Luce and Hunter will not be forgotten…. The GOP, the San Diego Community and the nation lost two Republican icons this past week with the deaths of Gordon Luce on Monday and R.O. Hunter yesterday.

A civic powerhouse, bank executive Luce served as a cabinet member in Governor Ronald Reagan’s administration and as State Party Chairman in 1974. He headed Great American Bank for 21 years, instrumental in the growth and development of San Diego.

Mr. Hunter in recent years was known by many as Congressman Duncan Hunter’s father.Yet, it was the elder Hunter that once "retired" to give a year of his life free-of-charge to the national GOP, assisting in the developmentofprecinct and outreach programs. A WWII Marine veteran, he was also regarded as the mastermind behind son Duncan’s 1980 upset defeat of Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin in what was regarded a safe Democratic seat.

My deep regrets are extended to the Luce and Hunter… Read More

I apologize. I’m just fascinated by the California Majority Report. Check out video of the press conference that launched the CMR on YouTube here.

The CMR even gets some grief for featuring Jon (a Jewish Republican) instead of a Democrat of ethnic descent. Jason Kinney responds by comparing the diversity of the CMR to the FR, specifically using Roger Salazar as an example.

Hey, Mr. Kinney! What am I? Chopped liver?

Not that I make my whole world about it, but I’m just as much of a Latino as Mr. Salazar.… Read More

Mike Sprague the able political writer for the Whittier Daily News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune pens his Saturday political column. The column is important beacuse it mentions me and the infamous Bill Leonard moment at the CRP Convention and FR’s Winners and Losers column. See here.… Read More

THE 2006 LEGISLATIVE GOLDEN TRASHCAN AWARD GOES TO… The final days of the 2006 legislative session are upon us, with hundreds of pieces of questionable legislation being negotiated and bartered about as the days turn to hours before no more bills can be passed on to the Governor. This year, the FlashReport is awarding its Golden TrashCan Award to Assembly Bill 523, that would change California State Law to allow the scheme of a former Orange County Congressman to come true — subsidizing a public television station with a de facto gift of millions of dollars – at the expense many thousands of Community College students…

STORY OF AN ORANGE COUNTY SCANDAL …A FOUNDATION WANTS THE TAX PAYERS TO SUBSIDIZE THEIR PURCHASE OF A TV… Read More

Reports of Wednesday’s blow up on the Assembly floor over still more domestic partnership legislation has further lionized members like Dennis Mountjoy and Jay La Suer — with conservatives, at least — while demonizing them with the left.Thursday’s SDUT story has La Suer calling the debated bill a “part of the homosexual agenda.”

Not surprisingly, his office has received a few phone calls as a result. Some of those callers are demanding to know if La Suer’s staff has a copy of the Homosexual Agenda. Realizing they were going to get nowhere with a rational answer, Jay’s trusty staff started telling callers they didn’t have a hardbound copy.

I think the appropriate answer might be, "No we don’t, but would you like to see my official Vast Right Wing Conspiracy membership card?"

For the record, calls and emails to La Suer’s office are tallying at least 4-1 in… Read More

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the Bay Area founder of the infamously radicalleft-wing Daily Kos, had this tosay about the Democrats counterpoint to the FlashReport:

This is the sort of atrocity when California’s Democratic consultant insiders decide they want to "blog." (sic)

And Jason Kinney of California Strategies, one the California Majority Report‘s publishers, had this posted last night in response:

Welcome to the California Majority Report.

We’ve now been "launched" for 48 hours. The good news: world-class commentary, an unexpectedly-high level of traffic to the site and reams of constructive feedback (one favorite: that we are the "Vanilla Ices of the California blog… Read More

I’ve written in thge past about the huge GOP Headquarters in Whittier. See here.I guess others thought it was a big target as well. There has been an increasing amount vandalism directed at the headquarters. See article here.

Two thoughts.

One. Why doesn’t the legislature create a hate-crime bill for political parties. Vandalism is worse when directed at political speech than at any other business? Right? Of course I’m kidding, but that is the logic of creating special classes of crimes. But lawmakers continue to value some people more than others.

Two. People in the area don’t know if the vandalism is political or not. One thing is for sure. IF these people are voters, they would vote for Jerry Brown for Attorney General. Agreed?… Read More

THANK YOU!!

Below you will find my picks for Winners and Loser from last weekend’s GOP convention — but before I get into that, I wanted to take a quick moment to express my appreciation to the many legislators, volunteer leaders, and CRP delegates who endorsed my candidacy for Vice Chairman, South of the California Republican Party (read more here). The election will not be held until February, but time invested into the campaign last weekend was well worth the time!

I would like especially thank the four Statewide Republican Volunteer Organizations that have voted to give me an early endorsement in this race…