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California Primary Election Watch 2006: PLEASE VOTE!
Maria Shriver smiles as she watches her husband, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, vote in the California primary election in Los Angeles’ Brentwood district Tuesday, June 6, 2006.
Los Angeles Times: California Balloting Begins
California voters began casting their ballots this morning on a wide variety of races, ranging from hotly contested Democratic primaries for governor and controller and tight Republican races for treasurer and controller.
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson predicted that just 38% of California’s 15.7 million registered voters would cast ballots. About 1.3 million have already voted by mail.
For those who have not, neighborhood polling stations are open until 8 p.m. Those who do not belong to a political party can vote on ballot measures and in nonpartisan local races. To vote in a party primary, they must request a Democratic, Republican or American Independent ballot.
Please vote today……
Flap knows you will be glad you did.
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California Primary Election 2006 Watch: Flap’s Predictions
Republican governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger , pictured here in May 2006, has a slim lead over likely Democratic rivals five months prior to a re-election vote, according to a new poll.
Governor: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Lt. Governor: Tom McClintock
Controller: Tony Strickland by 4 pts.
Treasurer: Keith Richman by 5 pts.
Attorney General: Chuck Poochigian
Insurance Commissioner: Steve Poizner
State Board of Equalization, 2nd District: Bill Leonard
United States Senator: Richard Mountjoy
United States Representative, 24th District: Elton Gallegly by 30 pts.
California Assembly, 37th District: Audra Strickland by 20 pts.
Governor: Steve Westly by 3 pts.
Lt. Governor: Jackie Speier by 4 pts.
Secretary of State: Deborah Ortiz by 5 pts.
Controller: Joe Dunn by 4 pts.
Treasurer: Bill Lockyer
Attorney General: Jerry Brown by 20 pts.
Insurance Commissioner: Cruz Bustamante by 15 pts.
Ventura County
Supervisor, 2nd District: Linda Parks
Supervisor,4th District: Judy Mikels
California Propositions:
California Proposition 81: No
California Proposition 82: No
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Election 2006 Watch: California Proposition 82 Losing in the Polls
Director and producer Rob Reiner (R) and actor Ed Begley, Jr. (L) pose with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore at the party following the Los Angeles premiere of the documentary film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in Los Angeles May 16, 2006.
Sacramento Bee: Preschool plan has lost its lead
Californians likely to vote Tuesday are turning against Proposition 82, the ballot initiative that would tax the wealthy to pay for free preschool for all 4-year-olds, according to the latest Field Poll.
Early Field polls showed the measure ahead. But the new survey, conducted last week and early this week, found that support for the universal preschool initiative has steadily eroded to the point that 46 percent of likely voters now oppose it, with only 41 percent in favor.
This is not surprising.
When finally exposed “class envy” redistributionist politics fails.
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Election 2006 Watch: Francine Busby in California 50 – “You Don’t Need Papers for Voting”
Two of the three candidates in 50th Congressional District, Democrat Francine Busby, left, and Republican Brian Bilbray, are shown in this combination of file photos taken April 6, 2006, in San Diego. The candidates are competing in the tight, high-stakes California special election to replace Republican Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham, the disgraced former lawmaker doing time for accepting millions in bribes.
Michelle Malkin: CA. DEM INVITES ILLEGAL ALIEN HELP
Oh, yes, she did.
Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate in Tuesday’s CA-50 special election has been caught on tape telling a Spanish-speaking audience “You don’t need papers for voting.â€
Responding to a question from a translator about how to help her campaign, Francine Busby also told non-English-speaking volunteers that they don’t need to be registered voters to help the campaign.
Take a listen right here.
Ian Schwartz also has audio and a photo of the candidate.
And political pundits REALLY think San Diego voters will punish the GOP with MORONS like this?
Only if Republican voter turnout is surpressed. And you can thank the President and his illegal alien amnesty bill for that…..
Stay tuned……..election is on Tuesday.
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Election 2006 Watch: California 37 Assembly District – GOP Primary
GOP Assemblywoman Audra Strickland and California GOP Controller Candidate Tony Strickland
VS.
