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Updated: CA-Sen: Are Improving GOP Senate Prospects Bad News for California and Carly Fiorina?
+++++Update+++++Here is a statement from the Carly Fiorina Campaign: “It is unfortunate that the Daily Caller would print these falsehoods being perpetuated by Barbara Boxer and her Democratic allies. There is not one shred of truth to this rumor, the NRSC’s commitment to Carly has not changed and the fact is that this is nothing but wishful thinking on the part of Barbara Boxer who has yet to secure a similar commitment from her own party.” — Julie Soderlund, Deputy Campaign Manager for Communications, Carly for CaliforniaSo, did the Daily Caller piece quoted below get their story wrong about the NRSC? Is there a back story or simply a strategic decision? As I say as you read below, we will know soon enough.
Carly Fiorina’s television ad: “Sir” now playing on California televisionThe answer is probably unless Carly wishes to write a big check to fund more television advertising.
Democratic incumbents Barbara Boxer in California and Patty Murray in Washington have been the brights spots of late for a national party beginning to assume the fetal position. Both have begun to put some distance between themselves and their Republican challengers in the last two weeks, and are about five or six points ahead on average.
Boxer, in particular, has done so well that national Democrats have argued that the NRSCs withdrawal of a $1.9 million ad buy for the last week before the Nov. 2 election was a sign that the GOP wants to move the money to other races and is giving up on their candidate, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Republicans say they merely wanted to give Fiorina flexibility to spend the money around the state and not just in one city.
But a Democratic ad buyer who has watched the race closely said the GOPs buy in late July locked in about 1200 points or a guarantee of roughly 12 ad views per person in the target range over that last week. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee made a similar ad buy at the same time over the summer.
However, rates have gone up since then, the Democrat said, and so giving up the buy means that a repurchase by the GOP would cost more for the same amount of air time or would buy fewer points with the same $1.9 million amount.
Its possible that Republicans have decided their money would be better spent in a race like West Virginia, which has quickly become very close, with the bet being that their chances are better there and that Fiorina can afford to spend some more of her own fortune in California if she deems it a worthy investment. A Fiorina spokeswoman did not respond to an e-mail Tuesday evening.
If there are increasing chances of a national Republican take over of the United States Senate in races with smaller media markets and where campaign cash will go farther, resources will be redirected away from California. Where a week of statewide television ad buys cost about $3 million, it is obvious that the money will go farther in West Virgina, Delaware, Washington and/or Connecticut.
I have been wondering why the Fiorina campaign has left unanswered the current Boxer television ad and why they have not answered with a television blitz of their own. The answer is: Boxer has the campaign money for the television time buys and Fiorina does not.
Of course, the management of resources is also a strategic decision and a television ad blitz may be forthcoming for Carly. But, if we do not see many television ads soon, it will be understood that Fiorina has decided not to write any more big checks and will make do with what she has on the table. We will see by the end of the week.
This is not to say that Fiorina cannot win this race. Carly can still catch a GOP wave but with Boxer dominating California television, it will be just difficult to do so.
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CA-Sen: Are Improving GOP Senate Prospects Bad News for California and Carly Fiorina?
Carly Fiorina’s television ad: “Sir” now playing on California televisionThe answer is probably unless Carly wishes to write a big check to fund more television advertising.
Democratic incumbents Barbara Boxer in California and Patty Murray in Washington have been the brights spots of late for a national party beginning to assume the fetal position. Both have begun to put some distance between themselves and their Republican challengers in the last two weeks, and are about five or six points ahead on average.
Boxer, in particular, has done so well that national Democrats have argued that the NRSC’s withdrawal of a $1.9 million ad buy for the last week before the Nov. 2 election was a sign that the GOP wants to move the money to other races and is giving up on their candidate, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Republicans say they merely wanted to give Fiorina flexibility to spend the money around the state and not just in one city.
