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CA-26: California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro Endorses Tony Strickland for Congress
Tom Del Beccaro
In year’s past, this pre-primary election endorsement would never have occurred. But, under California Proposition 14’s Top Two system, this is allowed.California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro announced Wednesday his endorsement of state Sen. Tony Strickland in the campaign for California’s newly drawn 26th Congressional District.
“I’ve known Tony for a long time, and there is no one who can represent this community better than him,” Del Beccaro said. “He has a distinguished record of service to Ventura County families and will make a fantastic representative in Congress. We desperately need more people in Washington, D.C., willing to stand up for fiscal discipline and our shared values. I’m proud to endorse Tony Strickland for Congress.”
Del Beccaro’s endorsement of Strickland is his first of the election cycle.
“I’m humbled and grateful to have the support of Chairman Del Beccaro in this race,” Strickland said. “He’s been a tremendous advocate for responsible fiscal policy and a fantastic chairman.”
So far, California State Senator Tony Strickland is the ONLY “declared” Republican in the field for the California Congressional District 26 which is primarily in Ventura County. Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks of Thousand Oaks is a registered Republican but has said she may run as an independent ballot designation.
There are five other presumed candidates in this race – all of the remainder are Democrats: Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett, Oxnard Harbor District Commissioner Jess Herrera, Moorpark City Councilman David Pollock, retired longshoreman Zeke Ruelas of Oxnard and businessman David Cruz Thayne of Westlake Village.
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President 2012: Pelosi Folds – No New Dirt on Gingrich
Former Speakers of the House Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich
Pretty pathetic as California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi backtracks.Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office on Wednesday said the minority leader doesn’t have any dirt on Newt Gingrich.
Pelosi has suggested in two interviews that she knows something that could prevent Gingrich from becoming president, but her office said the California Democrat doesn’t have any secrets about Gingrich, who has shot to the top of national Republican polls after winning the South Carolina primary.
“The ‘something’ Leader Pelosi knows is that Newt Gingrich will not be President of the United States. She made that clear last night,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement.
“Leader Pelosi previously made a reference to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware,” Hammill said.
Pelosi made headlines on Tuesday when she told CNN Gingrich would not be president, and that “there’s something I know.”
In an interview in December, Pelosi also drew attention by suggesting there was information that could come out of her office that could damage Gingrich. Pelosi suggested it was related to the House ethics investigation of Gingrich; Pelosi served on the panel looking into Gingrich.
“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said at the time. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
But on Wednesday, Hammill repeated that all of the information from the investigation is in the public realm.
You know darn well that if there was any additional dirt, Mitt Romney would be using it now in Florida.
Pelosi and the Democrats are just doing a little misdirection.
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The Morning Flap: January 25, 2012
These are my links for January 23rd through January 25th:
- Newt Gingrich plays the Charlie Crist card – Once the Republican presidential campaign came to Florida, it was only a matter of time until someone played the Charlie Crist card.
In an attempt to tarnish Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday connected Romney to Florida’s former governor, the once-ambitious moderate who fell so far out of favor with the GOP that in 2010 he left the GOP.
“We discovered last night that Mitt Romney has picked up Charlie Crist’s campaign manager,” Gingrich said Tuesday at the Tick Tock Restaurant in St. Petersburg. “I thought that told you everything you need to know about this primary.”
“As governor of Massachusetts [Romney] was pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, pro-tax increase and pro- gun control,” he said. “Now that makes you a moderate in Massachusetts but it makes you pretty liberal in a Republican primary. That’s probably why he hired Charlie Crist’s staff.” - Gov. Daniels: Obama is ‘pro-poverty’ – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) castigated President Obama’s policies as “pro-poverty” and extreme in his response to the State of the Union address.
The Indiana governor, who considered a run for the White House before deciding last year against a campaign, knocked Obama for imposing regulations on business and for rejecting the proposed Keystone oil pipeline.
He labeled Obama’s policies as “pro-poverty and extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature.”
