This Tuesday many voters in San Bernardino County will have the opportunity to do something that I will not get to do — and that is cast a vote for my long time friend and fellow conservative leader Janice Rutherford (pictured) as she seeks election to a seat on the Board of Supervisors. I have know Janice for over twenty five years, and let me assure you that she would be an outstanding Supervisor. Of course Janice, never one to do things the easy way, has decided to run against an eight year incumbent.

Janice and I have a friendship that goes back to our high school days where we both "cut our teeth" in the Junior Statesmen of America, the nation’s leading non-partisan, high-school level organization all about politics and government. We both still give back today, she as a Director and me as a Trustee, of this great… Read More

This Tuesday many voters in San Bernardino County will have the opportunity to do something that I will not get to do — and that is cast a vote for my long time friend and fellow conservative leader Janice Rutherford (pictured) as she seeks election to a seat on the Board of Supervisors. I have know Janice for over twenty five years, and let me assure you that she would be an outstanding Supervisor. Of course Janice, never one to do things the easy way, has decided to run against an eight year incumbent.

Janice and I have a friendship that goes back to our high school days where we both "cut our teeth" in the Junior Statesmen of America, the nation’s leading non-partisan, high-school level organization all about politics and government. We both still give back today, she as a Director and me as a Trustee, of this great… Read More

Much has been made about the possibility of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina heading the two top spots on the ballot for Republicans.

What many miss is the dramatic increase that will happen at the State Assembly level. Conservative GOP women are heading to Sacramento.

The current count in the state assembly is 4. Diane Harkey and Connie Conway are staying where they are at. Audra Strickland is termed out and hopefully wins a County Supervisor seat in Ventura.

The fourth Jean Fuller will win her primary and win election to the State Senate. That would make two counting Mimi Walters. A third could be Lucille Kring running against Lou Correa in the competitive Senate District in Orange County.

In the Assembly, there are a several gains where for the most part CONSERVATIVE GOP women could win in heavily GOP… Read More

FlashReport Contributor Jim Lacy had an opportunity recently to interview GOP Congressional candidate John Dennis, who hopes to be the Republican Party’s standard bearer against Speaker Nancy Pelosi this Fall… In the photo to the right, Dennis is pictured with retired Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr, at the 2009 Western CPAC Conference…

Three Minutes With John Dennis By Jim Lacy One of the most interesting races in the Bay Area is the GOP primary fight in the 8th Congressional District for the right to take on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I caught up with the leading candidate, John Dennis, for a brief chat on the campaign trail…

JL: You have an unusual background for a Republican candidate… … Read More

In 1994 I was the Chief of Staff for then Assemblyman Wm. J. "Pete Knight. We had a total of three people on staff. Sharon Thorson and me in the Capitol and one person in the Palmdale district office.

In the early fall that year the phones just started lighting up with upset people that were convinced that the Assemblyman was a closet liberal. No mater what we told them they would scream at us that Pete Knight was this closet RINO that really was a plant. When we finally got someone sane on the phone that would talk to us we found out that the Traditional Values Coalition had sent out what seemed like umpteen million cards claiming that Pete Knight was pro-choice (and something else that I can’t remember).

Well our phones lit up. People screamed at us. No matter what we told them they did not care.

Constituents were actually calling Pete Knight’s office and telling us we were working for a closet liberal.

When I called the people in charge of the card it was too late. They were printed and out.

It appears that 59th Assembly District Republican candidate… Read More

SCHENIRER FOR SACRAMNTO COUNCIL “A Community is Like a Family” (my wife by the way liked the Schenirer series more than I did), WHITMAN FOR GOVERNOR “True Conservative”, SLATEMAILER “The Family, Faith, and Freedom Association”. Note: I haven’t seen a piece of Poizner mail.… Read More

Tom Campbell has put up a new ad worth 30 seconds to watch. He makes the case that you should vote for him because an LA Times survey says that voters support him over Barbara Boxer. This argument is totally not-compelling to me. While people should feel free to vote for Campbell if they like his positions on the issues, I am still suffering from post traumatic stress disorder from having served as Executive Director of the California Republican party in the 2000 election cycle when Campbell was our nominee for U.S. Senate against Dianne Feinstein. Campbell made all of the same arguments then as he is now about why he thinks he has the best chance of winning. Why didn’t he win in 2000? Turns out Campbell, who is a nice guy, is a lousy fundraiser. I wonder how a poll would show him doing against Boxer after a few months of being out-spent twenty to one? I would find it more compelling if Campbell could articulate in a commercial what he is going to do differently in 2010 than he did in 2000… Let me make it clear — I like Steve Poizner. He’s personable, … Read More

Yesterday on my way back from Sacramento, I tuned into one of my favorite talk radio hosts, Tom Sullivan (a long-time KFBK personality, Sullivan is now syndicated and works out of New York).During yesterday’s show, Sullivan asked listeners to call in and discuss a handful of important U.S. Senate seats, including Barbara Boxer’s seat. He wanted to know if people were practical voters (voting for the candidate most likely to win) or principled voters (voting for the candidate most near and dear to your heart and political beliefs). His analysis of the California seat, in a nutshell, was this:Chuck DeVore is the Tea Party candidate and doesn’t have a shot at unseating Boxer; Carly Fiorina is an unknown political entity, a disgraced corporate exec (his words, not mine) and doesn’t have a shot; Tom Campbell is an experienced public servant and respected academic and is the only candidate that has a shot at unseating Boxer.Practical voters would vote for Campbell. … Read More