But a Democratic ad buyer who has watched the race closely said the GOP’s buy in late July locked in about 1200 points – or a guarantee of roughly 12 ad views per person in the target range – over that last week. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee made a similar ad buy at the same time over the summer.
However, rates have gone up since then, the Democrat said, and so giving up the buy means that a repurchase by the GOP would cost more for the same amount of air time or would buy fewer points with the same $1.9 million amount.
It’s possible that Republicans have decided their money would be better spent in a race like West Virginia, which has quickly become very close, with the bet being that their chances are better there and that Fiorina can afford to spend some more of her own fortune in California if she deems it a worthy investment. A Fiorina spokeswoman did not respond to an e-mail Tuesday evening.
If there are increasing chances of a national Republican take over of the United States Senate in races with smaller media markets and where campaign cash will go farther, resources will be redirected away from California. Where a week of statewide television ad buys cost about $3 million, it is obvious that the money will go farther in West Virgina, Delaware, Washington and/or Connecticut.
I have been wondering why the Fiorina campaign has left unanswered the current Boxer television ad and why they have not answered with a television blitz of their own. The answer is: Boxer has the campaign money for the television time buys and Fiorina does not.
Of course, the management of resources is also a strategic decision and a television ad blitz may be forthcoming for Carly. But, if we do not see many television ads soon, it will be understood that Fiorina has decided not to write any more big checks and will make do with what she has on the table. We will see by the end of the week.
This is not to say that Fiorina cannot win this race. Carly can still catch a GOP wave but with Boxer dominating California television, it will be just difficult to do so.
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CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina Debate Today on Radio
KCBS television report on how Senator Barbara Boxer is ducking debates with Carly FiorinaThis little noticed or broadcast debate between Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer and her challenger Republican Carly Fiorina will happen at 1 PM today.
As they head into what could be their final debate, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger, Carly Fiorina, are appealing to voters on parallel tracks, each chipping away at the other’s character on the airwaves and each trying to persuade voters that she has a superior approach to turning the economy around.
The two candidates are to face off Wednesday at 1 p.m. in an hour-long radio debate on “The Patt Morrison Show” on KPCC-FM (89.3) and on other public radio stations around the state. The candidates will be separated by 3,000 miles: Boxer will join the forum from the studios of National Public Radio in Washington, while Fiorina will participate from the KPCC studios in Pasadena.
Boxer will dodge any further debates since this race is close and she would rather put up paid, partisan ads on California television.
Carly Fiorina is a much better public speaker and more appealing on
television so why give her any opportunity to score political points?Why would Boxer take any chances, right?
So, today’s debate exercise in which Boxer will not even be present (playing defense from Washington D.C.) will be the last time these two candidates will square off except on paid media.
What a waste of time.
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Day By Day September 29, 2010 – The Top
Big Labor like the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) have struggled for decades with a declining membership base in private sector jobs. So, they have diversified, so to speak, by expanding into the public job sector e.g. teachers, police, fire and other public government employees. Big government for the unions means more members, more union dues being paid, more pension funds, etc. etc – you get the picture.To assure themselves of an ever expanding member base, Big Labor support through their organizational efforts (campaign cash, volunteers to call and walk precincts) the election of politicians who support their ever expanding numbers of union dues paying members. A conflict of interest, you ask?
Survival of the fittest for them.
There is a major problem – when the government has no more ability to exact money from the taxpayers. Who will then pay for the Hope and Change?
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With polls showing the race tied and the number of undecided voters in California rising, the two major party candidates for governor will meet tonight in the first of three debates, with the economy, jobs and spending likely to dominate.
Jerry Brown, the Democratic nominee and state attorney general, is making a bid for an unprecedented third term; he was governor from 1975 to 1983. His Republican opponent, Meg Whitman, the billionaire former chief executive of eBay, is also trying to make history as the state’s first female governor.A Field Poll released last week found Mr. Brown, who at 72 would also be the state’s oldest chief executive, tied with Ms. Whitman at 41 percent. More striking, however, was the widening number of voters – some 18 percent – who said they had not yet made up their minds, an increase of 5 points from July.