Daniels said Obama’s “trickle-down government” policies has restrained the country’s economic growth.Daniels also criticized Obama for trying to divide people with class warfare. “No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others,” he said
- 11 things Obama didn’t tell you about tax fairness last night « The Enterprise Blog – RT @JimPethokoukis: 11 things Obama didn’t tell you about tax fariness ast night
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-01-25 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-01-25
- Mitch Daniels blasts Obama for ‘trickle-down government’ – latimes.com – RT @latimes: Mitch Daniels blasts Obama for ‘trickle-down government’ #SOTU #tcot
- Read the GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union remarks – latimes.com – RT @latimes: Full text of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Republican Address to the Nation in response to #SOTU address:
- State of the Union 2012: Obama speech full text – The Washington Post – RT @FixAaron: Full text of Obama’s speech here: #tcot #catcot
- Excerpts from Governor Mitch Daniels’ Republican Address to the Nation | Speaker of the House John Boehner | speaker.gov – RT @Students4Mitch: Excerpts from Governor Mitch Daniels’ Republican Address to the Nation |Speaker of the House John..
- CA-Sen: Santa Monica Republican Businessman Al Ramirez to Challenge Senator Dianne Feinstein » Flap’s California Blog – CA-Sen: Santa Monica Republican Businessman Al Ramirez to Challenge Senator Dianne Feinstein
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: No California Deaths Due to Whooping Cough or Pertussis in 2011 – No California Deaths Due to Whooping Cough or Pertussis in 2011
- Do People Become More Conservative as They Age? : Discovery News – Do People Become More Conservative as They Age? Answer is No… #tcot
- Poll Watch: Americans Want Specific Proposals Not Vision from President Obama State of the Union Speech | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Poll Watch: Americans Want Specific Proposals Not Vision from President Obama State of the Union Speech
- Under Obama, Price of Gas Has Jumped 83 Percent, Ground Beef 24 Percent, Bacon 22 Percent | CNSnews.com – Obamanomics, Price of Gas Has Jumped 83 Percent, Ground Beef 24 Percent, Bacon 22 Percent
- California still has second-highest unemployment in U.S. – latimes.com – No surprise here RT @latimes: California still has second-highest unemployment in U.S.
- Stephens: The GOP Deserves to Lose – WSJ.com – The GOP Deserves to Lose – That’s what happens when you run with losers #tcot
- (500) http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-23/buffett-s-burlington-northern-among-winners-in-obama-rejection-of-pipeline.html – Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Among Winners From Keystone Denial #tcot
- Challenge Your Brain to Ward Off Alzheimer’s Disease? | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) Dentistry – Challenge Your Brain to Ward Off Alzheimer’s Disease?
- (500) http://flapsblog.com/2012/01/24/president-2012-video-president-obama-a-warrior-for-the-middle-class/ – President 2012 Video: President Obama a Warrior for the Middle Class?
- AD-38: Scott Wilk Releases California State Senator Tony Strickland from Endorsement » Flap’s California Blog – AD-38: Scott Wilk Releases California State Senator Tony Strickland from Endorsement
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Morning Drill: January 24, 2012 – The Morning Drill: January 24, 2012
- Day By Day January 24, 2012 – No Time Left For You | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day January 24, 2012 – No Time Left For You
- Riehl World View: Romney Adviser To Jen Rubin: Mitt’s Not A Man Of The People – That is a FACT | RT @DanRiehl: Romney Adviser To Jen Rubin: Mitt’s Not A Man Of The People
- Debate Winner: Mitch Daniels | The Weekly Standard – PERHAPS | RT @memeorandum Debate Winner: Mitch Daniels
- Untitled (http://www.memeorandum.com/120124/p18#a120124p18) – PERHAPS | RT @memeorandum Debate Winner: Mitch Daniels
- RNC ad takes on president over State of the Union – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs – RNC ad takes on president over State of the Union –
- Poll: Romney’s Unfavorability Skyrockets – Steven Shepard – NationalJournal.com – Understandable | RT @nationaljournal Poll: Romney’s unfavorability skyrockets
- Is Oral Sex to Blame for the Surge in Cancer of the Mouth and Throat? – Elaine Schattner – Health – The Atlantic – Partly to blame – smoking too RT @TheAtlanticHLTH Is oral sex to blame for the surge in cancer of the mouth and throat?
