California Archives Digest
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September 16, 2008
From this: A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit [Martinez v. Regents of the University of California, CV052064] challenging a policy that allows some illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition to attend California's public colleges and universities. The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said Monday that...
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August 04, 2008
From this: Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom. And if residents or businesses don't separate the coffee grounds from the newspapers, they would face fines of up...
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June 23, 2008
One of the many ways the California Department of Public Health spends "their" money is on the "Network for a Healthy California" (cachampionsforchange.net), which operates a website promoting a healthy diet and which puts up billboards such as that seen here or in the following screengrab of this page cachampionsforchange.net/en/OurCommunity.php:...
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March 26, 2008
Continuing his descent into becoming a PC Democratic clown, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked today what he wants to do about the costs of illegal immigration on the state. He said blaming illegal aliens would be a "big mistake". How about we blame illegal immigration supporters - or passive...
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January 29, 2008
I urge all Californians to vote No on Prop 93, the term limits proposition. It's an obviously deceptive measure that pretends to limit term limits for legislators, but which in fact would allow people like Fabian Nunez, Don Perata, and Gil Cedillo to remain in office instead of being termed...
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January 16, 2008
I haven't researched this, but Jamie Court of the "Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights" (and founder of an anti-Arnold Schwarzenegger site) says: Even I was shocked to hear that California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez directed the California Highway Patrol to prevent our consumer group and an uninsured Massachusetts teacher...
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December 18, 2007
Unlike, say, Grover Norquist, I'm not a reflexive opponent of some form of universal healthcare, at least on the face of it. But, as with other things there's frequently a hidden agenda, such as people pushing UHC who have wider goals. Does anyone think Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fabian Nunez, and...
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November 02, 2007
For an unknown reason, the Los Angeles Times is trying to get rid of Fabian Nunez. While I welcome this, I can't help but wonder why. The latest is here (via this): Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez used a small charity as a conduit to funnel almost $300,000 from companies and...
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October 17, 2007
From this: The California Nurses Association demanded Tuesday that Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez abstain from voting on health-care legislation because his wife works for a nonprofit agency bankrolled by the hospital industry. "Californians can no longer trust that he will represent the public interest and not the financial interest of...
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October 11, 2007
From this: State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez shares a luxury downtown penthouse with a prominent fundraiser [Dan Weitzman] who has collected nearly $600,000 in fees and expenses from Nunez's political committees and the state Democratic Party since 2005. State law places no restrictions on legislators living with friends or fundraisers,...
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October 09, 2007
Last week, the LAT reported on lavish expenditures by California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (also a Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair). Now, oddly enough, Miriam Hernandez of KABC-TV tried to ask him about those luxury purchases. However, Nunez apparently didn't want to talk and she ended up following him down a...
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October 05, 2007
California Assembly speaker and Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair Fabian Nunez must be on the outs with the Politburo, because the Los Angeles Times offers "Nunez travels the world like a high-roller" (link): [...his spending] includes $47,412 on United, Lufthansa and Air France airlines this year; $8,745 at the exclusive Hotel...
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September 27, 2007
California state senator Gil Cedillo - sometimes called "One Bill Gil" due to his constant attempts to pass a bill giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens - actually has come up with a multitude of bills designed to give benefits to those who are here illegally. The latest now sits...
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August 27, 2007
California has a new law mandating dental exams for kindergarteners in public schools. But, it has "few teeth" (ouch!), Barbara Feder Ostrov of Mercury News "reports" (link). Children will not be barred from school if they do not get the checkup. Parents who can't afford the exam, lack insurance coverage...
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June 05, 2007
From this: A California legislator who is national co chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has secretly exceeded contribution limits by having special interests - with laws before him - donate hefty sums to a ballot measure that will keep him in office longer. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat...
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May 04, 2007
California Assembly Speaker and Hillary Clinton co-chair Fabian Nunez, speaking about the MacArthur Park mini-riot, says today: "There are no excuses, a simple apology is not going to suffice... To say we are outraged is an understatement. We want those responsible in the highest levels of the LAPD to pay...
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April 24, 2007
The San Francisco Chronicle's Tyche Hendricks offers "Mexico's health czar seeks better care for Mexicans in California". The new Felipe Calderon administration is developing a system of universal health care and they want to extend it to their citizens living in California. And, in a wonderful sign of generosity, they...
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April 18, 2007
Speaking on the John Ziegler radio program some months ago, California School Superintendent Jack O'Connell sang the "diversity is our strength" song, but also mentioned that students from a certain ethnic background don't place a high premium on female education. Despite bring pressed a few times, he refused to give...
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March 29, 2007
The Public Policy Institute of California has released a statewide survey (link), and some of their findings are questionable due to a lack of specificity in the questions. And, some of the finding have been spun: While political reform dominates conversation in the state capitol, Californians say immigration (19%) is...
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March 07, 2007
The California Assembly has approved a bill that would move the presidential primary to February 2008. As previously discussed, this will also allow a proposition to appear on the ballot that will extend term limits for such worthies as Fabian Nunez and Don Perata. Arnold still needs to see the...
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March 02, 2007
Following an appearance on yesterday's John and Ken Show on KFI, Sen. Bob Dutton has dropped his name from Senate Bill 752. That would have given each newborn in California a $500 savings account: "Over the last 48 hours, thousands of Californians have asked me what I was thinking so...
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March 01, 2007
California Senators Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) have introduced a bill that would given every child born in California from 2008 on a savings account with an initial deposit of $500 (AP link). The two Senators are either very high or very corrupt, perhaps both. First of...
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February 26, 2007
The California legislature is trying to move the presidential primary in the state from June 3 to February 5, 2008. That ballot will have two propositions. The first is from Arnie Schwartzenegger and concerns redistricting; presumably it's similar to his earlier proposal. The second would extend term limits for our...
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February 13, 2007
Yesterday His Weirdness, aka former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, spoke in Silicon Valley and said: ...Giuliani praised [Arnold Schwarzenegger], calling him a "progressive leader." "I generally agree with Governor Schwarzenegger," Giuliani said... ...On immigration, Giuliani said while the country needs to ensure that terrorists, drug dealers and other...
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February 09, 2007
During last year's campaign the L.A. Times somehow obtained tapes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the state has recently released a full set. Among other topics, Arnie discusses immigration and states his opposition to the border fence (comparing it to the Berlin wall of course) and his support for a "path...
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January 25, 2007
California's Mexico-linked governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has shown himself to be a true humanitarian: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Tuesday that Escondido would get one of several temporary "one-stop" assistance centers aimed at helping agricultural workers who may have lost their jobs because of freezing temperatures that have hit the state... Darrel...
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January 18, 2007
Mexico-linked "centrist" Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared that farmworkers affected by the recent freeze in the Central Valley - including those here illegally - will be receiving state aid: "Everyone will get help [a massive aid package but not including unemployment]... We are not here collecting immigration statuses." What a humanitarian!...
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As discussed here, Arnold Schwarzenegger ran on a "no new taxes" platform and accused Phil Angelides of never meeting a tax he didn't want to implement. Now, the new "centrist" Arnie wants to finance his healthcare-for-all (including illegal aliens) scheme using a set of what he calls "fees". They are,...
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January 09, 2007
From the prepared version of Arnold Schwarzenegger's state of the state address: "I believe that together not only can we lead California into the future...we can show the nation and the world how to get there. We can do this because we have the economic strength, the population, the technological...
