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California Election 2006 Watch: Phil Angelides – “I Saw Al Franken NAKED”
Sacramento Bee: Democrats’ delight: Candidates get airtime as Franken brings radio show to Sacramento
Democratic gubernatorial contender Phil Angelides turned to Harvard classmate Al Franken – author, liberal satirist and foil to conservatives – to burnish his progressive political credentials.
But as he sat down Wednesday for “The Al Franken Show” – which broadcast live from Sacramento’s Crest Theatre for the Air America radio network – Angelides pitched one extra detail.
“This is where I reveal to the world where I saw Al Franken naked,” Angelides announced.
California State Treasurer and Governor candidate Angelides better do better than this if he wants to beat California State Controller Steve Westly in June.
Other Quotes (Laughs??):
“Let me ask you this,” Franken said. “Does your opponent in the Democratic primary have a name?”
“Yes,” Angelides responded, still refusing to serve it up. “He also has a checkbook. He’s written $22 million in checks. He has a checkbook as big as Schwarzenegger’s ego.”
Good luck Phil…….
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Rob Reiner Resigns – FINALLY
Actor-director Rob Reiner is seen in this January 12, 2006 file photo. Reiner, accused of abusing his role as head of a California commission by spending state funds to promote a campaign to fund preschool, resigned from the job on Wednesday.
Reuters: Director Rob Reiner resigns from Calif. commission
Actor-director Rob Reiner, accused of abusing his role as head of a California commission by spending state funds to promote a campaign to fund preschool, resigned from the job on Wednesday.
Reiner has headed the First 5 California Children and Families Commission, a state entity that provides services to young children, for seven years.
Legislators from both political parties said Reiner, an outspoken Democrat, improperly spent $23 million of commission funds to highlight preschool when he was promoting a referendum for the June 2006 ballot that would guarantee preschool for 4-year-olds.
“When you and I spoke over the weekend, we agreed we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California’s children,” Reiner said in a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As recently as two weeks ago, the director of the film “When Harry Met Sally…” said he would not leave the job.
Reiner’s resignation letter is here.Â
About damn time. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger should have fired his FAT ASS months ago.
Now, they should indict him for spending all of our taxpayers money on his pre-school initiative hype.
Stay tuned…..
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California Three Strikes Law Watch: Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten Criticizes Three Strikes Reform Act of 2006
Ventura County Star: 3 strikes law reform bill is criticized
County DA says it would pose a great risk to public
Ventura County’s top prosecutor said he is satisfied with California’s “three strikes” law, and criticized a proposed ballot measure that would limit 25-to-life terms to only serious or violent crimes.County District Attorney Greg Totten said the Three Strikes Reform Act of 2006, which is co-sponsored by Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, would pose a great risk to the public.
Flap is satisified with the “three strikes” law as well. The more criminals kept away from society the better. Steve Cooley, the Los Angeles County District Attorney seems more concerned with freeing criminals from his overcrowded jails than protecting the public.
The Repeat Criminal Offender/Three Strikes Fair Sentencing Act of 2006 is here.
The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2006 is here.
The current California Three Strikes law is here.
Cooley, who is pushing the measure for the November ballot, believes it would make prison terms more just by reforming state guidelines, which are some of the toughest in the nation. One result could mean that hundreds, perhaps thousands of inmates would be sentenced to shorter terms or set free. In Ventura County, it could mean the release of 21 third-strike defendants, Totten said.
“While I consider Steve Cooley as a friend and have great respect for him, I do not agree with him on this issue,” he said. “I think it’s bad public policy.”
Great, release even more criminals early. This is NOT bad public policy – It is UNACCEPTABLE public policy.
The Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks, a possible successor to Congressman Elton Gallegly in 2008 also opposes changing the three strikes law.
Critics of the existing law point to cases where defendants were put away for stealing a cookie or pizza. Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks, however, said prosecutors and judges have the discretion to consider which crimes they would count as the third strike.
“So much of this has been driven by real quick sound bites of cases that look like an abuse of the system,” Brooks said. “If the public knew everything, they would see that the three strikes law is working. When you look at the kind of violators they are … I think it is frightening. These are some violent offenses of the worst kind. Given the context, you still have a very dangerous person who is still offending.”
And to confuse California voters further there is another measure being circulated for the November ballot.
A competing measure co-written by Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Steven Ipsen aims to toughen the existing law in some cases and make it more lenient in others.
