The following is penned by Steve Baric, the President of the California Republican Lawyers Association. CRLA deserves much praise for their leadership on this matter…

On Monday August 13, 2007 the California Republican Lawyers Association, on behalf of the Assembly Republican Caucus filed a motion in Federal Court to prevent dangerous felons from being released back into our communities. The motion filed would allow Assembly Republicans to intervene in a Federal lawsuit where a 3 Judge panel will consider imposing a cap on California’s prison population. On July 23, U.S. District Court Judges Lawrence Karlton and Thelton Henderson ordered a three-judge panel be convened to consider setting a prison population cap in California. The Judges… Read More

Senate Republicans are doing the right thing. They are standing tall for fiscal responsibility. As FR Central Valley Correspondent Mike Der Manouel said so well earlier today, holding out for fiscal sanity in our state’s spending plan is something that Republicans should have been doing every year since 1999. So we applaud them for their efforts.

The California Democratic Party has actually tried from afar to start up a recall effort against one Senate Republican, Jeff Denham, for having the audacity to stand up for working California families who expect state government to live within its means.

Well, Senator Denham isn’t taking this threat, however incredulous, lying down. A new website has been launched, www.joinwithjeff.com, where you can go to voice your support for Denham. The Friends of Jeff Denham Against The Recall have launched a television spot across his district, which you can watch below, and you can listen to a radio spot that they put together by… Read More

Millions of WSJ Journal subscribers are reading this on page A12 of their WJS this morning – an editorial from the paper…

Arnold’s Health Flop After Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled his universal health-care plan for California in January, almost everyone was laying down palms in Sacramento. Here was a Republican Governor putting aside political squabbling and "doing big things that Washington has failed to do," as Time magazine put it. What a change seven months later, with the plan on the cusp of collapse. There’s a lesson here about health-care "bipartisanship" when it’s merely a cover for bad policy. … Read More

Senate Republicans are doing the right thing. They are standing tall for fiscal responsibility. As FR Central Valley Correspondent Mike Der Manouel said so well earlier today, holding out for fiscal sanity in our state’s spending plan is something that Republicans should have been doing every year since 1999. So we applaud them for their efforts.

The California Democratic Party has actually tried from afar to start up a recall effort against one Senate Republican, Jeff Denham, for having the audacity to stand up for working California families who expect state government to live within its means.

Well, Senator Denham isn’t taking this threat, however incredulous, lying down. A new website has been launched, www.joinwithjeff.com, where you can go to voice your support for Denham. The Friends of Jeff Denham Against The Recall have launched a television spot across his district, which you can watch below, and you can listen to a radio spot that they put together by… Read More

Over at his Citizens for the California Republican website, State Senator Tom McClintock has posted an outstanding column with a little bit of "budget terminology 101" an some ominous numbers foreshadowing challenges ahead.

My eyes were drawn to the last part of what he wrote, and I am reprinting it below:

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s "Beat up Republicans in their district" tour continues as he spent the morning in Kern County, the home of Republican State Senator Roy Ashburn. I don’t think the Governor’s approach is working… Senator Ashburn just posted this up on the web…

POLITICAL REALITY – By Senator Roy Ashburn

Senate Republicans in Sacramento have been roundly criticized for refusing to approve an irresponsible state budget. This week Governor Schwarzeneggerhas beentraveling the state seeking to put pressure on us in our own districts. It won’t work.

The voice of the Senate Republicans resonates… Read More

A h/t to the Romney Campaign for uploading this footage… (With Romney are two of his prominent California supporters — State Senator Mark Wyland, and former Assemblyman Tony Strickland. The latter wins the "best positioning behind Romney while the cameras are rolling" award.) … Read More

How bout some quick math here: 54+27+1=Budget

2/3 vote minimum required to pass a budget in both houses, 54 in the Assembly, 27 in the Senate and the Guv’s signature once the blue pencil has been put away.

In the Assembly are: 48 Dems, 32 Reps.

In the Senate are: 25 Dems, 15 Republicans.

Senate Republicans call for improvements to the budget document that came from the Assembly $700 mill [or more] upside down, that it be truly balanced on a "non-election year, non-get-out-of- town" excuse basis…a goal that many columnists, editors and opinion leaders have shared publicly.

So, what do we get?

The same tired, lazy math equation every year that says, in the Assembly,54 equals 48 Dems plus callingout 6 Reps to hold their noses and vote it out with mostly Dem priorities and spending habits.

That formula in the Senate: 25 Dems, plus catcalls from the Left all over the state to get 2 Reps to capitulate on a budget,to ‘kick the can down the road’ one more year and watch the ’08-’09 budget blow up big time in all our faces.… Read More