Yesterday, I posted my very strongly held belief that to get anything done in California, a political candidate must be willing to be hated.Meg Whitman refusing to support pension reform and flat out running away from the unions does not qualify.

I wasn’t the only one who noticed – last night on KFI AM 640, John and Ken took Whitman to task for buckling under union pressure the very first time she had the opportunity to take them on. In fact, organizer Marcia Fritz flat out states that Whitman, “…just didnt want it on the ballot, I was told that from a lot of her supporters.."… Read More

The FlashReport is pleased to present this latest creation from our in-house cartoonist Eric Eisenhammer. FR readers undoubtedly remember the confirmation votes that took place in the State Senate and State Assembly for Governor Schwarzenegger’s nominee to fill the vacant Lt. Governor position, liberal GOPer Abel Maldonado.

I know that there has been a lot of head scratching as to why so many Republicans would vote for a scoundrel like Maldonado, who broke his no taxes pledge, extorted legislators for his own interests, and who seems to navigate through Sacramento with no guiding compass other than how to promote himself.

One reason given by many GOPers — let the Democrats take political heat for opposing a hispanic nominee. Another reason given is the focus of this cartoon — get him out of the Senate where he can then no longer vote for bad legislation, like tax increases, and replace him with a more mainstream Republican.

Eisenhammer’s cartoon is entitled,… Read More

Memo to Meg Whitman and any other candidate for anything. Listen up. We’re backed into a corner in every area of America right now. We have no money in Washington, we are borrowing trillions. We are flat as broke in Sacramento, and we cannot borrow, and our counties, cities and school districts are all cratering under the weight of past stupidity and a bad economy. It isn’t going to get better anytime soon.

If you are running for office, and you don’t plan on attacking these problems, then just do us all a favor and freaking quit wasting our time. Because to attack these problems means you must educate the public about them and the reaction to that is going to be hatred. Yes. Hatred.

Entrenched spending lobbies will protest you, go on strike, attack your family, and lie about everything. You might even need personal security. If you can’t take that, then don’t run.

I hear today that Meg Whitman, like our feckless and ineffective Governor, is backing away from pension reform. Meg, why don’t you spend $100 million in the next couple of months educating the public as to why we need to dramatically fix… Read More

Last night, after watching the Olympics, I happened to see the local evening news and was infuriated by a story they reported about actress Eva La Rue. La Rue is an actress on hit television series ‘CSI Miami’ and resides in Glendale. Three years ago she built a gate on her property to add protection from a stalker. A beautiful, famous actress with an 8 year-old daughter, La Rue was concerned about her family’s safety. Apparently her neighbors didn’t like the new deterrent and complained to the city. La Rue was cited by city code enforcement for building the gate around her front yard. She appealed the decision and was granted a variance. But her neighbors still weren’t happy and appealed to the city council, who sided last night 4-1 with the neighbors. … Read More

Steve Poiznerlaunched a new web ad attacking Meg Whitman’s record on taxes. You can watch it below.

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Today the campaign of John Eastman for Attorney General got a big, talkative boost. The former Dean of the Chapman University School of Law, rolled out an impressive list of endorsements from some of the premiere names in talk radio in this country. Eastman has been endorsed by Bill Bennett, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and Dennis Prager. Prager has the distinction here on the FlashReport of having recieved the most "Golden Pen" recognitions in his role as a syndicated columnist.

What are they saying about Eastman?

BILL BENNETT “John Eastman is one of the great advocates for conservatives in this country. California would be well served with him as their Attorney General.” … Read More

Meg Whitman has launched her second television advertisement which you can watch below. Her campaign also released a new radio spot that features Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. The radio spot is under the tv spot below.

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From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail… FR friend John Fund recounts his dinner with newly minted MA Republican Senator Scott Brown, but you’ll be most interested in who they saw, but didn’t disturb, after dinner…

Senator Scott Brown and Fred Thompson have a fair bit in common so it’s no surprise they’ve become friends. In 1994, Mr. Thompson won a come-from-behind Senate victory in Tennessee driving an old pickup truck between campaign stops. Mr. Brown drove a 2005 GMC Canyon truck and solidified his "everyman" appeal to score an upset Senate win last month in Massachusetts.

Mr. Thompson, now a successful radio talk show host whose memoirs will come out this spring, was so tickled by Mr. Brown’s victory that he offered to rent him his Washington D.C. apartment, which is a convenient short drive from the… Read More