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links for 2010-10-06
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Well, the numbers are in in the increasingly contentious attorney general race between SF District Attorney Kamala Harris and LA District Attorney Steve Cooley, and we have to admit — we're a bit surprised. Cooley is leading the way, with more than $2.1 million collected since July 1, to Harris' $1.8 million. Cooley also has more cash in the bank — about $500,000 more — which could make a difference in this tight contest. (Cooley also spent just half as much as Harris from July through September; not surprising given she's launched some ads.)
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Private employers unexpectedly cut 39,000 jobs in September after an upwardly revised gain of 10,000 in August, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.
The August figure was originally reported as a loss of 10,000.
The median of estimates from 38 economists surveyed by Reuters for the ADP Employer Services report, jointly developed with Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, was for a rise of 24,000 private-sector jobs in September.
The ADP figures come ahead of the government's much more comprehensive labor market report on Friday, which includes both public and private sector employment.
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California leaders including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have reportedly agreed a new budget deal, but as the state attracts jeers for its lateness in taking concrete steps to pass a budget, some are booing its leaders for their willingness to sign off on tax hikes when it is being reported that California is owed about $1.4 billion in tax revenue already collected by businesses from consumers, but never remitted to the state.
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In November, Chula Vista residents will decide whether they wish to tack additional taxes on their cell phones, cable landlines, and internet. The measure, Proposition H, would expand the scope of taxable services under the city’s current Utility Users Tax. If passed, the city will begin to tax for the first time out-of-state and international calls at the rate of five percent .
Placed on the ballot by the City Council, Proposition H marks the Council’s second attempt to generate more revenue to the city through additional taxation. A year ago the same City Council spent more than $250,000 to order a special mail ballot election requesting a 10-year, one-cent increase to the city’s sales tax. That measure was struck down by an overwhelming margin of voters.
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They will tax the air you breathe as cities and counties need to raise revenue due to overspending and State of California cut backs.Read it all
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Summary of The Hill’s poll of districts with freshman Democrats: Republican challengers Paul Gosar (AZ-1) , Adam Kinzinger (IL-11), Andy Harris (MD-1), Steve Pearce (NM-2), Steve Stivers (OH-15), Robert Hurt, Cory Gardner (CO-4), Joe Heck (NV-3), Jim Renacci (OH-16), Mike Kelly (PA-3) and Scott Rigell (VA-2) should feel good but not yet done. Kinzinger and Kelly have the biggest leads.
Interestingly, based on the last two polls, in Virginia’s 5th District, Republican Robert Hurt is either ahead by 1 or ahead by 23.
In Michigan,Tim Walberg is tied with incumbent Democrat Mark Schauer, which is still a pretty good place for a challenger to be.
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The GOP Wave
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CA-Gov: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca Endorses Jerry Brown
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, Rudy Giuliani and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at Los Angeles County Sheriff Heaquarters, Monterey Park, California, March 5, 2007. Photo by Flap.
More problems for Meg Whitman in her race to beat Jerry Brown.Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca weighed in on the governor’s race Wednesday, endorsing Democratic candidate Jerry Brown.
Baca, a registered Republican, cited Brown’s record on public safety in an announcement released on Brown’s campaign website.
“Jerry Brown has championed the rights of crime victims, toughened criminal penalties and developed innovative crime-fighting technologies,” Baca said in the statement. “Jerry Brown has always stood with me and my deputies and I am proud to stand with him in his campaign for governor.”
Whitman needs to win a portion of Los Angeles County to be competitive with Jerry Brown and the endorsement by a REPUBLICAN law enforcement official does not help – at all.
Older California voters remember Jerry Brown appointing far left judges who opposed the death penalty among other things but with Baca’s endorsement it sends the message that Brown is not soft on crime – which he is.
Sheriff Baca endorsing Jerry Brown is a blow to Meg Whitman’s electoral chances and one has to wonder if there will be more GOP defections as Whitman sinks in the polls.
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Divorce is Now Final
In this July 2007 video LA. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Admits Affair with Mirthala Salinas and denies she is pregnantWell, it took a few years and Mayor Villaraigosa is now free to marry his current girlfriend, KTLA Reporter Lu Parker.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s marriage to Corina Villaraigosa is officially dissolved, a court spokesman said Wednesday.
Villaraigosa’s wife, Corina Villaraigosa, filed for divorce in June 2007, citing “irreconcilable differences.” She made the move to end their 20-year marriage after Villaraigosa publicly accepted responsibility for their separation, saying he felt a “personal sense of failure.”
Remember the summer of love scandal in 2007 when it was discovered that Villaraigosa had an ongoing affiar with Telemundo reporter Mirthala Salinas.
Now, he can move on and most probably end up running for California Governor in 4-8 years or the U.S. Senate when Dianne Feinstein retires.
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CA-Sen: National Organization for Marriage Runs Spanish-Language Ads for Carly Fiorina
English Translation:Our values make our people special.
Work. Family. Children.
Barbara Boxer doesn’t share our values.
She supports abortion and homosexual marriage…
…and voted against immigration reform to permit our people to come here legally to work.
We’ve had enough of her talk.
Carly Fiorina for US Senate. Our values. Our senator.An interesting strategy here with the Pro-Life and Pro-Traditional Marriage organizations joining forces to back Carly Fiorina in Spanish-Language media. Naturally, Hispanic women trend to be Catholic and against abortion and gay marriage. Both positions that Fiorina supports.
The National Organization for Marriage and a group that supports female candidates who oppose abortion rights are launching Spanish-language television ads this week presenting Carly Fiorina as the candidate who shares the values of Latino voters.