- Introduction | Mitt Romney for President – If you want to look through details of Mitt Romney’s 2010 and 2011 taxes links at bottom
- Untitled (http://www.memeorandum.com/120124/p14#a120124p14) – Here it comes | RT @memeorandum Draft Jeb Bush
- Draft Jeb Bush – Artur Davis – National Review Online – Here it comes | RT @memeorandum Draft Jeb Bush
- One Thousand Days Without a Budget | The Weekly Standard – One Thousand Days Without a Budget: It has been 1,000 days since the Senate has produced a budget, and congressi…
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-01-24 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-01-24
- 9PM – Watch the NBC Republican Debate | The Right Scoop – @murphymike Go here Mike:
- Update: CA-26 Video: Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks Issues Two Challenges | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Update: CA-26 Video: Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks Issues Two Challenges
- President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Gingrich 38% Vs. Romney 33% Vs. Santorum 13% Vs. Paul 10% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Gingrich 38% Vs. Romney 33% Vs. Santorum 13% Vs. Paul 10%
- Newt up 5 in Florida – Public Policy Polling – RT @ppppolls: Florida: Gingrich 38, Romney 33, Santorum 13, Paul 10:
- Gingrich releases Freddie Mac contract – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs – RT @PoliticalTicker: Gingrich releases Freddie Mac contract –
- Citizen Kane | KFI NEWS – KFI AM 640 More Stimulating Talk Radio – RT @KFINEWS: Citizen Kane to be shown at Hearst Castle.
- Mark Levin blasts Christie for parroting old left-wing ethics propaganda against Newt | The Right Scoop – RT @trscoop: Mark Levin blasts Christie for parroting old left-wing ethics propaganda against Newt:
- Adelson to double contribution to help Newt’s presidential bid – Politics: Ralston’s Flash – Las Vegas Sun – RT @RalstonFlash: Adelson to double contribution to help Newt’s presidential bid
- GOP food fight: Sarah Palin slams Chris Christie for getting his “panties in a wad” over Gingrich | Politics Blog | an SFGate.com blog – RT @cmarinucci: .@SarahPalinUSA goes ballistic on Chris Christie for getting his “panties in a wad” on @newtgingrich
- California Election 2012: California Democratic Party Pre-Endorsement Conferences » Flap’s California Blog – California Election 2012: California Democratic Party Pre-Endorsement Conferences
- Posts – Liz Mair – A Fresh Voice – RT @JimPethokoukis: RT @LizMair: Some important things about Florida worth paying attention to:
- CA-26 Video: Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks Issues Two Challenges | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – CA-26 Video: Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks Issues Two Challenges
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Aspen Dental to Sponsor Ryan Newman’s Chevrolet for NASCAR – Aspen Dental to Sponsor Ryan Newman’s Chevrolet for NASCAR
- Romney’s National Lead Collapses – Romney’s National Lead Collapses –
- Newt Gingrich’s rise — in one chart – The Washington Post – Newt Gingrich’s rise — in one chart
- President 2012 GOP Florida Intrade Watch: Gingrich 61.4% Vs. Romney 38.1% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Florida Intrade Watch: Gingrich 61.4% Vs. Romney 38.1%
- Exercise To Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease? | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) Dentistry – Exercise To Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
- U.S. Economy Most Toxic of 24 Issues – Americans’ satisfaction with the nation’s economy has dropped by 23 points since January 2008 to 13% today
- Newt Gingrich plays the Charlie Crist card – Once the Republican presidential campaign came to Florida, it was only a matter of time until someone played the Charlie Crist card.
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Day By Day January 25, 2012 – Pants
Day By Day by Chris MuirChris, you say Obama’s pants are on fire?Well, yeah, I guess you are correct. Look at his moaning on tax “FAIRNESS.”
Are wealthier Americans really not paying their fair share? Here are some numbers on income inequality:
1. The top 1% pay 36.7% of fed income taxes, earn 16.9% of adjusted gross income (as of 2009).
2. The top 0.1% pay 17.1% of taxes, earned 7.8% of adjusted gross income.
3. The average income tax rate for top 1% is 24%. The bottom 50%? Just 1.85%.
4. The bottom 50% pay just 2.3% of income taxes.
5. Buffett chose to leave most of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, avoiding 55% estate tax.
President Obama’s pants are flaming…..