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January 04, 2007
Arnold Schwarzenegger - California's Bush-resembling, Mexico-pandering, Rove/Kennedy/Mexico-linked governor - wants to give health care to all children in California, including illegal aliens. It sounds humanitarian, but it isn't. It will make our situation far worse by encouraging even more illegal immigration. It will transfer even more money from U.S. citizens...
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November 22, 2006
This AP article is a bit biased and might be missing key information, but in this case I'll give them a pass. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed or assigned dozens of staff members this year to high-paying jobs elsewhere in state government -- some of them to six-figure posts he once...
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November 21, 2006
The largely wrong and illogical article "Schwarzenegger gains among Latinos" by Aurelio Rojas will be featured here later, but for now consider this interesting snippet: Arnoldo Torres, the Schwarzenegger campaign's Latino outreach director who briefed him before the July 24 meeting [with La Opinion], praised the governor for acknowledging he...
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November 10, 2006
The day after the (U.S.) midterm election, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger flew to Mexico to discuss topics such as immigration. The article by Kate Folmar of the MediaNews Sacramento Bureau is a strange beast, at times mocking the governator, using inappropriate language (Arnold's "post-election high"; his trip to China was...
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November 05, 2006
There was an anti-Loretta Sanchez/pro-Tan Nguyen rally in Orange County yesterday, and the pictures are here. I don't necessarily agree with the racism charge, but she certainly is an ethnic demagogue. What you'll notice in one of those pictures is the very large portrait of Sanchez-Brixey on the wall...
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October 29, 2006
This is completely and utterly unsourced, but at a rally for Tan Nguyen yesterday this was reportedly "announced at the rally by Tan and some other speakers" * Loretta Sanchez' office produced the initial, incorrect translation. When asked about it, she smiled and said "oops." * Loretta Sanchez' office was...
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October 24, 2006
BoiFromTroy raises the possibility (at the site run by Chris Nolan) that Tan Nguyen is a Democratic plant designed to increase their GOTV effort: I say that Nguyen's letter was either the stupidest or the most nefarious political act this year because part of me wonders whether he's some sort...
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October 21, 2006
Shortly after the now-infamous Tan Nguyen letter warning "immigrants" against voting surfaced, our Rove-influenced governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, completely capitulated to demands that had not yet been made: [Arnie] called the letters "racist" and "despicable," and argued the perpetrators should be tried for a hate crime. Now, he's had his words...
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October 15, 2006
Here's a recent round-up of California political ads from the television: 1. Ad from Republican Steve Poizner (or friends) in opposition to Democrat Cruz Bustamante for Insurance Commissioner. Shows the back of a balding person (presumably Cruz) holding out a large bag while people walk by dumping cash in the...
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September 21, 2006
Have Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut a backroom deal? According to comments heard on a segment from KFI's John Ziegler (filling in for John & Ken), under this scheme in exchange for Arnold supporting Tony's effort to gain control over the Los Angeles Unified...
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September 12, 2006
Today's "hot" issue is not Arnold Schwarzenegger's blather about immigration. Rather, it's the audio file that Phil Angelides staffers downloaded from the California government web site in which he called Bonnie Garcia "hot". It's good to see the Angelides campaign being shown to be as sleazy as their candidate...
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California's Bush- and Kennedy-controlled governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, offers "Keep the Immigration Debate Civil". My summary: "A protest vote for Phil Angelides might wake me, Maria, and my Bush handlers up to the realization that I'm on the wrong path." 1. The title will be read by most as a challenge...
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September 09, 2006
Those of you with strong constitutions can watch this six minute video (AVI file) of California state senator Gil Cedillo discussing Gloria Romero's resolution in support of foreign citizens making a show of force and marching in our streets. The video was shot on an unknown date, presumably in late...
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Let's check in with the wacky fun California legislature and see what capers, fancies, and jolly japes they're up to. Why, look, it's HR 36, "Relative to Pluto's planetary status": WHEREAS, Recent astronomical discoveries, including Pluto's oblong orbit and the sighting of a slightly larger Kuiper Belt object, have led...
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September 08, 2006
Phil Angelides has three daughters, all of them "hot". However, while you wouldn't know it by looking at them, one of them (Megan) is more special than the others. Not only is she really a step-daughter, she's a prop. Speaking before the "National Latino Congreso" on Thursday ("Angelides campaigns at...
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September 07, 2006
It's time to call Arnold Schwarzenegger yet again: 916-445-2841. This time it's about Gil Cedillo's attempt to take student aid from U.S. citizens and give it to citizens of Mexico who are here illegally. From Jessie Mangaliman's article "Student aid bill at final hurdle": A controversial bill that would allow...
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September 02, 2006
The ABC News "exclusive" "Schwarzenegger Explains Why He Went Green" has Arnold chanelling Laurie David via Maria and contains this: Schwarzenegger faces a re-election battle this fall, but said if Bush advisor Karl Rove were to call offering the president's help, he would decline the help because of the president's...
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August 30, 2006
A Public Policy Institute of California poll finds that Arnold Schwarzenegger leads the only-slightly-worse challenger Phil Angelides by 45 to 32 percent. Informed of the results, Angelides said the following: "Arnold Schwarzenegger is known by 100 percent of the world... Despite all his attacks, despite $20 million spent against me,...
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August 29, 2006
Sen. Carole Migden (D-Frisco) wanted to name Zinfandel as California's "historic wine". She originally wanted to name it "California's official wine", but we know that's actually those high-pitched sounds coming from the Legislature itself and anyway the wine industries bitched about it. In his gutsiest decision yet (apparently Maria took...
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August 26, 2006
Now comes California state Senator Sheila Kuehl with SB 840, the "California Health Insurance Reliability Act". It would mandate "universal health care" and would cover "dental care, prescriptions, mental health care and hospitalization". And, it would be open to "undocumented" residents. No longer would California need to worry about citizens...
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August 22, 2006
From this: The rancorous national debate over illegal immigration spilled into the California Assembly on Tuesday as Democrats yanked an immigration resolution after a testy, partisan exchange that drew an outburst from Speaker Fabian Nunez. The Los Angeles Democrat emerged from his office to silence Republican critics who were lambasting...
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August 21, 2006
California's far-left, in-the-pocket-of-the-unions, only-slightly-worse-than-Arnold gubanatorial candidate has a MySpace page: myspace.com/angelides. The AP says that he had nothing to do with creating that page: But rather than kill a volunteer's unauthorized efforts, the campaign has embraced the youth-heavy site, using Angelides' personal profile page to post position papers and...
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August 15, 2006
I have absolutely no idea who Tan Nguyen is, but I am unconditionally endorsing him in California's 47th District against illegal alien vote recipient Loretta Sanchez. He needs to, of course, fix his website by using the tan4congress.com domain name which he registered. Then, he needs to transfer over the...
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July 23, 2006
Maria Shriver appeared at a fair in Watsonville, CA on Friday to promote California's capacious welfare state. After about an hour of pressing the flesh, she was shouted down by about a dozen Brown Berets. She shortly left the event on the advice of her security contingent, with the mayor...
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July 06, 2006
More to follow:...
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July 01, 2006
In 1995, current Speaker of the California Assembly Fabian Nunez spoke before the "Latino Summit Response to Prop 187" at UC Riverside and "allegedly" said, among other things, this: There's only two forms of power in this country and in this world. One is economic power, We certainly don't have...
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June 14, 2006
The Democrats in Sacramento are trying to sneak through an expansion of the "Healthy Families" program that would expand that to include the children of illegal aliens. Assemblyman John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, a budget writer, said [state Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, R-La Mesa] was incorrect in contending that the proposal gives...
