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California United States Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in Bakersfield today with Kern Machinery President Clayton Camp
The campaign is starting to heat up and Carly Fiorina is taking it to Senator Barbara Boxer.
U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina today discussed the impact of the state’s severe water crisis on Bakersfield’s economy and called on Senator Barbara Boxer to take immediate action to bring relief to the farming community at Kern Machinery, a local, family-owned farm equipment business in Bakersfield.
“Bringing relief to the almost 40,000 California farmers and farm workers who are out of work and also to the many other family-owned, agriculture businesses in the Central Valley due to the water crisis is one of my highest priorities. There is action that can be taken today by the U.S. Senate to get water flowing to the Valley and other parts of the state, but Barbara Boxer has refused to act. I find that outrageous, particularly since in the past she has been willing to take action to help other states facing similar emergencies,†said Fiorina.
A significant amount of water cannot be transferred through the State Water Project Central Valley farms because of a biological opinion issued by the federal government that invokes the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to protect a fish called the Delta Smelt. At the same time, the state is facing three years of drought conditions. As a result of these two significant factors, the State Water Project announced it will only provide a record-low 5 percent of its usual allocation of water to its contractors next year.
Congress, however, has the authority to suspend the ESA for a period of time to provide relief to the Valley agricultural community during these difficult economic times. A measure to do just this was voted down by Barbara Boxer earlier this year. However in 2003, Boxer voted to allow an exemption to the ESA for New Mexico when that state faced a similar situation.
“Over her last 18 years in the Senate Barbara Boxer has very clearly failed to act on behalf of the people of California and specifically on behalf of California’s farmers, farm workers and all of the businesses that support our state’s largest economic sector. It is time to bring common-sense back to Washington and that is why I am running to be California’s next U.S. Senator.â€
Earlier this year, Fiorina visited the California Central Valley and wrote the following after calling for immediate federal action to get increased water supplies flowing to the region.
California’s farmers continue to wait.
Barbara Boxer is much too interested in climate change, global warming plus cap and trade legislation than dealing with the mundane survival of the Delta Smelt and preserving California agriculture.
Boxer has been AWOL for the majority of Californians and should be voted out of office next November.
Update:
Here is another news piece about the Bakersfield event.
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Yeah, Sarah, the sharpie idea did not work out so good.
Sarah Palin announced Thursday night that she ended a Hawaii vacation early because of the ruckus raised after she blacked out “McCain” on her sun visor in an effort to elude paparazzi.
Sarah’s statement:
“In an attempt to ‘go incognito,’ I Sharpied the logo out on my sun visor so photographers would be less likely to recognize me and bother my kids or other vacationers.
“I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago.
“Todd and I have since cut our vacation short because the incognito attempts didn’t work and fellow vacationers were bothered for the two days we spent in the sun. So much for trying to go incognito.”
A private vacation sounds like a better idea anyway. The paparazzi will be omnipresent and will stalk you and your family probably forever. The cost of fame.
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Chris, the recording of births has reached a new level with social media. Why not Twit pic or Twit Vid up the live action? I am positive it has been done and then on to You Tube and Flickr.
I wonder if the hospitals and birthing centers will have rules regarding HIPPA?
Just askin……
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The Mercatus Center analysis also found that Democratic congressional districts received on average almost double the funding of Republican congressional districts. Republican congressional districts received on average $232 million in stimulus funds while Democratic districts received $439 million on average.
“We found that there is a correlation [relating to the partisanship of congressional districts],†de Rugy said. Her regression analysis found that stimulus funds are expected to decrease by 24.19 percent if a district is represented by a Republican.
“During the appropriations process, you're not surprised to see the Democrats are getting more money, but in this case a lot of the money we're looking at is going through HUD [Department of Housing and Urban Development], or Department of Education, Department of Transportation etc. and they're following a formula,†she said. “But the correlation exists, and not only does it exist — when you look at how much money we're talkin
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Recession-wracked California saw one of the lowest population growth levels in history during the fiscal year that ended June 30, the state Department of Finance reported today.
California's population grew by less than one percent, adding an estimated 353,000 new residents, during the 12-month period, the department's demographers believe. The only years of lower growth since 1900 were during another period of deep recession, 1994 to 1996, when an estimated million-plus Californians left the state.
A sharply decreased level of foreign immigration, both legal and illegal, was apparently the major reason for the dropoff in population growth. The department says net migration – those moving into the state minus those that moved out – was just 37,000. It estimates that 179,000 foreign immigrants came to California during the year while 142,000 residents left for elsewhere. But the state's production of babies, its primary source of growth, remained high at 547,000, offset by 231,000 dea
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Centrist Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) said Thursday he won't vote to advance the Senate healthcare bill unless it's changed.
Nelson said more stringent restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion must be included in the bill if it is to win his vote.
"If it's not at the point where I think it needs to be with the improvements that I'm pushing — and they've made a lot of them — then I will not vote for cloture on the motion to end debate," Nelson said in an interview on KLIN radio in Nebraska.
"There's a lot of improvement on the legislation but the basic question on funding for abortion hasn't been answered yet," he said.
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Twitter is once again “frozen in time†this morning as users’ timelines fail to display the most recent tweets of those they follow. Instead, users are seeing tweets from about 10 minutes ago, and very few of them at that.
We’ve been noticing the problem for at least 30 minutes (as of 11 a.m. ET), both on Twitter’s website and in third-party applications. Twitter search, however, seems to be showing at least some tweets as they happen (and you can see all the people complaining about their timelines).
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Campbell’s thinking seems driven by two realities; he doesn’t have enough money to compete in the GOP gubernatorial primary, and the nomination may be worthless anyway as some polling shows Attorney General Jerry Brown poised to win in a landslide.
But if he shifts to the Senate contest, he will have one huge impact – and it is not his nomination, but that of Assemblyman Chuck Devore. A Campbell candidacy probably finishes off the GOP establishment favorite, businesswoman Carly Fiorina. Her base is among the Silicon Valley GOP types, as is Campbell’s, and with the declining Republican Party in California, there is simply not room for two Silicon Valley Republicans.
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Three flaws in the analysis:
1. Carly Fiorina is MORE conservative than Tom Campbell on abortion and gay marriage
2.In the latest USC poll, Campbell and DeVore derive support from the same base – lower income GOP'ers
3.Carly Fiorina will have campaign cash to run ads; Campbell, DeVore won't.
Campbell won't switch.
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Former eBay honcho Meg Whitman continues to lead the two other Republican candidates for governor next year and trails presumptive Democratic nominee Jerry Brown by only a few points, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California has found.
Whitman's 32 percent support level among Republican voters is a big lead over either former Rep. Tom Campbell at 12 percent and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner at 8 percent, but the highest proportion, 44 percent, are the undecided Republicans.
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Steve Poizner is in a dismal third position. Will he withdraw?
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Remember a decade ago when the mantra of the Bill Clinton Administration was the “era of big government is over?” And, why was this? How about record inflation, no or very slow economic growth, unemployment.
After the disastrous Jimmy Carter Administration with stagflation, malaise and foreign policy missteps, President Barack Obama is reinventing the same “BIG GOVERNMENT.”
Didn’t the LEFT learn anything from Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and the remedies of the past?
Sadly No.
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