Ipsen’s Repeat Criminal Offender/Three Strikes Fair Sentencing Act of 2006 would give life sentences to sex offenders and murderers after two convictions, not three. However, it would allow sentences of 10 years to life and 15 years to life instead of the mandated 25 years to life if the third conviction wasn’t serious.
This spring supporters of each measure will begin collecting the nearly 400,000 signatures they need to put each measure before voters on the November ballot.
So, when you see the signature gatherers asking you to sign the initiative petitions REFUSE to sign then.
Keep the California “three strikes” law!
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California Governor Begins Television Ads
Reuters: Schwarzenegger starts early with TV reelection ads
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger does not face reelection for eight months, but on Monday the former Hollywood superstar began television advertising to bolster his lagging public support.
Elected in 2003 in the first recall election in California’s history, Schwarzenegger does not face any significant opposition in the June Republican primary in his effort to stay at the helm of America’s most populous state.
“This is part of our efforts to highlight what has happened over the last two years,” Matthew Dowd, the campaign’s chief strategist, told a media conference call. “This is sort of the start of that dialogue.”
A new campaign consultant and a new strategy with early campaign ads. But, will Arnold BLOW his money in too early media campaigns?
And Schwarzenegger continues to need a message, especially since his infrastructure bond proposal failed to make the California June ballot.
Stay tuned……
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: The New Majority
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: This is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s MESS Now
Like Flap said the first time!
LA Weekly New West Notes: Arnold Makes The Reiner Mess His Own
Hugh Hewitt: Arnold’s Reiner Anchor
Unforced errors in politics are the worst sort. Standing by a friend is admirable, but not when that friend has chaired a commission that spent $23 million on ads that clearly supported the friend’s political campaign to expand the public schools bureaucracy and raise taxes via initiative.
Arnold’s refusal to replace Reiner with a serious medical professional will be a slow bleed, and unlike Arnold’s other gestures of reconciliation with the center-left and left, this is the sort of very public blow off of conservatives and good government types that makes his November re-elect much more problematic.
California voters will NOT stand for this.
They will simply vote the Governator out of office.
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Sheriff Mike Carona Watch: Carona Fails to Gain Republican Party Support for Re-Election
Los Angeles Times: Carona Fails to Gain GOP Vote Support
Orange County Republican leaders have voted not to endorse beleaguered Sheriff Michael S. Carona for a third term, dealing a blow to his once high-flying political career.
Carona, who will face three challengers in the June election, fell one vote shy of gaining the endorsement of the county’s Republican central committee at its meeting Monday night.
Failure to secure this endorsement may mean primary election trouble for the two term incumbent sheriff. This vote comes scarcely two months after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger raised $700,000 in an Orange County fundraiser for Carona.
Although the party did not endorse someone else, the move was a setback for Carona, whose political viability has slumped amid allegations of mismanagement, sexual misconduct and conflicts of interest — all of which he has denied.
Monday’s rebuff followed lengthy debate about several scandals and investigations that political analysts say kept Carona from running for higher office this year. The state attorney general is investigating allegations that Carona sexually harassed two women and whether he improperly billed his election committee for $130,000 in expenses.Losing the GOP endorsement was also noteworthy because the vote was coordinated by Carona supporters who are Republican party insiders, including former state GOP Chairman Michael Schroeder, Carona’s campaign spokesman, and former state GOP Executive Director Jon Fleischman, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman.
Also, Republican office holders in Orange County have accused the Sheriff of GOP disloyalty.
Speaking against a Carona endorsement at Monday’s GOP meeting were Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor, a sheriff’s deputy; Santa Ana school board member Rosemarie Avila; and anti-illegal-immigration activist Lupe Moreno.
Avila and Moreno criticized Carona for supporting Democrats in past elections, including being on the host committee for a fundraiser for then-Gov. Gray Davis and endorsing Latino activist Nativo Lopez for the Santa Ana school board, from which he eventually was recalled.
Flap handicaps a successful challenge to Carona being about even money at this time. Look for Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Hunt to gain support over the next few weeks.
Lt. Bill Hunt (L)
Is it over for Sheriff Mike Carona?Stay tuned…….
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Rob Reiner = “A Friend”
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, jokes with students from left, Jamie Vang, Polly Thet, Maikao Vang and Nalee Chang in the medical nursing careers class at Duncan Polytechnic High School, Tuesday, March 21, 2006, in Fresno, Calif. Schwarzenegger talked about the $50 million he has included in his 2006-07 budget for vocational education.
