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Jon Fleischman

WSJ Magazine: Carly Fiorina – Coming Around Again

There’s an informative article on Carly Fiorina in the online version of the WSJ Magazine written by Amy Chozick.. I "lifted" this great photo of Carly and her two dogs. Did you know that Carly lived abroad for a year? Read the article to find out about that and much more… It begins… “I hated to break a commitment. People were expecting me,” Carly Fiorina says of why, just hours after being diagnosed with cancer early last year, she traveled to Sacramento to deliver a speech at the California Republican Convention. At the time, she didn’t know it was breast cancer or how advanced the disease was. Then, last October, as she finished up grueling radiation therapy and prepared to enter the U.S. Senate race, Fiorina and her husband of 25 years, Frank, flew to Pittsburgh to attend the funeral of his 35-year-old daughter, Lori Ann, whom Fiorina had helped raise since sheRead More

Jon Fleischman

Maldonado On The Colbert Show

Abel Maldonado (or as John Seiler calls him, "Unable Abel") made his first appearance television appearance as California’s appointed Lt. Governor last night on the Steve Colbert show. It’s worth watching as Colbert basically mocked Maldo and his "open primary" ballot measure — going as far as to give it a tongue-in-cheek endorsement after confirming that nothing in it keeps candidates from spending however much they want on television advertising… It is extremely disappointing to me that while it is clear as day that our problems in Sacramento are that the Democrats are in charge, Maldonado sees the problem as being that HE is not in charge..

Without going on further, here you have it…… Read More

Jon Fleischman

USA Volleyball Calls California Home

I'm happy to be at a luncheon today at Morton's Steakhouse in Anaheim in support of USA Volleyball. The Mens team has been training in Anaheim since 2005 and last year the Womens team relocated here from Colorado Springs. I have never felt so… short! It's pretty cool that so many of the players are sporting Olympic Gold Medals!

FR readers will recognize two of the major forces behind USA Volleyball here in the OC. One is Mike Schroeder, the former State GOP Chairman, who has headed up the fundraising efforts to make things viable — and the other is Anaheim Mayor and former Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle.

I'm already anxious to head off to the 2012 Games in London to watch both teams compete — and hopefully bring home the Gold!… Read More

Congressman John Campbell

The Obama Foreign Policy

Quote of theday "..a miracle….We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his (Obama’s) government." – Praise for the recently enacted healthbill from the Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.

Foreign Policy: It is stunning how the Obama administration is fervantly pursuing a foreign policy that praises those who would destroy us yet punishes our allies and friends. The president’s multiple snubs of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House have been well publicized. The snubs included the conspicuousabsence of public appearances with the Prime Minister, rudely making him wait in the White House while Obama had dinner, and unwarranted public criticism of the Israeli settlements in Jerusalem, and all the while we continue to engage the regimes inIran and Syria. These actions show just how backwards this administration has things. Rather than criticize the Jerusalem settlements, I believe that the U.S. should move our Embassy from Tel Aviv,… Read More

Jon Fleischman

Denham Launches Attack Ad On Pombo’s RV Use…

Consultants Dave Gilliard and Carlos Rodriguez, in this commercial for their client Jeff Denham, are taking a big stick to Denham’s primary opponent, former Congressman Richard Pombo. Back when he was in Congress Pombo took some flack for taking a motor home on the road to visit many of America’s National Parks (he was Chairman of the House Committee with jurisdiction over the National Park Service). Anyways, the ad speaks for itself… (there is a slight pause before the video starts)

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James V. Lacy

U. S. Supreme Court leans towards God

Though the "Roberts" Supreme Court operates on the meaty decisions largely by 5-4 votes, what great votes they are!

Our publisher made sure we reviewed the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the justices decided that a local Federal court sanctioned removal of an eight-foot-tall cross on a Mojave Desert hilltop as a memorial to fallen World War I service members, was probably illegal.

The case, known as Salazar v. Buono, began when a former National Park Service employee, Frank Buono, filed a lawsuit challenging the location of the cross on public land within California’s Mojave National Preserve. The suit said the presence of the cross on federal land violated the First Amendment’s prohibition on government endorsement of religion. A federal judge and federal appeals court panel agreed and ordered the cross removed. But on Wednesday, the Robert’s court, the same court that has upheld First Amendment rights against undue government control of the election process, reversed that decision and told the Federal judge to start over! Justice… Read More

Jon Fleischman

Pro-Life Susan B. Anthony List Endorses Fiorina

Someone called the 1992 elections the "Year of the Woman" — but it would be more accurate that ’92 was the election of the pro-abortion women. In response to a year when a lot of female candidates who to not respect the Right to Life were elected, the Susan B. Anthony List was formed as national pro-life organization committed to elected pro-life women to office.

The Susan B. Anthony List has announced their endorsement of Carly Fiorina in the U.S. Senate primary here in California.

Of course, Fiorina has two primary opponents, neither of whom could qualify to get the List’s endorsement. Campbell, of course, is pro-abortion and does not respect the Right To Life. DeVore, who is staunchy pro-life, is not a woman!… Read More

Jon Fleischman

Pollster Lawrence: Pugno Wallops Democrats in November AD 5 Matchup

This just in from Matt Rexroad over at the Andy Pugno for Assembly campaign. My loooongtime friend Andy (we go back to our College Republican days together) is the front-runner in the GOP primary in the 5th Assembly District (where Roger Niello is termed out) in the Sacramento area. It is an interesting memo from Pugno’s pollster, the respected Gary Lawrence… The significant an important message in this memo is that Pugno is well ahead of any of the Democrats whom he may face this November…

TO: Andy Pugno FROM: Gary Lawrence RE: Survey Results DATE: April 27, 2010Read More

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