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June 06, 2006
Rob Reiner's attempt to put 4-year-olds in preschools - which would end up being state-directed and most likely mandatory - has failed ("Rob Reiner Says Campaign Raised Awareness"). The failure comes despite last-ditch effort television commercials featuring Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles and a former member of the...
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Fear, despair, and a deep sense of foreboding engulfed the Democratic Party Tuesday as early results seem to indicate that even the illegal alien vote couldn't help Democrat Francine Busby defeat Republican Brian Bilbray in California's 50th District. The race was to replace convicted Congressman Duke Cunningham. With 25% of...
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June 05, 2006
[As part of this site's equal time provision, we're publishing the following entry from an unnamed party known only as "TruProgressive". We have confirmed, however, that this person is not Bob Mulholland. This site does not endorse the message in any way.] The only true progressive in the race for...
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May 25, 2006
Earlier today, Mexico's Vicente Fox spoke before the California legislature. As previously discussed, Todd Spitzer (R-Orange) conducted a silent protest. Another American went even further. Sharon Runner (R – Lancaster) refused to show up for the speech entirely. And, she might face a reprimand from the leaders in the legislature...
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May 01, 2006
California state senator Gloria Romero (site) will be marching in solidarity with foreign citizens today and joining their boycott and show of force, saying: "The boycott is as American as apple pie... Many of us have decided to join in recognizing the call of immigrants for one day out of...
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April 27, 2006
In a shocking - but not surprising - move, the California State Senate has endorsed the May 1 illegal immigration boycott and march: SCR113. This isn't suprising considering that many California legislators frequently act more like their Mexican counterparts. It's only shocking that they would be so bold and that...
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March 29, 2006
Blaming "personal attacks", money-losing movie director Rob "Meathead" Reiner has stepped down from California's preschool commission: Just two weeks ago, Reiner dismissed suggestions that he should step down from the California First 5 Commission, which has collected nearly $4 billion in tobacco taxes to fund early childhood programs. "Everything I've...
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March 24, 2006
Costa Mesa in Orange County CA will be checking the immigration status of those arrested for violent felonies. Now, at first glance you might think most residents of that city would support that idea, rather than, for instance, telling lies about the proposal or complaining that it hurts their businesses...
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March 21, 2006
Maywood is a tiny (1.14 square miles) city in southeast L.A. County with at least 30,000 residents, many of them illegal aliens. I've refered to it as "Aztlan City" because they recently came out against HR4437, they've declared themselves a sanctuary for illegal aliens, and the other actions they've taken...
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March 11, 2006
California's schools used to be at the top of the nation, now, according to one ranking, we're between Alabama and Mississippi. This is largely, if not exclusively, due to "liberalism" (think Jackie Goldberg) as well as ethnically-compromised politicians who support illegal immigration (think Antonio Villaraigosa). Via a comment from 'eh',...
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March 09, 2006
According to the recent Field Poll, as crowed-about by the S.F. Chronical: "Two-thirds of Californians support guest-worker plan". (Related propaganda from the Contra Costa Times: "Illegal immigration gains allies"). Unfortunately, you can get the results you want or at least inaccurate results if you ask the right people the right...
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February 26, 2006
From this: Republican activists on Saturday increased their pressure on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace movie director Rob Reiner as head of California's First 5 Commission, saying Reiner's decision to take a leave from his state post wasn't enough. Reiner on Friday took a leave of absence from the chairman's...
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February 24, 2006
Meathead is on the defensive: Hollywood director Rob Reiner denied any wrongdoing Thursday in response to recent scrutiny about the potential misuse of taxpayer funds for a June ballot initiative he is spearheading. Reiner, who heads the state's First 5 California Children and Families Commission he helped create, is now...
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February 20, 2006
From "TV Ads Put Focus on Reiner": Police sirens wail as a scruffy teenager, clutching a bag, runs frantically through the streets. Entering a schoolyard, he reaches into the bag. Out comes … a graduation gown, which he dons to receive a diploma. The scene is from a television ad,...
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February 14, 2006
On Saturday, a group of pro-illegal immigration activists held a confab in Riverside. As previously discussed, it was organized by UCR professor Armando Navarro, and those speaking included California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (via a taped message) and a senator from a Mexican state. From the Lou Dobbs transcript: DOBBS:...
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February 06, 2006
Alan Bonsteel, president of California Parents for Educational Choice offers his thoughts on Rob "Meathead" Reiner's preschool initiative: ...California's public schools are governed by four interlocking layers of dysfunctional bureaucracy: the federal, state, county and district levels. No one is in charge of anything, least of all the parents, voters...
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January 27, 2006
More bad news for Meathead, aka "Rob Reiner". He's trying to push through a free-preschool-for-all proposition in California. That would probably eventually result in mandatory preschool. Past coverage starts here. There's been a massive TV and radio propaganda effort, and it might have paid off among voters who are unable...
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December 30, 2005
California state Senator "One Bill Gil" Cedillo earns that nickname because each year he tries to pass a bill giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens. He thinks this year he'll finally get his anti-American wish. He bases that on Arnold's ballot measures failing, on the shakeup in Arnold's top ranks,...
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December 28, 2005
Our sources tell us that Al Gore has spent $2 million on a condo in San Francisco, also the home of his latest Current TV venture. Could this be preparation for a run for governor of California? Or, does he just like the luxury ambience of his new digs? Sources...
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December 19, 2005
In June 2006, California will vote on Rob Reiner's scheme to establish voluntary preschool. Previously we offered "First 5 California": Yet another illegal immigration magnet, and here are a few more interesting links: Why Californians Should Vote NO On "Preschool-For-All" in June 2006. That's from a homeschooling group, but they...
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December 12, 2005
The California Economic Strategy Panel, a quasi-governmental group, commissioned a new study called "The Impact of Immigration on the California Economy" that supposedly shows that massive immigration - legal and illegal - hasn't resulted in California falling into the ocean. Here's the PDF file, and the S.F. Chronicle discusses it...
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December 03, 2005
This site supports Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project in Tuesday's runoff election in the 48th Congressional District. While I'm sure there are various links between his opponent John Campbell and the Bush administration, here's one with an actual dollar figure: on 11/14, VP Dick Cheney helped Campbell raise $125,000....
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November 22, 2005
The Meathead, aka Rob Reiner, wants to give preschool to every child in California. Needless to say, illegal aliens won't be excluded from this program, making this yet another flashing neon sign encouraging people to immigrate here illegally. And, he claims he's got 1,000,000 signatures on a petition to get...
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November 11, 2005
KFI host John Ziegler had an editorial in yesterday's L.A. Times: The results of the special election, while largely expected, are truly remarkable for what they reveal about who we are as a state and the current nature of our political landscape. They are not just important because they may...
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November 10, 2005
California Treasurer Phil Angelides has issued a statement on the 2005 Special Election. Most of it is one long series of anti-Arnold smears: he's turned his back on people, he considers almost everyone his enemy, etc. etc. He doesn't say exactly what he'd do differently, only offering a borderline-frothing set...
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November 07, 2005
The unions and the far-lefties in the California legislature have conducted what has to be one of the dirtiest, sleaziest, most dishonest campaigns ever. In case you're still undecided, here are a few links: - Xrlq has a voting guide here (List of other guides here). _ BFT has his...
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November 05, 2005
The Los Angeles Times offers "Gov.'s Effort to Engage Voters Stalls", which, buried down in the sixth paragraph, has this: A forum Thursday in Los Angeles at times resembled an anti-Schwarzenegger campaign rally. Democratic activists made their way into the audience that questioned the governor, contributing to the angry tone....
