• Hannah-Beth Jackson,  Tony Strickland

    Tony Strickland Re-Takes Vote Lead in California State Senate Race

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    Former California Assembly Members Tony Strickland and Hannah-Beth Jackson and candidates for California State Senate District 19

    Ventura County elections reported yesterday afternoon and former California Assemblyman Tony Strickland has retaken the lead over Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson. This update has Srickland leading by 540 votes with over 357,000 cast.

    Strickland passed Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson, who had led by 255 votes going into the day, based on the results of 18,041 additional vote-by-mail ballots tabulated in Ventura County.

    Neither of the two other counties that have 19th District voters, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, released additional results on Monday.

    Los Angeles County is expected to provide updated vote counts today.

    Stay tuned…….


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    • Nearly a week after the election, the campaigns for Democrat Charlie Brown and Republican Tom McClintock are both waiting to see how thousands of provisional and vote-by-mail ballots turn out in the 4th Congressional District race.

      The most recent results as of Monday afternoon show McClintock, a state senator from Southern California, leading Brown of Roseville by 970 votes, out of more than 313,000 cast.

    • Tony Strickland stole a narrow lead back from Hannah-Beth Jackson in the race for the 19th District state Senate seat this afternoon when Ventura County elections officials posted the latest tally of thousands of absentee votes.
      When election offices closed their doors for the weekend on Friday, the latest totals for the district as a whole showed Jackson ahead by 255 votes, but as of Monday Strickland was ahead by 540 votes.
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      Strickland picked up + 795 in Ventura County today. There are many more votes in Ventura county to be counted. If the trend continues in Strickland's home county – well, you do the math.

      Strickland now has 50.1 percent and Strickland garnered 49.9 percent of approximately 360,000 votes across three counties.

    • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday expressed hope that the California Supreme Court would overturn Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. He also predicted that the 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who have already wed would not see their marriages nullified by the initiative.

      "It's unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end," Schwarzenegger said in an interview Sunday on CNN. "I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area."
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      Yet, Arnold did no television commercials for Prop 8. No campaign mail either.

    • Opponents contend that a ban on gay marriage can only be done by a revision of the state Constitution involving the Legislature. The Prop. 8 campaign leader calls the effort 'a Hail Mary.'
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      Flap doubts the Supreme Court will review the case. If it does, then it will be for show.
      If the court overturns the will of the people they will be recalled.
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    • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday he proposed eliminating two state holidays and requiring state workers to take a monthly unpaid day of leave "under the auspices of everyone gets a little haircut."

      The Republican governor wants lawmakers to agree to require about 200,000 civil service employees to accept furloughs and lose state holidays.

      "I mean, you've got to go and look at the whole inventory of different things that are available, and I thought by closing some of those holidays and by having some of those people take off one day a month, I think it could save the state some money," he said in an interview with The Bee's editorial board. He said state tax collectors would be exempt.

      If enacted before Dec. 1, the overall furlough plan would save the state $714 million through June 2010, while the holiday elimination would save $114 million.
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      Arnold won't get this by the California state employee unions who own the Democrats

    • Flap does not believe the lead was more than 255 over the weekend. Plus, these figures were announced before Ventura County updated their figures at 3 PM. There continue to remain many Ventura County ballots to be counted.
      The math favors Strickland.
    • Tony Strickland picks up another 795 votes in Ventura County with more votes to be counted over the next couple of days.
    • Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.
      Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items – everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy – all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com.
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      What do you expect from Obama?
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    • Facing pressure from vendors and consumers who aren't spending, Circuit City Stores Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection Monday as it heads into the busy holiday season with hopes that the move will help it survive.
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      Signs of the recession times. A shame…..
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    • U.S. Rep. Paul Broun attacked President-elect Barack Obama's agenda as "Marxist" and derided some fellow Republicans for abandoning conservative principles during a speech in Augusta on Friday, his first since being re-elected in Georgia's 10th District.
      Mr. Broun also criticized Mr. McCain.

      "I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign," he said. "In my opinion, it was inept."

      He said he believes Mr. McCain failed to adequately differentiate himself from President Bush and embrace conservative values.

      He referred to Mr. McCain as a "milquetoast" Republican.
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      Broun has a point. But, Obama will enjoy a honeymoon but watch the left ideology flow.