From the Stray-Stuff-Buried-On-Cluttered-Desk File

During the Del Mar racing season, one of the entries in at least one of the races was “Willie Brown.”

No confirmation — or denial — as to whether the horse was named after the former Assembly Speaker and mayor of San Francisco. 

Willie Brown, the horse, faced six other entrants in one particular race.    Read more »

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Seven Score and Nine Years Ago…

On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered two-minutes of remarks — around 270 words — to some 15,000 listeners at the dedication of a new national military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Although the morning was foggy and bleak, by noon the sun broke through bathing the crowd that gathered on a hill overlooking the battlefield where, from July 1 to July 3 Confederate and Union forces met in a bloody confrontation that generated the most casualties of any battle in the war and made the South’s eventual defeat certain.    Read more »

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A Wonderful “Politics on Tap” With Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, a San Diego Independent, and his wife Mindy, a Public Affairs Consultant With Lots of Moves

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California’s Capitol Is Taking a One Month Sabbatical — “Vote Early, Vote Often”

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The State GOP’s Brooke Armour, California School Employee Association Head Dave Low and the Public Policy Institute’s Dave Lesher on Capitol Weekly’s “Politics on Tap”    Read more »

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This So Trumps Any Ad — Plus or Minus — About Rep. Jeff  Denham     Read more »

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Study Shows Social Media Has Different Take on First Presidential Debate Than Mainstream Media

President Obama floundered – or got flummoxed – in his first debate with GOP rival Mitt Romney, according to most initial polls and media reports.

But the assessment of the debate on social media was less critical of the president, according to an October 5 analysis by the Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism.    Read more »

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This From a Subscriber Who Recently Voted…

Virtually every initiative that I tried — and tired — to read reminded me that these are all issues that should have been dealt with in the Legislature.  

(Editor’s Note: Totally. The subscriber’s reactions to specific ballot measures follow:) 

Prop. 30:  Tax myself?  Go figure.  No

Prop 31:  Two-year budget?  What would they do in the off-year?      Read more »

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“Yes” on Proposition 36, the “Three Strikes Reform Act”

By Steve Cooley, George Gascon and David Mills 

The Three Strikes Reform Act, Proposition 36, is supported by a broad bipartisan coalition of law enforcement leaders, civil rights organizations and taxpayer advocates because it will:

1) Make the punishment fit the crime

Precious financial and law enforcement resources should not be improperly diverted to impose life sentences for some non-violent offenses.    Read more »

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Since The Chief Correspondent Is Routinely Mistaken for “The Most Interesting Man in the World,” this Anti-Denham Ad Was Attention-Getting

(Worth noting that Denham’s Democratic opponent, Jose Hernandez, has removed the ad from his YouTube link. Pure conjecture but, um, like maybe the Dos Equis lawyers phoned up and said “No mas, cabron or there’s an ugly lawsuit in your future.)    Read more »

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