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links for 2010-10-19
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California Companies Moving Away or
Shifting Work Out Reaches New Record: 158
(for 2010 alone)
In the three weeks since my last tally, I've learned about another 14 companies that have left California completely or re-directed capital to build facilities out of state. The names of the 14 and justifications for listing them appear below. Today's entry builds upon the Sept. 21 entry 144 Companies Shrink from Calif. This Year – Three Times the Total for All of 2009.
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"It's hard to say Democrats are facing anything less than a category four hurricane," said Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster who conducts the Journal poll with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "And it's unlikely the Democratic House will be left standing."
Mr. McInturff said the Republican lead among likely voters, if it stood, probably would yield a pickup of 52 or 53 House seats, surpassing the net gain of 39 seats the GOP needs to claim control of the chamber.
The heightened energy among Republican-leaning voters has been a feature of public opinion for months, with many voters anxious about the economy and unhappy with the Democratic-led Congress.
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To help create jobs, Fiorina said, she favors creating "special economic zones" in the United States where the federal government could provide relief from taxes and regulations in partnership with states and local governments.
She also called for a five-year tax holiday for start-up businesses and a 10-year tax holiday for existing businesses that repatriate jobs that were exported.
"Other places have learned from us to attract jobs," Fiorina said, referring to countries that now compete with the United States in a global economy.
Fiorina on Tuesday attacked Boxer for failing to support many tax-cutting proposals during her years as a senator, and for supporting the stimulus-fund proposal last year. Fiorina said that California's unemployment rate, which rose from more than 10 to more than 12 percent was evidence of stimulus spending's failure.
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OMG, will this blithering idiot ever shut up?!
Seeking to channel the sign-bearing, flag-waving enthusiasm of the "tea party" movement into ballot-box victories, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told hundreds of supporters Monday they couldn't "party like it's 1773" until Washington was flooded with like-minded conservatives.
I mean, 1773?! WOW. Glad I wasn't the only one who caught this latest Palin gaffe:
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@Markos and @MattOrtega – OOOPSIt was 1773……
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Senator Barbara Boxer, the pro-abortion activists who leads the abortion advocacy movement in the Senate, is getting some last-minute election help from allied organizations. EMILY’s List and NARAL are throwing their weight behind Boxer in an attempt to help her defeat pro-life candidate Carly Fiorina.
The latest polls in the race have shown Fiorina trailing by anywhere from one-four percent, which is within the margin.
EMILY’s List, has launched a new independent expenditure effort that focuses on Fiorina’s former tenure as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard rather than her pro-life views.
“This race is a dead heat for one reason and one reason alone: women voters don't have the information they need about Carly Fiorina,” EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock said in a statement.
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Figures.Bet they don't mention partial birth abortion either.
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Back in August, President Barack Obama came to L.A. to do some fundraising, but he ended up raising the ire of residents who got stuck behind barricades when streets were shut down to allow his motorcade to pass through.
Well, the president will be back in town to help Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer raise some money for the upcoming election.
The president is scheduled to speak to students at USC early Friday afternoon, Southern California Public Radio reports. He'll be on the same part of campus where presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon once made speeches.
But local drivers hope the traffic will flow a little better this time around.
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Aerospace giant Boeing is joining the list of companies that say the new health care law could have a potential downside for their workers.
In a letter mailed to employees late last week, the company cited the overhaul as part of the reason it is asking some 90,000 nonunion workers to pay significantly more for their health plan next year. A copy of the letter was obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
"The newly enacted health care reform legislation, while intended to expand access to care for millions of uninsured Americans, is also adding cost pressure as requirements of the new law are phased in over the next several years," wrote Rick Stephens, Boeing's senior vice president for human resources.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday said the United States has not pressured Turkey to take part in a NATO missile defense system, but expressed hope Ankara would endorse plans for the anti-missile shield.
Gates said U.S. and Turkish officials have discussed the possibility of Turkey actively participating in the proposed missile defense system directed against Iran. "The US has engaged Turkey in political and military dialogue on its potential technical and operational contributions should NATO adopt this approach," Gates said in a speech to the American-Turkish Council in Washington. "Contrary to some press reports, we are not pressuring Turkey to make a contribution," said Gates, according to a text of the speech released by the Pentagon.
