From today’s Wall Street Journal Opinion Page…

Cap and Flee: California refutes its own ‘green jobs’ policy. California, that former land of opportunity, was one of the first states to pass its own version of "cap and trade" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2007 when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the law, called AB-32, he said it would propel California into an economy-expanding, green job future. Well, a new study by the state’s own auditing agency—its version of the Congressional Budget Office—has burst that green bubble. The study released May 13 concludes that "California’s economy at large will likely be adversely affected in the near term by implementing climate-related policies that are not adopted elsewhere." While the long-term economic costs are "unknown," the study finds… Read More

Assemblyman Jeff Miller is an endorser and supporter of (very) longtime FR friend and Assemblyman Joel Anderson’s campaign for State Senate. Anderson is running for the seat currently held by Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, who is retiring at the end of this year. Last week, Miller brought a group of folks down to help Anderson with get-out-the-vote activities…

Big Team Effort Will Elect Joel Anderson To The State Senate By Assemblyman Jeff Miller Last year, when my Assembly Republican colleagues asked me to serve as the Elections Chairman for the Caucus, I pledged that we would campaign aggressively at the grassroots level and energize our efforts in the field. The leader who first approached me… Read More

Back in March I featured a guest column from Chason Bullock, the head of Students for Meg Whitman. I got a lot of positive feedback, and told Chason that as we got closer to the primary I would love to get an update on how things are going… Below is a new column from Chason for your perusal…

Students For Meg Get Organized For Final Push By Chasen Bullock, Statewide Youth Coordinator of Students for Meg and a senior at California State University, San Marcos The Students for Meg Coalition now has 40 chapters on California college campuses and students up and down the state are doing their part… Read More

I want to remind the readers that I live in a HEAVILY DEMOCRAT neighborhood… I generally don’t get a ton of Republican mail. JAY SCHENIRER FOR CITY COUNCIL “Timeout” this is the second in a series of sports related pieces. The first piece confused me, but I took the time to read this one and I agree with the guy that we shouldn’t donate land to the Kings team. PATRICK KENNEDY FOR CITY COUNCIL “Creating Jobs” Kennedy is running against Schenirer (above) – and I leaned towards Schenirer because of his early grassroots campaign but I’ve got to write that Kennedy’s mail is better, just more clear. COOPER FOR SHERIFF “Keeping deputies on the street” very clear (Today’s winner). SLATE MAILER “Council of Concerned Women Voters” featuring Whitman and Nakanishi.… Read More

Given the size of Whitman’s media buys, you may have seen this already… on your TV…

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No word on the size of the buy, but it stars some well known actors… … Read More

Say what you want about tax-and-spend liberals. One thing is for sure: They are strong-willed when it comes to pilfering money from taxpayers. Nothing can stop the liberal arm of the California Legislature from proposing $5 billion in tax increases as a means to plugging a huge budget hole. Not even the California voters who overwhelmingly opposed Proposition 1A last year (a ballot measure that would have raised taxes on Californians). This year’s proposed increases include hitting up California car owners – who apparently don’t spend enough on car taxes or at the gas pump – to pay more DMV fees. If only the liberals showed this kind of determination in handling taxpayer money. Read more about the tax hikes here.… Read More

Late last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which sits in San Francisco and is known as a liberal court, upheld the Arizona "Citizens Clean Election Act" which provides taxpayer dollars "matching funds" to candidates for state office to use for advertising of their campaigns. Since California is flirting with such a law, known as Proposition 15 on the next election ballot, the Court’s action is worth taking note of.

The conservative Goldwater Institute had been successful at the trial court level in knocking out the law on First Amendment grounds. Their solid argument in the trial court, along with a couple friendly PACs and candidates, was that the campaign law actually chilled or reduced speech rights. This is because under the law, if an opposing candidate fails to use only the taxpayer money for his/her campaign, and spends more than the candidate taking the state money, then the state automatically coughs up more taxpayer dollars for the candidate "on the dole." Thus, opposing candidates are discouraged to spend money on advertising, for fear that the government will respond by… Read More