The Susan B. Anthony List and The National Organization for Marriage, a group that advocates against same-sex marriage, will spend $200,000 on ads that will air on Telemundo, Telefutura and Univision in the Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego markets beginning Wednesday.
Meg Whitmans’ problems with her Hispanic maid may have opened up opportunities for Carly to talk directly to Latino women who share her views on family and marriage.
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Updated: Sarah Palin California Field Poll Watch: Not So Much and Obama Not So Much
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In my previous post, I mentioned the polarized California electorate with regards to Sarah Palin and President Obama. However, I subsequently found this graph which parses the data in another form.
But, I also discovered something mentioned in that piece which I missed. President Obama’s endorsement doesn’t mean so much for candidates either. From the California Field Poll of September 29, 2010: (PDF)
Most Californians (55%) continue to believe that the country is seriously off on the wrong track, while one in three (34%) feel that the U.S. is headed in the right direction.
If the President were to endorse a candidate running for political office in this state, 44% say that this would make them more inclined while 40% say this would make them less inclined to support the office seeker.
These are the findings from the latest Field Poll assessing California voter opinions about President Obama and the direction the U.S. is heading. The survey was conducted by telephone in English and Spanish September 14 – 21 among 859 registered voters statewide.
With all of the talk about Sarah Palin considering a 2012 run for the White House, there is the stark reality that she would have to improve her standing among California voters. The latest California Field Poll does not show voters favorably disposed towards her or candidates she endorses.Two years after she shook up the presidential race, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remains a polarizing figure in California.
A new Field Poll shows 58 percent of Golden State voters have unfavorable views of her and would be less inclined to vote for a candidate she endorses.
While that may be an understandable view toward a Republican in a state as Democratic as California, Palin’s real trouble is among nonpartisans who can decide close elections, said poll director Mark DiCamillo. Nearly 70 percent of voters who decline to state a party preference or belong to a third party hold dim views of Palin. Two-thirds of them would be less inclined to vote for a candidate she backs.
California has become a very blue Democratic Party controlled state. This is as much demographic reality as it is political ideology. The California Republican Party has been shrinking as the number of independent voters have increased. The Democrats maintain a lock on the ethnic groups that march and vote in lockstep.
Should President Obama continue to be in trouble in the polls in other states, it is likely that he would still be able to win California and its massive number of Electoral College votes. In the meantime, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney would only be able to use California as a fund raising opportunity to support media campaign in smaller swing states like Nevada, Ohio and Florida.
A Presidential GOP primary victory for Sarah Palin is very probable, even without California delegates since the likely 2012 Republican nominee will be decided before California holds its Presidential Primary election.
Do I think that Sarah Plain will run for President in 2012?
It depends upon a number of factors, most importantly the economy and Obama’s standing in the polls. Her GOP primary opponents are weak or little known nationally whereas she is well known and popular in early Republican Party nomination states, like Iowa, South Carolina and Florida.
She can run, win the nomination, lose to President Obama and be the presumptive GOP nominee in 2016 when the Presidency is open. So, why not run?
Keeping this in mind, the RNC and Sarah are continuing her California visability this election cycle and Sarah Palin will be coming to the OC on the 16th of October.
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Sarah Palin California Field Poll Watch: Not So Much
With all of the talk about Sarah Palin considering a 2012 run for the White House, there is the stark reality that she would have to improve her standing among California voters. The latest California Field Poll does not show voters favorably disposed towards her or candidates she endorses.Two years after she shook up the presidential race, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remains a polarizing figure in California.
A new Field Poll shows 58 percent of Golden State voters have unfavorable views of her and would be less inclined to vote for a candidate she endorses.
While that may be an understandable view toward a Republican in a state as Democratic as California, Palin’s real trouble is among nonpartisans who can decide close elections, said poll director Mark DiCamillo. Nearly 70 percent of voters who decline to state a party preference or belong to a third party hold dim views of Palin. Two-thirds of them would be less inclined to vote for a candidate she backs.
California has become a very blue Democratic Party controlled state. This is as much demographic reality as it is political ideology. The California Republican Party has been shrinking as the number of independent voters have increased. The Democrats maintain a lock on the ethnic groups that march and vote in lockstep.
Should President Obama continue to be in trouble in the polls in other states, it is likely that he would still be able to win California and its massive number of Electoral College votes. In the meantime, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney would only be able to use California as a fund raising opportunity to support media campaign in smaller swing states like Nevada, Ohio and Florida.
A Presidential GOP primary victory for Sarah Palin is very probable, even without California delegates since the likely 2012 Republican nominee will be decided before California holds its Presidential Primary election.
Do I think that Sarah Plain will run for President in 2012?
It depends upon a number of factors, most importantly the economy and Obama’s standing in the polls. Her GOP primary opponents are weak or little known nationally whereas she is well known and popular in early Republican Pary nomination states, like Iowa, South Carolina and Florida.
She can run, win the nomination, lose to President Obama and be the presumptive GOP nominee in 2016 when the Presidency is open. So, why not run?
Keeping this in mind, the RNC and Sarah are continuing her California visability this election cycle and Sarah Palin will be coming to the OC on the 16th of October.
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Day By Day October 6, 2010 – Trash Day
November 2, 2010 will be a day where Americans will vote to take their country back from the socialist demands of the Obama/Democratic super majorities in the federal government. The political landscape may very well be changed for decades as the Tea Party movement exerts its political power.It is sad to see the MSM be complicit with the Democrats as they use negative personal attacks rather than the issues in order to steal a few Congressional seats. Wonder how they will spin the Democratic loses on election night?
The American political system works. The self-correcting mechanism of free elections by the people will right the mistakes of 2006 and 2008.
On to 2012 and the Presidential election to throw Obama out of office.
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