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    • Today the Sacramento Bee reported on Dan Lungren's latest conflict of interest. While Karl Rove's shadowy front group tries to bail out Lungren in a tough election, the Congressman advocates for unlimited corporate campaign spending. Even worse, if Lungren does win reelection and becomes Chairman of the House Administration Committee, he would have jurisdiction over campaign finance regulation — Lungren would be responsible for regulating the same shadowy corporations that are funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to save him.
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      Ami Bera is a far left pencil pushing physician who has never run or held political office. Now, he is whining about campaign contributions while he sucks in Big Labor and Indian ethnic group campaign cash.

      Pretty ridiculous

    • The Republican woman who has the best chance to win in California on Nov. 2 is not billionaire Meg Whitman, who has spent more than $140 million of her own money to make sure every living thing knows who she is. It's Carly Fiorina, another former Silicon Valley CEO with thinner pockets but a looser campaign style who has drawn incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer into a dead heat.

      The two Republican candidates have not campaigned together, but when they have appeared at the same event, it has been Fiorina who gets the attention, pounding a shot of Tequila and letting loose a rolled-r trill at the Hispanic 100 Lifetime Achievement Award dinner in Newport Beach (Orange County) this month.
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      Read it all – actually a fair analysis.

  • Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen: Update on Carly Fiorina’s Health

    California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina

    From the press release:

    U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s Chief of Staff Deborah Bowker today issued the following statement:

    “Carly has received treatment for the infection related to the reconstructive surgery she underwent in July after her winning battle with breast cancer. The doctors tending to her care will observe her overnight and are taking every precaution to ensure that she can return to her busy campaign schedule. Carly is thankful for all of the prayers and encouragement she has received today from family, friends and supporters. She is anxious to get back on the campaign trail later this week and is very much looking forward to a victory on November 2.”

    In talking to various folks, my bet is that Carly is back on the campaign trail no later than tomorrow afternoon or Thursday morning. 

    Wishing her the best and the most speedy recovery – My prayers are with you, Carly.

  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen: NRSC Believes The Race is Winnable or Why Would They Bet $3 Million on Carly Fiorina?

    National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Ad which will run statewide in California

    A pretty obvious conclusion since they are spending the money.

    It was the expenditure heard ’round the political world: The GOP is pouring $3 million into the race against Sen. Barbara Boxer on behalf of GOP nominee Carly Fiorina.

    The news Monday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee planned to dump that much money into California, this late in the campaign, was enough to cause a double take. The NRSC was already in for $4.8 million in coordinated spending — making the nearly $8 million total expenditure in California the most the committee has publicly committed to any state this year and the most ever in California.

    At the heart of the GOP investment is a belief that the race is much closer than Tuesday’s Public Policy Polling survey, which showed Boxer up 52-43, or last week’s Los Angeles Times poll that gave the incumbent an 8-point lead.

    “For their turnout model to be accurate, it would have to mean a worse environment for Republicans than 2006,” a GOP operative familiar with the NRSC’s spending plans said of the Times survey. “We have two tracking polls that both show Carly only down 1 point and Boxer below 50, which is a bad place for an incumbent to be after so much spending.”

    Recent polling also has convinced the GOP that voters are differentiating between Fiorina and gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman, who appears to be sinking in her race against former Gov. Jerry Brown.

    “Carly can win even if Meg doesn’t win,” the operative said.

    I, also, feel California voters may very well split their ballot and vote for Jerry Brown, the Democrat but hedge their bets and vote for Fiorina, the Republican. A sort of balancing, as it were. Besides, Carly Fiorina does not have the “Nanny” problem of Whitman and Boxer is, well, an unpopular figure – ma’am, i mean Senator.

    There is a throw the bums out mentality even in Left Coast Blue California but voters just can’t vote for Meg – so they vote for Carly instead and send Babs to retirement.

    I bet all of the next few polls show Fiorina within the margin of error and Boxer well be below 50 per cent – a disaster for an incumbent.

    But, stay tuned as Carly mends from an infection and tries to heal up in time for last minute campaigning.

    Anything can happen folks, as this race goes down to the wire.

  • Carly Fiorina

    Updated: CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina Hospitalized for Treatment of Infection and Barbara Boxer Reponds

    Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina poses for a photo with Ross Amin while visiting a a phone bank at Republican headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010

    From the press release:

    U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s Chief of Staff Deborah Bowker today issued the following statement:

    “Carly learned more than a year and a half ago that she, like millions of women, had breast cancer. After successfully battling cancer, she had reconstructive surgery this summer and remains cancer free today. However, this morning Carly came down with an infection associated with the reconstructive surgery and, as a result, she was admitted to the hospital to receive antibiotics to treat this infection. While this will impact her campaign schedule today, Carly is upbeat and her doctors expect her to make a quick and full recovery and be back out on the campaign trail soon. Carly is looking forward to getting back to her full campaign schedule and to defeating Barbara Boxer on November 2.”

