October 13, 2009
DEPUTY SHERIFFS’ ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ENDORSE STEVE DANON FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR
The Deputy Sheriffs’ Association of San Diego County (DSA), representing nearly 2,100 sworn officers, announced today that they have endorsed Steve Danon for County Supervisor for the Third District in 2012.“Steve Danon has long been a [...]
In February, the president signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus bill, allocating $787 billion to create jobs and to stimulate the economy.
Today, according to the state of California's Employment Development Department, San Diego County is facing the highest unemployment rate [...]
This press release just came across my inbox:
HARKEY BILL TO STREAMLINE GOVERNMENT,
UPHOLD CONFLICT OF INTEREST LAWS
SIGNED INTO LAW BY GOVERNOR
SACRAMENTO — Legislation by Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, that would make county government operations more efficient by allowing other counties to hear and judge assessment appeals where a conflict-of-interest is [...]
Oceanside - December 8, 2009 is the official date of the recall election of Councilman Jerry Kern and the costs of this election are estimated to hit the Oceanside city coffers to the tune of $483,000! This cost will be a huge hit on an already beleagured budget as [...]
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for another special legislative session dealing with another issue, which means this is the sixth such declaration he has declared for 2009 alone.
The Governor has sent out a Press Release on his call for special legislative session dealing with the water crisis:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the [...]
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It’s a problem with politically active Republican Women. If you remember the commercials from the 80’s – Where’s the Beef? There's the analogy...
Meg Whitman has received a self-inflicted media beating over [...]
Brian Calle over at the OC Register asked me to cross post his article onto Red County. I think it is a very well thought out piece that points out just a few of the flaws with Michael Moore's new movie. Here is the article:
As we go into the 2010 election cycle, there is no doubt that spiraling, unsustainable public employee pension costs will and should be an important factor.
It matters what candidates for office are saying about this issue.
Red County readers should closely read this editorial from today's' [...]
(The Fail Whale is property of Twitter and signifies when the system fries from too many messages or a server outage - Multiple fail Whales can lead to an Epic Fail)
It hasn't been the five positions on Prop 8, supporting taxpayer-funded abortion, not raising taxes "right now",' [...]
Sierra College may be a small junior college in a corner of Placer County; however, this week they had a demonstration of something that is all too common in our nation’s public colleges and universities… they celebrated “Social Justice Days” (link here).
Professor Matt Archer along with a number of [...]
IF you own a business - you know what I am referring to. The Department of Compliance, Business Filings Division, Corporate Filings Division...
It seems now, right in the midst of his Gubenatorial Campaign, Jerry Brown is aggrivated. I have been getting these solicitations for about four Years. [...]
For those of you scoring in Southern California - Logue is from AD-03. The North State is important to people south of the Kern DMZ as what happens up here affects your water prices and food prices. Some Counties have unemployment over 40% because of the Delta Smelt and the [...]
On Wednesday, the San Diego Union Tribune and North County Times ran full page ads, attacking the master planned community in North San Diego County. Identified as a paid political advertisement funded by the Golden Door Spa, these ads on the good name of the spa and purported to be [...]
On Wednesday, the San Diego Union Tribune and North County Times ran full page ads, attacking the master planned community in North San Diego County. Identified as a paid political advertisement funded by the Golden Door Spa, these ads on the good name of the spa and purported to be [...]
California Secretary of State is a state Constitutional Officer position with responsibilities serving as the state's Chief Elections Officer, Charter of Corporations, Maintaining Business Filings, Commissioning of Notaries Public and serves as a Trustee of the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.
Debra Bowen is the current California Secretary of State posted the' [...]
I know my Republican friends south of the Kern Parallel are engrossed in the race to replace Assemblyman Spanky.
We have a whole bunch of stuff jumping off in Norcal - Facebook is a great resource to look at campaign info without filling your inbox.
CD05 - It [...]
I am still holding my sore neck.
The entire blog post is linked here for attribution. The portion about Whitman is pasted below - even Whitman's people can find humor in this...
As the eMeg turns: The funniest and best written second day story on Meg Whitman’s belated [...]