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The SDUT lays it on the line in "Beyond shameless. Ad attacks on Prop. 76 are utterly dishonest": ...This goes beyond semantic gymnastics to rancid deceit – suggesting that it's Schwarzenegger who's eager to hammer taxpayers, not the Democratic legislators who have proposed dozens of tax hikes over the past...
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If you've seen the commercials against Proposition 77, you've been lied to. Don't believe the lies: vote yes, it's the only way to reform Sacramento. See this: In the ocean of distortions that has become the campaign against Proposition 77, Senate leader Don Perata last week briefly became an island...
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November 04, 2005
Last night Arnold Schwarzenegger was grilled in a televised appearance by a supposedly "demographically and politically balanced audience". However, the questioning was biased strongly against him, and this appearance is the latest in a long line of dirty tricks: at least three of those who questioned him were Democratic Party...
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November 03, 2005
The New York Daily News continues to show just how special a newspaper they are with this. While there's certainly the possibility that it was those specific lies that are (supposedly) causing support for Arnold's propositions to drop, there's also the possibility that it's all the other lies combined, together...
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October 31, 2005
Previously I offered "True face of Democratic Party: union thugs attack woman at anti-Arnold rally": she had her cap pulled off, she was beaten with signs, and one of the security workers ripped up her signs. Now, speaking on KFI, the victim of the assault claims it was even worse...
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Those opposed to Proposition 77 (the redistricting initiative) have sent out a mailer to California Republicans marked on the outside with "Jury Duty" in big print and "Is good citizenship" below that in small print. Thus causing a larger-than-normal percentage of people to read what's inside, which turns out to...
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October 28, 2005
Yesterday the anti-Arnold forces held a rally in downtown Los Angeles. It featured Antonio Villaraigosa, Fabian Nunez, and, in the crowd, lots of union members and one lone Arnold supporter. Read the report in "UNION THUGS attack Schwarzenegger supporter at Villarogosa rally in Los Angeles - VIDEO!!!". The video is...
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Disgraced and recalled former California governor Gray Davis is joining the University of California Los Angeles as a "distinguished policy fellow." Davis, who is also an attorney, will serve as a guest lecturer in classes, participate in panels, and generally serve as a resource for faculty and students on...
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October 25, 2005
The "Education State Rankings" from Morgan Quitno Press has ranked the 50 states on education: States were graded on 21 factors, including student achievement and attendance, positive outcomes, strong student-teacher relationships and school district efficiency... number of high school graduates, reading, writing and math proficiency, percent of school-age kids in...
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October 18, 2005
In an official, editorial page endorsement, the LAT has thrown whatever weight it has left behind the same proposition that Arnold Schwarzenegger supports: "Their views, their dues": The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that union members cannot be forced to finance political activity, and Proposition 75 merely requires that public...
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October 14, 2005
The attempt to change the name of Mount Diablo has failed. A majestic 3849' peak by any other name would be as crowded with tourons. [Art Mijares of Oakley] withdrew his first suggestion, Mount Kawukum, after learning the moniker was a gimmick promoted by an early 20th century real estate...
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October 11, 2005
As blurbed here, the CTA's controller, Carlos Moreno, says it's already spent all of the money it expects to get over the next three years from the recent $60 annual fee it charged its members to conduct their anti-Arnold campaign. Now, they want a $40 million line of credit. From...
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October 10, 2005
Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would allow high schools to administer No Child Left Behind-mandated tests in Spanish. Now, some of you out there might think that giving such tests in Spanish is a lunatic idea leading to language balkanization and the like. But, you probably aren't a...
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Are the anti-Arnold forces having financial problems? Reports are that they're borrowing money reportedly to pay off earlier loans. How much they owe, how much they want, and what it's for has not yet been confirmed. Developing......
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October 07, 2005
Have you seen the TV commercial from the California Teachers Association that includes the following? "...Now his Prop. 74 allows a principal to fire a teacher without giving a reason or even a hearing. Prop 74, another bad Schwarzenegger idea that hurts our schools." As you might expect from the...
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October 06, 2005
"Firefighters say they were ordered to attend Schwarzenegger event" the headlines scream. Appearing at a fire in Burbank, Arnold's people did a photo op of him with those fighting the incident. Now, those with whom he posed say they were "ordered and forced" to take part in the photo-op. But,...
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October 04, 2005
Dan Walters offers "Intellectual dishonesty reaches new low in Angelides debt report": [Phil] Angelides is the state's banker, and one would expect that he would feel at least some compunction about the integrity of official financial reports. But he's also the leading Democratic candidate for governor and has never been...
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Bearing in mind that Gavin Newsom was the "moderate" choice for mayor of San Francisco, let's peer through the viewing window at "S.F. mayor sees wireless service as basic right": San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who became internationally known for his campaign a year ago to legalize gay marriage, on...
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October 02, 2005
I wonder if the state of California could file a class action lawsuit against the federal government for their refusal to enforce our immigration laws, leading to the situation described in "20% of Seniors Flunk High School Graduation Exam". Twenty percent of CA's HS seniors - about 100,000 people -...
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September 23, 2005
There's video, audio and statements about the incident here. Previously: "30,000 public school teachers in California are not CTA members"....
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As previously discussed, Union thugs shout down teachers suing over union electioneering. The SacBee discusses that press conference in "Suit challenges union fundraising bid", which contains this interesting bit: About 30,000 public school teachers in California have chosen to not join the CTA and instead are listed as "agency fee...
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This rumor mill site says that sources say that someone else says that their sources heard from someone else that major donors (probably including George Soros) are encouraging "Bubba" Bill Clinton to run for governor of California. "On first blush, it might sound nuts" they quote a Democratic strategist. It...
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September 22, 2005
The National Right to Work Foundation has filed a lawsuit on behalf of six teachers and professors against the California Teachers Association. The suit concerns a $60 fee that the union is charging them in each of the next three years. That money is being used to mount the CTA's...
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September 21, 2005
Arnold Schwarzenegger wants George Bush to avoid fundraising in California until after the special election. I'm sure there's the matter of only so many donations to go around, but I'm sure that Arnold is also able to read polls....
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Welcome to the first edition of our coverage of Phil Angelides' attempt to be Governor of California. We'll be highlighting his accomplishments and his goals. In today's news, he's just received an endorsement from Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. And, in a flashback to last year, in June he toured campuses...
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September 20, 2005
Our "American" legislators in Sacramento continue thinking up creative new ways to give rights to illegal aliens. Consider, for instance, a bill from Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont that's now sitting on Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk: The bill requires the police to return vehicles to their registered owners who present a valid...
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September 18, 2005
There's a long article here on California State University Monterey Bay. The author is disgruntled former professor there, but it doesn't exactly sound like such a wholesome American place. CSUMB could as easily have been named CSU-Affirmative Action. CSUMB is unique among American state colleges in that it was conceived...
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September 16, 2005
Details here. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday joined Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, and other federal lawmakers in urging Congress to help California repair its aging system of levees. Schwarzenegger, who is expected to announce today his bid for a full term as governor, wants an additional $90 million for levee...
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September 15, 2005
The Los Angeles Dog Trainer-Enquirer-Times announces that "Schwarzenegger All But Declares Reelection Bid" and that fine paper has no doubt already prepared itself to act once again as little more than a mouthpiece for the Democratic candidate. ...Speaking at a special election campaign event in this Central Valley town near...
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September 14, 2005
Shocking news out of Frisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom has informed his subjects that in the case of a natural disaster or terrorist attack, they should be prepared to be on their own for up to 72 hours. At a press conference, he uttered: "If Hurricane Katrina didn't prove it to...
