Everyone Has Known At Least One…

 

“She was a part of my heart. Now she’s just a line in my face.”

–– Tom Petty, from his latest release, Mojo    Read more »

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State’s June Revenue Collections Are On Track at Mid-Month

June 15th is the constitutional deadline for lawmakers to submit a budget to the governor. The deadline will be missed, as it usually is.

Lawmakers meeting in a special two-house conference committee to reconcile the differences between the Senate and Assembly’s spending plans appeared nowhere near a deal June 15 on closing a $17.9 billion gap between revenues and spending commitments.    Read more »

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The Election May Be Over But Not The Chuck DeVore E-mails

Thank you. You are the best volunteers, supporters, and friends a candidate for office could ever wish to have. With your help we received more than 350,000 votes, garnering 19.2% of the vote after being outspent four-to-one.

Remarkably, according to the Field Poll, I went from having only 18% name identification in October 2009 among likely voters in the Republican primary with 7% having a positive opinion and 11% having a negative opinion of me to 49% knowing of me on the eve of the election with 41% positive to only 8% negative name ID.    Read more »

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In Honor of the World Cup Please Enjoy This Classic…

And Timely Monty Python sketch    Read more »

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Campaign Spending on the June Ballot’s Five Propositions*

***** Proposition 13

No Campaign Committees formed

***** Proposition 14

YES — $4.85 million…………………………NO — $166,000

***** Proposition 15

YES — $523,000…………………………NO — $232,150

***** Proposition 16

YES (Pacific Gas & Electric Only) — $46 million…………………………NO — $110,123

***** Proposition 17

YES (Mercury Insurance Only) — $15.6 million………………………….NO — $1.32 million

TOTAL – YES

$66.97 million

TOTAL – NO

$1.83 million

TOTAL SPENDING

$68.8 million

GOP Gubernatorial Nominee Meg Whitman spent $71 million of her own money on her campaign

*(From Secretary of State Contribution Reports)

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“Big Cat Fight” May Be Understated. This From Carly Fiorina:

Boxer Bites – Where Are The Jobs, Barbara?

Barbara Boxer has spent a lot of time running around California on her rare, election year-driven trips out from Washington touting all the “jobs” she says have been created by the economic “stimulus” plan. In fact, today she’s headed to Riverside to tout “job creation.”    Read more »

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To Paraphrase Eugene O’Neill — The Big Cat Fight Cometh

Dear California’s Capitol,

Over the past 36 hours, our campaign has already been working hard to highlight the clear choice between Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate.

After all, this election is about who’s fighting to create jobs and who’s in touch with Californians — and that’s Barbara Boxer.    Read more »

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Guest Editorial: The Cowboy Libertarian on the GOP Primary

Reagan’s 11th Commandment

“Our 11th Commandment is perhaps more profound than we realize.  ‘Thou shall not speak ill of any Republican.’  To do so means we are inhibited in the support we can give that Republican if he should become the nominee of our party.  Certainly our task is harder if we must challenge and refute charges made by our opponents if those charges were first uttered by us….    Read more »

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Put on Your Public Relations Guru Hats and Play This Game

Watch Meg Whitman’s Primary Night Victory speech.

Now watch that of her Democratic rival, Jerry Brown.

Ignore the substance or lack thereof. (California’s Capitol will dissect the contents of both at a later date.)

Don’t analyze. Be visceral.

Just watch.

Who is the winner?

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What Would $167.6 Million In Budget Savings Buy California?

As the dust settles on the June 8 primary, lawmakers are still grappling with how to close a $17.9 billion gap between revenues and spending commitments.

The often-missed constitutional deadline of June 15 to send a budget to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is less than one week away and appears likely to be missed again.    Read more »

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