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U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina offered some new details Monday on what she would do to curb federal spending, including a ban on congressional earmarks, a freeze on pay raises for some federal employees and a proposal to give taxpayers the right to designate as much as 10% of their federal tax liability toward reducing the national debt.
Reining in the growth of federal spending has been a top issue for Fiorina, who is running against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. But she has avoided naming specific programs that she would cut or scale back — instead calling for a top-to-bottom review of each federal department to determine where cuts should be made.
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House and Senate Democrats are increasingly competing against one another over a small universe of deep-pocketed donors who could make a financial difference in the final stretch before the midterm elections.
In some cases, donors report that they are being urged to fund Senate campaigns at the expense of the House, where Democrats are in danger of losing their majority.
One House Democratic fundraiser said that some Senate operatives are telling big donors and union officials, “The House is lost; you have to save the Senate.”While top Senate Democrats insist they don’t use that line, some House strategists are playing their own angle. Their money pitch: House Democrats have worked overtime to pass President Barack Obama’s sweeping agenda, parts of which have been stymied in the intractable Senate.
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California, the novelist Wallace Stegner famously wrote, is like the rest of America, only more so—meaning that wherever the country is headed, the Golden State is probably there already. So the state's ObamaCare advance planning deserves closer scrutiny, given that it mirrors the regulatory and ideological model that the White House favors for everyone else.
In a matter of days, California will set a precedent for the future of the U.S. individual and small-business insurance markets via ObamaCare's "exchanges," where people will purchase coverage at heavily subsidized rates. The exchanges don't start up until 2014, but the states were given wide bureaucratic latitude in how they're run, and Sacramento is using this flexibility to convert them into a pretext for imposing de facto price controls on the insurance industry.
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Shocker: Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel Stays Thursday Execution of Albert Greenwood Brown
Albert Greenwood Brown, the next to die under California Death Penalty law?
Not really a shocker. And, Albert Greenwood Brown will NOT be executed this week unless a federal appeals court overrules Judge Fogel.A federal judge blocked the execution of condemned murderer Albert Greenwood Brown this evening, saying he lacked time to assess changes in California’s lethal injection procedures because the state had set the execution date so abruptly.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose had denied a stay of execution to Brown on Friday. But a federal appeals court ordered him to reconsider Monday night and decide whether the new injection procedures eliminated the risk that a prisoner would suffer a prolonged and agonizing death.
Fogel, whose 2006 ruling halted executions in California because of that risk, hurriedly ordered and reviewed written arguments from both sides Tuesday. He then said Brown had raised at least a substantial question about whether the state’s changes, adopted in response to his ruling, had solved the problems.
“The urgency of the present situation was created not by Brown, but by (the state’s) decision to seek an execution date only 30 days after the new regulations became final,” surprising both him and the inmate’s lawyers, Fogel said.
Since we know that Judge Fogel’s decisions are a charade (he is obviously obstructive to the death penalty) this is really no surprise at all. No matter what the State of California will do or how much money they will spend on correcting execution protocols, Judge Fogel will find fault. And, Jerry Brown who is the Attorney General and against the death penalty’s office is in charge of appealing Fogel’s decision to allow an execution. It appears his office is merely going through the motions. Any appeal will not be vigorously pursued.
Californians will have to wait until a federal appeals court finally orders the State of California to comply with the law.
This will not occur anytime soon.
What a travesty of justice.
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Updated: U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Orders a New Hearing for Albert Greenwood Brown – U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel Calls for Briefs
*****Updated*****It keeps getting better and better folks. The legal process to execute someone in California is becoming more of a joke each day.Sadly to say for the victims of these crimes.A federal judge Tuesday morning asked the attorney general’s office and lawyers for convicted murderer Albert Greenwood Brown Jr. to file paperwork within six hours explaining whether the state should be allowed to execute Brown on Thursday.