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-01-25
- This has to be Obama's worst speech = ever #
- Switching to the Sharapova match = far more interesting #
- Come on end this speech, I want to watch tennis full time #
- Applause is dying down now because House and Sen Dems are realizing they have to run on this Obama nonsense #
- Those damn Banks – now dole out the money so i can be re-elected #
- Tim Geithner is wondering when his new Turbo Tax will be delivered #
- If there is any doubt, what harm Obama would do if re-elected, it has been removed tonight #
- I will order the Army to release all of their soldiers so they can construct windmills on the deserts…. #
- Help american business use less energy – move your ass to China #
- Windmills on all public lands – Indians will love that… #
- I will not walk away from wasting $ Billions on companies like Solyndra…. sheesh #tcot #
- Where is the FBI on Solyndra when you need them? #
- Gallup Poll pre-debate: O 50% Vs. R or G 48%, post debate G and R 54% Vs 44% = no doubt #
- The GOP debate last night actually was not as boring as this exercise. Obama, where are the bills – like right away? #
- Gee, now I think Mitt Romney might actually have a chance = Obama being the ridiculous. But, will the MSM realize it? #
- I thought Obama was going to emulate Steve Jobs and develop a good business model and make a profit – but oh no #
- Steve Jobs was right – Obama will be a one term President #tcot #
- We should be working on comprehensive illegal immigration reform – so I can win Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Florida – let's do it now #
- Here comes the illegal immigrant pander #
- States are bankrupt, Mr. President or haven't you heard.. they have to balance their budgets #
- What about the gang members – can they finish high school in lock up? #
- RT @AndrewBreitbart: AKA: All jobs go thru me and my union buddies. Hee hee. #tcot #
- So, No child is left behind…. Boom #
- More $$$ for the UNION teachers…. the union label…. #
- I already want to hear Mitch Daniels…..Obama is boring 3tcot #
- Hilda Solis wondering if California can poach those jobs from North Carolina – nah Obama already has California Electoral Votes #
- RT @FixAaron: Full text of Obama's speech here: http://t.co/I0JjZUEM #tcot #catcot #
- Yeah but Ford didn't take a government bailout either, Mr. President #
- Hilda Solis is wondering where all of those California jobs are or went…. #
- Get Slow Joe Biden some shades = blinking a mile a minute – dude #
- Fair Share though – Drink! #
- Obama's speech so far is nothing special… #
- RT @Students4Mitch: Excerpts from Governor Mitch Daniels’ Republican Address to the Nation |Speaker of the House John.. http://t.co/sk42q41o #
- RT @pir8gold: DRINKING GAME TONIGHT: every time POTUS says 'INVEST IN THE FUTURE' or 'FAILED POLICIES OF THE PAST' or 'FAIR SHARE' #tcot #
- President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama 50% Vs. Romney 48% & Obama 50% Vs. Gingrich 48% in trial heats http://t.co/J3P8cyGO #tcot #
- @alramirezUSA Good luck Al! #USSenate #TCOT in reply to alramirezUSA #
- CA-Sen: Santa Monica Republican Businessman Al Ramirez to Challenge Senator Dianne Feinstein » Flap's California Blog http://t.co/masCf18o #
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: No California Deaths Due to Whooping Cough or Pertussis in 2011 http://t.co/7ShODXva #
- Do People Become More Conservative as They Age? : Discovery News http://t.co/LqefsWWB #
- CA-Sen: Santa Monica Republican Businessman Al Ramirez to Challenge Senator Dianne Feinstein http://t.co/ZDbNVbyZ #
- No California Deaths Due to Whooping Cough or Pertussis in 2011 http://t.co/Gs03aMoA #
- Do People Become More Conservative as They Age? Answer is No… #tcot http://t.co/c0WJqwGn #
