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I just got off of the phone from a "media" conference call with the Carly Fiorina campaign team — the call was hosted by Fiorina's top campaign strategist Marty Wilson, and her media strategist Fred Davis — with some insightful tid bits from Judie Soderlund as well.
Marty Wilson opened by saying that the campaign had reached the "finally" phase — in that with a month to go, with a large number of undecided voters, it is finally time for the voters to be able to get introduced to Carly Fiorina through an aggressive voter contact campaign.
Marty said that the campaign would be focused on the "three M's" – Momentum, Message, Messengers
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I, too, was on the phone call. Most interesting is that Sarah Palin has been invited to campaign in Cali with Carly.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Chris, so President Obama is the man now, eh?
Funny, with his appeasement foreign policy, especially with regards to Iran/Israel and his liberal social policies I never quite thought of him like that. But, then again..
- The federal government forcing Americans to buy health insurance or face IRS fines under Obamacare
- Predator drones bombing the hell out of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Spending America blind and borrowing from its adversaries despite catastrophic consequences
Yeah, OK, he is, let’s say exerting influence.
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Carly Fiorina on making Washington work for California
With about four weeks to go prior to the June California Republican primary election former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will be going “on air” with an aggressive television campaign.
From the press release:
Following a momentum-building week marked by a growing list of endorsers supporting her candidacy, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina today announced a new television advertising campaign centered on two 30-second spots titled “Work†and “Jobs†that contrast Fiorina’s proven record of success with Barbara Boxer’s failed 28-year career in Washington.
“This robust advertising campaign will send a strong message to Californians: Barbara Boxer has a 28-year record of failure in Washington, and I have the real-world experience it will take to beat her. Like many Californians, I have had enough of a government that is out of control and out of touch. Together, we can take Washington back, make it listen and make it work,†said Fiorina.
This advertising blitz follows on the heels of Fiorina’s earlier television advertisement, “Something Done†and her radio advertisement, “Bringing America Back.†The ads will begin airing statewide on Sunday on both broadcast and cable.
And, California absentee ballots are “in the mail.” I have already received my official voter guide.
Here is the second ad, jobs:
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I was intrigued when I saw this Tweet from Carly Fiorina:
Hmm, sounds like Team DeVore just called Palin a Sheepdog… Generating fake outrage over endorsement #casen
…so I decided to check out the reaction of Chuck DeVore's campaign team to Governor Palin's endorsement of Carly Fiorina in the California Senate primary. And yes, they did indeed send out a press release using that terminology.
This grassroots movement is actually a grassroots movement. Carly Fiorina thinks she can find the sheepdog to corral the sheep.
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Put a fork in DeVore and Trevino. This dynamic duo are DONE.
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Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Debate Drinking Game
Take half a sip or shot depending on your beverage preference every time: (we feel the half-shot is important to avoid total inebriation within the first 20 minutes of the debate):
> Any candidate uses the term "fiscal conservative"
> Chuck DeVore or Tom Campbell reference their respective pocket Constitutions
> Chuck DeVore and Tom Campbell compliment, praise or otherwise seek to uplift one another
> Carly says, "Chuck, you know that's not true…"
> Any candidate says they are the best one to beat Boxer
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Folks will be pretty drunk by the end of the hour
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If you're inclined to see Palin as a genius, either an evil one or a nice one, you'd argue that she's endorsing Fiorina because she wants a combined ticket of moderates (Meg W., Carly F.) to lose the gubernatorial and Senate races, (thereby further angering California Republicans, driving them to the right, preventing Mitt Romney from having an endorser (Whitman) as governor, leaving them hungry for a conservative — Palin. Somehow, this theory also extends to preventing other conservatives from getting endorsements in states like California. This theory has been proposed to me, and I must say, it tangles a few synapses.
I'd prefer the shorter, simpler explanation: Palin wants to a pick a winner, she wants to go where her supporters are, and she might simply just enjoy Fiorina's sparking personality.
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Very good read of California politics
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I’d like to tell you about a Commonsense Conservative running for office in California this year. She grew up in a modest home with a school teacher dad, worked her way through several colleges, and then entered an arena where few women had tread. Through a combination of hard work, perseverance, and common sense, she proved the naysayers wrong to reach the top of her field, where she led with distinction – facing hard truths, making tough decisions, and showing real leadership through a rocky transition period. Where others had failed, her company had weathered the storm and settled on a stronger new foundation.
Her name is Carly Fiorina, and I’m proud to endorse her for U.S. Senate.
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This will make Carly Fiorina the GOP nominee
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American officials said Wednesday that it was very likely that a radical group once thought unable to attack the United States had played a role in the bombing attempt in Times Square, elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American soil.
