Archive for March, 2010
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Yesterday, Tom Campbell’s campaign announced that they had surpassed the $1 million fundraising mark in his bid to win the GOP senatorial primary in California. This news though can be spun both positively and negatively.
On the one hand, the numbers vindicate Campbell’s decision to leave the California gubernatorial race. In the two months since switching to the senatorial primary, he’s raised as much as he did in twelve months running for governor.
Campbell’s campaign announced in February that they had raised $700,000 in one month. It’s taken them an additional month to raise the remaining $300,000 needed to hit the million dollar mark, which means that fundraising dropped by more than half in February.
The Campbell campaign has tried its best to address the anti-Israel allegations head-on……..
The true measure of Campbell’s success in fighting off concerns about his record will be whether he reaches his fundraising goals
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Fiorina will bury Campbell with negative ads
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The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and a key ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to get the health care legislation through the House without an actual vote on the Senate-passed health care bill. You see, Democratic leaders currently lack the votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill through the House. Under Slaughter’s scheme, Democratic leaders will overcome this problem by simply “deeming†the Senate bill passed in the House – without an actual vote by members of the House.
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How quickly can a suit be filed in SCOTUS?
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For the first time, Democrats admit what Americans already know about their health care bill: it would raise premiums, it's a windfall for drug companies and insurance companies, votes were secured through backroom deals, it cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, and it raises taxes.
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Well, yeah
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A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell President Barack Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill’s immigration provisions.
The scheduled meeting comes as Democratic leaders and the White House are struggling to craft a final bill that will attract 216 votes in the lower chamber.
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If illegal aliens are given government financed health care, there will be a revolt.
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2010 California Senate Election: Republican Primary
The latest poll (DailyKos.com/Research 2000) for the June California GOP primary election for United States Senate is out.
Tom Campbell (R) 33
Carly Fiorina (R) 24
Chuck DeVore (R) 7
General election
Barbara Boxer (D) 47
Tom Campbell (R) 43
Barbara Boxer (D) 49 (52)
Carly Fiorina (R) 40 (31)
Barbara Boxer (D) 49 (53)
Chuck DeVore (R) 39 (29)
Favorable/Unfavorable
Boxer (D) 50/45 (49/43)
Campbell (R) 46/37 (38/29)
Fiorina (R) 35/43 (22/29)
DeVore (R) 34/42 (21/27)
This is, after all, a Democrat and LEFT leaning poll but there are some obvious points:
1. Barbara Boxer remains vulnerable with less than 50 per cent against all Republican challengers
2. The Republican Primary election is really between Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell. Chuck DeVore trails badly as his campaign has not gained any traction in over a year of campaigning and has to be considered out fof the race even with a large undecided (36 per cent) undecided vote.
Tags: Carly Fiorina, Chuck DeVore, Tom Campbell
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New Performance Nutrition decided to take a Sunday drive and capture the 2010 LAM course
Yes, I am walking the Los Angeles Marathon again this year. I have been training with the Los Angeles Marathon Roadrunners and hope to finish the race around 7 hours. The pace will be 16:00 minute miles.
I will be posting my splits on Twitter (if it works) and at Flap’s Dentistry Blog.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
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The radical environmental agenda of the Obama Administration has reared its ugly head and Americans are angry because it impacts JOBS.
The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.
Fishing industry insiders, who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force, had grown concerned that the public input would not be taken into account.
“When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big-game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario,” said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.
“Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard-working American families and small businesses are being ignored.
“In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President’s concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority.”
Unless more anglers speak up to their Congressional representatives so their input will be considered, it appears the task force will issue a final report for “marine spatial planning” by late March. President Barack Obama then could possibly issue an Executive Order to implement its recommendations.
President Obama has shown to be “weak” on jobs and the economy. Putting political ideology before American jobs, like he is doing with health care reform is all the hope and change we can expect.
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Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by March 18, when President Barack Obama heads to Asia. Nevertheless, analysts close to the Democratic leadership tell me they're confident the leadership will find some way to squeeze out the 216 votes needed for a majority.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indeed shown mastery at amassing majorities. But it's hard to see how she'll do so on this one. The arithmetic as I see it doesn't add up.
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It will be a reach……
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The federal government should promote choice and competition to lower health care costs while rejecting a wholesale overhaul of the nation's medical system, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said Wednesday.
Fiorina said the plan pending before Congress misses the goal of making sure every American, including those who are currently uninsured, has access to quality, affordable health care. It "creates more problems than it solves," said Fiorina, one of three Republicans competing to face three-term incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in November.
She also questioned whether the nation can afford the proposal.
Her comments came as President Barack Obama traveled to a St. Louis suburb as part of a series of town hall-style events to promote health care reform.
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Obamacare is on life support
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The California media have certainly latched on to the controversy over Tom Campbell’s Sami Al-Arian connection. The question they’re now raising is whether the self-inflicted wound is fatal. First, it was the Los Angeles Times. Now the San Jose Mercury News focuses on Campbell’s letter written on behalf of the terrorist, as well as Campbell’s inability to get his story straight:
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A deep hole indeed…..
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DeVore likes to portray himself as a protector of taxpayers, yet he still gets paid his yearly salary of around $95,000–plus a car allowance, housing allowance and per diem of around $165 tax-free dollars a day when he is in Sacramento–as he campaigns for another office while ignoring his current constituents.
As Holt put it, candidates like DeVore "are on the peoples' clock when they are campaigning."
The funny thing is, I'd imagine ol' Chuckie supports a part-time Legislature–at least once he's left it.
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Do as I say NOT as I do….. Typical career politician……
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After Campbell's ill fated support for the atrocious Prop 1-A, last year, mercifully defeated by over 60% of the voters, helping initiate the Tea Party Movement, Campbell lost all justification for seeking higher office. Like some Republicans, Campbell thought just a few more taxes will help "solve" the budget crisis. Campbell failed to understand the first rule for solvent government. It's the Spending Stupid.
No one is more more charming that Tom Campbell. He probably could out debate French President Nicolas Sarkozy in French. Tom is enormously bright and multi talented. He is only weak with economics and foreign policy.
Add on Campbell's foreign policy chops, and its time to duck. There probably has not been anyone so little deserving the republican senate nomination, since……well its hard to find a parallel. Tom Kuchel? William M. Gwin?
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Good analogy with Kuchel…..
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The California Republican Party will hold its state convention this weekend, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be lending his star power to the event.
The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday he would not be attending the three-day convention in Santa Clara because he "can't be in two places at the same time."
Schwarzenegger declined to say where he would be. His spokesman said only that the governor had a prior commitment.
Schwarzenegger has a strained relationship with the party, primarily over state spending and debt. He previously told fellow Republicans that they are "dying at the box office."
The GOP candidates seeking to succeed him, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, have featured speaking slots during the convention.
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I cannot recall a sitting GOP Governor boycotting his own party's convention.
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