SEIU Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker sent a message to 95,000 State of California Union Employees (according to SEIU Website):
A message from Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker
Local 1000-Represented Employees:
There has been some anxiety and fear about taking Columbus Day as a holiday. I am asking every employee represented [...]
Meg Whitman Showed Little Interest in Politics until Barbara Boxer Came Along
Posted by Leon H. Wolf (Profile)
Read the post here in its' entirety, it makes a really good point.
I am personally wondering why the GOP Leadership is up in arms defending a' [...]
I’ve got whiplash – as the Stories Mount, do we finally see leadership!
WOW! Those of us in the North state have to pinch ourselves. We have grown accustomed to seeing Republicans getting tarred and feathered in the Sacramento Bee.
Now, some in the GOP establishment – you [...]
I am posting George Skelton's Column in its' entirety -
The premise of this column is solid - It states that Whitman doesn't know what she's talking about. (again) The very best part of this column is at the end.
The political novice who would be governor calls state [...]
Meg Whitman talks about being disengaged from the process and "Like many Americans I had a Job and a Family"... In the course of explaining herself, she called her behavior atrocious. Too Bad she doesn't understand that many Americans with jobs and families registered to vote. In the course' [...]
I decided to pick these two articles out of the literally dozens of articles following Meg Whitman's CRP Convention disaster where she had a meltdown in a press conference. This was in Palm Springs, so maybe the temperature contributed.
Fox and Hounds was prophetic:
Channel 3 - features [...]
5:34 p.m. October 1, 2009
SAN DIEGO – Fires in the Interstate 5 median between Balboa Avenue and Nobel Drive have caused problems for both commuters and firefighters, and authorities on Thursday asked for the public's help to find who is setting them.
About [...]
I had previously written here about the anemic campaign by Barbara Alby for Board of Equalization. I had also reported about the money chase here. Upon doing further investigation, I was shocked to find that Barbara Alby's $75,220 included $40,000 in loans from her to her campaign on the final day of [...]
Meg Whitman's second ever appearance at a California Republican Party convention was met with a hail of media.
Whitman's pattern has it's genesis in the past well before she was a Republican. While at Ebay, she was invloved in stock spinning, stock dumping ($30+Million!?), construction of a special' [...]
Last Thursday, The Sacramento Bee opened the floodgates, which created a firestorm of discussion among California GOP Activists relative to GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman's spotty voting record.
Yesterday, Mrs. Whitman was grilled at a press conference held at the California Republican Party Fall Convention in Indian Wells. You can read the story from the [...]
From today's San Diego Daily Transcript:
Job Creation is Job No.1
By Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher
California has always been synonymous with the American Dream. "Go west, young man, go west," they said, and people did. From the Gold Rush until today, California has been the place people aspired to achieve their dreams. [...]
Hi All - I am sure many of the insiders that read this blog got the email. I am sure some of you wish you had the 60 seconds of your life back after listening to her new radio ad that is airing statewide.
Without rehashing her abysmal record [...]
Hmmm... This has to be a major setback for Whitman.
Link to FlashReport Story
The following is an exceprt which is the thesis behind the YRFC endorsement of Poizner:
First, YRFC quickly dispelled any argument that there was not a values candidate deserving the endorsement of a [...]
A quick note to anonymous Team Whitman commenters who seem to outnumber this blogger at the moment. (Whitman has spent a lot of money so far) There is more to the Poizner story than just his failed assembly campaign of 2004.
Poizner's campaign in 2004 failed... that should be' [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009 posted by Jerome Stocks
This is a great weekend in Encinitas. The 30th Annual Wavecrest Woodie show is Saturday, September 19 from 10 AM to 3 PM at Moonlight Beach.
Arrive early, enjoy a pancake breakfast served by the Encinitas Firefighters from 8 AM to 10 AM, and then [...]
This just came in from Assemblyman Curt Hagman:
Assemblyman Curt Hagman Demands Audit and End to Any California Funding for ACORN
Assemblyman Curt Hagman – “Suspend ACORN funding immediately.”