Fresno Bee: Governor promotes budget, bond proposals in Fresno visit
Gov. Schwarzenegger toured Duncan Polytechnical High School on Tuesday, using the school’s vocational education focus to highlight his push for such training, including $50 million in his proposed state budget and additional money in a state infrastructure bond he wants to put on the November ballot.
The governor toured woodworking, automotive and nursing classes at the school, visiting with students and getting briefed on vocational education issues by teachers and Duncan principal Carol Gaab Hansen.
Schwarzenegger also sat down with The Bee’s editorial board, where he addressed a broad range of subjects, including the infrastructure bond, education, Sacramento’s commitment to the central San Joaquin Valley and immigration reform.
And, what did the Governor say at the editorial board………?
Said maintaining $1 billion in the state infrastructure bond for Highway 99 improvements is not negotiable. If that amount is reduced, the governor said of the bond: “It won’t happen.”
This is a backhanded criticism of state Republican legislative leaders. So, Schwarzenegger will probably get “NOTHING” to place on the November ballot or a defeat at the polls for whatever measure that appears.
Defended the statewide high school exit exam, which students must pass to graduate. “I believe very strongly in the exit exam,” he said. Still, the governor said some sort of accommodation must be made for special education students, in the form of a waiver or an alternative assessment.
The California High School Exit Exam is a disaster and California public schools are worse than a disaster. California Superintendent of Public Instruction is a career politician with only 18 months as a teacher and a joke.
Education accountablility is one thing but the California Teachers Union calls the shots and until they are brought around or tamed the schools will remain the same – with or without an exit exam which NO ONE will pass (unless it is watered down).
Said the federal government must come up with a viable guest-worker program to assist agriculture. Still, he acknowledged there are daunting challenges in such a program, including getting guest workers to return to their country of origin.
Arnld must be listening to the Big Ag boys who write the campaign checks. Flap thought Arnold supported Gilchrist and the Minutemen?
Defended actor Rob Reiner, who has come under fire after a state commission he chairs spent $23 million in state money on an ad campaign promoting the benefits of preschool at the same time he is pushing a preschool ballot initiative. He said he is standing by Reiner, whom he called “a friend,” until there is evidence of wrongdoing. “Innocent until proven guilty,” he said.
With LEFTIE “friends” like this who needs ……. well, the reader understands. Arnold sure knows how to put his foot in his mouth. Hollywood Actor/Producer Rob Reiner should have been fired months ago for his blatant political manipulation of the First 5 California Children and Families Commission. A brewing scandal that now Schwarzenegger owns.
Does Arnold REALLY want to be re-elected in November or does he have a “DEATH WISH?”
Stay tuned……
The Sacramento Bee has Governor won’t oust Reiner from commissionÂ
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Governor and California Republican Party Raise $2.5 Million and PROTESTS
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the importance of education to some 900 high school choir members, staff and families at the 17th annual High School Choir Festival at Disney Hall in Los Angeles on Monday, March 20, 2006. Schwarzenegger was to host a major fundraising dinner later in the evening.
ASSociated Press: Schwarzenegger, GOP raise $2.5 million at SoCal fundraiser
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state GOP collected an estimated $2.5 million at a fundraiser headlined by Sen. John McCain that helped replenish coffers drained by a failed ballot measure campaign last year.
Top donors kicked in as much as $100,000 to attend Monday night’s dinner and reception at the Beverly Hilton while about 200 protesters from teacher, firefighter and other unions protested outside.
Some of the donors are listed here on ElectionTrack and here on the invitation.
Members of the California Nurses Association push what looks like a gurney with a giant soap bar down a hallway as they try to see California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at a fundraiser attendeded by U.S. Sen. John McCain, in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, March 20, 2006. The nurses are wearing protective gear and want to hand the symbolic soap bar to Schwarzenegger to clean up corporate corruption.
Security guards and police turned away about two dozen members of the California Nurses Association who tried to march into the reception shouting, “Shame on Arnold.”
“This fundraiser is the prime example of what is wrong with our system,” said Jill Furillo, Southern California director of the nurses association. “They write their $100,000 checks because they hope to get a favor in return.”
The scene was reminiscent of 2005, when union activists angered by the governor’s agenda hounded his public appearances and ran millions of dollars of TV ads. Their campaign contributed to the November defeat of Schwarzenegger-supported ballot measures to slow state spending and curb public union power in Sacramento.
