Archive for May 24th, 2011
These are my links for May 24th from 12:01 to 19:39:
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Hannity Special “Generation Zero” Part 1, how 40 years of liberal policies have led to financial collapse – a film by Stephen K. Bannon
Either Sarah Palin is going to run for President or she will have a nice documentary she can show her great-grandchildren in a few years.
Shortly after Republicans swept last November to a historic victory in which Sarah Palin was credited with playing a central role, the former Alaska governor pulled aside her close aide, Rebecca Mansour, to discuss a hush-hush assignment: Reach out to conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon with a request. Ask him if he would make a series of videos extolling Palin’s governorship and laying to rest lingering questions about her controversial decision to resign from office with a year-and-a-half left in her first term. It was this abdication, Palin knew, that had made her damaged goods in the eyes of some Republicans who once were eager to get behind her potential 2012 presidential campaign.
The response was more positive than Palin could have hoped for. He’d make a feature-length movie, Bannon told Mansour, and he insisted upon taking complete control and financing it himself — to the tune of $1 million.
The fruits of that initial conversation are now complete. The result is a two-hour-long, sweeping epic, a rough cut of which Bannon screened privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska’s most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. When it premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin’s prospective presidential campaign — an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won’t run.
Read all of the rest.
With the Huckabee and Daniels withdrawal, I am going out on a limb and say Sarah Palin will most probably run for the GOP Presidential nomination. She has nothing to lose, except her Fox News gig and if the stories about her and Fox News’ Roger Ailes are correct, she is dead there after her three year contract expires anyway. She also saw what happened to Glenn Beck.
Yes, Sarah’s polling is not very good against President Obama. She is hoping this film and its narrative will help set the record straight. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t.
Mitt Romney and the GOP Establishment (meaning the Bush family, Karl Rove et. al.) must be going nutsoid at the prospect of her candidacy. The donors will line up three or four abreast to pour money into either Romney or Huntsman. If they start to decline in the polls, head to head with Palin, Chris Christie will be called upon to run.
Sarah Palin is the only game changer in this race and as she has said, “Mr. President, game On.”
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Perhaps and the questions are being asked of Los Angeles City Council member Janice Hahn.
The Craig Huey for Congress campaign is demanding that Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn release complete records of her office’s use of the city’s “Gold Card Desk” program. The Los Angeles City Auditor revealed that the little known program had dismissed over 1,000 tickets in a two-year period. This was also reported by ABC News in Los Angeles.
“Janice Hahn has been a Los Angeles City Council member for 10 years and for that entire time the Mayor and City Council have been secretly fixing traffic tickets through the so-called Gold Card desk,” said Huey’s consultant Dave Gilliard. “This program does not pass the smell test. The public deserves to know how many tickets Hahn’s office has helped to fix, and names of the people who have received Gold Cards from the City or Gold card desk referrals.”
Specifically, Huey’s campaign is demanding that Hahn release the following information:
1. How long that Janice Hahn has been aware of the Gold Card Desk and how long she has been using it.
2. How many people have been referred to the Gold Card Desk by Hahn’s office in each year she has held office.
3. The names of the people referred to the Gold Card Desk through Hahn’s office, and the resolution of each case.
Little things like parking ticket favoritism/corruption can swing special elections. If Janice Han is implicated, entire blocks of voters can be persuaded to abandon their party and switch over to Craig Huey.
Stay tuned….
Tags: Craig Huey, Janice Hahn
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Janice Hahn and Craig Huey will face off on July 12th in a runoff election for California’s 36th Congressional District
Perhaps or the CA-36 may be completely different in party registration demographics.
When the independent redistricting commission redraws political lines this summer, experts say it’s likely that the 36th will lose its strongly Democratic northern region around the Los Angeles International Airport. In return, the district could regain the Republican-majority Palos Verdes Peninsula.
To protect incumbent Democratic Rep. Jane Harman, who resigned in February to lead a Washington think tank, the Peninsula was sliced off the district 10 years ago and connected by thin slivers of Long Beach and San Pedro to Rep. Dana Rohrbacher’s Orange County-based 46th Congressional District.
Besides a shifting border, there’s also a second scenario, where most of the current 36th District’s territory is collapsed, possibly into the 37th Congressional District of Rep. Laura Richardson, a Long Beach Democrat who represents Carson.
Such a move could be a way to account for the population shift to Riverside and San Bernardino counties in the 2010 U.S. census, according to Fernando Guerra, director of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University.
“In other words, L.A. County has to lose one seat,” Guerra said.
The nonpartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission is set to issue draft maps on June 10, before the July election, setting up an awkward possibility for Hahn and Huey.
“You literally may be running for a seat that no longer exists,” Guerra said.
Final maps are due Aug. 15, and the first election reflecting the reapportioned boundaries will be the June 2012 primary.
If Harman’s old district does pick up the Palos Verdes Peninsula, surrendering the area around LAX, the change would be enough to make an incumbent’s path to election uncertain.
In 1998, when the Peninsula was a part of the 36th District, voters sent Republican Steve Kuykendall to the office.
The Democrat who lost?
Hahn, who ran for the seat to replace Harman when the congresswoman made a failed bid for California governor.
The California economy is very poor and especially poor in this area of Los Angeles County. Businesses have closed and moved out of the state. Real estate values have plummeted. And, most importantly, the election turnout will be low due to the July election date. This will favor an “outside” candidate and one who can turn out the GOP in the district.
Craig Huey has a definite chance in July to surprise and certainly again in 2012, if he doesn’t.
Tags: Craig Huey, Janice Hahn
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Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years by Frank Bailey, Ken Morris and Jeanne Devon
I suppose Sarah Palin probably wishes she did not share too much with Frank Bailey.
The next big tell-all book about ex-Alaska Guv Sarah Palin drops Tuesday and the hook on “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin” is juicy: It is based on Palin’s own words, in the form of thousands of emails she wrote to co-author and longtime former aide Frank Bailey, a self-described Fox News-watching Republican.
“This book is littered with her words — and we took nothing out of context,” co-author Ken Morris, a Marin County resident and self-described progressive, told Comrade Marinucci and I Monday.
“There were so many more shocking revelations that Frank wasn’t comfortable putting in,so we didn’t. He wanted to tell the story about what was wrong as opposed to things about affairs and legitimacies and diet pills. Yes, he wants people to know what kind of person Sarah Palin is like, because that is important,” Morris said.
Morris described Bailey as “a whistle-blower.” And his story is intended to be a warning about unvetted politicians slipping through the process. “I’m really critical of how we’re doing politics now.”
“Sarah Palin becomes sort of symbolic of people like Donald Trump, or of anybody out there who we don’t vet properly,” Morris said. “It’s just a searing indictment of (GOP presidential nominee) John McCain. We leave no doubt that there was zero vetting” of Palin prior to her becoming the Republican VP nominee in 2008.
Not a happy day for Sarah Palin.
But, on the other hand, Bailey did relate that the rumors about Palin not being the mother of Trig (and her daughter Bristol was): “She did have Trig,” Morris said. “(Bailey) went to see Trig the morning of his birth.”
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