the City of Orange, in the County of Orange, to check out a debate between the two Republicans who are duking it out to succeed Assemblyman Bob Huff as the legislator representing the 60th Assembly District — Larry Dick and Curt Hagman. The debate, to be quite honest, didn’t draw too many idelogical distinctions between the two candidates. If anything, I thought that both candidates could stand more time working on how to articulate their thoughts more forcefully, succinctly, and on point. I guess if I had to give my unbiased opinion, while both candidates did "okay" — my expectations for Hagman, a City Councilmember from Chino Hills, were a bit higher. I wasn’t expecting a breathtaking performance from Dick, who serves as a local water board member. So if you measure the candidates objectively, I probably give them both a B-/C+ for overall performance/presentation. Measured against my own expectations, I guess Dick did a little better than Hagman. This… Read More

Some times things are written so well, there is no choice but to reprint them…

From the NO on 93 Campaign The bad news just keeps coming for the Yes on 93 campaign. Two of California’s top newspapers – The San Jose Mercury News and The Fresno Bee – came out in strong opposition to Proposition 93 on Sunday. This is on the heels of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s hard-hitting editorial against Prop. 93. Legislative leaders Nunez and Perata took it on the chops as all three papers singled out the Assembly Speaker and Senate President for harsh – but richly deserved – criticism. … Read More

We are pleased to bring you this exclusive, original column from Meredith Turney, about a startling and biased memo sent from State Superintendent of Public Intruction to County and District Superintendent’s around California…

Jack O’Connell, Superintendent of Public Misinformation Meredith Turney

As the public anger over Senate Bill 777 continues to increase, the campaign to discredit the Save Our Kids referendum has begun. Liberal California lawmakers often pass laws hoping the public will not be paying attention. However, SB 777 has awakened the public and the prospect of being held accountable to the people has many politicians very nervous.… Read More

We are pleased to bring you this exclusive, original column from Meredith Turney, about a startling and biased memo sent from State Superintendent of Public Intruction to County and District Superintendent’s around California…

Jack O’Connell, Superintendent of Public Misinformation Meredith Turney As the public anger over Senate Bill 777 continues to increase, the campaign to discredit the Save Our Kids referendum has begun. Liberal California lawmakers often pass laws hoping the public will not be paying attention. However, SB 777 has awakened the public and the prospect of being held accountable to the people has many politicians very nervous.… Read More

[The following is a guest commentary penned by former FlashReport Managing Editor and Fred Thompson supporter Nicholas Romero who attended the Thompson rally yesterday. – Flash]

Yesterday morning I had the great pleasure of attending a rally of roughly seven hundred experienced conservative activists who all came together in the City of Laguna Woods to listen to and support former United States Senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson. What a great event. Don’t believe me? Check out the Orange County Register’s write-up or the Los Angeles Times’s piece.

**There is more – click the link**… Read More

[The following is a guest commentary penned by former FlashReport Managing Editor and Fred Thompson supporter Nicholas Romero who attended the Thompson rally yesterday. – Flash]

Yesterday morning I had the great pleasure of attending a rally of roughly seven hundred experienced conservative activists who all came together in the City of Laguna Woods to listen to and support former United States Senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson. What a great event. Don’t believe me? Check out the Orange County Register’s write-up or the Los Angeles Times’s piece.

Former KFI radio host, now documentarian John Ziegler emceed and began the proceedings with a couple of zingers. (He, of course,… Read More

Feinstein Knows Best… As for the much ballyhooed Dianne Feinstein “hearing” in San Diego on Tuesday, during which she lectured local officials on how to properly prepare for and ultimately fight fires …you know, she may be right about some of her charges, but mostly for the wrong reasons.

Anyone actually believing that having the title of U.S. Senator means one knows more about firefighting than local officials (or firefighters), I sure would like to hear your position on all firefighting services being administered at the Federal level. Now, there’s a proposal that would ensure more efficient delivery of public safety services.

Before anyone follows Di-Fi’s lead and raises taxes for more firefighting capabilities, please do tell where all our Prop 172 funds are currently going.

Additionally, the phrase often missing in these post wildfire debates is “defensible space.” Once again, just as in 2003, a direct link exists between defensible space around a home and whether the structure survived. It’s not… Read More