Flap supposes the acquiescence of Governor Schwarzenegger to the nurse staffing ratios sought by the California Nurses Association immediately after the November 2005 California Special Election has had little deterrent effect on labor protests. But, then, we knew that didn’t we?
Apparently, those nurses have not forgotten how Schwarzenegger stated he would “kick their butt.”
It looks to Flap it is the reverse on whose ass is getting kicked.
A man in a mask of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., joins a protest outside a gala fundraiser for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, at which McCain was to be a featured speaker, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, March 20, 2006. One organizer explained the visual metaphor as meaning the governor should ‘come clean’ about his special-interest financial support. Scores of union members protested, calling for his ouster in November.
McCain, R-Ariz, headlined the governor’s reelection fundraiser, hosted by donors from the entertainment and business elite that included “The Terminator” director James Cameron, Interscope Records chief Jimmy Iovine, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel and Univision Communications Inc. Chairman A. Jerrold
McCain has urged Schwarzenegger to push for campaign finance reforms in California in 2006. But the governor has spent much of his time talking about building highways, levees and schools, not restraining the flow of campaign dollars.
McCain spokesman Craig Goldman said that to his knowledge, the senator and governor did not discuss campaign finance reform at the fundraiser.
It is trolling for dollars season to fund the June and November campaigns. The Democrats have filed a complaint against McCain for soliciting money above the federal limits, but it will go nowhere.
Democrat candidates for Governor are trolling for the same dollars and believe, Flap, they will turn NO donor away.
The Democrats running against him in the June primary – state Controller Steve Westly and Treasurer Phil Angelides – were also busy fundraising, sometimes appealing to the same corporate and entertainment industry donors pursued by the governor.
Schwarzenegger has collected at least $5.2 million for his reelection, according to state reports, while Angelides has raised about $2 million. Westly has collected $3.4 million but that includes $2.5 million of his own money.
Here are some more photos from the union protests:
A man wearing an Arnold Schwarzenegger mask is wheeled in a bathtub with a bubble-making machine during a protest outside a gala fundraiser for the California governor.
Members of the California Nurses Association, some wearing hazardous infection protection gear, blow soap bubbles as they walk outside after being escorted out by hotel security at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, March 20, 2006. The nurses wanted to hand over a large soap bar to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who at the hotel holding a fundraiser with Sen. John McCain.
Stay tuned…. The campaign for California Governor is just beginning……..
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Alliance for a Better California – “We’re BACK!”
NBC4TV: Sen. John McCain To Speak At Schwarzenegger Fund-Raiser
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign will get a much-needed infusion of at least $2 million thanks to a fund-raiser Monday in Beverly Hills featuring a speech by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Tickets for Monday’s fund-raiser at the Beverly Hilton, which also benefits the California Republican Party, start at $1,000.
The Alliance for a Better California is BACK and has a “SURPRISE” for the California Governor:
***Media Advisory***
FIREFIGHTERS, NURSES, TEACHERS, POLICE OFFICERS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS HOLD
RALLY OUTSIDE SCHWARZENEGGER-MCCAIN FUNDRAISER AT THE BEVERLY HILTONFed up with the Governor Schwarzenegger’s broken promises and failure to lead, the Alliance for a Better California is holding a rally outside the Governor’s Beverly Hills fundraiser with Senator John McCain, where the Governor is expected to raise an unprecedented $2 million in one night.
The Alliance for a Better California is also circulating an online petition to Senator McCain asking him not to attend the fundraiser, which violates both the letter and spirit of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law the Senator fought so vigorously to pass.
The Governor’s campaign announced last month their fundraising goal of $120 million for this election. The Governor is holding fundraisers this month in New York City, Phoenix, Washington, D.C. and all over the state of California. On his trip to D.C., where he promised to bring back federal dollars to shore up the state’s levees, Schwarzenegger ended up bringing home more money for his campaign than he did for the entire state of California.
WHAT: RALLY/PROTEST AT GOVERNOR’S FUNDRAISER IN BEVERLY HILLS WITH FIREFIGHTERS, NURSES, TEACHERS, POLICE OFFICERS, SCHOOL EMPLOYEES AND OTHER CONCERNED CITIZENS
WHERE: THE BEVERLY HILTON
WHITTIER AND SANTA MONICA BLVD.