    It is my understanding that Carly will be making a quick recovery and will be on the campaign trail very soon. IV antibiotics are easily administered and any incision and drainage can be accomplished relatively easily. I would say that depending upon the spread of the infection and any associated malaise, Carly should be back within a day or so.

    I did note that she was speaking over the weekend with a hoarse throat/voice and all of the run around campaigning cannot be too good for your general health.

    So, my advice to Carly is to take it easy and take a few days off, if need be.

    Update:

    I was gone most of the day today visiting my foot doctor in Long Beach and obtaining long overdue running orthotics for my running/walking abused feet. In any case, I could not beleive when I returned that this was the ONLY response from the Barbara Boxer Campaign:

    The Boxer camp quickly sounded a sympathetic note. “We wish Carly Fiorina a speedy recovery and hope she is able to return to her normal schedule soon,” said campaign manager Rose Kapolczynski. However, Boxer spokesman Scott Sakakihara said the campaign doesn’t plan to let up on its attack ads.

    Damn, wouldn’t you think for at least good PR purposes that Boxer would phone Carly. Maybe voluntarily suspend those nasty attack ads that accuse Fiorina of being some wealthy maven who loves to lay off employees and nefariously send their jobs to China and India in order to fund her five corporate jets.

    But, I know and California voters know that Barbara Boxer is NOT a class act.

    I think she will pay the political price.

    Again, best wishes to Carly and I hope she takes all of the time she needs to recuperate. Infections are no fun. Believe me I know.

  • Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina Hospitalized for Treatment of Infection

    Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina poses for a photo with Ross Amin while visiting a a phone bank at Republican headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010

    From the press release:

    U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s Chief of Staff Deborah Bowker today issued the following statement:

    “Carly learned more than a year and a half ago that she, like millions of women, had breast cancer. After successfully battling cancer, she had reconstructive surgery this summer and remains cancer free today. However, this morning Carly came down with an infection associated with the reconstructive surgery and, as a result, she was admitted to the hospital to receive antibiotics to treat this infection. While this will impact her campaign schedule today, Carly is upbeat and her doctors expect her to make a quick and full recovery and be back out on the campaign trail soon. Carly is looking forward to getting back to her full campaign schedule and to defeating Barbara Boxer on November 2.”

    It is my understanding that Carly will be making a quick recovery and will be on the campaign trail very soon. IV antibiotics are easily administered and any incision and drainage can be accomplished relatively easily. I would say that depending upon the spread of the infection and any associated malaise, Carly should be back within a day or so.

    I did note that she was speaking over the weekend with a hoarse throat/voice and all of the run around campaigning cannot be too good for your general health.

    So, my advice to Carly is to take it easy and take a few days off, if need be.

  • Barbara Boxer

    CA-Sen: Another Ethics Investigation of Barbara Boxer?

    California Democrat U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer

    Looks like it and it involves her son, Douglas again.

    In a breaking development that may affect the close California Senate race, Pajamas Media has learned The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service sent a letter to Eric Holder last Thursday requesting the attorney general “begin an investigation to determine whether United States Senator Barbara Boxer violated any criminal laws or should be liable for any civil penalty for failure to disclose real property on her Personal Financial Disclosure Reports between 2002 and 2010.”

    The specific property FEPS is referring to is an Oakland, California, home valued at over a million dollars and co-owned by Boxer, her husband Stewart, their son Douglas, and his wife Amy. The letter to Holder reads in part:

    Despite the fact that Senator Boxer had an ownership in 854 Longridge Road [in Oakland], she failed to report this substantial real property asset on any of her personal financial disclosures between 2002 and 2010.  She had also failed to report the mortgage on the property.  Further, she failed to report the purchase of 854 Longridge Road in 2002.  Each year Boxer was required to have filed a “full and complete report.”

    The filing of false or incomplete disclosure statements  is in violation of the Ethics  in Government Act. The Act authorizes the Attorney General of the United States to seek civil penalties against Senators who knowingly and willy falsify or fail to report required information. The knowing and willful concealment of the existence of substantial amount of real property for a prolonged period may subject Senators to federal criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. paragraph 101. [other citations are available at the link]

    The Oakland home is currently lived in by Douglas and his wife.  This is not the first time Senator Boxer’s son has been the center of controversy.  The senator reportedly paid out nearly $500,000 from her campaign contributions to her son’s public relations firm between 2001 and 2009.  Those moneys could have been used to pay off the mortgage on the Oakland property, adding urgency to the DOJ investigation sought by The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service and further complicating the legal and ethical issues involved.

    Well, this is certainly a last minute October surprise and it may be picked up by the MSM in California. The whole flap with Boxer’s son will play out after the election when the ethics trial of Congresswoman Maxine Waters is tried in her own ethics trial in the House.

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day October 26, 2010 – Legacies



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    The Obama legacy will be Saul Alinsky and Socialism while the Bill Clinton legacy continues to be one of a corrupt philanderer. Which is worse?

    I guess we can ask former President Jimmy Carter whose legacy was self-righteous incompetence.

    It has been quite a few decades since the Democratic Party has yielded a President who actually could do the job without screwing up the country in worse ways.

    Amazing…….

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