The Federal Constitution states at Article II, Section 1 that states shall "appoint, in any manner as the Legislature therof may direct, a Number of Electors" for the purpose of electing the President and Vice-President of the United States.

The California Constitution empowers the people of the state at Article II with "all inherent political power" to act as the legislature through the initiative process to "propose statutes and amendments…" and to "adopt or reject them."

In California, the Legislature is not the exclusive source of legislative power; the constitution also includes the people’s powers of initiative and referendum. Professional Engineers in California Government v. Kempton (2007) 56 Cal.Rptr.3d 814, 40 Cal.4th 1016, 155 P.3d 226. The people’s reserved power of initiative is greater than power of the legislature. Rossi v. Brown (1995) 38 Cal.Rptr.2d 363, 9 Cal.4th 688, 889 P.2d 557. All presumptions favor the validity of initiative measures. California Family Bioethics Council v. California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (App. 1 Dist.… Read More

I have a confession to make. Ann Dunsmore once raised money for me, and no, the Giuliani campaign was not behind my run for state senate. Nor is my state senate campaign responsible for the Electoral College reform initiative. To hear the wacko Democrats and their shills in the press talk about it, however, the mere fact that Dunsmore is raising money for the initiative ties that initiative inextricably to the Giuliani campaign. These, of course, are the same Democrats who believe in the single bullet theory, and who found Area 51 just last month.

I don’t know. Maybe when I wrote, and introduced in the Senate in 2001, the Constitutional Amendment that would have distributed the Electoral College votes by Congressional District, I was a Giuliani operative, secretly plotting to make him President then. Or maybe, back in 1993, when Dunsmore was raising money for me, we were secretly plotting to make Giuliani President in 2008.

Or maybe, the distribution of Electoral College votes by Congressional District is good for California, and those of us who are working to bring the idea to fruition in California are doing the what we are doing because we… Read More

I have a confession to make. Ann Dunsmore once raised money for me, and no, the Giuliani campaign was not behind my run for state senate. Nor is my state senate campaign responsible for the Electoral College reform initiative. To hear the wacko Democrats and their shills in the press talk about it, however, the mere fact that Dunsmore is raising money for the initiative ties that initiative inextricably to the Giuliani campaign. These, of course, are the same Democrats who believe in the single bullet theory, and who found Area 51 just last month.

I don’t know. Maybe when I wrote, and introduced in the Senate in 2001, the Constitutional Amendment that would have distributed the Electoral College votes by Congressional District, I was a Giuliani operative, secretly plotting to make him President then. Or maybe, back in 1993, when Dunsmore was raising money for me, we were secretly plotting to make Giuliani President in 2008.

Or maybe, the distribution of Electoral College votes by Congressional District is good for California, and those of us who are working to bring the idea to fruition in California are doing the what we are doing because we… Read More

With the importance of the opportunity presented by qualifying and passing the California Counts ballot measure this coming June, we reached out to CalCounts Campaign Manager Dave Gilliard with one simple question — what can our readers do to help. Here is what Dave had to suggest…

Dear FLASHREPORT Readers, Do you want to help us make California count again in Presidential elections? If your answer is yes, keep reading. The calendar, not the Democrats, is our biggest enemy right now. Our goal is to put the Electoral College Reform Initiative before the voters in June of 2008. To make sure we make the June ballot, we need to turn-in our signatures to the counties before Thanksgiving. … Read More

The "Hypocracy Has A Name" award goes to Fabian Nunez, who has set his attack-flack, Steve Maviglio, on a mission of pummelling the California Nurses Association. Presumably their crime is not being on Fabian’s "team" for his attempts to massively increase the role of government in healthcare (the CNA actually has their own bad plan – the nerve!). Anyways, the hypocracy comes in when you look at Steve’s post here on the California Democrat Report where he accuses the CTA of "Living High on the Hog" — nice, coming from the Deputy Chief to Fabian "Louis Vuitton" Nunez… We often refer to U.S Representative Jerry Lewis as the "King of Pork" because of rather blatant support of earmarks, no matter how egregious. Rolling Stone is a liberal publication, of course, but they have dubbed Lewis the "King of Payoffs" — but that isn’t the reason to … Read More

The "Hypocracy Has A Name" award goes to Fabian Nunez, who has set his attack-flack, Steve Maviglio, on a mission of pummelling the California Nurses Association. Presumably their crime is not being on Fabian’s "team" for his attempts to massively increase the role of government in healthcare (the CNA actually has their own bad plan – the nerve!). Anyways, the hypocracy comes in when you look at Steve’s post here on the California Democrat Report where he accuses the CTA of "Living High on the Hog" — nice, coming from the Deputy Chief to Fabian "Louis Vuitton" Nunez… We often refer to U.S Representative Jerry Lewis as the "King of Pork" because of rather blatant support of earmarks, no matter how egregious. Rolling Stone is a liberal publication, of course, but they have dubbed Lewis the "King of Payoffs" — but that isn’t the reason to … Read More

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was a guest of Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and other first-responders here in Orange County for a major press briefing today at the Incident Command for the Santiago fires. Assemblyman Chuck DeVore was on hand, and penned an outstanding write-up sharing his perspective on the the Governor’s visit and presser. It begins:

This is an outstanding video clip from ABC’s 20/20 where John Stossel tackles head-on the reality that the scientific community divided over whether and what the impact if humankind is on the Earth’s temperature…. (h/t to Freedomworks) … Read More