… on former Congressman Mark Foley.

Thisarticle has a familiar name from California in it: Chip Englander, a former Wyland staffer. And it’s linked at the top of Drudge.

UPDATE: Englander must have met the alleged Foley correspondent, Jordan Edmund, when both worked on the Shirley Horton for State Assembly campaign. Edmund had it among his list of "Companies" on his MySpace webpage that Passionate America posted.… Read More

Former Assembly candidate and Redondo Mayor Greg Hill is apparently eyeing a return to politics.

Greg, who a few years ago was the closest of all the Republican challengers in Dem seats, is deciding whether the Redondo Treasurer’s slot is right for him.

Is this the first step of a future Assembly run? We’ll see…… Read More

Following closely upon the heels of Poizner’s endorsement by the LA Times, consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield today announced he is adding his support to the Republican nominee for Insurance Commissioner. Rosenfield is the author of Proposition 103, the 1988 initiative that created the elected position of Insurance Commissioner.… Read More

Frequent readers of the FlashReport know that we enlisted the help of Assemblymen Rick Keene (Chico) and Chuck DeVore (Irvine) back on September 7th to devise a list of this past legislative session’s twenty worst of the worst bills. All were worthy of the Governor’s veto.

Here’s a truncated recap:

1. AB 32 (Nunez), Emmissions Cap Signed!

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

Frequent readers of the FlashReport know that we enlisted the help of Assemblymen Rick Keene (Chico) and Chuck DeVore (Irvine) back on September 7th to devise a list of this past legislative session’s twenty worst of the worst bills. All were worthy of the Governor’s veto.

Here’s a truncated recap:

1. AB 32 (Nunez), Emmissions Cap Signed! 2. … Read More

Our Democrat friends over at the California Majority Report finally pulled their act together and are posting on a daily basis with what seems like some autonomy from the mother ship. See a previous commentary by FR publisher Jon Fleischman on the subject here.

On Monday Steve Maviglio whined about how Saturday’s upcoming gubernatorial debate wasn’t going to be more of a debate style debate.

Its just the first in a series of excuses for Angelides failing campaign and what will probably be a poor debate performance for him.

The Democrats know what the voters don’t yet: Governor Schwarzenegger actually has a command of the substantive policy issues that face California today. When the voters see the Governor answering policy questions with real answers, not just platitudes, they are going to be even more confident in his ability to lead… Read More

That is what happened yesterday in Glendora. Nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley, Glendora is GOP stronghold in a blue county. Last November every one of the Governor’s propositions passed. This time almost everybody did.

A developer from Texas wanted to do a land swap with the local country club in order to build some homes on their land. The City Council said no. The Developerspent over a millions of dollars qualifying and supporting his measureina special election. He got 9% of the vote. Over 90% said no. See article here

No small part in this defeat was the local GOP effort run by Doug and Linda Boyd. Below is their mail piece designed by Bieber Communications. I know Doug is busy trying to identify the 14 people in his precinct that voted yes.… Read More

Iassure you this will probably be the shortest commentary you’ll ever see written by me, a guy who struggles with brevity.

Yes, I know Perata and Nunez not following up on their promise to campaign with the Governor on the bonds is at the top of the main page. I felt it was newsworthy, but I’ve stopped getting enraged when Democrats don’t do what they’ve promised. In most cases, it’s presumed.

Yes, I know the President’s in town. There were plenty of stories published today about his many stops. It’s routine campaign fundraising. There weren’t any groundbreaking policy announcements.

**There is more – click the link**

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