You may not know it, but Sen. Lou Correa strongly opposes completing the 241 toll road.

True, it is Rep. Loretta Sanchez is the OC legislator who has garnered the attention — and just criticism — for her efforts to kill the 241 completion: a politically curious position considering the 47th Congressional District isn’t a hot-bed of environmental activism. That strain runs more strongly through affluent districts where residents can afford to be no-growth environmentalists.

Yet Sen. Lou Correa — who represents many of the same union households as Loretta — also opposes completing the 241. He”s just been quiet about it.

During January’s California Coastal Commission hearing on the 241, the various commissioners had to declare their ex parte communications on the issue.

Commissioner Larry Clark described his being lobbied by Sen. Correa:

On the 24th of January, and again on the 4th of February, I received telephone calls from Senator Lou Correa, from the 34th Senatorial District. Senator Correa conveyed this information to me, and position, his strong opposition for the 241 toll

With relief not seen since the climax of Free Willy, fat kids and their parents no longer need to fear being ripped apart like a big bag of potato chips.

AB 2352 authored by Assemblyman Fuentes would have allowed courts to separate parents from their chubby children as a form of child abuse.

Memo to the State Assembly if mockery and shame and singling out the heavyset reduced calorie consumption we would have nothing but skinny kids.

Recently the bill completely changed to one that now deals with the release of confidential mental health records. One outrageous bill gone from the legislative buffet, many more go.… Read More

The Republican National Committee is meeting as we speak in New Mexico. For some time now (actually for many years) the RNC has been debated how to reform the GOP Presidential nominating process in a way that might make more sense. State GOP Chairman Ron Nehring who is at the meeting just sent over this news:

The net effect of the Ohio plan is that large states like California will never be among the first states voting. Under the… Read More

Memo Date: April 2, 2008 To: Assemblyman John Benoit From: Jon Fleischman RE: Understanding Liberals I saw that yesterday, on a party-line vote, Assembly Democrats rejected your Assembly Bill 2389 which, put simply, would require that welfare recipients in California must submit to random drug tests, and if they they fail, be enrolled in mandatory treatment, or lose their right to welfare. You are to be commended for bringing forward such a common-sense measure, but I think that we all knew, unfortunately, that it was destined for defeat. It is not a coincidence that Democrats opposed this bill, while your Republican colleagues supported it. You see it goes to one of the basic core differences between the… Read More

I’m running out the door — but this just came in over the transom. Given the the Club for Growth is one of the premier organizations in Washington that is battling for fiscal reform and curbing the voracious appetite, present in both political parties, for pork barrel spending, I wanted to pass this along ASAP…

Also, BELOW the Club for Growth release, I have excerpted the opening paragraphs of some hard-hitting commentary from Frank Schubert (of Schubert-Flint Public Affairs), a resident of CD-4 who hits Tom McClintock pretty hard and makes the case for why he believes Doug Ose, and Tom McClintock should be his Congressman…

Memo Date: April 2, 2008 To: Assemblyman John Benoit From: Jon Fleischman RE: Understanding Liberals I saw that yesterday, on a party-line vote, Assembly Democrats rejected your Assembly Bill 2389 which, put simply, would require that welfare recipients in California must submit to random drug tests, and if they they fail, be enrolled in mandatory treatment, or lose their right to welfare. You are to be commended for bringing forward such a common-sense measure, but I think that we all knew, unfortunately, that it was destined for defeat. It is not a coincidence that Democrats opposed this bill, while your Republican colleagues supported it. You see it goes to one of the basic core differences between the… Read More

Our friends at Citizens Against Government Waste release their annual pig book profiling Congress’ prolific spenders. It speaks for itself, read up here.

Bill McKay was on Capitol Hill testifying in support of public spending for the arts yesterday, from Roll Call.

Oil company executives were on the Hill yesterday testifying about why they make so much money and gas costs so much (or at least that was the presumptive judgment of some inquisitors). No word on whether powers controlling oil producing and exporting states or environmental organizations will be called to testify about their impact on the production, refinement and distribution of petroleum products. Here is how the Politico covered it.

Politico also looks at the inside maneuvering to pass financial services oversight legislation.… Read More

The infamous Los Angeles "Unified" School District is a national disgrace that keeps getting worse.LAUSD is a virtual prison for failure.

Today’s LA Times reveals that high school students in LA, less than half graduate. In Oakland failure rate is 54.4 who do not graduate.

Both school districts have been under union democrat control for over 50 years. Despite endless spending experiments the unions keep… Read More