Archive for May, 2010
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Later this morning, Elena Kagan will be nominated for the Supreme Court seat currently held by John Paul Stevens.
The meme has taken hold that Kagan is a stealth candidate who has avoided taking positions on important constitutional or other issues throughout her career.
But on one issue of critical importance to the left — the constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Kagan has staked out a very clear and unequivocal position: There is no constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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California U.S. Senate candidates Tom Campbell, Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore
Graphic courtesy of Calbuzz
The latest California U.S. Senate poll is out and it shows little movement with California early voting starting today, absentee ballots in the mail and the election in four weeks.
The GOP battle to face incumbent US Senator Democrat Barbara Boxer in November remains essentially unchanged. Today, former Congressman Tom Campbell defeats former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, 35% to 24%. State assembly member Chuck DeVore gets 15%. Limited movement since SurveyUSA’s previous poll. 23% are undecided: Among men, Campbell had led by 8 points, now leads by 12; among women, Campbell had led by 5, now 10. DeVore is up 5 points among voters age 18 to 49, Campbell is down 5, Fiorina is down 10. Among voters age 50+, Campbell is up 6. In California’s Inland Empire, Fiorina had led by 6 points, now trails by 5. Campbell’s lead in the Bay Area is now smaller, but his lead in greater Los Angeles is now larger.
The margin of error for the poll is 4.3% and with 23 per cent undecided, it is anyone’s race.
With Carly Fiorina in the “finally” phase of her campaign and now “on air” with a statewide television campaign, she is hoping to pull away from the pack.
Stay tuned……..
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
President Obama is the Emperor not wearing any clothes, eh?
The latest edition will be Obama’s latest – the appointment of Solicitor General Elena Kagen to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be nominated Monday to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama, a person familiar with the president’s thinking says, positioning the high court to have three women justices for the first time.
Obama will announce his choice at 10 a.m. in the East Room of the White House alongside Vice President Joe Biden and Kagan, who will also speak. The room will be filled with Kagan’s Justice Department colleagues and other guests invited to soak in one of a presidency’s biggest moments.
Obama has started making calls to Senate leaders to inform them of his choice, while his White House team is launching a broad campaign-style outreach to Capitol Hill and the media. That effort is designed to shape the national image of Kagan, an unknown figure to much of America.
Elections have consequences and with Kagen’s lack of judicial experience, yet committed leftist politics her appointment will weigh on the Obama brand. Some have talked of Kagen as Obama’s Harriet Miers.
If the Republicans play this RIGHT, they may damage the Democrats even more before the fall’s midterm Congressional elections.
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I recently received this memo from a friend who was on the mailing list for Carly Fiorina for California. I have posted the memo for your reading pleasure and have highlighted the part I found very interesting and have given my take on it below the memo itself.
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Red County has picked up this story late as well.
Read the complaints here: http://flapsblog.com/2010/04/20/ca-sen-chuck-devore-misused-california-public-funds-for-us-senate-campaign/
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The most recent blog rumor, this one at Redcounty.com, offered no links to any documents. It was given a prominent position on the website, titled with a fore-boding “Sounds Like A Possible FEC Investigation Into DeVore.†The basis for the rumor is what purports to be an “insider†memo from the Fiorina campaign’s Martin Wilson dated April 22, 2010:
“An independent group, California Citizens for Ethics in Government, has called on the California Attorney General and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate whether Chuck is using public dollars to subsidize his campaign. We’ll let the guardians of the public fisc do their job and not speculate about where this may lead.†(original underlining)
Another website which appears to be a dentist’s blog with Carly Fiorina advertising around the edge, picked up the story with this title:
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Kind of old news and the Fiorina campaign denies involvement
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I’m not abandoning Chuck just because Sarah Palin had decided to go elsewhere. As much as I’d have loved her to get on board with Mike Lee in Utah and Marlin Stutzman in Indiana (hopefully she’ll go with Ken Buck in Colorado), we don’t always have to see eye to eye. Honestly, I’d rather be batting 1000 with Jim DeMint, who is in the Senate and knows what the Senate really needs. Right now I am batting that thousand. DeMint is with Chuck DeVore. So am I.
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Red Stater and CNN commentator Erickson shows his allegience not to conservatism but to Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina who wants to be President.
Not a shocker here but can conservatives take him seriously as anything but a shill for DeMint?
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