Sacramento--Today, Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills), Vice-Chair of the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee, sent a letter to Governor Schwarzenegger requesting an Audit [...]
On September 17, 1787 our Founding Fathers ratified the Constitution of our great nation. On the 222nd anniversary of this event, what have we become as a country? The Constitution and its Amendments were created by a freedom loving group of people who had fought the hard fight [...]
A project has been trying to get off the ground since the City purchased the property in 2001.
It has caused two seperate CEQA lawsuits and cost over a million dollars to get through the environmental impact report and legal fees. What was the City proposing? A cement plant? A power [...]
This came over the transom from OC Treasurer-Tax Collector Chriss Street a few minutes ago, injecting this interestiing point into the debate over now-delayed Metropolitan Water District plans to increase the employee pension benefit:
"As the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California considers granting new pension benefits to its 20,000 employees, it [...]
Meg Whitman's voting record is horrendous and it keeps coming up, time and again. This will be a serious issue both in the Primary and in the General election should she get the Decline to State to vote for her in the GOP primary.
It seems to be a [...]
The Sacramento Bee compiled an indepth database a list of $833,000 worth of gifts which were given to the Governor and all the way down to members of the state legislature.
The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) requires all office holders, appointed officials and even candidates to file Form 700 according to the Government [...]
Forgive this Northern California Blogger for taking an interest in AD72 - but something bothers me about the proceedings here:
A recent article in the OC register puts forth that Linda Ackerman is a the Front-Runner for the 72nd AD to replace Mike "Spanky" Duvall
Ackerman given early edge [...]
Last week Senate President Pro Tem, Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento, District 6) has established a Joint Conference Committee on Water with purpose to formulate a legislation dealing with the issue of water resources (Below is partial Press Release from last week):
The conference committee is scheduled to meet today at 3 p.m. [...]
Jon Fleischman, California Republican Party Vice Chairman - South, has proposed a By-Laws change within the California Republican Party rules to forbid the DTS (Decline to State) voters to participate in the primary election of GOP Candidates.
It has been brought to my attention that Mr. Fleischman has withdrawn the By-Laws proposal for consideration [...]
In a stunning development, this blogger was contacted by an anon source from behind the Orange Curtain...
My informant told me that the Orange County Lincoln Club is set to endorse Steve Poizner over Meg Whitman. This is devastating news for Meg Whitman as her consultant spending spree has [...]
Remember how our country united after the 9/11 attacks? Everyone's individual recollection of that day is still vivid in our mind's eye. Now, eight years later we the people are fighting another attack - on our liberty. Our spirit and our resolve as one nation that we espoused [...]
Former Assemblyman Jerome Horton has been confirmed for the vacant BOE-4 seat unanimously by the Senate. Horton still needs to be confirmed by the Assembly, but it is expected they will do so shortly. Horton is the best Democrat taxpayers could hope for in LA County's ultra-liberal BOE-4 seat. If we [...]
This will be a consistent theme - the Van Whitman scandal was made far worse by the lack of information and the deliberate attempts by the Whitman campaign to sequester her. Pundits like myself are left with scant little about how she really feels about anything. It would seem that [...]
In light of Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi’s victory in the Democratic primary for the 10th Congressional district last Tuesday, speculation is rampant as to who Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will appoint to replace Garamendi, who is widely expected to win the November 3 runoff election.
If the Governor picks a current [...]
This U-Tube video is excellent and very well produced despite the difficulties in collecting the sound from the participants.
The significance of this video is that Tom McClintock lost Nevada County by 16% (and a lot of ACORN attention was focused there as well) - but here he is [...]
For the benefit of you down south - we have a few races of our own going on up here...
Everyone knows about CD10 - Republican Harmer VS John Garamendi. I predict Garamendi by 8-10 and Arnold appointing Abel Maldonado to the LG chair as a reward for his [...]
There cannot be a Red County reader out there who hasn't been reading the stories about the insolvency of government-funded pension funds.
And, of course, we've seen how there are over 5,000 state retirees making six-figure salaries in their retirement -- and multiply that number many times over to include local [...]