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September 12, 2005
The SacBee wants to know: "Even the most thorough planning will be defeated somewhere," said Jeffrey Mount, a state Reclamation Board member. "You expect to have failures, you expect to have surprises, but not total, complete breakdown." The Central Valley, while as much in danger's path as New Orleans, is...
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September 11, 2005
I'm not familiar with the upsides and downsides of this bill. If it wasn't passed by our legislators in Sacramento, that probably means there's something good about it. But, it's also supported by the Sierra Club, meaning there's probably something wrong with it. Nonetheless: A bill that some called a...
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September 09, 2005
A Field Poll of registered California voters reveals that: 49% are "extremely" concerned about illegal immigration... 32% are "somewhat" concerned about illegal immigration... And, asked if Arnold should declare a "border emergency", these percentages said yes: 44% overall 62% among Republicans 35% of Latinos On the downside, 56 percent oppose...
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The far-lefties in the California legislature have rejected Arnold Schwarzenegger's choice to be head of the DMV, Joan Borucki. Given their continued attempt to give California ID to citizens of Mexico and other countries, one wonders exactly what's going on here. Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, said the...
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September 08, 2005
Well. CalInsider smacks some loony lefties upside the head: This position paper [PDF file] out today from three groups that claim to represent the interests of women and minorities gives their reasons for opposing Proposition 77, the redistricting reform initiative... Some day we will outgrow the notion that we need...
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September 01, 2005
A favorite BushBot, Hugh Hewitt, has a column entitled "Kiss of Death" about the 48th District race in Orange County. It starts out like this: IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, John McCain teamed with Ted Kennedy to propose a new bill to "solve" the illegal immigration problem. The McCain-Kennedy bill...
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August 30, 2005
Fabian Nunez is the Speaker of the California Assembly, and he's returned from a four-day trip to Mexico designed to smooth over our troubled relations with that fine country. Unfortunately, based not just on this trip but on his entire career, I'm a little bit confused over which country he...
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August 28, 2005
From "Mexican execs tell Nunez they feel rejected by state": Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez said Mexican business executives told him yesterday they feel "totally rejected" by California political leaders, a contrast to their warm relations with Texas officials. After a private meeting with a dozen business leaders here, the Los...
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August 26, 2005
Honestly: wouldn't it be best for both countries if California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez would just stay in Mexico? He seems to be having so much fun on his vacation it's a shame it has to end. John Rice of the AP reports: Fabian Nunez could hardly stop grinning. The...
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Fabian Nunez, Democrat and Speaker of the California Assembly visited Mexico yesterday to speak to his president Vicente Fox. The plan? To try to smooth over ruffled feathers by Arnold Schwarzenegger's outrageous semi-support for enforcing our immigration laws, as well as Nunez' suggestion that Arnold declares a border emergency: ...the...
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August 22, 2005
Mark Skeen is the executive vice president of the San Jose Fire Fighters Union. He also appears in an anti-Arnold Schwarzenegger ad, but he's only identified (AFAIK) as a firefighter, and not as a union executive. The TV commercial is one of the sleazy ads that discusses a remark from...
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August 19, 2005
From the site of the Orange County chapter of the National Youth Rights Association comes this tidbit: Late last month, members of the newly formed NYRA-OC traveled to Sacramento where, joined by members of the Berkeley chapter, they convinced the Executive Board of the California Democratic Party to unanimously call...
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August 12, 2005
CA Supremes voted 4-2 in favor. Developing... UPDATE: See "Supreme Court allows redistricting initiative on November ballot" for the details....
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July 22, 2005
As previously discussed, a Superior Court judge has ordered that Prop. 77 be removed from the ballot, based on a suit brought by Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Based on the comparison provided by the LAT, here are the two versions side-by-side. Note that this is just from one section; what...
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July 21, 2005
A Superior Court judge has ordered Arnold Schwarzenegger's redistricting measure (Proposition 77) to be removed from the ballot. Arnold may appeal. The given reason is that there were differences between two versions of the measure used in the run up to it being placed on the ballot, and the judge...
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Dan Walters has a rather unremarkable column entitled "Debate over immigration never ends" that roundsup the attempts by Americans to end illegal immigration, and the attempts by those on the other side to encourage more of it. It includes the following: To many, illegal immigrants are simply human beings seeking...
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July 20, 2005
No, not one of my favorite (no, really) comics, but Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands). He voted against a bill that would have tied foreign aid to Mexico to them extraditing cop killers who've fled to that country. Details of yesterday's protest in "Group wants Lewis ousted": Holding posters and waving...
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July 06, 2005
The bill that would have created a California Border Patrol didn't make it out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Apparently the members of that committee simply ignored the arguments that the federal government would allow California to create such a force, instead relying on outdated laws and cases. From "Curbs...
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July 05, 2005
Jim Sanders of the SacBee offers a profile of what might be California's leftiest assemblypersonage, Jackie Goldberg, entitled "Berkeley free-speech leader now speaks her mind in Assembly". We learn many fun and interesting things from this profile: - as a child, she appeared on Art Linkletter's "Art Linkletter's House Party"...
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June 17, 2005
A coalition of groups - all of which are completely non-biased and are not left-wing groups by any stretch of the imagination - have proposed a "model bill" to serve as a replacement for the redistricting plan proposed by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. AP report in "Groups propose model for...
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June 10, 2005
California Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg is the author of a bill that would limit "instructional materials" to be used in kindergarten through 8th grade to 200 pages in length or less. Yes, that's right, Sacramento now wants to micro-micro-manage the lives of Californians right down to the number of pages in...
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June 08, 2005
CA Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Rey) - a candidate for Secretary of State - was recently voted off California's Senate Appropriations Committee. By her fellow Democrats. Why? Because she failed to blindly agree to spending millions of dollars. Apparently she spent six years getting information on what the Dems...
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June 03, 2005
Worthless enough to try to pass a law forbidding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's smoking tent. From the analysis of AB 616: Current law prohibits smoking within 20 feet of a main entrance or main exit of a state, county or city building. However, there is not a law governing outdoor areas,...
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June 02, 2005
No, there is the fairly good possibility that things will not end in the complete meltdown of the state and it eventually physically separating itself from the mainland and being crushed by the Pacific, a new report reveals. According to the Public Policy Institute of California's new report "California 2025:...
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May 25, 2005
The California Legislature was recently given a pay raise by an independent commission. Before each of our 120 reps was getting $99,000 per year. In the future, they might get $110,880 per year. That works out to just $1.44 million, a mere drop in the bucket. Now, as for that...
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My title again! MSM report actually titled "Chicago Protesters Greet Gov. Schwarzenegger". Schwarzenegger was in the city to attend a private fundraiserevent at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, but several local nurses protested outside the facility... The local nurses are supporting their California counterparts who say Schwarzenegger may try...
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The SB Sun family of newspapers reports on the anti-Arnold rally yesterday in which busloads of "immigrants" were brought to Sacramento to support illegal immigration. After the comments previously discussed and a few others of the same level demanding massive state benefits for all, we get this: Schwarzenegger spokesman Vince...
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May 22, 2005
Domenico Maceri, an Italian immigrant and teacher of foreign languages at Allan Hancock College in Ventura County, offers us the charming guest editorial "Arnold plays politics with immigration". It hews to Template #3: "Arnold is attacking defenseless undocumented immigrants and stirring up hatred to become popular again." From the screed:...