Businessman Bob LarkinLos Angeles Times:Contest Is a Battle for GOP’s Soul
The 37th Assembly District race could indicate the mood of the national party this year.
For the second time in a row, the Republican primary in the 37th Assembly District is shaping up as battle for the soul of the GOP.
On the right is the incumbent, Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, 31, who has used her first term to push such issues as repealing the gas tax, providing tax credits to offset private school tuition and getting rid of much of public education’s bureaucracy.
Her opponent, Bob Larkin, 70, represents a more moderate wing of Ventura County’s Republican Party, which has struggled in recent years to elect candidates.
Larkin, a businessman and grandfather of six, calls himself a fiscal conservative but thinks the government should stay out of social issues, “the way the party used to be,” he adds.
On June 6, Republican voters in Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Camarillo and a portion of the San Fernando Valley will decide which of the two best represents their interests.
The outcome could hint at the mood of GOP voters nationwide, amid multiple scandals unfolding in Washington, D.C., said Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican political analyst.
Allan Hoffenblum has it WRONG.
The choice Ventura County voters will have on primary election day will between an ethically challenged (but cleared) young incumbent assemblywoman and a 70 year old RINO.
Flap handicaps an Audra Strickland win.
Related:
Ventura Count Star: GOP adversary criticizes foe in Assembly race
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Blasts Idea of California-Mexico Border Wall
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, speaks to the media while participating in a beach cleanup in San Pedro, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2006. Schwarzenergger participated in the cleanup in celebration of Earth Day.
ASSociated Press: Schwarzenegger Blasts Idea of Border Wall
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday said that building a 700-mile wall along the Mexican border to deter illegal immigration would amount to “going back to the Stone Ages,” and instead urged the use of high-tech gear and more patrols to secure the nation’s southern boundary.
“We are landing men on the moon and in outer space using all these great things. I think that other technology really can secure the borders,” the Republican governor said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
“If I say now, ‘Yes, let’s build the wall,’ what would prevent you from building a tunnel? I mean, we’ve detected tunnels left and right that people can drive trucks through,” he added.
The comments were Schwarzenegger’s most detailed to date on the wall proposal, which was included in legislation enacted in the U.S. House of Representatives. Schwarzenegger has said previously that fences might be appropriate in some areas, but raised doubts about the effectiveness of a wall snaking along the border.
Speaking on ABC, the governor said, “I think that it will be ludicrous to limit yourself to just building a wall. We’re going back to the Stone Ages here.”
But he also suggested practical and symbolic reasons to oppose the proposal. He alluded to the Berlin Wall, suggesting that such a structure on the U.S. border would send the wrong message to Mexico, “our friends … our trading partners.”
Ok, so how does Arnold propose to secure the border? Unlike the Democrat governors of Arizona and New Mexico he has been AWOL on the border control, illegal alien issue.
But, he now is reading the same polls as Hillary Clinton.
Stay tuned…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Will Arnold Be Back After 2006?
President Bush, right, gestures at Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, during a meeting at Cisco Systems in San Jose, Calif., Friday, April 21, 2006. Bush is on a four-day trip to California and Las Vegas.
ABC News: Will Arnold Be Back After ’06?
When asked by Stephanopoulos whether or not Schriver had asked him not to run again in 2006, the former actor cautiously chose his lines.
“I wouldn’t say that she said I shouldn’t run,” Schwarzenegger said. “I think that she maybe is very clear that she would rather have me at home. She didn’t say, ‘Don’t run’. She puts it in a different way. She would just say, ‘I need you to be at home. I love you to be at home.'”
Flap thinks Maria WILL get her wish.
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California Election 2006 Watch: New Field Poll Shows Westly 37 Angelides 26
California state Controller Steve Westly speaks at a news conference where he endorsed California proposition 82, the preschool for all initiative, at the Children’s Institute in Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2006. Westly is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of California in the June 2006 primary election.
