The Hiltons prove they are not as powerful as the Kennedys, after all…..

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Paris Hilton was sent screaming and crying back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that she must serve out her sentence behind bars rather than in the comfort of her Hollywood Hills home. "It’s not right!" shouted Hilton, who violated her probation in a reckless driving case. "Mom!" she cried out to her mother. Read the entire AP story.

Instead of running a photo of the convict, here instead is a link to the MADD victims tribute website.… Read More

SB7 allows cops to give $100tickets to drivers who are smoking in a car with children under 17. Is this really the proper role of government? We all know that houses are next. While, I’m a non-smoker this is not what government should be doing.

What’s worse is when Republicans go along with the Nanny State while even Democrats are voting no.FOUR Democrats voted against SB 7 (Correa, Ducheny, Machado, Negrete McCleod). Yet Abel Maldonado voted yes.

Maybe when he ran for controller he thought it was a position thatcontrolled every aspect of people’s lives.… Read More

Republican Assemblyman Rick Keene submitted the healthcare proposal from Governor Schwarzenegger to the independent Legislative Counsel for an opinion on whether the charges proposed by the Governor on employers, hospitals and surgeons are a tax increase as defined by the California Constitution. Undoubtedly Keene had to submit this question to the Counsel’s office because the Governor, who campaigned with an iron-clad promise that he would never ever raise taxes, has been characterizing these charges as "fees" — arguing that that there is a ‘hidden tax’ on Californians (the ‘cost’ of covering uninsured Californians) and therefore these charges, because they are part of a plan that purports to reduce this ‘burden’ on all of us, is a fee and not a tax. What are the charges? Increased payroll taxes, and increased income taxes on hospitals and doctors! Well, it comes as no surprise that the Legislative Counsel has made it very clear that, "…the provider contribution that would be imposed pursuant to the proposal would not constitute a fee and, as a result, would be… Read More

Just received this notice that 36th Assembly candidate Steve Knighthas signed the Americans for Tax Reform Pledge. Now he is pledge to oppose ALLtax increases as a California State Assemblyman. This will be an issue in the campaign as Palmdale Mayor and probable candidate likes the car tax. See here.

Pledge is below.… Read More

If FR readers don’t already know it, now is a good time for you to ‘officially’ hear that former FlashReport Managing Editor Nicholas Romero (pictured to the right) has occupied a leadership role with the efforts to get former Tennesee Senator and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson into the race for the GOP Presidential nomination. For those that took the opportunity to make their way over to the "Draft Thompson" website (www.fred08.com), you would have seen Nick’s name featured as their contact for the Golden State.

Nick actually joined up as a volunteer with the draft Thompson movement back in early 2007, and he has been steadily working to marshall California Republicans for the Thompson cause. I’m sure that Nick’s efforts have helped generate some of the more than 50,000 online petitions that were filled out on the Draft Thompson site.

As we have all seen lately (here on… Read More

The California Federation of Republican Women, The California Young Republicans Inc. and the Young Republican Federation of California (YRFC) are opposing AB 16. Capitol Resource Institute, Concerned Women of American and Eagle Forum join them in asking legislators to vote no. AB 16 is a bill that requires all school children to be immunized based on the action of the unelected head of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Five years after they say so, California children must be immunized based on what they say. This bill started as simple lets force middle age schoolgirls to get vaccinated with a drug that has been on the market for only a year, but pushed by a big pharmaceutical company (Merck) kind of bill. The original sponsor pulled off after it was revealed how much Merck stock the family owned. (There is competing drug coming out, but Merck wants to force as many as they can before there is choice) Amendments … Read More

Senator Migden is very mad at Tom McClintock. He used the "H" word during today’s Senate debate. McClintock rose to speak against a SB 375, a big government plan to control how people move around the state and asked generally Who the “hell” do you (meaning the government and Dems) think you are in deciding where people should live?

As he sat down Migden forgetting hell is a place accused him of using profanity. Perata ruled that that was not one of the words you are forbiddenfrom using. Migden was very upset. It was a good thing she didn’t hit his car from behind.

Besides doesn’t Migden know who McClintock is?… Read More

Update: Evidently a handful of Members had their arms [or something] twisted to let this bill out late in the evening by a bare 41-38 majority.

AB 1634 by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, to make all dog and cat owners [with some exceptions] spay or neuter their own animal, is short of votes right now at 37 "aye", 34 "no", needing of course, 41 to get out. It will come back up for vote later but may well fail tonight. Maybe the 2 foot high stack of "oppose" letters in my office and, others presumably, had an effect on this Assembly membership. Don’t mess with people’s critters!… Read More