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May 19, 2005
From this: Assemblyman Ray Haynes' proposal to create a state immigration police force to help patrol the border and enforce immigration laws statewide could meet resistance from the federal government and be disputed in the courts... Haynes, R-Temecula, cites a 1996 provision of a law that allows state and local...
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May 14, 2005
On either March 8 or 9 of 2004 the Los Angeles Times printed a story about California Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg (Democrat-Los Angeles) getting married to her long-time lesbian partner Sharon Stricker up in San Francisco (during Gavin Newsom's big moment). The L.A. Times story is no longer online, but it...
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May 12, 2005
The Riverside Press-Enterprise informs us in "Churches target governor" that the California Council of Churches doesn't like Arnold's support of the Minuteman Project. At the very end of their article, we get this: ...The California Council of Churches represents 1.5 million members of mainstream Protestant and Orthodox churches, said council...
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May 10, 2005
Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California say that a tsunami could form in Lake Tahoe. It would require an earthquake of magnitude 7 or higher. Because the lake is the 10th deepest in the world, that would magnify the effect. The result: waves 10...
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May 08, 2005
I have trouble believing it, but I believe the S.F. Chronicle has tacitly endorsed both Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Minuteman Project. On Sunday they published "Gov. Vigilante: Just another white guy in a pickup truck" from Marxist UC Irvine professor and "intellectual" Mike Davis. This is apparently a guest editorial,...
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May 03, 2005
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's comments about illegal immigration have sent the MSM into a frenzy of lies and misleading statements. I provide a long survey of the recent anti-Arnold articles here. Sources mentioned include: AP, LAT, NYT, SacBee, SDUT and the SF Chronical. On a hubristic side note, one will...
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April 16, 2005
LAT: California Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata (D-Oakland) intervened in a dispute with regulators to help a West Hollywood company maintain lucrative billboards on freeways in Los Angeles and Orange counties, records show. Perata intervened in 2001 the day after the company, Regency Outdoor Advertising Inc., reported giving a...
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April 09, 2005
SACRAMENTO - Sequestered in private policy retreats at posh resorts in San Diego and Newport Beach, Assembly lawmakers billed taxpayers $2,000 for a Mexican buffet, $1,900 for shuttle van service, $26 for a pound of deluxe mixed nuts and $22 for valet parking. And $42 for a dozen cookies. The...
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April 07, 2005
No, it's not a headline from Eye on Springfield. It's in Moab, Utah: A 10-million-ton pile of radioactive waste that has been polluting the Colorado River for decades will be moved under a plan announced yesterday by the U.S. Department of Energy. The decision comes after years of heated...
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April 06, 2005
Never let them say that California's legislature isn't looking out for you. Very, very closely looking out for you. Under legislation sponsored by CA Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Rey), sites like live-shot.com would be banned from setting up in our fair state. Not only that, but quoting from the...
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April 04, 2005
While The Lonewacko Blog continues to express and/or wish to express its love and affection for nurses, the same cannot be said for the California Nurses Association. In addition to sleazy gender baiting, they're also leading a sleazy far-left protest tomorrow against Arnold in San Francisco: Add in the governor's...
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April 01, 2005
Wouldn't it be nice to go for a hike with California's own Sen. Barbara Boxer? Via email: The recent rains filled lakes and reservoirs, turned California's hillsides green, and have given us an amazing display of wildflowers... Yes, aren't they beautiful? And, look, there's a fawn! Wait, what's that discordant...
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February 25, 2005
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's state-issued PDA was recently stolen from his house in 'Frisco. He had left the window partly open, but he says it was opened even further. He also wiped a smudge off the window before filing the police report. Nothing else of note appears to have...
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February 21, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO -- Could Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have another "woman problem" on his hands? He has made headlines in recent months by deriding political opponents as "girlie men" and publicly ridiculing a group of nurses at a state women's conference. His latest effort to paint the state's teachers as little...
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February 17, 2005
CalInsider: The Manhattan Institute has published a national study of high school graduation rates that ranks California 38th among the states, at 67 percent. For white students, the state is ranked 22nd, at 76 percent. You can find the full report in pdf form here....
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February 04, 2005
From this: With soaring housing costs, bad schools, horrendous traffic jams and a dearth of well-paying jobs, Southern California's once-golden lifestyle continues to dim, a scorecard released Thursday by the regional planning agency shows. The seventh annual State of the Region report by the Southern California Association of Governments [a...
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"5 with Prop. 71 campaign land jobs at new institute": ...Five people who worked on the stem cell initiative that voters approved in November are among the first eleven employees of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which will dole out $3 billion in stem cell research grants... "There still...
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Exotic deer have worn out their welcome at Point Reyes National Seashore, and the National Park Service has decided it's time to wipe them out... The alternatives range from doing nothing to shooting the deer. The park service's preferred option involves killing most of them and treating the remainder...
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January 04, 2005
The SacBee offers that and several other earnest ukazi from our nannies in Sacramento....
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December 23, 2004
Dan Walters has the scoop: ...This is what Schwarzenegger said in the transcript of the interview, which was conducted in English: "I think that right now the Republican Party is all the way from the right to the center. And the Democratic Party is all the way from the left...
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December 12, 2004
"Bustamante lashes out at governor in speech": MONTEREY - Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante ripped into Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Monterey on Friday, accusing the governor of playing presidential politics and engaging in hypocrisy on the use of steroids. Bustamante, the top elected Democrat in California who lost badly in the...
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November 10, 2004
Catchy slogan that, and somewhat self-enforcing for the "Committee to Explore California Secession". Despite the URL, "Move On California is the website of the Committee to Explore California Secession and is not affiliated or funded by moveon.org or any corporation, political action committee or other special interest." I'm strangely unconvinced....
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October 14, 2004
SacBee: Nearly six months after giving the first statewide exam to identify students who aren't prepared for university-level course work, California State University officials found that nearly 80 percent of high school juniors they tested are not ready for college English. The same test - called the Early Assessment Program...
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September 26, 2004
Duh duh duh duh duh d'duh: As one of the broadest probes of wrongdoing in the history of San Jose government begins, ethical and legal scholars are questioning if the independent investigator assigned by the city to conduct the inquiry is fit to do so -- especially if it means...
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September 21, 2004
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed needle-exchange legislation. While I would generally support this on public health rather than ideological grounds, the devil is in the details. My casual read of the bill in question reveals there are no safeguards to ensure or at least encourage that those who get these...
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September 04, 2004
Duh duh duh d'duh: Seeking to end a searing, months-long controversy, San Jose City Manager Del Borgsdorf on Friday concluded his investigation into the city's bungled City Hall technology deal with Cisco Systems by laying all blame on three administrators who already have resigned or been demoted... But the report...
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August 04, 2004
From this: The man who helped launch the recall drive that made Arnold Schwarzenegger governor of California began a campaign on Wednesday to send the state's legislators home for most of the year. Conservative populist Ted Costa said he was introducing an initiative to make California's Democratic-dominated year-round Legislature a...
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July 18, 2004
The Scotsman doesn't have more information than other papers, but it does have a more entertaining headline: ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the United States have unearthed a cooking hearth in the Sierra Nevada where they believe members of the Donner Party gathered for meagre meals in the months before starvation led to...
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July 15, 2004
The Urban Legends site Snopes has a report on the Jeremiah Denton incident: Claim: Vietnam veteran (and former POW) Admiral Jeremiah Denton was prevented from speaking before the California Assembly on Independence Day 2004. They determine that, of course, the claim is true. Readers of this blog already knew this....
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July 07, 2004
California Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy on the largely ignored Jeremiah Denton story: In March, the Democrat leadership gave its blessing to a boisterous martial arts demonstration in the Assembly chamber. This week, they refused to allow one of America's great war heroes to give a patriotic speech at a Fourth of...