- Poll Watch: Americans Want Specific Proposals Not Vision from President Obama State of the Union Speech http://t.co/ymrHOxuS #
- Obamanomics, Price of Gas Has Jumped 83 Percent, Ground Beef 24 Percent, Bacon 22 Percent http://t.co/65lUiZkW #
- RT @ErikaMasonhall: #SOTU NBC will carry GOP response from Mitch Daniels; then 1st reactions from WH sr. adviser Plouffe & Sen Rubio (R-FL) #
- No surprise here RT @latimes: California still has second-highest unemployment in U.S. http://t.co/enNIGwRB #
- Newtmentum RT @RasmussenPoll: National Poll: #Gingrich 35%, #Romney 28%, #Santorum 16%, #Paul 10%… http://t.co/rWEuiPv5 #
- @sjreidhead If Mitt Romney is nominated, Obama wins, period. Maybe the GOP can win the Senate though. in reply to sjreidhead #
- The GOP Deserves to Lose – That's what happens when you run with losers #tcot http://t.co/hWbrRuHq #
- Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Among Winners From Keystone Denial #tcot http://t.co/Aq1ivwjN #
- Challenge Your Brain to Ward Off Alzheimer’s Disease? http://t.co/RcNR39Ql #
- Poll: Romney's Unfavorability Skyrockets – Steven Shepard – http://t.co/E8FlQHyo http://t.co/7nOWQFSC #
- Is Oral Sex to Blame for the Surge in Cancer of the Mouth and Throat? – Elaine Schattner – Health – The Atlantic http://t.co/5un6OA5S #
- Draft Jeb Bush – Artur Davis – National Review Online http://t.co/aw8kr5Iu #
- President 2012 Video: President Obama a Warrior for the Middle Class? http://t.co/Eu2Mqgr7 #
- AD-38: Scott Wilk Releases California State Senator Tony Strickland from Endorsement http://t.co/MQdXayHp #
- @LizMair But, you know how I feel on Mittens anyway = that he loses to President Obama. in reply to LizMair #
- @LizMair Well, it is apparent Romney did not want to release them, but gives substance to Obama narrative of economic fairness tonight. in reply to LizMair #
- Notice the LEFT chatting up the low Mitt Romney tax rate – probably was not wise to release tax returns on the day of the SOTU = just sayin' #
- The Morning Drill: January 24, 2012 http://t.co/4tyNTOCz #
- Day By Day January 24, 2012 – No Time Left For You http://t.co/vn0UieiH #
- That is a FACT | RT @DanRiehl: Romney Adviser To Jen Rubin: Mitt's Not A Man Of The People http://t.co/Z0bVs16o #
- Mitch Daniels being mentioned as GOP Establishment alternative to Romney and Gingrich by @LarrySabato on Fox News = likely. DC getting antsy #
- PERHAPS | RT @memeorandum Debate Winner: Mitch Daniels http://t.co/2967dCVA http://t.co/05zJxbhr #
- PLUSRT @StevenErtelt Romney "donated over 15% of his income to charity in 2010 & 2011, almost 30X as much as avg person in his tax bracket." #
- Understandable | RT @nationaljournal Poll: Romney's unfavorability skyrockets http://t.co/5u3pC10t #
- Partly to blame – smoking too RT @TheAtlanticHLTH Is oral sex to blame for the surge in cancer of the mouth and throat? http://t.co/STORNbhc #
- Absolutely RT @michellemalkin Yes! MT @DaTechGuyblog forget #nbc @edmorrissey needs to moderate GOP debate with 4 bloggers as panel #
- Cannon fodder for Left |RT @jamiedupree Romney campaign says the candidate's effective tax rate was 13.9% in 2010 and 15.4% in 2011 #
- Here it comes | RT @memeorandum Draft Jeb Bush http://t.co/1QgWRCsi http://t.co/PSGhyNVe #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-01-24 http://t.co/vIxNQM9C #
- 9PM – Watch the NBC Republican Debate | The Right Scoop http://t.co/VyxdhV08 #
- Update: CA-26 Video: Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks Issues Two Challenges | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap… http://t.co/mXLxLK7G #
- President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Gingrich 38% Vs. Romney 33% Vs. Santorum 13% Vs. Paul 10% | Flap's Blog -… http://t.co/SlTDEZ70 #
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