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Missile defense is on the backburner under Obama.
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CA-Sen Poll Watch: Is Carly Fiorina Beginning to SURGE in the Polls?
Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
Very possible after the past few polls.
And, then there is the graph:
Looks to me that Fiorina is surging or closing the gap with about 13 days to go before the election.
Is there any wonder why President Obama is campaigning for Senator Barbara Boxer at USC on Friday afternoon and why his wife, Michelle is also doing events for her?
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Updated – Sarah Palin Video: First Look at Sarah Palin’s Alaska on TLC
I’ll be watching.
Anyone now thinking Sarah will NOT be running for President against Obama in 2012?
Update:
TLC releases another clip: The Mama Bear
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Sarah Palin Video: First Look at Sarah Palin’s Alaska on TLC
I’ll be watching.
Anyone now thinking Sarah will NOT be running for President against Obama in 2012?
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CA-Sen Video Updated: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Runs Ads on Barbara Boxer Bouncing Checks
The television ad which I have seen on NBC, Los Angeles is “on air” at least in Los Angeles County. You can view it here.I’ll embed the video when the Chamber decides to allow it.But, you remember the FLAP.Well, shocker, Senator Barbara Boxer when she was in the House of Representatives was the 24th most egregious of the miscreants.
The PBS onlineNewshour summarizes the House Banking Scandal, also known as Rubbergate: In 1992, many House members were suspected of bouncing checks from accounts they held at the so-called House Bank a loose operation that allowed member of Congress to cash their checks but kept shoddy records and often were quite delayed in recording deposits or withdrawals. Although the lawmakers had broken no laws and many did not even know they were bouncing checks, several took advantage of the bank system and many voters viewed the scandal as a blatant abuse of power. Of the 296 sitting representatives and 59 former members who had overdrafted their personal accounts in the preceding 39 months, the House Ethics Committee released a list of the 24 worst abusers.
Boxer was among the top 24 involved in the House bank scandal. On March 1, 1992 the Sacramento Bee quoted Boxer as admitting she didnt pay enough attention to her House bank account. More specifically, that meant 143 bad checks totaling $41,417 over a three-year period that she had written on the House bank.
Here is the video:
For 28 years, Barbara Boxer has been bad with our money. Remember when she bounced 143 checks in the Congressional bank scandal? One hundred forty three bad checks. Now she’s bankrupting the Treasury–voting to add trillions to the national debt; raising taxes; driving away jobs. Twenty eight years of wasteful spending. Twenty eight years of higher taxes. Twenty eight years of killing jobs. Tell Senator Boxer to stop killing jobs. -
CA-Sen Video: Barbara Boxer Lacks a “Ground Game” Says Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown
I am not really surprised as the Democrats have not really been motivated like they were when Obama was running two years ago.
Just got back from Willie Brown’s annual pre-election breakfast in San Francisco — a place for donors and pols to schmooze. Even Guv Schwarzenegger showed up (to a standing O, no less).
After we fought through the line of folks there to kiss Willie’s ring afterwards, we asked the Da Mayor about something one of the morning’s speakers, former Gov. Gray Davis campaign czar Garry South, said about the lack of a Democratic ground operation.
South, who also ran Brown’s erstwhile primary opponent Gavin Newsom’s gov campaign, also praised Republican Meg Whitman for setting up an “operation unlike anything we’ve ever seen in California.”
Willie agreed — about the Dems.
“I do not believe that Jerry Brown has a ground operation,” Willie said. He also wonders if it is a good idea for the Dems to rely so heavily on labor for their ground operation. We wrote about labor’s efforts microtargeting efforts here.
South told the gathering that unless Jerry Brown has a lead of 7 or 8 points going into election day, “we’re in serious trouble.”
A Labor based GOTV (Get Out the Vote) campaign for Barbara Boxer will NOT be as effective as the Obama ground operation in 2008. How effective it is, may very well decide the election of Carly Fiorina.
If the polls show a few points, within the margin of error, lead for Barbara Boxer going into the last weekend, she is likely toast.
