This mail piece dropped in the primary in Congressional District 19 where State Senator Jeff Denham, former Congressman Richard Pombo and former Fresno Mayor Jim Patterson are duking it out to be the GOP standard bearer in this "safe" Republican Central Valley House seat, where incumbent George Radanovich is retiring… (click on the graphic to enlarge)… Read More

On today’s main page, the FlashReport debuted the latest television spot from the Poizner for Governor campaign, which talks about how opponent Meg Whitman didn’t vote for 28 years, missing scores of opportunities to vote against tax increases and such.

You can see the ad here:

The Whitman campaign has responded by directing the attention of politicos to an Associated Press article penned by Juliet Williams that "fact checks" the ad. Spokeperson Sarah Pompei says, “This ad is an absolute and total lie. Meg registered as a… Read More

Barack Hussein Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, upper west side New Yorker Elena Kagan, in 1996, wrote an article for the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.” Kagan argued that government has the right, even considering the First Amendment, to restrict free speech, when the government believes the speech is "harmful", as long as the restriction is done with good intentions.

The problem with these laws that restrict the First Amendment, such as campaign finance rules, are the words "good intentions." Whose good intentions is the question to be asked, and usually those are the intentions of government power and its liberal bureaucrats, who seek to expand government authority and restrict freedom of speech, and not the intent of the Founding Fathers of our constitution, who sought to eliminate rules against fundamental freedoms.

Kagan failed as a nominee to the Federal appeals… Read More

I am going to go out on a limb — and figure that former Governor Pete Wilson does not poll well among Spanish-speaking Californians. I could be wrong, but I think that a new Spanish-language radio ad released this morning by the Poizner for Governor campaign bears out my theory.

The ad actually replays the message from Governor Wilson in a recent Whitman ad…

What I found to be most interesting is the candor of Poizner, telling listeners that he supports the Arizona law…

Here is the translation — and if you want to hear the ad "en espanol" — it is below…

Translation for “Hablando Claro/Tell It Straight”: Narrator:

Don’t you hate it when politicians say one thing to one group and something else to another? That’s what Meg Whitman is doing. Here is the radio spot that she… Read More

Here is a series of trivia questions for you. All with the same answer.

In the 1994 Republican landslide who was the only incumbent Republican west of the Mississippi to lose in November?

Who has lost Republican primaries to Congressman Howard Buck McKeon, former Senator Pete Knight, former Assemblywoman Sharon Runner and Assemblywoman Jean Fuller?

Who has lost general elections for the State Assembly to Larry Chimbole and for the State Senate to Congressman Jim Costa?

Who has run for office claiming residence (and family roots) in Victorville, Lancaster, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, Phelan, and Hanford?

Who has no problem using endorsements from four years ago like they were just secured earlier in the day?

Who is it that can get Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado and Senator Sam Aanestad to agree that a political new comer would be better in the general election than a man that has served in the Legislature for close to two decades?

Who’s primary opponent for the State Senate has secured endorsements from the following State Senators? Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingworth… Read More

What do we know about Elena Kagan, Obama’s supreme court nominee?

Well, we know she wrote a few years ago that the First Amendment needed to be looked at again because she didn’t like the idea of people "throwing money into political campaigns" under its protection, or words to that affect.

We know Elena graduated from Harvard Law School, like Barack Hussein Obama. We know she taught at the University of Chicago, like BHO. We know BHO was the first black editor of Harvard Law Review and Elena was the first woman Dean of the Harvard Law School. We know Elena got drunk when a liberal female friend, Elizabeth Holtzman, lost the New York U.S. Senate election in 1980 according to the Daily Princetonian. (I did too the same night in 1980 when Reagan was elected President but likely for different and happier reasons). We know she grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a privileged community, perhaps not so much as the Upper East side, but the site of Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera that my wife and I hang out at every now and then, and the fictional scene of the… Read More

A little whiel ago, Assembly Republicans held a press conference in the Capitol at which they made two points extremely clear.

The seeds of overspending sewn by the liberals who control the legislature have grown into a large, unmanageable spending problem.

I won’t reinvent the wheel. Longtime friend Steve Greenhut, who heads up the Pacific Research Institute’s Cal Watchdog Team, was at the press conference and writes about it here.

We’ll bring you some video footage later on, or in the morning.… Read More

This is the time in an election that reality sets in for some candidates. Those candidates that have embraced the energizer bunny strategy of walking to hundreds of households or writing handwritten notes to Republicans in a district of 50,000 voters start to realize why fund raising is so important.

This past weekend lots of candidates were out walking door to door. They probably worked really hard to speak to 100 people at most. I am being generous at 100. They are doing this because they are working hard and are sincere in their desire to win the election. Meanwhile another candidate with more resources is communicating with tens of thousands of voters at a time in the mailbox, radio, television, and/or automated calls.

Last week at this time many of these elections in races with more than 10,000 voters were close. All of the candidates were unknown. Just one week later the candidates with the resources to communicate to the electorate are making huge strides in earning votes with absentee and election day voters.

To the energizer bunny candidate — It just doesn’t seem fair. They would do a much better job in… Read More