I receive a lot of e-mails from the Arnold Schwarzenegger camppaign.

A lot.

It started right aftert the primary election, as if some e-mail spigot was cranked wide open, and it hasn’t stopped since. Even better, I get them in triplicate, since the Arnold campaign seems to have all of my e-mail addresses.

After a while, it’s hard to keep up with them or even bother to read them all. However, three I recieved yesterday and the day before caught my eye. It must have been Message Of The Day is: Public Safety! over at AS HQ, because they were all about how tough Arnold is on the bad guys.

Which reminded me of Senior Public Defender Teresa Snodgrass-Bennett, whom the Governor appointed this January to be a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge (see my previous posts on the subject here, here and here). First, there’s the questionable wisdom of giving judicial robes to someone who has… Read More

Ever since Former Long Beach Mayor Bev O’Neil got arounf the two-term limit imposed by voters by sucessfully waging a write in campaign, others were bound to try to keep office the same way. Councilwoman Jackie kell tries the same thing and came up short. Now the recount has begun and guees what some wrote her name in , but didn’t fill in the bubble. See story here.Of course this amy go to court as the recount continues. I guess some of Kell’s voters didn’t do well on their school exams.… Read More

The Think Progress (gag) blog has a post up on its site titled "Chevron-Funded Schwarzenegger Sells Out The Environment" claiming that because Schwarzenegger has accepted campaign contributions from oil companies he’s somehow beholden to them and –by their logic –doesn’t care about the environment. They clearly think it to be the reason he’s opposing a taxpayer-funded energy research scheme that will appear on the ballot in November. They cite a UC Berkeley study on the initiative’s website that – to them – proves a tax on oil companies will boost the economy. (I’m not going to waste your time refuting that doozy of a claim.)

Meanwhile, they completely forget a proposal of Schwarzenegger’s just last year. Senate Bill 1, the "Million Solar Roofs" campaign, a bill I opposed,originated from… Read More

MEMO TO: Whoever whispers in the governor’s ear FR: Hanretty RE: Suga’

One thing Governor Schwarzenegger can do to “energize” the base is spread around a little simple syrup. I’m talking sugar from the guv.

Talk to them. Directly. In person. Or, I dunno know, over the phone.

The governor is a very affable, charming person – much more so in person than in campaign ads or sound bites on the evening news would indicate.

Even the crustiest of cranky conservatives appreciate a little sugar. Just a suggestion.… Read More

When Fleischman asked me to be part of a gaggle of bloggers on this site I said two things: a) I won’t write dry high brow thesis’ on the intricacies of (insert subject matter I don’t understand here) and b) I’m not the kind of conservative your readers will like because at the end of the day, I’m on the payroll and I’m going to be engaged no matter what.

Well, back then, Jon was desperate for content and now…well…I’m just one of his bloggers excelling at the 4 P’s: Piss poor posting performance. I’m hoping to change that…really.

I’ve been reading, and viscerally understand, all of the arguments made by bonafide members of the conservative movement regarding apathy, disillusionment, frustration, and true ideological conflicts. I get that…I get it all…and I’ve seen it before.

During my formative years as a political carney (arrive in town campaign tent goes up…election happens campaign tent goes down) one of the constants that I ran across was how conservatives failed to infiltrate the elections of those in power. (infiltrate? huh? dude…you really did make of couple of Dead show’s… Read More

You saw it here first folks. I just posted the latest web video from Team Arnold at the very top of the main page. It slams Phil Angelides for supporting tax increases, humorously repeating throughout an audio recording of Phil saying, "Just don’t listen to what I say. Look at my record."

While the video mentioned above is humorous, let’s be clear that the purpose of these sorts of attacks is to garner free media attention. The campaign hopes that these are audacious enough to catch the eye of some producer or columnist out there. This latest web video probably won’t get that sort of attention. And it’s too long to be featured frequently, if at all, for free on television. So who gets satisfied by it? Political insiders. And most of us have already made up our minds.

Now Angelides is backpedalling a little from his absolute guarantee of raising taxes. Twice in Chico on Tuesday, Angelides prefaced his tax hike promise with, "If I need to…" Here are the video clips:… Read More

My friend Sean Walsh has a personal boycott against the city of Berkeley. He won’t shop or eat in Berkeley, refusing to have any of his hard-earned dollars go to that insane city government.

After the Berkeley City Council’s vote yesterday, I may have to join his boycott. The City Council unanimously voted to put a measure on the ballot in November that allows Berkeley voters to vote on impeaching President Bush. Of course, the vote is meaningless and cost city taxpayers $10,000, but that didn’t deter the committed leftists on the Berkeley City Council. It’s no surprise that Cindy Sheehan was there urging the City Council on in their wackiness.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the ballot measure… Read More

Because I work for myself…I got no stinkin interns…no young biff’s or muffie’s to pick up my dry cleaning (dude t-shirts and jeans arent’ dry cleaned)…no one to remind me to post more since Jon’s in England……I aint got no body…….so forgive my way too tardypost on the results of Measure H, the measure facing customers of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District as to whether they have the right to vote on future annexations…such as PG&E’s service area in Yolo county. Pretty interesting election…SMUD wanting PG&E rate payers to substitute SMUD (a vastly more efficient provider) as their provider.

SMUD, being a quasi public entity really had it’s hands tied against the 2.5 mil that PG &E spent…but all in all..this was merely round one…of a fight that will end this November.

Stay tuned…… Read More