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Obamanomics: Unemployment at 10.0% in Mid-October
Hope is NOT on the way unless you mean a massive GOP victory to change national economic policy.Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, is at 10.0% in mid-October — essentially the same as the 10.1% at the end of September but up sharply from 9.4% in mid-September and 9.3% at the end of August. This mid-month measurement confirms the late September surge in joblessness that should be reflected in the government’s Nov. 5 unemployment report.
If American voters make this election a referndum on President Obama’s handling of the economy, partucularly unemployment, Obama/Democrats are in deep trouble.
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CA-3 Video: Ami Bera and ObamaCare Equals Bad Medicine for California
And, Ami Bera is a California physician?
Ami Bera, the Democratic nominee in the 3rd Congressional District, didn’t cast a vote for federal healtAmi Berah care legislation. But that’s not stopping critics from blasting the first-time candidate over the Democrat-backed plan.
American Crossroads, a conservative group with ties to GOP strategist Karl Rove, is airing a spot saying the Elk Grove doctor doesn’t think the overhaul of the nation’s health care system goes far enough.
The ad, posted below, claims that the legislation championed by President Barack Obama will result in billions of dollars in new taxes, higher insurance premiums and steep cuts to Medicare.
Ami Bera is a physician but not really a practicing one – an educator and former County Health Director = a paper pushing administrator with an MD degree.
Wow and the Obama/Pelosi loving Democrat has never run or held elected office before.
Not a good choice for California’s Congressional District #3.
Congressman Dan Lungren, a former California Attorney General who has EVEN been endorsed for re-election by the Left-leaning Sacramento Bee is the much better candidate.
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Ca-Sen Video: Carly Fiorina Welcomes Joe Biden Back to California
California U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina video: “ZERO”Carly Carly fiorina is welcoming Vice President Joe Biden back to California in order to campaign and raise money for Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer.
From the press release:
The Carly for California campaign today welcomed Vice President Joe Biden back to California for the second time in the last month in yet another attempt to rescue Barbara Boxer’s political career by launching a new Web video titled “Zero,” highlighting Biden and Boxer’s refusal to admit the failure of the economic stimulus plan they championed and their utter lack of understanding about what it takes to create jobs for the people they were elected to serve.
“Joe Biden and Barbara Boxer are proof that more time spent in elected office does not translate into the ability to create more jobs. After more than six decades in the insular world of Washington politics, Biden and Boxer still don’t understand that government doesn’t create jobs – and that’s bad news for the 2.2 million out-of-work Californians who are paying the price for the failed policies of Barbara Boxer,” said Carly for California Press Secretary Andrea Saul. “But instead of looking to the private sector to stimulate the kind of long-term job creation our nation needs to put our fellow Americans back to work, Joe Biden and Barbara Boxer are yet again fighting side by side to save one job and one job only: Barbara Boxer’s.”
Wonder if Slow Joe is up for a GAFFE today?
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CA-Sen: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Runs Ads on Barbara Boxer Bouncing Checks
The television ad which I have seen on NBC, Los Angeles is “on air” at least in Los Angeles County. You can view it here.I’ll embed the video when the Chamber decides to allow it.Well, shocker, Senator Barbara Boxer when she was in the House of Representatives was the 24th most egregious of the miscreants.
The PBS onlineNewshour summarizes the House Banking Scandal, also known as Rubbergate: “In 1992, many House members were suspected of bouncing checks from accounts they held at the so-called “House Bank” — a loose operation that allowed member of Congress to cash their checks but kept shoddy records and often were quite delayed in recording deposits or withdrawals. Although the lawmakers had broken no laws and many did not even know they were bouncing checks, several took advantage of the bank system and many voters viewed the scandal as a blatant abuse of power. Of the 296 sitting representatives and 59 former members who had overdrafted their personal accounts in the preceding 39 months, the House Ethics Committee released a list of the 24 worst abusers.”
Boxer was among the top 24 involved in the House bank scandal. On March 1, 1992 the Sacramento Bee quoted Boxer as admitting she didn’t pay enough attention to her House bank account. More specifically, that meant 143 bad checks totaling $41,417 over a three-year period that she had written on the House bank.