links for 2010-10-19

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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And, California voters want Jerry Brown for Governoir?

"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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Wipe Out

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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Big Government drove the jobs overseas in the first place.

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 – OOOPS

It was 1773……

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.

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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Yeah it will be a bad traffic day in Los Angeles

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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ObamaCare is a loser for every day working Americans and should be repealed.

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.