Congressman Ed Royce is featured today on the House Republican America Speaking Out website, talking about the need to cut spending. Below is a video that the California Congressman taped for the site. Watch the video — then speak out right here.

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The California Peace Officers’ Association has endorsed Meg Whitman for Governor of California. The following is a column penned by their President, Jim McDonnell… Keep California Safe: Elect Meg Whitman By Jim McDonnell, California Peace Officers’ Association President We all want a safe and more prosperous California. There’s one candidate for governor with the vision to make that happen. Since the beginning of her campaign, Meg Whitman has said that protecting Californians is the first priority of government, because without safe communities nothing else we do matters. Meg recognizes that this begins with supporting our first… Read More

Today is a big day for breaking news for California Republican Party politics. Today CRPTreasurer Keith Carlson announced the formation of an exploratory committee looking at a run for the State Assembly – for a run in 2012. He is looking at the coastal Orange County seat currently occupied by Assemblyman Jim Silva, who is running for his third and final term this year. Carlson’s efforts start strong out of the gate with support from Silva, as well as popular local Congressmaen Dana Rohrabacher and Ed Royce, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, Assemblyman Van Tran, along with a host of others. Carlson is a well-respected conservative. His new exploratory bid website can be found here.

Carlson’s announcement has significant impacts in the world of California Republican Party Central Committee politics. Carlson was the leading (and only) announced candidate for the CRP Vice Chairmanship – and in… Read More

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court justruled that Proposition 8 will remain the lawin California until appeals are heard in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case.The court issued the ruling after Judge Vaughn Walker’s recent ruling found Proposition 8 unconstitutional and would have permitted gay marriages to be performed as early as this week.

Today’s decision means that until an appeal is heard, Proposition 8’s protections will remain in place.The Sac Bee is reporting that an appeal could be heard in December,meaning Proposition 8 will remain intact until at least 2011.

This is good news for the protection of traditional marriage and fair to all parties involved. After all, it would be unfair to allow a brief window of gay marriagesas when Proposition 22 was overturned just months before Proposition 8 was passed. Gay marriages performed during that period left couples in a legal limbo. Until this legal process is completely exhausted, the will of the people should stand as the law of the… Read More

Check this out — a major profile of GOP Secretary of State nominee Damon Dunn that ran on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News… Great stuff…

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A huge story that needs lots of coverage.

"What’s troubling in all of this is not that [Jerry] Brown makes a good pension–or even that there may be some discrepancy about how much he makes versus how much he deserves. It is that the whole thing is SECRET!

"Let’s think this through for half a second. At a time when pension funds are bankrupting or potentially bankrupting states all across the country, when aging populations are forcing the reconsideration of all sorts of social security programs on practically every country on Earth (countries that have them, anyway), and when the state of California–the sixth or is it seventh, biggest economy in the world–is about to, once again, pay its employees with vouchers because it’s got zippity-do-dah in the bank, some officials of that state are receiving pensions whose size and identity we do not know and are not allowed to see"

Roger Simon for Pajamas.Media.com with news that Jerry Brown, has a state pension the size… Read More

There has been a lot of commotion lately over this year’s legislation that would ban plastic grocery bags, and impose a tax on paper bags (read about it here, watch more here). You’ll recall that it already passed out of the Assembly (barely) with the Speaker’s vote making the difference (this legislation, if passed, would force a manufacturer of plastic bag in his district to lay of a few hundred people). This bill would outlaw plastic grocery bags, and would then create a mandatory per-bag fee on paper bags of at least five cents. It is worthy of note that the hundreds of millions of bucks that would be collected through this mandatory fee, according to the current language of the bill, would go not into a government program, but – get this – into the pockets of the grocery store owners (in most cases, very large mega-chains like Safeway, Ralphs, Pavillions and such). It is no wonder that the California Grocers Association, who has opposed the bag-ban in previous years, suddenly has come out in full support of this bill. One can picture the sign at the grocery check-out line, “We apologize for this new bag fee,… Read More

With the State GOP Convention quickly approaching, the following letter was sent out to delegates from the Yes on 22 campaign. Proposition 22 would block the state legislature from taking funds traditionally used to fund local government services to use for other purposes…

Dear California Republican Party Member: We are writing to urge your strong support for Proposition 22 at the California Republican Party convention this month. Prop. 22 would stop the fiscally irresponsible practice of state legislative raids of local government funds. And Prop. 22 would prevent the State from taking gas taxes that… Read More