AD60 Republican Candidate Curt Hagman had a LA County based event, last night. In this sprawling three county district. You find out all kinds of things attending these types of events. I have not endorsed in this race. Note to other candidates: Throwing some free fried finger foods my way may get me to come to your event. Unfortunately, Hagman’s lacked guacamole—but that is another story. Mike Radlovic who just a couple months ago was planning on running spurred the event. In addition to the LA local officials mentioned in a previous blog, (See here) Leon Garcia, President of the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water and Fred Chyr another Mt. Sac Community College trustee attended. So did several leaders of local grassroots groups like the local RWF. I should point out that attendance doesn’t necessarily mean endorsement. After the Mayor of … Read More

Thomas O’Brien thehead of the criminal division for the L.A. U.S. attorney’s office and a formerprosecutor in the district attorney’s office has been named US Attorney for the L.A. Office. He replaces Debra Yang. O’Brien is a Republican (See Governor, A GOP lawyer in L.A.). Let’s hope this appointment goes better than the last eight. See article in LA Observed here.… Read More

Our own FlashReport correspondent Duane Dichiara (pictured to the right) and Coronado Communications, are the new day-to-day operational head of the Romney for President campaign in California — a shrewd pick by the Presidential campaign of the former Massachusetts Governor as Dichiara is widely respected in all political circles for his acumen and work ethic.

But wait, there’s more! FR friends Rob Stutzman (below to the right) an occasional guest columnist to this site) and former State GOP Chairman Mike Schroeder (left – fresh… Read More

[Cross-posted from Red County/OC Blog]

Did you hear about the fund raiser House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did for the Democratic Party of Orange County last month?

Don’t worry if you didn’t — it never happened because Loretta Sanchez put the kibosh on it.

According to local Democratic insiders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was supposed to come to Orange County last month to headline a fund raiser benefiting the Democratic Party of Orange County. All the arrangements were in place for an event that would have raised an enormous sum of money to fund the DPOC’s ambitious plans for strengthening its presence county-wide and contest OC GOP inroads in central OC.

In other words, good news for OC Democrats, bad news for OC Republicans.

Unfortunately for the DPOC, Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s ego got in the way.

Sanchez adopted a proprietary view of the… Read More

DON PERATA RECEIVES INAUGURAL "GOLDEN PIG" AWARD FROM US TERM LIMITS AFTER SPENDING $1 MILLION OF SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY ON HIS LAVISH LIFESTYLE "TAX-FREE" Trophy Awarded to Legislature’s Ultimate Perk Addict

US Term Limits, the nation’s leading term limits advocacy organization, yesterday announced it was inaugurating the "Golden Pig" Award for individual California politicians whose misconduct in office remind us of the necessity for term limits. Recipients are elected officials who have repeatedly acted in an arrogant and self-serving manner, gorged themselves on political perks, betrayed the public trust and demonstrated contempt for the voters who elected them.… Read More

DON PERATA RECEIVES INAUGURAL "GOLDEN PIG" AWARD FROM US TERM LIMITS AFTER SPENDING $1 MILLION OF SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY ON HIS LAVISH LIFESTYLE "TAX-FREE"

Trophy Awarded to Legislature’s Ultimate Perk Addict

US Term Limits, the nation’s leading term limits advocacy organization, yesterday announced it was inaugurating the "Golden Pig" Award for individual California politicians whose misconduct in office remind us of the necessity for term limits. Recipients are elected officials who have repeatedly acted in an arrogant and self-serving manner, gorged themselves on political perks, betrayed the public trust and demonstrated contempt for the voters who elected them.… Read More

I’m in Sacramento today… And so is Congressman Kevin McCarthy. Kevin is far from the U.S. Capitol, and hundreds of miles from his hometown of Bakersfield…

I ran into the former Assembly Republican Leader at a luchtime fundraising event for FR friend and Assemblyman Van Tran over at the Esquire Grill. It was a great event, and it was a pleasure to spend some time there with Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. We did have a few Assembly candidates here including Paul Heygi (Tran’s CoS) who is running in the 10th AD, Robert Rau in the 15th, andJohn Patein the 64th – the latter two being chaperoned by political consultant/icon Tim Clark (who is Tran’s consultant as well).

McCarthy and I had a few minutes to chat about his engaged role with the National Republican Congressional Committee. He is very focused on working to re-attain the majority for Republicans.

Later tonight, the "Energizer Bunny" has his own fundraising event here in Sacramento…… Read More

Beer & Politics is actually the name of a monthly meeting started by the Long Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce. I guess the Senior Chamber of Commerce must have an Ensure & Politics meeting. This month featured the candidates for the special election in the 37th Congressional District. The major Dems (Oropeza, Richardson, McDonald) showed up, as did one of four Republicans, Long Beach cop and war Veteran John Kanaley. You can hear audio of the event at LBReport.com here. You can see another article on the event here.The election is June 26th. … Read More