Sacramento Bee: Field Poll: Ads push Westly past Angelides
Controller surges to an 11-point lead, but many Democrats still on fence.
Riding the crest of an effective television ad campaign, state Controller Steve Westly has grabbed the momentum in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, turning an 8-point deficit in February into an 11-point lead over Treasurer Phil Angelides, according to a new Field Poll.
Westly, the multimillionaire former eBay executive, is topping Angelides, the one-time Sacramento real estate developer, in every area of the state and among every subgroup of California residents in jumping to a 37 percent to 26 percent lead, Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said Thursday.
The beginning of the end of the Angelides campaign. Westly is more personable, better looking and has sharp media. the old lefties supporting Angelides will abandon ship like rats.
Is this a favorable trend for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Probably….because Angelides will now go NEGATIVE out of desperation.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Latest Field Poll Shows Tepid Support
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger , center, shakes hand with veterinary student April Miles, right, while touring the Gladys Valley Hall under construction at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine in Davis, Calif., Wednesday, April 12, 2006. Schwarzenegger toured the new building to view the energy efficient aspects of the building. After the tour Schwarzenegger helped in presenting a $1 million California Clean Energy Fund grant to UC Davis, to create the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center to advance innnovation in energy efficiency. Also seen are veterinary students Carlos Borges, left, Karen Park, second from left, and Brian Veltni, third from left.
Sacramento Bee: Field Poll: Governor’s support tepid
Five months removed from the rebuke they gave him in last November’s special election, California voters are still not happy with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, but some of that disdain might be softening, according to a new Field Poll.
Schwarzenegger’s approval rating remains in the danger zone at 39 percent, while 47 percent of registered voters disapproved of his performance. Another 14 percent had no opinion – a doubling of the undecideds since the governor’s tough times at the end of the special election.
The survey, taken April 3-10, also showed approval ratings for the Legislature remaining in the tank at 28 percent – down from the slight uptick lawmakers enjoyed in February.
Not good news for the governor. And rumblings in the California Republican Party are saying that there will be a depressed GOP turn-out in November.
On the good news front, Phil Angelides and Steve Westly are turning out the “light weights” that every California political pundit predicted.
Stay tuned….
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: An Immigrant Writes
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger shakes the hand of 6-year-old Eric Sarabia after touring small businesses in the Plaza Mexico shopping center Friday, March 31, 2006, in Lynwood, Calif. Schwarzenegger participated in a roundtable hosted by the California Mexican American Chamber of Commerece to discuss how the state can help small businesses.
Wall Street Journal: An Immigrant Writes
President Reagan memorably described his “shining city on a hill” as a place that “hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.” Perhaps because he’d been a border state governor, Reagan understood the challenges and the opportunities presented by immigration. He believed, as I do, that we can have an immigration policy that both strengthens our borders and welcomes immigrants.
Immigration is not just a theory debated on talk shows and on Capitol Hill; in California, it’s a reality that we live with every day in our schools, hospitals and workplaces. When Congress returns from its Easter recess, it must immediately address immigration reform again. I urge Congress to remember that immigrants are good people; but our current immigration system is bad policy. We need a new law.
But, not the type of law that a pandering Hispanic vote seeker and “open border” Schwarzenegger desires.
Lou Dobbs at CNN has First, secure our borders
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today called our current immigration system “bad policy” in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
Shamelessly pandering to the readership of the Wall Street Journal editorial pages, Gov. Schwarzenegger invokes Ronald Reagan’s name to declare that we can have immigration policies that both strengthen our borders and welcomes immigrants.
No, Governor, we can’t. National security requires that we control our borders and our ports. So does a rational, humane and effective immigration policy. Both flow from secure borders.
I repeat, Governor, until we first secure our borders, you can do nothing to resolve our illegal immigration crisis.Middle-class working men and women in your state and around the nation are paying the price, while illegal employers are enjoying the benefits and profits of illegal immigration.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has become a PANDERING POLITICO and is part of the problem and not part of any solution.
This piece in the Wall Street Journal is another reason why many California Republicans will stay away from the polls in November 2006.
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