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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: This is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s MESS Now
Like Flap said the first time!
LA Weekly New West Notes: Arnold Makes The Reiner Mess His Own
Hugh Hewitt: Arnold’s Reiner Anchor
Unforced errors in politics are the worst sort. Standing by a friend is admirable, but not when that friend has chaired a commission that spent $23 million on ads that clearly supported the friend’s political campaign to expand the public schools bureaucracy and raise taxes via initiative.
Arnold’s refusal to replace Reiner with a serious medical professional will be a slow bleed, and unlike Arnold’s other gestures of reconciliation with the center-left and left, this is the sort of very public blow off of conservatives and good government types that makes his November re-elect much more problematic.
California voters will NOT stand for this.
They will simply vote the Governator out of office.
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New Mexico Democrat Party Calls for President George W. Bush’s Impeachment
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, speaks to Democrats at a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Manchester, N.H., Sunday, March 19, 2006.
ASSociated Press: New Mexico Democrats call for Bush impeachment
The New Mexico Democratic Party is calling for President Bush’s removal from office.
Party Chairman John Wertheim said Tuesday that delegates to Saturday’s state party convention supported a call for the president’s impeachment largely because of “perceived abuses of power and corruption in the Bush administration.”
He listed as examples of abuses of power, warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens, the misstatement of facts preceding the invasion of Iraq, and the scandal surrounding the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide in connection with the leak of the identity of a covert CIA operative.
And what does New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, New Mexico Attorney General, Patricia Madrid, and United States Senator Jeff Bingaman say? Will they run on this platfrom created by these New Mexico Democrat NUTTERS who crafted this missive?
DUH…..NO!
Albuquerque Tribune: Top Dems wary on Bush vote
But two prominent state Democrats – Attorney General Patricia Madrid and U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman – have distanced themselves from last weekend’s vote in Albuquerque.
Madrid, trying to oust Rep. Heather Wilson, an Albuquerque Republican, said in a statement Tuesday she wasn’t present when the vote was taken at a party convention Saturday. She called the action “premature.”
“I hope I get the chance to go to Congress to participate in a full investigation of the underlying issues,” she said.
Bingaman also says it’s too early to support sanctions against Bush for the wiretapping issue, said his spokeswoman, Jude McCartin. Bingaman was in Afghanistan Saturday and in Baghdad on Tuesday.
Flap knows Democrat Governor Bill Richardson was out of town, too. Well, at least that is what his office said about Richardson’s boxer and partying friend.
Come on elected New Mexico Democrats stand by your party!
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Sheriff Mike Carona Watch: Carona Fails to Gain Republican Party Support for Re-Election
Los Angeles Times: Carona Fails to Gain GOP Vote Support
Orange County Republican leaders have voted not to endorse beleaguered Sheriff Michael S. Carona for a third term, dealing a blow to his once high-flying political career.
Carona, who will face three challengers in the June election, fell one vote shy of gaining the endorsement of the county’s Republican central committee at its meeting Monday night.
Failure to secure this endorsement may mean primary election trouble for the two term incumbent sheriff. This vote comes scarcely two months after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger raised $700,000 in an Orange County fundraiser for Carona.
Although the party did not endorse someone else, the move was a setback for Carona, whose political viability has slumped amid allegations of mismanagement, sexual misconduct and conflicts of interest — all of which he has denied.
Monday’s rebuff followed lengthy debate about several scandals and investigations that political analysts say kept Carona from running for higher office this year. The state attorney general is investigating allegations that Carona sexually harassed two women and whether he improperly billed his election committee for $130,000 in expenses.Losing the GOP endorsement was also noteworthy because the vote was coordinated by Carona supporters who are Republican party insiders, including former state GOP Chairman Michael Schroeder, Carona’s campaign spokesman, and former state GOP Executive Director Jon Fleischman, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman.
Also, Republican office holders in Orange County have accused the Sheriff of GOP disloyalty.
Speaking against a Carona endorsement at Monday’s GOP meeting were Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor, a sheriff’s deputy; Santa Ana school board member Rosemarie Avila; and anti-illegal-immigration activist Lupe Moreno.
Avila and Moreno criticized Carona for supporting Democrats in past elections, including being on the host committee for a fundraiser for then-Gov. Gray Davis and endorsing Latino activist Nativo Lopez for the Santa Ana school board, from which he eventually was recalled.
Flap handicaps a successful challenge to Carona being about even money at this time. Look for Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Hunt to gain support over the next few weeks.
Lt. Bill Hunt (L)
Is it over for Sheriff Mike Carona?Stay tuned…….
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Rob Reiner = “A Friend”
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, jokes with students from left, Jamie Vang, Polly Thet, Maikao Vang and Nalee Chang in the medical nursing careers class at Duncan Polytechnic High School, Tuesday, March 21, 2006, in Fresno, Calif. Schwarzenegger talked about the $50 million he has included in his 2006-07 budget for vocational education.
Fresno Bee: Governor promotes budget, bond proposals in Fresno visit
Gov. Schwarzenegger toured Duncan Polytechnical High School on Tuesday, using the school’s vocational education focus to highlight his push for such training, including $50 million in his proposed state budget and additional money in a state infrastructure bond he wants to put on the November ballot.
The governor toured woodworking, automotive and nursing classes at the school, visiting with students and getting briefed on vocational education issues by teachers and Duncan principal Carol Gaab Hansen.
Schwarzenegger also sat down with The Bee’s editorial board, where he addressed a broad range of subjects, including the infrastructure bond, education, Sacramento’s commitment to the central San Joaquin Valley and immigration reform.
And, what did the Governor say at the editorial board………?
Said maintaining $1 billion in the state infrastructure bond for Highway 99 improvements is not negotiable. If that amount is reduced, the governor said of the bond: “It won’t happen.”
This is a backhanded criticism of state Republican legislative leaders. So, Schwarzenegger will probably get “NOTHING” to place on the November ballot or a defeat at the polls for whatever measure that appears.
Defended the statewide high school exit exam, which students must pass to graduate. “I believe very strongly in the exit exam,” he said. Still, the governor said some sort of accommodation must be made for special education students, in the form of a waiver or an alternative assessment.
The California High School Exit Exam is a disaster and California public schools are worse than a disaster. California Superintendent of Public Instruction is a career politician with only 18 months as a teacher and a joke.
Education accountablility is one thing but the California Teachers Union calls the shots and until they are brought around or tamed the schools will remain the same – with or without an exit exam which NO ONE will pass (unless it is watered down).
Said the federal government must come up with a viable guest-worker program to assist agriculture. Still, he acknowledged there are daunting challenges in such a program, including getting guest workers to return to their country of origin.
Arnld must be listening to the Big Ag boys who write the campaign checks. Flap thought Arnold supported Gilchrist and the Minutemen?
Defended actor Rob Reiner, who has come under fire after a state commission he chairs spent $23 million in state money on an ad campaign promoting the benefits of preschool at the same time he is pushing a preschool ballot initiative. He said he is standing by Reiner, whom he called “a friend,” until there is evidence of wrongdoing. “Innocent until proven guilty,” he said.
With LEFTIE “friends” like this who needs ……. well, the reader understands. Arnold sure knows how to put his foot in his mouth. Hollywood Actor/Producer Rob Reiner should have been fired months ago for his blatant political manipulation of the First 5 California Children and Families Commission. A brewing scandal that now Schwarzenegger owns.
Does Arnold REALLY want to be re-elected in November or does he have a “DEATH WISH?”
Stay tuned……
The Sacramento Bee has Governor won’t oust Reiner from commissionÂ
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Day By Day by Chris Muir