Archive for November, 2009
Posted by Flap in Uncategorized
Screencap from the San Diego County GOP website
Flap has been sitting on this for a few hours but finally have confirmation that Carly Fiorina, indeed, won last night’s San Diego County Republican Party Straw Poll over Chuck DeVore.
This is a straw poll and a bit of a fundraiser but my sources within the Fiornia campaign tell me that her campaign did NOT buy any votes, i.e. when offered to purchase ballot packages they declined. Sources also tell me though that Chuck DeVore’s campaign DID buy tickets and thus votes.
So, either DeVore did not buy enough votes (remember how he manipulated the last faux straw poll), had little support of the San Diego GOP and/or Fiorina had overwhelming support.
In any case, in the first match up since Carly declared her candidacy, she won.
By the way, in the California Governor’s race, Meg Whitman beat Tom Campbell and Steve Poizner.
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Posted by Flap in Uncategorized
From Carly Fiorina’s CallMeBarbara.Com website
Carly Fiorina has come out swinging at incumbent California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. You remember the flap.
Remember GOP U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s observation last week that “I can take a punch, and I can throw a punch” in the campaign ring?
Ding!
Round 1 has begun against incumbent U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, with Fiorina’s newest ad and effort to tag the Democratic incumbent in that new CallMeBarbara.com website.
Carly’s camp, headed by campaign manager Marty Wilson, is clearly aiming to keep front and center that less-than-shining moment when she told Brigadeer General Michael Walsh to “call me Senator.” Not to mention raise questions about Boxer’s record in office.
Here is the video:
This is starting out to be a rough and tumble campaign with Fiorina going right after Senator Boxer. This campaign will be an expensive, down and dirty affair indeed.
Stay tuned…..
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Posted by Flap in Uncategorized
Although the House passed a health care reform bill this past weekend, most Americans continue to oppose the legislation.
Over the weekend, Democratic leaders spoke of an historic moment as health care reform legislation passed the House of Representatives. But that legislative victory failed to significantly move public opinion.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. Most (52%) remain opposed.
Only 25% Strongly Support the plan while 42% are Strongly Opposed.
Support for the plan has remained essentially unchanged for months.
The House bill which was passed by a few votes is going nowhere in the U.S. Senate and I doubt the Senate will be able to pass ANY comprehensive bill this year or next.
If the Congress wants to pass ANY reform legislation, they will have to start over and begin an incremental reform with bipartisanship.
Think this will happen?
Doubtful…..
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
The White House has floated a trial baloon with President Obama agreeiing to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan – bring to about 100,000 in Afghanistan. I say a trial baloon because NOW the Obama Administration is denying it.
The White House has issued the following response to this story, attributed to White House National Security Advisor James Jones:
“Reports that President Obama has made a decision about Afghanistan are absolutely false. He has not received final options for his consideration, he has not reviewed those options with his national security team, and he has not made any decisions about resources. Any reports to the contrary are completely untrue and come from uninformed sources.”
So, what is it going to be?
President Obama has dragged his feet on a troop deployment decision, putting more Americans at risk in a bloddy war.
Mr President, time to fish or cut bait.
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Now it's not like the PAC's fundraising choices were Carly's decision, Team Carly notes. Sniff…sniff…sniff…we smell a "We Are SOOOOOOO Republican" quote coming on:
"The HP PAC is employee directed and its contribution decisions are determined through a committee process that involves dozens of people," Fiorina spokesperson Julie Soderlund told us Monday. "Carly and Frank Fiorina have never personally donated to Democratic candidates and have given and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Republicans."
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Joe, what a frakking reach. Flap belongs to the American Dental Association and California Dental Association PACS which also give to Democrats.
So, I, too am a Barbara Boxer and Democrat donor.
How stupid……but then again, you are.
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I’ve been fascinated by the rise of Chuck DeVore, a Republican state assemblyman from California whose grassroots campaign against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) — and against brand-new Republican candidate Carly Fiorina — has transformed the Republican primary from a coronation to a neck-and-neck battle between conservative activists and GOP leaders. When I interviewed DeVore in May, Republican strategists were far more bearish on his chances. Why? To call DeVore an “outspoken conservative†is to make an understatement. Here, for example, is an Amazon.com review, posted by DeVore last week, of Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism.â€
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Certainly not a mainstream opinion. Is DeVore jumping off the extreme right cliff?
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Within minutes of Saturday’s historic House vote on health care reform, Republicans pronounced the political death of Rep. Thomas Perriello (D-Va.), pointing to the vulnerable freshman congressman’s vote in favor of the bill.
And in the aftermath of the politically charged vote, Perriello wasn’t the only Democratic congressman whose fortunes were being reassessed. The GOP, which voted nearly in lock step against the measure, began crowing about the demise of various other vulnerable members and seized on the moment as a milestone in the path back to a House majority.
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President Obama's victory dance yesterday for the House-passed health-care bill came as Senate foes — mainly Republicans with one key Democrat moderate — pronounced the measure mortally wounded, if not outright DOA.
Speaking from the Rose Garden after the squeaker 220-215 Saturday-night vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people."
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In California's race for governor, Meg Whitman jumped further ahead of her two GOP rivals in a new statewide poll released Sunday. And the poll also found something surprising: Men are much more likely to support the former eBay chief than women.
Forty-one percent of men 50 and older said they would support Whitman if the June primary were held today, but only 26 percent of women in that age group who are registered to vote said they would cast a ballot for her. The numbers were similar for Republicans 49 and under, according to a poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times and the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California.
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If China, the world’s most populous country, could vote next year in the U.S. Senate race in California it’s likely that Carly Fiorina would easily win the race. Fiorina, who announced her decision to challenge current U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer this week, is widely admired in China.
Fiorina’s memoir “Tough Choices†was translated into Mandarin and released in China in 2007. The book continues to be prominently displayed in book stores across the country. In it, Fiorina recounts some of her experiences in China as CEO of Hewlett Packard.
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California Republican Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and Candidate for California U.S. Senate
Chuck, your Obama birther connections are bad enough.
It draws the links between Chuck’s support last year of Floyd Brown, an architect of the famous 1988 Willie Horton campaign against Michael Dukakis. Last year, Brown created a campaign to attack then Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Said Brown: “It is absolutely critical that Obama’s negatives go up with Republicans.”
Brown’s ad focused on a 2001 vote by then-Illinois state senator Obama. He opposed a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perp was in a gang.
However, Chuck’s pals at Time magazine described the ad’s “links between Obama’s vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident’s are indirect and tenuous.”
And, I assume you do not repudiate Floyd Brown since you gave him money.
But, now, you are writing book reviews that can be called controversial at best.
I can see the ads now: DeVore Calls FDR a fascist.
Chuck, you are getting a little out there on the fringe.
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2010 LA Marathon Animated Course Map
The Los Angeles Marathon this morning announced their 2010 course map.
Check out the details here.
And, see you there on March 21, 2010 in 131 days.
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