FR friend Chuck Poochigian, the Campaign Manager for Chuck Poochigian, the GOP nominee for Attorney General has released the following campaign strategy memorandum:

Dan Walters had a column in the Sac Bee yesterday highlighting some of the reasons why levees and flood control systems are not up to par. Governor Schwarzenegger is given due credit for declaring emergency conditions on the then 29 critical erosion sights, that number growing after receded waters and a summer spent surveying, discovered many more…over 100 and counting. $190 million in emergency funds plus $500 million more in an appropriation we passed in the legislature will carry us past the funding needed for the 100 critical erosion sights.

Dan points out that beyond fixing eroded sights also required isfixing the way government engages the problem. He lists several reasons that may be problematic but the fact that environmental extremists blocklong term flood control work is the point that is not discussed much in polite company.

Building new homes in flood plains is listed as an issue. Not mentioned is that new housing is needed and demanded and due to environmental concerns, land to build homes elsewhere is rare and difficult to obtain due to fairy shrimp, vernal pools, meadowfoam, and other… Read More

We’ve been following the donnybrook out in California 80’s Assembly District, where incumbent Republican Bonnie Garcia is battling off a stiff challenge from long-retired Democrat Assemblyman Steve Clute. If case you needed a reason (or a few) to oppose Clute’s candidacy, check out this television spot… … Read More

OK, so as a member of Congress, I don’t often write about local city council races. But, I cannot sit by and watch my city councilwoman Christina Shea (pictured to the right) be so unjustly attacked by the left.

As a resident of Irvine for over 28 years, I can tell you that Christina has represented this city with honesty,integrity and dedication over many years. She has no agenda other than to serve Irvine’s residents ably in the future as she has in the past. She has been too often a lonely but needed voice for integrity and reason in the operation of Irvine’s government. A voice that some powerful interests seem determined to silence.

I’m going to vote for her. If you live in Irvine, I hope you will too.… Read More

Thirteen-term conservative Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter of San Diego County (pictured to the left), with the backdrop of the U.S.S Midway aircraft carrier behind him, is expected tomorrow at 11 a.m. to announce an exploratory effort at a potential bid for the 2008 Republican Party nomination for President of the United States. Hunter is currently serving as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

Hunter told FoxNews today that tomorrow he will, “make an announcement about a national campaign in 2008."

We will look forward to tomorrow. Duncan Hunter is a stand-up guy, and brings a lot to the table. [Note: Our… Read More

Of course they aren’t! But check THIS out…

In case you were wondering WHY Indian Tribes are spending millions of dollars to elect Tony Strickland as California’s next Controller, you need wonder no longer. I just read a post by CMR guru Steve Maviglio, and apparently the answer is this — that the Indian Tribal leaders are racists. It isn’t that they support Strickland or his principled positions against big government and centralized bureacratic regulation of business. Apparently it isn’t really about Strickland at all. The Tribal leaders apparently hate Asians.

How embarrassing for Democrats, to have elected leaders like Assemblywoman Judy Chu actually out there implying that John Chiang’s race is a factor for, or against support of his candidacy. It’s the issues, Assemblywoman…… Read More

When Prop. 83 passes sex offenders will have tougher controls onthem. Former Assemblyman Steve Clute likes to name highways after them. He must be voting no.

Back in 1991 he got a law passed to honor a dead lawmaker who was caught doing George Michael kinds of things in parks and soliciting undercover police officers.

Ankle Bracelet NO! Highway naming YES!

The campaign of Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia has an ad about this. It isn’t just "hot" it is scorching. Here it isbelow.… Read More

My loyalty to the Republican Party began in 1979-1981 because, in that time period like most of my classmates, I both hated and was terrified of "The Communists". I don’t know that I understood much more than they had nuclear weapons, they were evil, and they wanted to kill me and my family. At 9,10, and 11 I can’t write that I was some sort of young political genius or that I gave a goose about politics or that I read the paper or watched the news, but I figured for right or wrong was we were going to have a war with the Communists – maybe a nuclear war. And that scared me.

The events of 1979-1980 and the Presidential election certainly helped shape some of these opinions. My notions of the political parties and of the Presidential candidates at that time in my life were vague at best, really only the impressions of a child.

From what I recall, my impression of Carter and the Democrats is that they were scared of the Communists. My impression was that they were weak, or they would get the hostages back. My impression was that they were the ones who thought our relatives, friends, and neighbors who had fought in ‘the war’… Read More