This is from the LA Times as they report on Nicole Parra being booted out of the Capitol building for – horror of horrors – having a different opinion than her Democrat "colleagues":

“Every Democrat in our caucus [has] to put a vote up on the budget, and to hold the budget hostage . . .to me is intolerable,” said Assemblywoman Patty Berg (D-Eureka). She added that fellow Democrats have spent millions of dollars helping Parra win election in her conservative district.

I don’t know how much more I can say. The Democrats are systematically running the state into the ground with their totalitarian approach to the legislative process.

Wake up California! Even rank and file Democrats throughout California don’t act with such reckless abandon as do Sacramento Democrats. The need to turn the reigns over to Republicans grows more desperate and apparent every day we spend under the Democrat’s destructive agenda and process.… Read More

The GOP candidate in AD 80 is up on television… … Read More

Check out this video that the Governor recorded for EcoDrivingUSA.com…

From Cap Weekly…. Parra kicked out of Capitol office after budget vote (published Monday, August 18, 2008)

Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, D-Hanford, has been evicted from her Capitol office space today by the Assembly Democratic leadership. The move came one day after Parra failed to vote for her own party’s budget proposal.

That proposal needed 54 votes — the two-thirds majority needed to pass a budget in California — but got only 45 votes. The vote came after four hours of debate during a special Sunday session. Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles. Not a single Republican voted for the budget bill, AB 1781 by Assemblyman John Laird, D-Santa Cruz. Thirty of 32 Republicans voted against the bill.

According to Parra’s staff, the office will now be split up. Several staffers will… Read More

After working in and around the Capitol for about 20 years I still do not understand the whole punishment by small office effort. It almost always makes the Speaker or Pro Tem look petty.

In the case of Assemblyman Curt Pringle — he wore it as a badge of honor. He actually made it into a good thing. Parra will do the same.

The big loser here is Speaker Bass.

This is a bunch of "Wiggins".… Read More

Just off the phone with Assembywoman Bonnie Garcia, who informed me that in retribution for her not supporting the Democrat budget (the one with the tax increase), she is currently being moved out of her office, presumably to something quite tiny…… Read More

Senator Dick Ackerman called to let FR readers know that Assemblywoman Parra has been relocated — to a legislative office building outside of the Capitol! Maybe the folks at the State GOP HQ can find it and offer her a voter registration form…… Read More

Word is that Asm. Nicole Parra has been kicked out of the building, "relocated" to the Legislative Office Building across from the Capitol. She was not an aye vote on yesterdays budget exercise.… Read More