The request came after the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel to reconsider an earlier order in which he rejected Brown’s request to halt the execution.
Fogel asked the attorneys to weigh in on the state’s new procedures for carrying out lethal injections, including how similar and different they are from the older rules that Fogel previously ruled were flawed. Lawyers have until early Thursday afternoon to file their arguments.
However, time is of the essence since the expiration date for the drug sodium thiopental which the state uses for the lethal injections is Friday. And, after this date no more of this drug will be available until sometime in the first quarter of 2011.
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Albert Greenwood Brown, the next to die under California Death Penalty law?
Late Monday a federal appeals court has apparently stayed the planned execution of Albert Greenwood Brown who is scheduled to die at 9 PM Thursday.A federal appeals court in San Francisco late Monday ordered a trial judge to reconsider a ruling that allowed for a convicted murderer and rapist to be executed this week at San Quentin State Prison.
Albert Greenwood Brown was scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Thursday for the 1980 killing of a 15-year-old Riverside girl.
But the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel erred by offering Brown a choice of a one-drug lethal injection or a three-drug cocktail.
“The district court’s decision to provide Brown the choice of a one-drug option is not consistent with California state law and procedures. California law does not provide the condemned a choice between a three-drug protocol or a one-drug option,” the ruling said.
The appeals court ordered the judge to schedule a new hearing.
The court’s order came hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a one-day delay in Brown’s execution, citing a procedural complication in the state’s attempt to carry out its first death sentence in nearly five years.
The governor’s reprieve coincided with an announcement by the attorney general’s office that further lethal-injection sentences in California would have to wait until at least next year due to a nationwide shortage of the key drug used to render condemned prisoners unconscious.
And, now there is another impediment to California executions – the availability of the drug, sodium thiopental. How cute and convenient.
Jerry Brown, the California Attorney General who is personally opposed to the death penalty and who appointed the later recalled Rose Bird as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court who let a number of infamous criminals live when her court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional decades ago is now entrusted with enforcing the death penalty law.
Good luck with the California death penalty law being enforced with Jerry Brown as Attorney General. If Brown is elected governor in November, look for more anti-death penalty Supreme Court Justices to be appointed, as well.
Also, note the company who makes sodium thiopental is having some difficulty with its product being used for legal executions.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation “has been unable to secure sodium thiopental to perform any executions after Sept. 30,” said attorney general spokeswoman Christine Gasparac. “This office will recommend that future executions be scheduled when [the corrections department] expects the drug to be available.”
The drug manufacturer, Hospira Inc. of Lake Forest, Ill., blamed the shortage on a third-party supplier’s failure to provide the crucial pharmaceutical ingredient for its pentothal product. The company said it expected to have more available in the first quarter of 2011. But a spokesman also reiterated the company’s objections to their product being used in executions.
“Hospira manufactures this product because it improves or saves lives, and the company markets it solely for use as indicated on the product labeling. The drug is not indicated for capital punishment, and Hospira does not support its use in this procedure,” said spokesman Daniel Rosenberg, adding that the company informed corrections departments of its position earlier this year.
Death penalty opponents cannot change California law so they subvert the legal process to get their way.
What a travesty of justice.
There will not be any executions in California now until at least the first quarter of next year – if then.
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U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Orders a New Hearing for Albert Greenwood Brown
Albert Greenwood Brown, the next to die under California Death Penalty law?
Late Monday a federal appeals court has apparently stayed the planned execution of Albert Greenwood Brown who is scheduled to die at 9 PM Thursday.A federal appeals court in San Francisco late Monday ordered a trial judge to reconsider a ruling that allowed for a convicted murderer and rapist to be executed this week at San Quentin State Prison.
Albert Greenwood Brown was scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Thursday for the 1980 killing of a 15-year-old Riverside girl.
But the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel erred by offering Brown a choice of a one-drug lethal injection or a three-drug cocktail.
