A friend just forwarded the following:

Welcome to Citizens for the California Republic! Dear E-Team Member:

Like you, I have been watching the disastrous turn to the Left thatis nowtaking place in Sacramento – and like you, I don’t intend to sit idly by.Spending is growing faster and the deficit is growing bigger than underGray Davis. The Governor who promised to "cut up the credit cards" hasdoubled our debt burden in just three years. And 72 hours after he tookthe oath of office, the Governor who promised never to raise taxesproposed the second biggest tax increase in California’s history to provide free health insurance to illegal aliens.

I have formed a committee called "Citizens for the CaliforniaRepublic."Its purpose is provide the 75,000 citizen politicians like you whosupported me in the recent elections with a steady stream of informationand practical suggestions to enable every one of us to make our voicesheard.

Our first project is completed: a new web site at… Read More

* It didn’t seem appropriate to take this post down, but apparently this rumor is not true. Vallante has made no such announcement. – FLASH

An excellent source just told me the California Republican Party’s Chief Operating Officer, Mike Vallante, is joining the Rudy Giuliani for President campaign and will be running his California operations.

This could be a leading indicator of a coming scramble for California talent by the major presidential contenders, spurred by the prospect of a February 5 presidential primary.

UPDATE (2-7-07): Vallante may not have made an announcement, but I stand by this post. Once the CRP convention is over and the new regime is elected, Vallante is going to go to work for the Giuliani for President campaign.… Read More

It is October 2005. FlashReport has launched and I need content to keep the publisher off my back. I write a column that says the 36th AD race will be decided by the outcome of the Palmdale City Council election that November. Steve Knight a LAPD officer and sone of State Senate and Prop. 22 author Pete Knight is running for City Council. If he wins, he will be a favorite for the Assembly race. See story here.

I get calls saying no way is Knight running.

Well, I get a couple calls that guess what Knight is running in 2008. It is a miracle.HE clearly becomes the front runner. He will face Palmdale’s union backed, car tax loving Mayor Jim Ledford. See here. God Speed

I’m wrong so often, it’s nice when I’m right… Read More

As most FR readers know, I have spent the last few months on the campaign trail as I seek election as Vice Chairman, South, of the California Republican Party. The region is vast — including Orange, Riverside, San Diego and Imperial Counties. This large region has meant a lot of driving to event like today’s meeting of the Lincoln Club of Palm Springs. (Not to reinforce any stereotypes, but we are gathered at a country club!).

The Chairman of the club is the very energetic and very Repubican Kim Glassman, who today is presiding over a meeting of nearly a hundred GOPers from all around the Coachella Valley. The main featured speaker today is newly elected Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco (many of you may recall that for a time, then-Assemblyman Pacheco served as Assembly Republican Leader.

Also on hand are State Senator Jim Battin and freshman Assemblyman Paul Cook – both great legislators (and not just because they’ve endorsed me in my Party run).

Pacheco’s presentation was about 25 minutes long, and pretty comprehensive. He started off with a very sobering statistic that this county has well over… Read More

When Speaker Fabian Nunez held his press conference yesterday to announce that his "support" for a fair redistricting process, he didn’t count on the Mayor of San Francisco displacing all of his prime media coverage — yet that is exactly what happened. Nunez’ little tap-dance where he and his termed-out, self-interested legislative colleagues who desperately don’t want to have to return to life outside of the legislature was relegated to less optimal locations in state newspapers… We will be talking a lot here about this ‘deal’ where a weakening of California’s term-limits statute gets married up with a fair redistricting proposal, and the pros and cons. But since I am in a hurry this morning, I will jump straight to the big news of the day… San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife… Joy. The good news for Newsom is that our nation is filled with examples of public… Read More

When Speaker Fabian Nunez held his press conference yesterday to announce that his "support" for a fair redistricting process, he didn’t count on the Mayor of San Francisco displacing all of his prime media coverage — yet that is exactly what happened. Nunez’ little tap-dance where he and his termed-out, self-interested legislative colleagues who desperately don’t want to have to return to life outside of the legislature was relegated to less optimal locations in state newspapers… We will be talking a lot here about this ‘deal’ where a weakening of California’s term-limits statute gets married up with a fair redistricting proposal, and the pros and cons. But since I am in a hurry this morning, I will jump straight to the big news of the day… San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife… Joy. The good news for Newsom is that our nation is filled with examples of public… Read More

Last night the phone lines were blazing when the story hit the wires about Mayor Gavin Newsom’s affair with a woman who was 1) a staff member; 2) a substance abuser and 3) the wife of a staffer with whom Newsom was personal friends. Newsom’s deputy chief of staff confronted him yesterday after his wife confessed the affair.

Yesterday, Newsom refused to comment. Today, Newsom admitted the affair: "I want to make it clear that everything you’ve heard and read is true, and I am deeply sorry about that. I am deeply sorry, and I am accountable for what has occurred."

I’m betting that Newsom’s public approval numbers in SF actually go UP after this story and the accompanying… Read More

Living in the Bay Area makes picking up your newspaper from the driveway such an adventure every morning. It’s truly the Forest Gump of it all…life (in the Bay Area) is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.

Today we learned the state Armory in the Mission District of San Francisco, located in the middle of a working class neighborhood, is the new home of a porn studio. The deal to purchase the Armory was played on the down low to avoid the same public raucous that ensued when low income housing advocates fought to kill a deal that would have converted the historic building into office space. I know, I know…people going in and out of that building with briefcases making an honest living is SOOOO much more offensive than people showing up for work, ready to make the sequel to the studio’s smash hits, “Men in Pain” and “Hogtied.”

Mayor Newsom said of the new porn studio, “While not wanting to be prudish, the fact that kink.com will be located in the proximity to a number of schools give us pause.” This isn’t the time to… Read More