BEVERLY HILLS, CAWHEN: MONDAY, MARCH 20TH
4:30 P.M.CONTACT: ROBIN SWANSON (916) 443-7817
*** LEADERS FROM THE CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, THE CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, THE CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS AND THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSN. MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE RALLY. TO SET ONE UP, PLEASE CALL ROBIN.
*** DAVID SANCHEZ OF THE CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION IS A SPANISH SPEAKER, AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS IN SPANISH AT THE RALLY.
Looks like that deal Schwarzenegger cut with the California Nurses Association after the November 2005 California Special Election wasn’t enough.
But, then again, after reading the Los Angeles Times today the donors may NOT show because of Schwarzenegger’s “living large.”
Stay tuned for photos of tonight’s protest demonstrations……
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: The New Majority
ASSociated Press: Moderate Republican PAC has forged close ties with Schwarzenegger
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could find a lot of reasons why the Legislature turned away his public works plan to spend billions of dollars on highways, schools and levees, but Paul Folino wasn’t one of them.
The wealthy chairman of computer-components maker Emulex Corp. – who also is a personal friend of the governor and one of his most generous financial patrons – was just one of the administration supporters who called legislators in an ultimately futile bid to secure votes for the massive bond issue.
Folino’s participation wasn’t happenstance. His informal lobbying is just one example of the close and beneficial relationship Schwarzenegger shares with Folino and the rapidly expanding political action committee he helped establish, the New Majority. Members of the centrist group have donated or raised more than $10 million for the Republican governor’s political ventures.
“Our view of the world links up very closely with the governor’s – you have to consider the governor is a moderate Republican,” Folino said. “We’ve become close friends. I feel like my wife and I are part of the family.”
At a time when Schwarzenegger is struggling to shore up support within his own party, his ties to Republican moderates are likely to become an increasingly important financial source for his emerging re-election bid.
And California Conservatives are supposed to be happy that Republican “MODERATES” are driving California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-election?
The Governor has been in trouble with conservatives since the November 2005 California Special Election.
First, it was the Susan Kennedy appointment.
Second, the Minimum Wage Increase announcement.
Third, the appointment of a “moderate” to the California Supreme Court.
Fourth, the Massive Infrastructure Bond.
And the list goes on with the Governor having appointed an equal number of Democrats as Republican to the state bench, appointing other Democrats to staff positions in lieu of Republicans and the California Republican Assembly’s efforts to yank the pre-primary endorsement of the California Republican Party for Schwarzenegger.
So, the question California conservatives must ask this Fall:
Is it in the conservative movements best interests that Schwarzenegger wins in November?
The New Majority’s website is here.
“The New Majority group cares deeply about the future of California and includes some of the most distinguished leaders in the country. The governor is grateful for their ongoing support of his bold agenda to continue moving the state forward,” Schwarzenegger’s campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, said in a statement Friday.
Members of the New Majority “are checkbook Republicans – individuals who are wealthy and raise big bucks to support moderate candidates,” said GOP analyst Allan Hoffenblum.
Unlike the party’s social conservatives, he said, “they are not dominated by religious-right issues.”
California conservative voters are being taken for granted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is NOT a conservative. But, then again, we knew this when we recalled Gray Davis.
Will Flap and his friends turn out and vote for Arnold this November?
Doubtful…….
So, how many votes will the “New Majority” be able to buy for the Governor?
Not Many……..
Stay tuned for the MSM to expose the “New Majority” as special interests chasing California state contracts.
What do they get in return?
“I’ve never asked for a thing,” Folino said. “Most of my business is actually generated outside of California. It’s not about getting anything in return.”
Baxter and Folino are members of the governor’s jobs commission, which advises Schwarzenegger on economic matters. Another member, Gary Hunt of the consulting firm California Strategies, is the campaign’s finance chairman. A.G. Kawamura, an Orange County grower who was a member of the PAC, is Schwarzenegger’s food and agriculture secretary.
Other companies with ties to the group are involved in state business.
State records show developer Irvine Co., headed by New Majority member Donald Bren, spent more than $350,000 for lobbying in 2005-06 on a host of state matters, including dealings with the governor’s office.
Perhaps it is time for California conservatives to reject the “moderate” candidacy of Arnold Schwarzenegger and advocate staying at home this November rather than supporting/voting for a politician that is an anathema to their conservative principles.
Will anyone beside Flap have the guts……?
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