* A clever solicitation from Florida US Senate candidate Marco Rubio – it had a dollar bill paper clipped on it

* A mailer from local Sheriff candidate Scott Jones “Endorsed by Sheriff McGinness”

* A mailer from the Fiorina from with her signature on the taxpayer protection pledge which I swear may have come once before, or something similar “Taxpayer Protection Pledge”

* A mailer from Ted Lieu for Attorney General, addressed to the woman who lived in my house six years ago, and who was a Democrat “Working for You”

* A mailer from local Sacramento City Council candidate Patrick Kennedy. Very clean, well done piece. TODAY’S WINNER.

* A slatemailer from the “California Taxpayer Protection Voter Guide”. Poizner and Fiorina. Not sure who puts this one out.… Read More

State Senator and Attorney General candidate Tom Harman has launched a new radio spot… and it’s all about one of his GOP primary opponents, Los Angeles County DA Steve Cooley…

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I just got this via e-mail from Julie Soderlund over at Carly Fiorina’s U.S. Senate Campaign. The timing was good because I just had read where Tom Campbell had been canceling television buys…

From Julie… Over here at Team Carly, while we are watching our ads on the airwaves increase in frequency, reports over the last couple of days confirm that Tom Campbell has canceled his television AND his radio time – all of it – for this week. The Campbell camp is exhaling a lot of hot air as they struggle to come up with any good reason for why, but we sure have been amused by the excuses so far: … Read More

Below I blog about Steve Poizner’s new web ad highlighting the growth of eBay’s porn marketplace under Meg Whitman’s leadership. Web ads with these highly funded campaigns are significant because they can (and do) turn into TV spots in some cases (the piece airing now by Poizner on Whitman’s voting record was first seen as a web-only ad).

I reached out to the Whitman campaign to get their response to Poizner’s eBay/Porn attack, and this is what we got from campaigns spokesman Dan Comstock…

Not that we typically simply post press releases, but this is significant news, especially considering the philosophical make-up of the conservative 36th Senate District and the high regard area voters have for Tom McClintock…

Congressman Tom McClintock Endorses Joel Anderson for State Senate Most influential conservative in California says Anderson is the "kind of conservative we need to shake up the State Senate"

EL CAJON – California’s leading Conservative icon – Congressman Tom McClintock – has endorsed Assemblyman Joel Anderson for Senate District 36.

McClintock spent 22 years in the State Legislature before being elected to represent the 4th Congressional District in Washington D.C. He stands alone as the most popular conservative elected official in California.

"Assemblyman Joel Anderson is a proven conservative who will say no to bloated deficit budgets, Sacramento’s irresponsible spending and higher taxes. That’s… Read More

Here’s the new ad starring Congressman Tom McClintock, making a compelling case for Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s candidacy for the United States Senate. Look for this video to travel far and wide on the web — as to whether it gets up on broadcast and cable television, that will be up to DeVore’s fundraising push in the final weeks of the campaign…

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What do you do when you are running for the Republican nomination for Governor, and despite the fact that you have invested large amounts of your own personal fortune in the race, you are being run over by a candidate whose wallet is thicker, looks to be outspending you by as much as four-to-one, and started spending money very early — building up a huge lead going into the final stretch?

The answer is that you do everything, of course. Everything has included a campaign for Steve Poizner that has used differences between he and Meg Whitman on immigration to drive down her positive numbers with GOP primary voters, throwing out there Whitman’s connections with Wall Street financiers Goldman Sachs as well, as well as highlighting Whitman’s deplorable voting record. But despite all of these things being hurled into the public marketplace by Poizner’s campaign, little did we know that with all of these various hits on Whitman, Poizner still was holding back the proverbial "kitchen… Read More

In today’s column in the LA Times, George Skelton points to Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to cut the car tax in his first day in office in 2003 "forced [Governor Schwarzenegger] into the budget box he found himself in Friday." Skelton also cited borrowing $15 billion to pay off the accumulated Gray Davis debt as another reason. He later cites other things, which I will address later, but I wanted to address these two first.

Let’s look at the numbers again, just to reiterate the impact of the car tax cut on state revenues. The day the car tax was first cut in 1998, total state revenues were $57 billion (Schwarzeneggger’s cut restored the rate to its 1998 level). Today, those revenues are $84 billion, a $27 billion increase in revenues. The total amount of the car tax cut, even assuming the cut had no positive impact on state revenues (by increasing private sector growth, and therefore increasing revenue) was $5 billion. It is simply illogical to conclude this $5 billion reduction in taxes, and not the huge increases in welfare, education, state government and government health care spending, from $57 billion to over $102… Read More