This morning I thought I would take a few minutes to share some of my thoughts about goings-on in San Diego County. It’s a crazy time in the county just to the south of my own…

Congressional District 50 – a.k.a. "Oatmeal vs. Acid" What do you do when the Republican candidate in the special election doesn’t excite conservative voters? The only issue on which he seems to be campaigning where he is in line with conservative voters is on the immigration issue, where he has been paid to be hardcore as he has represented (as a federal lobbyist) a hard-line immigration reform group. Bilbray moved into the district. He was tapped by D.C. power-brokers. He defeated a horribly split field of conservative candidates to eek out a plurality, most likely with the help of non-Republican voters. On many issues that I care about, he is only marginally better than the liberal Democrat Francine Busby. And so I read in ‘insider… Read More

This morning I thought I would take a few minutes to share some of my thoughts about goings-on in San Diego County. It’s a crazy time in the county just to the south of my own…

Congressional District 50 – a.k.a. "Oatmeal vs. Acid" What do you do when the Republican candidate in the special election doesn’t excite conservative voters? The only issue on which he seems to be campaigning where he is in line with conservative voters is on the immigration issue, where he has been paid to be hardcore as he has represented (as a federal lobbyist) a hard-line immigration reform group. Bilbray moved into the district. He was tapped by D.C. power-brokers. He defeated a horribly split field of conservative candidates to eek out a plurality, most likely with the help of non-Republican voters. On many issues that I care about, he is only marginally better than the liberal Democrat Francine Busby. And so I read in ‘insider… Read More

What happens if you are a councilman running for Assembly and you vote to take expand the Hustler Casino a day after Larry Flynt and other Casino officials donate $17,000 to your campaign?

Answer: A whole lotof great mail pieces that last couple days. That is what will happen to Gardena City Councilman Steve Bradford in his race for the Democratic Nod in the 51st Assembly District. See article here.

Shouldn’t be a legal problem though. Larry Flynt wouldn’t do something that sleazy.… Read More

Here’s one I missed…you may have missed it too. It’s about Gov. Schwarzenegger and drivers licenses for illegal immigrants.

Given how prominently the issue of drivers licenses for illegal immigrants played in the 2003 recall of Gray Davis, I thought you’d find it interesting that the Contra Costa Times reported last week that …

“The Schwarzenegger administration said it hopes to have rules in place to allow illegal immigrants to possess drivers licenses by the end of the year, but it is waiting on federal action….” (Contra Costa Times, May 23, 2006)

Now, if Governor Schwarzenegger campaigned on a promise to rescind Senator Gil Cedillo’s drivers license bill that Gray Davis signed into law, but then turns around and tries to find a way to sign a different version of the same bill, why would we believe the governor when he says he opposes tax increases? Will he turn around in 2007 and look for a way to impose a less obvious tax increase?

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Congressman Gary Miller was the speaket today at the San Bernardino Lincoln Club Meeting in Ontario. Gary hails from the Diamond Bar part of Los Angeles and has racked up Most Consevative Voting record from any California Congressman, several years in a row.

Congressman Miller talked about several subjects of interest. Most telling is his view that the Senate bill giving amnesty to illegals is dead in the House. I hope that is true, but a vote killing it would be nice too.

His comments on ANWR were very eye opening.He pointed out that the National Park Service is studying 700,000 acres in the San Gabriel Valley. See article here.And of course land use will beome an issue. The enviros are also trying to put together a wildlife corrider through Whittier , Yorba Linda etc…

Miller find that interesting because there are more oil wells on the surface originally drille in the 1900’s than there will be in the ANWR proposal. Some pristine environment!

Thanks to Marshall Riley, the chief of the SB County Lincoln Club for the invite.… Read More

The Memorial Day observance ceremonies this past weekend really give one pause to reflect where we are as a nation. Spending time with these veterans and listening to their concerns about politics, veterans issues, or just fishing opens a discussion about what they fought for and what we’re doing to uphold and preserve their efforts to preserve our liberties.

It is really moving to watch duringa ceremony, these WWII veterans especially, some that could barely walk or stand, snap to attention and give a tightsalute to the color guard, salute the pledge to the flag or to the playing of taps. I could see one of the WWII vets getting tight in the throat and eyes tearing up at the singing of the national anthem. Iknow he wasn’t the only one.The reverance and affection for our nation and our flagand those that have fallen defending it, by these veterans, is remarkable to behold as is the beauty of the surroundings atany of the ceremonies where there isan ‘avenue of flags’ displayed.Usually, they are the special extra long ‘casket’ flags that have been loaned or donated by a family of a… Read More

On Sunday when I last posted on AD77 I missed a few relevant facts in my analysis which I’d be remiss in not posting. Based for the most part on cash on hand, but also on some earlier polling, and the amount of mail in the box, I’d narrowed the race to Dale (Wainio/local), Anderson (Nygren), and Beecham (Coronado). Turns out Beyer (Justin) dropped a fair barrage of mail that I missed in my pile o’ mail, and raised enough money since disclosure to put her campaign as much in the game as any of the other three. So in short this thing is basically a toss-up, with former Santee Mayor Jack Dale perhaps having a marginal lead. If campaigns send me mail, I’ll post the most entertaining of it in my next post.… Read More

This weekend only! Special limited offer! No reasonable offer will be refused!

My firm is going to conduct a statewide poll this week and I am offer Flash Report readers the chance to propose questions that you would pose to the California voters.

So send your most creative, interesting, inflammatory (I like them the most) questions that no other pollster has bothered to ask and I will consider adding them to our poll. The results will be released next week.

Don’t limit yourself think politics, public policy, pop culture or whatever! We once asked which voters prefer, a candidate with hair or a candidate who is bald…We have also asked who voters would rather date their daughter from among a list of well know celebrities…

Email me at adam@flashreport.org or give me a call (949) 855-6400. Question suggestions will be kept confidential unless you want to the publicity in which case we’ll make sure you get it if we use your question(s).… Read More