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    October 20, 2010 /
    • CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer Staff Stonewalls Military Mom on Code Pink ‘Fallujah Aid’ Letter
      Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Capitol Hill staff is stonewalling a request by military mother Beverly Perlson for a copy of a reported diplomatic letter provided by the California Democrat to the leftwing group Code Pink/Global Exchange in support of the delivery of $600,000 in cash and aid to the “other side” in Fallujah, Iraq in late 2004.

      Perlson, whose son has served four tours in the war on terror, is founder of the pro-troops group The Band of Mothers.

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      Read it all.

      BTW, the letter will miraculously appear after the election

      (tags: barbara_boxer)
    • Shocker: Sold-Out Crowd Gives Former President Bush Three Standing Ovations During Speech
      Bush spoke Tuesday before a sold-out crowd of 2,000 people during the 76th lecture as part of The University of Texas at Tyler's Distinguished Lecture Series.

      He walked on the stage to a standing ovation. People in the audience were pumping their fists and whistling. One audience member shouted, “Bring back Bush,” at one point during the presentation.

      He would receive at least two more standing ovations before the end of his speech.
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      Not really a shocker……I mean compared to Obama ….really……

      (tags: George_W_Bush)
  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen Poll Watch: Carly Fiorina Beats Barbara Boxer in Silicon Valley Poll

    October 20, 2010 /
    fiorinaboxerb CA Sen Poll Watch: Is Carly Fiorina Beginning to SURGE in the Polls?

    Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer

    Well, it is not a scientific poll but it is better to lead this one than trail it.

    Carly Fiorina topped incumbent Barbara Boxer by a wide margin in a recently completed unscientific online survey by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

    The former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO was backed by about 69 percent of those who responded to the Business Pulse survey conducted between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19.

    Boxer was backed by about 31 percent.

    Reader Donald R. wrote: “Both Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown should quietly exit the political scene. They’ve had their day. Let’s move California on.”

    There will be more polls over the next few days and I expect them to be all over the place. Some may show a few points outside the margin of errors for either candidate.

    The fact remains Carly Fiorina is within striking distance and if she turns out her voters and a Republican wave materializes, she will win this race. I subscribe to what Garry South said the other day that if the Dems are not up by 7 or 8 points by election day they will be in trouble.

    And, then, there is the GOTV, Ground Operations where the GOP has a decided advantage.

    So, hold onto your hat the next 12 days – it will be a wild ride.

  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen Video: Carly Fiorina Up with New Television Ad – “Bickering”

    October 20, 2010 /
    U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina launched a new television ad titled “Bickering” highlighting Boxer’s 28-year record of bitter partisanship and ineffective leadership in Washington.

    A television ad that will appeal to the middle, independent voters, Carly paints Far Left Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer as a hyper-patisan POL – which she is.

    With Boxer running vicious personal attack ads against Fiorina and with President Obama rushing out to camapign for her on Friday, painting Boxer as an agenda driven POL works.

    From the press release:

    In an ongoing effort to highlight Barbara Boxer’s utter failure to deliver results for the people of California, who are today facing a 12.4 percent unemployment rate with more than a half million jobs lost since the passage of the economic stimulus plan, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina launched a new 30-second television ad titled “Bickering” highlighting Boxer’s 28-year record of bitter partisanship and ineffective leadership in Washington. This is the fourth ad in Fiorina’s statewide television advertising campaign.

    “While Californians face 12.4 percent unemployment, falling incomes and devastating job losses, it’s clear Barbara Boxer is far more concerned with saving her own job and ‘delivering partisan shots’ than she is with reaching across the aisle to get something done for the people she was elected to serve,” said Carly for California Campaign Manager Marty Wilson. “The people of California deserve a representative in the U.S. Senate who will set aside partisan bickering and political games, but it’s clear Barbara Boxer is not that representative. Carly Fiorina, on the other hand, is not afraid to make the tough decisions necessary to address our state’s most pressing challenges. Changing Washington starts with changing the people we send there, and we believe the people of California will do that on November 2 when they vote to retire Barbara Boxer after her nearly three decades of failure to fight for their interests.”