• Audra Strickland,  Hannah-Beth Jackson,  Tony Strickland

    Audra and Tony Strickland Head to Sacramento as Hannah-Beth Jackson Concedes

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    California Republican Assemblywoman Audra Strickland and her husband Tony, the former Assemblyman and newly elected California Republican State Senator, Camarillo, California September 2008, Photo by Flap

    The election is finally over and it sends both Audra and Tony Strickland back to Sacramento.

    Less than an eyelash short of an upset marathon victory. Hannah-Beth Jackson reluctantly conceded defeat in the race for the 19th state senate district seat, more than three weeks after Election Day.

    “We really thought we could win this,” Jackson told me as she took a break from fixing Thanksgiving dinner for 10. “But I’m going to try to stay involved. I really feel like I have something to offer.”

    The Democrat’s loss means that Republican Tony Strickland will be on hand in Sacramento next week to take the oath of office with other newly elected state lawmakers. In the Legislature, Strickland will join his wife, Audra, who represents Ventura County in the 37th Assembly district, in forming one of the Capitol’s new power couples.

    Flap watched  the Strickland campaign first hand and they left little to chance. Strickland was relentless in walking precincts, working the phones, burma-shaving the street corners, and running absentee ballot/GOTV operations.

    Congrats to Team Strickland for a hard fought campaign in a dramatically Democrat year.

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  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir November 28, 2008 – Offerings of an Industry

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    This is why Barack Obama, and both political parties will be going outside the MSM to communicate directly with voters. Every Saturday President Obama will release his weekly radio address to You Tube with the concomitant GOP response. Who needs broadcast radio or the newspapers to spin the content?

    The print newspaper and magazine dominance of political thought and opinion is OVER.

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    • Democratic candidate for the 19th District State seat, Hannah-Beth Jackson has conceded to her opponent Tony Strickland.

      In an statement emailed late Wednesday night Jackson's campaign thanked her supporters and commended Jackson's "courageous and gallant fight."

      After three weeks of watching the vote counts seesaw back and forth Jackson's campaign felt she would not be able to catch up to Strickland's 900 vote lead.

      Strickland is expected to be sworn in on Monday in Sacramento. Both Strickland and his wife Audra will hold seats in the state's legislature.

    • As a political matter, the problem for the Democrat is that both Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have nearly finished counting absentee and provisional ballots. A representative of the Ventura registrar told me that they have only about 100-200 ballots left; in Santa Barbara, Joe Holland's office plans to post one more update next week, but that also is expected to include a small number of ballots.

      No one was answering the phone at the Los Angeles registrar Wednesday, and, in any case, it would be difficult to know how many of that county's uncounted votes will be in the 19th district. But Republican Strickland has creamed Jackson in that very conservative part of the district, so whatever comes out of there will favor his chances.
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      Tony Strickland wins SD-19

    • Twitter has fresh news every few seconds, on Mumbai, Bombay, #Mumbai, and @BreakingNewz.

      "Hospital update. Shots still being fired. Also Metro cinema next door," tweets mumbaiattack. "Blood needed at JJ hospital," adds aeropolowoman, supplying the numbers for the blood bank.

      A Google map of the attacks has already been set up. So has a shockingly-current Wikipedia page, which features a picture of one of the gun-toting attackers.

      The local bloggers at Metblogs Mumbai have new updates every couple of minutes. So do the folks at GroundReport. Dozens of videos have been uploaded to YouTube. But the most remarkable citizen journalism may be coming from "Vinu," who is posting a stream of harrowing post-attack pictures to Flickr.

    • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named roughly 20 new gubernatorial appointments on Wednesday, including placing a top donor on the panel overseeing the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

      Rick Caruso, a Los Angeles Republican who flirted with running for mayor, has donated more than $470,000 to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his favored ballot committees since 2005. Schwarzenegger appointed Caruso to the unpaid position on the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, which is a property some in the Legislature have said should be put up for sale.

      Caruso is also a trustee for the University of Southern California, which plays its football games at the historic stadium.
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      Caruso wimped out of a run against Antonio Villaraigosa but remains a LA City player after he leaves office.

    • An unconfirmed report out of India has the Indian Government urging Twitter users to not share specific on the scene information, and further that the Government may be trying to block Twitter in India, or is asking Twitter to block Mumbai related tweets.

      Twitter has become an international talking point today following its use by many on the scene witnesses in Mumbai after the multiple terrorist attacks there Wednesday evening local time.

      The interesting side of the report, read out on ABC Radio Melbourne at 3:10pm AEST (so no hard link, I just happened to be in the car at the time) is the notion that terrorists may be reading Twitter for intel; it’s not impossible, but notably someone in India thinks Twitter offers a bigger risk than traditional blogging or even heritage media.

      Mumbai has a strong Twitter community, which as shown by the logo in this post, even has its own regular Twitter meetups.

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    • Senator Tom McClintock released the following informal statement to his supporters today. Senator McClintock will make a formal statement to the news media Monday December 1, at the Roseville Office, 1700 Eureka Road, Suite 170 at 2:00 p.m.

      "Butte County took a little longer to come in than we had expected, but it was worth the wait. The count is now complete with the possible exception of a handful of votes in El Dorado County and the election result stands at: McClintock 185,615 and Brown at 183,840.

      The lead of 1,775 votes is a margin of victory that puts us well outside the possibility of a recount changing the outcome. To put it in perspective, it is more than twice the margin by which I lost the race for State Controller in 2002.

      The numbers came in a little late to hold a press conference today but I expect to have a formal statement at our Congressional transition office in Roseville on Monday.

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    • After the passage of Prop 8 in California, homosexuals are still howling that they don’t have “equal rights.” Hopefully, the California Supreme Court will respect the equal rights of voters by affirming Prop 8 because the howls of homosexuals are false. The truth is every person in America already has equal marriage rights! We’re all playing by the same rules—we all have the same right to marry any non-related adult of the opposite sex. Those rules do not deny anyone “equal protection of the laws” because the qualifications to enter a marriage apply equally to everyone—every adult person has the same right to marry.
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