Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association

Timm Herdt of the Ventura County Star likes beating a dead horse with another piece today about Hannah-Beth Jackson dodging a voters’ forum sponsored by the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association and Katie Teague bitching that Tony Strickland won’t consent to being trashed by the California Association of Political Centrists.

But, there is THANKFULLY more:

The candidates appeared together for the first time Sunday morning at the regular “bagel brunch” held by the men’s group at Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks.

Group President John Saulino said the event, moderated by Rabbi Ted Riter, was attended by about 125 people. He described the two-hour forum as cordial and informational.

Strickland and Jackson have agreed to joint appearances on Oct. 3 at an event sponsored by the Ventura Chamber of Commerce and an Oct. 10 forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Ventura County.

Zoe Taylor, president and CEO of the Ventura Chamber, said a location has not yet been selected for the evening forum, which will feature only the Senate candidates and be moderated by Star Editor and Vice President Joe Howry.

She said the event will be “more of a town hall than a forum” and will feature questions from the public, although the process for screening and selecting those questions has not yet been developed.

The chamber event will be taped by community access television and will be made available for showing to cable TV franchises throughout the county.

Like Flap said yesterday, there would be numerous opportunities for Ventura County voters to see and meet the candidates in a neutral forum which would be fair to both candidates.

The rest is just HOT AIR.

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Flap said the Democrat Party campaign transfer contributions would come and here they are. Timm Herdt has a piece up today noting the Democrat “launder job” from the Santa Barbara Denmocrat Central Committee.

Campaign finance reports show she received $55,000 Friday from the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee. That comes on the heels of a $156,000 contribution from the state Democratic Party the previous Friday.

Trying to determine where the Santa Barbara County Committee raised its money, I checked the secretary of state’s campaign finance site and found no electronic reports had been filed for the last several years. The explanation, Chairman Daraka Larimore-Hall, told me today is that all of the money was received after June 30. Unlike candidates, who have to report contributions of $1,000 or more within 24 hours, political committees do not have to file another report until Oct. 6.

Larimore-Hall said the money came from “several sources,” including Democratic state senators who are supporting Jackson’s campaign.

So, what is wrong with this picture?

Hannah-Beth Jackson

Voters in the California State Senate District 19 have no idea where her campaign contributions are coming from in direct contrast to the intent of California political campaign contribution disclosure laws. The Republicans do this too but the California Democrat Party has made this “hide the ball” tactic an art form.

The informed and motivated voter would have to comb through hundreds of campaign reports filed either with the California Secretary of State or local county governments in order to find the actual source of the campaign cash. Can this be accomplished timely – like in time for the election?

Doubtful

When Hannah-Beth Jackson criticised her opponent former California Assemblyman Tony Strickland this summer for some Tobacco company contributions, Flap pointed out that Hannah-Beth Jackson was blowing smoke. Of course, her hypocrisy abounds since previous contributors to her campaign had accepted the same tobacco company contributions.

And, Flap showed that Hanna-Beth Jackson has indeed received INDIRECT tobacco company/industry contributions during this campaign cycle.

So, when she says that she ” I have not and will not solicit or accept contributions from tobacco companies” she doesn’t have to do so. The California Democrat Party,various National Democrat Party campaign committees and California Democrat Legislative leaders already have donated or loaned money to her campaign. This allows Jackson to demagogue the tobacco issue against Tony Strickland and to score cheap political points.

Let’s go over a brief history of how California Legislative campaigns are funded. Flap draws upon his experience as being a former member of the California Dental Association’s Council on Legislation and the local Santa Barbara-Ventura County Dental Society’s Cal-D-Pac representative (CAl-D-Pac) for the legislative process history.

The California Democrat Party for decades has used an ingenious system of party committee transfers to insulate their members from campaign reporting scrutiny and to deliver needed funds to those members/candidates who either ingratiate themselves (promise to vote for the leader for various leadership positions) and/or who are in tight races with the Republicans. The transfer mechanism constitute a type of “SLUSH FUND.”

For example, long-time Democrat Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, now the former Mayor of San Francisco as well, would collect money from all the special interests with business before the California Legislature, bundle all of the contributions and then dole them out to whoever was his friend. This has been repeated over and over again for the past decade with various legislative leaders even as term limits and campaign contribution reporting and limitation laws changed.

The reader asks who is funding Hannah-Beth Jackson’s campaign, then? Well, you can go here and look at the contribution report and break it down by industry. Another report will be due October 6th where all of the post June 30th contributions will show up. And, you can go to electiontrack.com and subscribe to Scott Lay’s service and obtain daily e-mail alerts on her contributions (the 24 hour reporting rule is in effect for major contributions, greater than $1,000).

Yet, the top industry contributor to Hannah-Beth Jackson’s campaign will remain Democrat Candidate Committees and various Democrat Party Committees.

So much for transparency in Hannah-Beth Jackson’s campaign.

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Former Democrat Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson in a recent television ad claims “She never voted to increase the gas tax or weaken Proposition 13.

But, the truth is she voted for a bill vetoed by then Governor Gray Davis. And, why did Gray Davis veto the bill?

Oh, because it undermined Proposition 13.

Hannah-Beth Jackson = Taxin’ Jackson who cannot get her facts straight.

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Hannah-Beth Jackson Watch: Taxin’ Jackson Ad On Air

Democrats for Tony Strickland Goes Live

Hannah-Beth Jackson Watch: Blows More Smoke Over Tobacco Company Protest

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This televison ad is burning up the airwaves on cable television in Thousand Oaks and throughout the California State Senate District Nineteen. The ad is paid for by the California Taxpayer Protection Committee.

Their website is here.

The ad is “on air” on Santa Barbara’s KEYT and Santa Maria’s KCOP.

Public documents on file with KEYT in Santa Barbara and KCOP in Santa Maria show a group called the California Taxpayer Protection Committee purchased nearly $53,000 in commercials that will run through early September.

Jackson is running against Republican Tony Strickland in a battle between former members of the Assembly in a Senate district that stretches from Santa Barbara to Simi Valley.

But, Flap has seen it multiple times on Fox News in Thousand Oaks this morning.

As you know Flap is supporting Republican Tony Strickland for the California State Senate.

Tony Strickland’s Facebook page is here.

Strickland’s California State Senate website is here.

And, while you are thinking about, go here and send Tony a few bucks to finance his media campaign.

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Democrats for Tony Strickland Goes Live

Hannah-Beth Jackson Watch: Blows More Smoke Over Tobacco Company Protest

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So, is Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson – Taxin’ Jackson – upset with independent expenditure ads by the California Taxpayer Protection Committee or that a Christian businessman, Howard Ahmanson, Jr. is contributing to her defeat?

For someone who has gladly accepted awards and money from abortion organizations, Hannah-Beth sure does whine alot.

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