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Governor Arnold has come out in favor of Proposition 69: Proposition 69 requires convicted felons and those arrested for rape and murder to give DNA, collected by mouth swab, not blood, for a statewide database. Starting in 2009, all felony arrestees will also be tested, but those not convicted can...
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July 03, 2004
NewsMax has picked up the story covered in yesterday's post: "Calif. Dems Block July 4th Tribute to Vietnam Hero". It's based on John Campbell's report, with no new information. But, to recap: Democrats usually turn livid over the slightest hint that their patriotism is being challenged. But the actions of...
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July 02, 2004
From Assemblyman John Campbell: In each of the 4 years that I have been a member of the state Assembly, we have had many "celebrations" on the Assembly floor. These "celebrations" are orchestrated by the Democrats who control the House and often involve singing and dancing. Every one of my...
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June 25, 2004
On October 03, 2003, in response to the L.A. Times' Arnold hit-pieces, The Lonewacko Blog posted a wonderfully entertaining satire entitled "ARNOLD TRIED TO EAT FLUFFY". Now, Arnold is trying to kill Fluffy, Rover, Pecky, and all your other favorite pet groups. Note also that that article is entitled 'Schwarzenegger...
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June 20, 2004
The San Jose Mercury does some good for a change and has an expose of San Jose's plans to spend $45 million on outfitting their new City Hall: When Mayor Ron Gonzales enters his glitzy conference room atop San Jose's new City Hall, he could dim the lights with his...
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May 22, 2004
Limiting cell phone usage is a common goal of many legislatures, but California’s lawmakers want to up the ante, adding more than that to the list of what motorists can and can’t do behind the wheel. A bill passed by the California state Senate would subject drivers who: talk on...
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May 05, 2004
Self-esteem guru and scheming California politician John Vasconcellos' attempt to lower the voting age is crawling forward: A state senator’s proposal to lower California’s voting age to 14 passed its first legislative test Wednesday on a party-line vote of the Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee. With Democrats in support and...
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April 13, 2004
I don't know whether this is what Bustamante wanted or not; it's certainly not as good as the $9 million they could have fined him: Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante paid a record $263,000 fine for violating state limits on accepting campaign donations, California's Fair Political Practices Commission said today. The...
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March 30, 2004
The article 'Kerry offers aid in capital visit' appears in the SacBee, but I occasionally thought it might be in the Onion: Presidential hopeful John Kerry said Monday that "help is on the way" to California if he is elected, suggesting that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would be better off if...
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March 26, 2004
Only in California! Specifically, the town that gave us Ebonics: [Oakland Councilman Danny Wan] wants to cultivate a gay community in the area known as Eastlake [east of Lake Merritt], by using the business development and marketing powers of the area's nascent Redevelopment Agency to turn a tumble-down neighborhood into...
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March 12, 2004
Here's an OC Register editorial on John Vasconcellos' attempt to get the vote to 14-year-olds: First of all, a significant number of California's high school graduates are already functionally illiterate, so extending rights to other cognitively challenged citizens seems only fair. Furthermore, voters in Depends constitute one of the fastest-growing...
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March 11, 2004
The bill that would lower California's voting age to 14 is now available online. It seems pretty straightforward, except perhaps the use of the word "authorize" in the following section: Existing provisions of the California Constitution authorize a United States citizen 18 years of age and a resident of this...
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March 08, 2004
CA State Senator John Vasconcellos, D-Santa Clara, wants to give partial votes to those 14 years old and up: Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-Santa Clara, proposed the idea alongside three other lawmakers, saying the Internet, cellular phones, multichannel television and a diverse society makes today's teens better informed than generations of...
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March 03, 2004
California Insider says the following: It looks as if you can add Proposition 56 to the long list of ballot measures on which the state’s Democratic establishment and its voters haven’t seen eye to eye. It really is amazing when you think about the record over the past 10 to...
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March 02, 2004
Attorney General Bill Lockyer today will file multiple felony charges of falsifying documents against a key aide to former Gov. Gray Davis, stemming from her involvement in the state's troubled bid to buy Oracle Corp. database software, sources said....
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February 28, 2004
From the SacBee: California firms find doing business here so difficult that 40 percent of those surveyed plan to move some jobs out of state and 50 percent will not add jobs within the state, according to a study released Thursday. The report, issued by the California Business Roundtable, said...
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February 19, 2004
CA State Assemblyperson Jackie Goldberg has got herself arrested during a protest of the supermarket strike: LOS ANGELES - More than 40 people were arrested Thursday during supermarket rallies in support of grocery clerks idled by a four-month strike and lockout. The granddaughter of late farmworker union leader Cesar...
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February 17, 2004
Here are the top contributors to the Yes on 56 campaign: Service Employees International Union, $6 million California Teachers Association, $1.7 million California Federation of Teachers, $911,000 California School Employees Association, $374,000 California Faculty Association, $254,000 Full story here: Public employee unions, dependent on a steady stream of taxpayer dollars...
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February 15, 2004
The chart (from ArnoldWatch.org) includes this Arnold quote: "Any of those kinds of real big, powerful special interests, if you take money from them you owe them something". See also "Schwarzenegger patrons provide money, support": Schwarzenegger is turning increasingly to a core group of 10 old friends and business...
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October 15, 2003
From Jill Stewart's interview with an anonymous L.A. Times reporter who worked on the Arnold expose: "The mainstream press critics like those published on Romenesko are asleep as to what has happened here. They are defending the L.A. Times in every way. There should be no defense by media critics...
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October 08, 2003
Check out the county-by-county map of who received the majority of votes in the recall election. Without the Silicon Valley, the East Bay, Marin County, and San Francisco County, California might be able to pull itself out of the mess it's in. Perhaps they could be encouraged to secede, becoming...
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October 03, 2003
SANTA MONICA, CA - Pictured above is little 5 year old Becky Martin of Santa Monica who, in a stunning revelation that the Lonewacko Blog exclusively is reporting, claims that California gubenatorial candidate Arnold Schwartzenegger tried to eat her pet cat 'Fluffy.' "I was walking down the street with...
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October 02, 2003
From Jill Stewart's "Closet Wacko Vs. Mega-Fibber" column of November 27, 1997, reprinted here: I have this file, labeled Gray Davis, that for the last few years I've been stuffing with all the bizarre little tales that are quietly shared among journalists and political insiders about the man who, though...
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August 12, 2003
According to this: All told, there were four attacks on our people [Recall Gray Davis supporters]... Our supporters were kicked, punched, beaten and tackled. There were several men attacked, a 20-year-old woman and then the “WAR” [Workers Against the Recall] thugs chased after and harassed, screamed at and terrorized a...
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[UPDATE: Darn, darn, gosh golly gee, and darn. The following analysis is all wrong. It's the candidates that rotate, not the wacky rearranged alphabet. So, until the complete list of candidates is announced, it's not possible to tell in which Assembly districts the popular candidates will appear at the top...
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August 11, 2003
California Insider reports that: the Sacramento Bee leads with the story on Democrats rapping Arnold for having voted for Prop. 187 in 1994. That was the initiative that sought to end most public services to illlegal immigrants. Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres hit him on that, and for having former...
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August 09, 2003
Many of your questions about the upcoming California recall can be answered by viewing these pictures. They were shot earlier today at the Los Angeles County registrar's office in the last hour before the 5pm deadline to file. All told, 125 people have filed statewide, however some of those will...
