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NRA Blasts Tom Campbell: Urges Members To Support DeVore Or Fiorina
The National Rifle Association blasts Republican Senate candidate Tom Campbell for being terrible candidate on gun-rights and ownership issues. They like both DeVore and Fiorina. Here is the text of an e-mail they are sending far and wide… Maeve Reston has more on this on the Los Angeles Times PolitiCal Blog…
From the NRA… PROTECT OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS – VOTE FREEDOM FIRST ON JUNE 8 May 15, 2010 Dear California NRA Member: … Read More
Who gets most IE money in CA? Democrats, of course!
The California Fair Political Practices Commission has started publishing "top ten" lists, as if they have nothing better to do. On second thought I guess having them grind their data is a better thing than terrifying campaign treasurers. In March they published a list of the "top ten" slate mailers in California, all political parties, by gross revenue. But they used old data from 2007/2008. Two of my Landslide Communications slate mailers made the top ten for the whole state. Not bad. My friend Tim Carey’s slate mailer was listed number one in gross revenue. Not bad. I look forward to the statistics this next time around, and as Carey and I agreed yesterday, there is nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. Though I think my slates win more elections, and I’m going to ask the FPPC to start sorting through the data that way.
In any event, the most recent top ten list from the FPPC are the top recipients of Independent Expenditure money in legislative races, and it comes as no surprise to seasoned observers that Democrats dominate the money in California elections. Number one was Orange County Democrat… Read More
Legislative Analyst Raises Red Flags About AB 32 Implementation
Assemblyman Dan Logue today released a copy of an evaluation conducted at his request by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), which reviewed possible economic consequences of California implementing AB 32 in the absence of similar actions elsewhere in the nation.
“The LAO’s most recent analysis clearly indicates that California’s go-it-alone approach to global warming policy will have serious consequences for our state’s jobs, businesses and economy,” said Mr. Logue. “It also identifies critical deficiencies in the California Air Resources Board’s (ARB) evaluation of the costs of AB 32 in the context of ‘leakage’ of jobs and economic activity to other states.”
“With California struggling with over 2.3 million unemployed, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit and ongoing economic crisis, the LAO’s comments call into renewed question the wisdom of moving ahead with billions of dollars in increased energy costs and job losses that will put our state at an even greater competitive disadvantage,” concluded Logue. “The only fiscally responsible option here is to send ARB back to the drawing board to conduct a more… Read More
What I got in the mail Monday
* A clever solicitation from Florida US Senate candidate Marco Rubio – it had a dollar bill paper clipped on it
* A mailer from local Sheriff candidate Scott Jones “Endorsed by Sheriff McGinness”
* A mailer from the Fiorina from with her signature on the taxpayer protection pledge which I swear may have come once before, or something similar “Taxpayer Protection Pledge”
* A mailer from Ted Lieu for Attorney General, addressed to the woman who lived in my house six years ago, and who was a Democrat “Working for You”
* A mailer from local Sacramento City Council candidate Patrick Kennedy. Very clean, well done piece. TODAY’S WINNER.
* A slatemailer from the “California Taxpayer Protection Voter Guide”. Poizner and Fiorina. Not sure who puts this one out.… Read More
Harman Blasts Cooley In Radio Spot
State Senator and Attorney General candidate Tom Harman has launched a new radio spot… and it’s all about one of his GOP primary opponents, Los Angeles County DA Steve Cooley…
Fiorina Campaign’s Sodurlund On Tom Campbell Canceling TV Buys
I just got this via e-mail from Julie Soderlund over at Carly Fiorina’s U.S. Senate Campaign. The timing was good because I just had read where Tom Campbell had been canceling television buys…
From Julie… Over here at Team Carly, while we are watching our ads on the airwaves increase in frequency, reports over the last couple of days confirm that Tom Campbell has canceled his television AND his radio time – all of it – for this week. The Campbell camp is exhaling a lot of hot air as they struggle to come up with any good reason for why, but we sure have been amused by the excuses so far: … Read More