Hunter’s Son May Not Scare Off Others By David M. Drucker Roll Call Staff April 19, 2007 Duncan D. Hunter (R) has his father’s name, and the status of being an Iraq War combat veteran, which leads many political observers to believe that he is Rep. Duncan Hunter’s (R) heir apparent in California’s 52nd district * except that he might not be. … Read More

The California Parks and Recreation Department is a kind of Sierra Club with governmental powers. It works closely with the Environmental Left — for example, in their hyperactive opposition to allowing any asphalt to touch one square inch of a state park (like San Onofre State Park, for instance)…

..except when it comes to a road they think is OK for reasons that fail to dissuade them from opposing, say, the completion of the 241 tollroad.

Read this post "Yeah, But This Is OUR Road" on Red County/OC Blog.… Read More

I just got off of the phone with State Senate Republican Leader, who had this to say about Speaker Fabian Nunez’ proposal to have the Little Hoover Commission public members in charge of drawing new legislative boundaries:

"This plan is a non-starter with my Caucus. We need an independent commission in charge of redistricting, not a group of political appointees."… Read More

Today we all are treated to the next chapter of "Tales of Incredible Hubris, Starring Fabian Nunez" — as the Speaker introduces his version of redistricting "reform" in the form of Assembly Constitutional Amendment One. You’ll never guess who would have 100% authority to draw the boundaries for State and Federal legislative, as well as Board of Equalization districts? Care to take a guess? POLITICAL INSIDERS. That’s right — in a blatent rejection of the idea that a fair drawing of districts requires constituting a group of folks who are not beholdin’ to the Sacramento and Washington, D.C., power structures — Nunez has said that the members of the California "Little Hoover" Commission (LHC) should draw the lines, minus it’s legislative members. Is this wasn’t such a serious matter, I would really be laughing at this proposal. Just a consideration of the way that the LHC is constituted should be a clear billboard reading CONFLICT. Nunez calls for the nine… Read More

It’s been reported just about everywhere that apparently last Friday the FBI searched the home of GOP Congressman John Doolittle. Doolittle, who’s 4th Congressional District represents much of North Eastern California, and perhaps more so, his wife Julie have been frequently mentioned in articles surrounding convicted criminal Jack Abramoff, a former lobbyist whose turn to the dark side has become a political problem for many Republicans, as Ambramoff was very much imbedded within GOP circles. Julie Doolittle, for a time, did some fundraising work for an entity associated with Abramoff. Let me slip this into my post right now. Unlike many stories that we cover here, where I don’t know the parties involved, in this case, I have known John and Julie Doolittle for nearly twenty years. I know them to be honest and good people, and would be the first to try to encourage FR readers not to be sucked in to what will be a liberal-media driven vortex of ‘guilt by association’ — don’t do it. I spent many years working for a law enforcement agency, and I know full well that it is often the case that investigators will serve… Read More

Last week the L.A. Times announced that Jim Newton was appointed Editorial Page Editor to replace ousted Andres Martinez. For those who indulge reading the Times, let alone the spooky editorials, it is a return to the bad old days.

For years the Times has tormented its readers with predictable pasty liberal editorials. This section was certainly the least read of the newspaper. That is until Andres Martinez, took over a couple of years ago. To the amazement of many. his editorials were funny, pithy and interesting. Previous editorials was like reading Pravda under Stalin. Always kowtowing to the Party Line. Always boring.

Martinez, who left under suspicious circumstances, excoriated Villaraigosa, supported Bush’s surge, and was a critical of democrats as he was of republicans. In a word, the editorials were unpredictable. That made reading them fun.

Sadly, tried and true PC Jim Newton has reverted to bad writing and boring but predictable lib-dem positions. His latest effort was lamenting the US Supreme Court’s decisionto reject a civil suit against IBM because one employee said something nasty thatanother employee heard. . Come on… Read More

It’s time for some prayer power, folks. I just read over on Bob Salladay’s Political Mucle Blog at the LA Times website that Roll Call is reporting that California Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald of Los Angeles, Chairman of the House Adminstration Committee, has taken a leave of absence to deal with an undisclosed form of cancer.

This is terrible news, and hopefully all FR readers will keep her in their thoughts and prayers.

Most FR readers probably wouldn’t know this, but back in the late 90’s, I was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer, and it resulted in my having to have two surgeries and some not-so-fun chemotherapy treatments. I’m doing AOK now, nearly nine years later.

But I can tell you that it was well wishes from so many in the political scene (yes, even Democrats prayed for… Read More

Yesterday I posted a press release sent by the CRP’s Communications Director Hector Barajas lamenting the defeat of AB 39 (Benoit -R), that would have mandated the Governor to demand either full reimbursement for the cost of Califonia incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals, orforce theFeds to take them into federal custody.

The Assembly Public Safety Committee shot down the billand the Chairman, AssemblymanJosè Solorio, stated that the committee had rejectedthe bill, ‘because in the past this type of proposal was unsuccessful in having the federal government reimburse for the cost of incarcerating undocumented immigrants.’

Odd response given that that is what legislators do – try to pass ideas again and again that they believe in. It’s one of thetruly, long standingbi-partisan actions in Sacramento.

But, what really makes the Chairman’s comment smack of hypocrisy, is his Co-Authorship of ACR 24 (Blakeslee -R) that contains the same intent language as AB 39!!!

Don’t takemy word for it, read it… Read More