“The district court’s decision to provide Brown the choice of a one-drug option is not consistent with California state law and procedures. California law does not provide the condemned a choice between a three-drug protocol or a one-drug option,” the ruling said.
The appeals court ordered the judge to schedule a new hearing.
The court’s order came hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a one-day delay in Brown’s execution, citing a procedural complication in the state’s attempt to carry out its first death sentence in nearly five years.
The governor’s reprieve coincided with an announcement by the attorney general’s office that further lethal-injection sentences in California would have to wait until at least next year due to a nationwide shortage of the key drug used to render condemned prisoners unconscious.
And, now there is another impediment to California executions – the availability of the drug, sodium thiopental. How cute and convenient.
Jerry Brown, the California Attorney General who is personally opposed to the death penalty and who appointed the later recalled Rose Bird as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court who let a number of infamous criminals live when her court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional decades ago is now entrusted with enforcing the death penalty law.
Good luck with the California death penalty law being enforced with Jerry Brown as Attorney General. If Brown is elected governor in November, look for more anti-death penalty Supreme Court Justices to be appointed, as well.
Also, note the company who makes sodium thiopental is having some difficulty with its product being used for legal executions.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation “has been unable to secure sodium thiopental to perform any executions after Sept. 30,” said attorney general spokeswoman Christine Gasparac. “This office will recommend that future executions be scheduled when [the corrections department] expects the drug to be available.”
The drug manufacturer, Hospira Inc. of Lake Forest, Ill., blamed the shortage on a third-party supplier’s failure to provide the crucial pharmaceutical ingredient for its pentothal product. The company said it expected to have more available in the first quarter of 2011. But a spokesman also reiterated the company’s objections to their product being used in executions.
“Hospira manufactures this product because it improves or saves lives, and the company markets it solely for use as indicated on the product labeling. The drug is not indicated for capital punishment, and Hospira does not support its use in this procedure,” said spokesman Daniel Rosenberg, adding that the company informed corrections departments of its position earlier this year.
Death penalty opponents cannot change California law so they subvert the legal process to get their way.
What a travesty of justice.
There will not be any executions in California now until at least the first quarter of next year – if then.
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California Executions May Resume By the End of 2008
Michael Morales Watch: US Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection Executions
Michael Morales Watch: Lethal Injection Hearings Delayed Again
Michael Angelo Morales Watch: New San Quentin Death Chamber Under Construction
Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Postponed INDEFINITELY
Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Tonight?
Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Delayed by Doctor Walk Out
Michael Angelo Morales Watch: United States Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Morales Execution
Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency Petition
Michael Angelo Moreno Watch: State Agrees to Place Anesthesia Expert in Death Chamber
Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Federal Judge May Delay Execution
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CA-Sen Video: US Chamber of Commerce Hits Barbara Boxer
A California statewide buy for this US Chamber of Commerce ad with a particular emphasis on Los Angeles County. Look for it on a television screen near you.
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The Obligatory Taliban Dan Video from Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson
Campaign ad from Democrat Congressman Alan GraysonAlan Grayson, the Florida Democrat Congressman shows his desperation in his latest ad.
We thought Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida reached a low point when he falsely accused his opponent of being a draft dodger during the Vietnam War, and of not loving his country. But now Grayson has lowered the bar even further. He’s using edited video to make his rival appear to be saying the opposite of what he really said.
In a new ad, Grayson accuses his Republican opponent Daniel Webster of being a religious fanatic and dubs him “Taliban Dan.” But to make his case, Grayson manipulates a video clip to make it appear Webster was commanding wives to submit to their husbands, quoting a passage in the Bible. Four times, the ad shows Webster saying wives should submit to their husbands. In fact, Webster was cautioning husbands to avoid taking that passage as their own. The unedited quote is: “Don’t pick the ones [Bible verses] that say, ‘She should submit to me.’”
Say good night, Gracie.
You can put a fork in Alan Garyson’s re-election prospects – He’s Done.