Officials said that after two days of intense questioning of the bombing suspect, Faisal Shahzad, evidence was mounting that the group, the Pakistani Taliban, had helped inspire and train Mr. Shahzad in the months before he is alleged to have parked an explosives-filled sport utility vehicle in a busy Manhattan intersection on Saturday night. Officials said Mr. Shahzad had discussed his contacts with the group, and investigators had accumulated other evidence that they would not disclose.
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Sources tell CBS News that would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list – Traveler Enforcement Compliance System (TECS) – between 1999 and 2008 because he brought approximately $80,000 cash or cash instruments into the United States.
TECS is a major law enforcement computer system that allows its approximately 120,000 users from 20 federal agencies to share information. The database is designed to identify individuals suspected of or involved in violation of federal law.
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Good Job, Big Sis and Obama
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Carly Fiorina has been the CEO of technology giant Hewlett-Packard, studied six languages, traveled the world to assist rural women in economic development, produced a best-selling book and battled breast cancer.
Now she is engaged in what may be her biggest challenge yet – a combative California Republican primary race for U.S. Senate.
Not bad for someone who describes herself as a "scared, shy, goody-two-shoes child" whose family moved so often she went to five different high schools, and whose father said she would "never amount to anything" when she dropped out of Stanford Law School.
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Gad – it was UCLA Law School. The SF Chronicle cannot even get basic facts straight.
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Former Alaska Governor and GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin
Yeah, I am late blogging this story since I was at the clinic today. But, I tweeted as the story broke —–>.
2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and darling of the far-right Sarah Palin threw her support behind GOP Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina today.
In a Facebook note titled “Let’s shake it up California!”, Palin praises Fiorina as a “Commonsense Conservative” who can translate her experience as a business executive to fiscally conservative governing.
“We can trust Carly to do the right thing for America’s economy and to make the principled decisions she has throughout her professional career,” the note reads.
Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Carly Fiorina on Facebook is here:
I’d like to tell you about a Commonsense Conservative running for office in California this year. She grew up in a modest home with a school teacher dad, worked her way through several colleges, and then entered an arena where few women had tread. Through a combination of hard work, perseverance, and common sense, she proved the naysayers wrong to reach the top of her field, where she led with distinction – facing hard truths, making tough decisions, and showing real leadership through a rocky transition period. Where others had failed, her company had weathered the storm and settled on a stronger new foundation.
Her name is Carly Fiorina, and I’m proud to endorse her for U.S. Senate.
Carly is the Commonsense Conservative that California needs and our country could sure use in these trying times. Most importantly, she’s running for the right reasons. She has an understanding that is sorely lacking in D.C. She’s not a career politician. She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job creation. Her fiscal conservatism is rooted in real life experience. She knows that when government grows, the private sector shrinks under the burden of debt and deficits. We can trust Carly to do the right thing for America’s economy and to make the principled decisions she has throughout her professional career.
Please consider that Carly is the conservative who has the potential to beat California’s liberal senator, Barbara Boxer, in November. I’m a huge proponent of contested primaries, so I’m glad to see the contest in California’s GOP, but I support Carly as she fights through a tough primary against a liberal member of the GOP who seems to bear almost no difference to Boxer, one of the most leftwing members of the Senate. Carly needs our support in this crucial election year when we have a real chance of putting an end to the Pelosi/Reid “Big Government†agenda.
I hope you’ll join me in supporting Carly. Visit her website here, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter. Read up on her positions and plans to help get us on the right track.
California is still Reagan Country, and Carly promises her “Reagan Conservative†values will be put to good use for her state and for our great nation. Shaking it up in California is long overdue. Let’s help Carly do it!
- Sarah Palin
Update: I’d like to add a few things about my Carly endorsement because some reaction right out of the chute calls for more information:
Carly has been endorsed by the National Right to Life, the California Pro-Life Council, and the Susan B. Anthony List. She is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-military, and pro-strict border security and against amnesty. She is against Obamacare and will vote to repeal it and prevent the government takeover of private companies and industries. Carly is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Like me, she is a member of the NRA, has a 100% NRA rating, and she and her husband are gun owners. She is pro-energy development and believes as I do in an all-of-the-above approach to energy independence. She is against cap and tax. And most importantly, Carly is the only conservative in the race who can beat Barbara Boxer. That’s no RINO. That’s a winner.
- Sarah Palin
In little less than 30 minutes, Carly Fiorina, Tom Campbell and Chuck DeVore will face off in Los Angeles in their first and only face to face televised debate. Again, I will be watching live and commenting on Twitter ——–> or Follow @Flap
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