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August 07, 2003
California Insider enabled comments for one post, and it contains the following: I am just one more Hispanic Democrat who plans on leaving the party. I have no real representation anymore. The democrats have abandoned me for illegals and other freeloaders... Maybe those who support Cruz Bustamante will wise up...
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Here's a list of anti-Arnold smears, derived from a list at IndyMedia....
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August 03, 2003
According to Drudge: "[Joe "Gray" Davis] would file a legal challenge on Monday to the Oct. 7 recall election that if successful would delay the vote until March and would allow Davis to run as a replacement to himself..." Full story here....
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July 29, 2003
I'd like to take this opportunity to propose a completely new phoneme and its corresponding diacritical mark for English. The mark will be the ' sign (single quote). That mark will precede a word, and will indicate that one should "cough out" that word. Here, let's try it out: It's...
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July 28, 2003
Supposedly, Hillary and Bill are going to campaign against the recall....
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July 25, 2003
Audie Bock (NEW!) Gary Condit (NEW!) Leon Panetta (NEW!) Gray Davis Peter Camejo Arianna Huffington Michael Huffington Michael Savage Jack Kemp (appearance cancelled) "Melrose" Larry Green Darrell Issa Arnold Schwarzenegger (tentative) Bill Simon Paul Simon/Art Garfunkel Dick Riordan Tom McClintock Nanci Pelosi Fugly the Klown Huell Howser Abe Vigoda Ricky...
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July 24, 2003
OK, so maybe my support for Peter Camejo was a bit half-hearted (see the previous entry). What about talk show host Michael Savage? Some say he got a bad rap from MSNBC and others of even lower repute. And, Savage says he's considering running. Here's his platform: Enforcing Proposition 187,...
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Let this serve as official notice that the Lonewacko Blog is throwing its full support behind Peter Camejo (Green - Mars) for California Governor to replace Gray Davis. We need a Governor who cares about solar power, now that Jerry Brown is mayor of Oakland. Plus, just as important, Camejo...
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July 23, 2003
A short transcript is here. (That's an 84kb PDF file). It doesn't have too much more damning than that already presented here. It does, however, confirm that the words uttered by Jackie were "Oh, shit."...
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July 22, 2003
Here's what "progressive" Democrat CA Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg says about the residents of California when she thinks no one is listening: "Some of us are thinking that maybe people should see the pain up close and personal, right now." That's from the SacBee story "Lawmakers' hush-hush talk broadcast live": Unbeknown...
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July 19, 2003
From "Arianna touted as recall alternative": The possibility of the SUV-hating Arianna squaring off against the Hummer-loving Arnold for the right to replace Gov. Gray Davis is creating a buzz from San Francisco to Santa Monica. One eager supporter has already dubbed the potential matchup "The Hybrid vs. the Hummer..."...
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June 25, 2003
So far it's just a small collection. It includes a link to an online discussion board which is in dire need of an index rather than just a big page with all the comments on it. I'm one to talk....
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June 24, 2003
Even if he ends up resigning, Cruz Bustamante* would probably only be the temporary Governor; as long as all the other conditions of the recall had been met, the recall election would go forward, and the winner would be the new Governor. That's discussed here, and the Elections Code Section...
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June 15, 2003
From this: Darrell Issa, a Republican congressman trying to become California's next governor by financing a recall campaign against Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, on Saturday suggested the GOP unite by nominating a single candidate to seek the governorship and by focusing on the state's $38.2 billion budget shortfall instead of...
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May 29, 2003
From "Davis makes pre-emptive strike on recall camp": Although Davis denied it, his visit [to the Morongo Indian Reservation near Palm Springs] appeared to be a pre-emptive move. Morongo and other wealthy, politically powerful tribes are being courted by the Davis recall campaign. While none has signed on so far,...
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May 26, 2003
According to this: the Davis administration will announce that Steve Smith will leave his government post as secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency to work on anti-recall activities. Smith is no ordinary bureaucrat chipping in for the cause. He is one of Davis' few longtime political allies...
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May 21, 2003
"State monitored war protesters: Intelligence agency does not distinguish between terrorism and peace activism" describes a CA state agency that collects information on terrorist and "terrorist" groups. It includes plenty of damning quotes: "You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting...
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April 29, 2003
From the LAT: SACRAMENTO — Identification cards issued by Mexico, already accepted by Los Angeles and 14 other local governments in California, would have to be honored by all cities and counties under a bill that cleared the Assembly on Monday. Proponents say widespread acceptance of the cards would make...
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Got this via email from Feinstein's office: April 29, 2003 Mr. The Lonewacko Blog at lonewacko.com/blog Dear Mr. Blog at lonewacko.com/blog: Thank you so much for contacting me to share your thoughts and concerns. Currently, I receive approximately 30,000 letters and e-mails a week. This is input that I value...
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April 22, 2003
From this: — A planning and engineering firm co-owned by Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband has won a Pentagon contract that could be worth up to 600 (m) million dollars... Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, serves on the company's board of directors. He controls about 24 percent of its stock. The new...
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April 10, 2003
According to this, Ahnold recently met with Karl Rove....
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March 12, 2003
ColdFury links to this SacBee story: Lawyers for Gov. Gray Davis and state Controller Steve Westly announced an agreement Monday that ended a weeks-long impasse over midyear budget cuts and could lead to a tripling of the annual vehicle license fee -- without a vote of the Legislature or the...
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March 07, 2003
More here: In a blow to the fledgling campaign to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, California's pre-eminent Republican signature-gathering firm will not help sign up voters for fear of poisoning its relationships with other clients... In the second development, lawyers for California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley told Costa that...
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February 06, 2003
Here's more on the effort to recall Gray Davis....
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February 05, 2003
This group wants to do that, but they need 898,000 valid signatures. I'll have to look into this in more detail later....
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January 24, 2003
News here, discussion here....
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January 16, 2003
Details here: A grand jury will begin taking testimony Tuesday about the state's now-rescinded computer software contract with the Oracle Corp., and a key lawmaker is predicting the probe will result in criminal charges.... The contract, a six-year, $95 million deal with an option for a four-year extension, was supposed...
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December 08, 2002
As this article points out: With its huge economy stalled and state revenues plunging, California has descended into its worst budget crisis in a decade and is now facing an excruciating round of budget cuts and possible tax increases... "That's a hole so deep and so vast that even if...
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November 04, 2002
It's very simple: I'm voting a straight Republican ticket, and I'm probably voting No on every Proposition and Measure. Why? While I can't stand Republicans personally at about the same level as I can't stand Democrats/liberals personally, I think the Republicans are not so much my enemy as the Dems....
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October 20, 2002
I find it difficult to agree with state Senator Kevin Murray. You know, Mr. Driving While Black. Er, better make that Driving While Black or Brown. Er, how about Driving While Being A Person of Color? But, will that include Asians or not? (Shortly after Kevin's non-prostitute-related incident, I sent...
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Proposition 52 would allow you to register to vote on the day of an election. All you'd need to do to vote would be to show up on election day with either a CA driver's license or two pieces of mail in your name, and you could vote. Not only...
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October 03, 2002
Why, look! It's hopefully-soon-to-be-former governor Gray Davis with his friends the President of the U.S. and Sparky, the "Please wait" mascot for the CA ISO! It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Gray's TV commercials have factual inaccuracies. If you want to read a few of them,...
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September 23, 2002
In his latest TV commercial, Gray Davis gives the backwards "V for Victory" sign. If you're not familiar with that particular obscene gesture, see the "palm-back v sign" section. In his commercial, he's of course not making the sign intentionally, and he doesn't make it with quite the same enthusiasm...
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