While Democrats are engaged in an 1500 delegate ‘food fight’ in Sacramento, as the forces and minions of Phil Angelides and Steve Westly wrestle over which (if either) Democrat will end up with an official State Democratic endorsement for Governor, California’s Republican ticket for statewide office couldn’t have been more unified.

Last evening, I attended the Orange County Lincoln Club’s annual membership dinner banquet at the gorgeous Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach. The guest of honor… EVERY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE ON THE PRIMARY BALLOT! That’s right, while the top-billing for this ‘Lincoln-Club Members Only’ (and invited guests) event of over 400 people were Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his running mate, State Senator Tom McClintock, every other candidate vying for the Republican nomination for a statewide office was at the dinner, working the room, and meeting the influential members of Orange County’s most prestigious Republican… Read More

MAY 1 PROTESTS Sometimes, when I am up early compiling news stories, I really shake my head. Today is one of those days. On May 1st, there will be a huge day of rallies to, in essence, support illegal immigration into the United States. You can say anything else you want about it, but the bottom line is that advocates of this day of protest are actually protesting the rule of law. They are protesting the idea that there is actually such a thing as right and wrong. It is fair to engage in a dialogue with the people and with policy makers about the law, which states that there is a formal and necessary process that any potential immigrant to the United States must follow before immigrating to America. The reality is that there are now millions of residents in the United States who quite literally ignored that law, and came here anyways. Congress is in the midst of a debate about how to make sure that these immigration laws can be more effectively enforced at the points of entry to America, and they are debating what to do, in a very practical sense, about what is estimated to be well over ten million… Read More

MAY 1 PROTESTS Sometimes, when I am up early compiling news stories, I really shake my head. Today is one of those days. On May 1st, there will be a huge day of rallies to, in essence, support illegal immigration into the United States. You can say anything else you want about it, but the bottom line is that advocates of this day of protest are actually protesting the rule of law. They are protesting the idea that there is actually such a thing as right and wrong. It is fair to engage in a dialogue with the people and with policy makers about the law, which states that there is a formal and necessary process that any potential immigrant to the United States must follow before immigrating to America. The reality is that there are now millions of residents in the United States who quite literally ignored that law, and came here anyways. Congress is in the midst of a debate about how to make sure that these immigration laws can be more effectively enforced at the points of entry to America, and they are debating what to do, in a very practical sense, about what is estimated to be well over ten million… Read More

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story the other day that reported that DJs on Spanish radio stations were counseling immigrants not to miss work, but rather attend marches and rallies after working. Some immigrant activists are worried about a backlash of anger.

They are right to be worried. On Tuesday, President Bush told an audience in Orange County that the debate about immigration needs to be conducted in a "respectful way." That message needs to be sent to parties on both sides of the issue. One gets the feeling that Bush and his soft-on-immigration counterparts think that those who want more border control are the only ones… Read More

Yesterday I wrote about 36th Assembly District GOP challengerJames Ledford’s support for Deomcrats tripling the car tax. See it here.Now a Democratic activist is in trouble for supporting him for Mayor. But, that isn’t all. The article says he supported the Democratic activist for school board. "Corrales and Ledford are known to support each other…" reports the Antelope Valley Press. See the article here. Supporting the car tax AND supporting Democratic Partyactivists for office. Instead of challenging Runner in the GOP Primary, he should have been her Democratic opponent.… Read More

This morning over 100 of Orange County’s Republican local elected officials came together in Anaheim for the first in a what promises to be a series of quarterly events for the OC GOP’s local elected officials committee.

Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle spoke to the crowd at the Disney Resort property about innovation in government including some key examples of what he has done in his town.

Pringle along with his coalition majority on the five-member city council has done some great things since they got there a little over three years ago.

The mix of a dynamic real estate market and a city government that virtually got out of the way of developers, has brought what will in the coming years be close to 10,000 new residential high-rise units to the area surrounding Anaheim Stadium that is now largely one and two story industrial.

Other great ideas that Pringle has actually implemented include:

-A tax holiday for businesses. If during a special three month period last year you moved or opened a new business in Anaheim your taxes were waived for a year. And if you were late on paying your taxes, you were able to get caught up without… Read More

OPERATOR ERROR YESTERDAY ON MY PART KEPT MY COMMENTARY FROM APPEARING ON THE SITE.

I have to run to an event for work this morning, but please enjoy yesterday’s commentary…today! Obviously if you read the FR blog yesterday, you know that the trip with Eric Roach to DC was successful, but you all missed out on an important mid-trip update, which is important because my entry belows makes the clear case why Democrats DON’T want Eric Roach to run – which is GOP turnout. Brian Bilbray is ill-equiped, as a GOP nominee, to inspire conservatives to the polls… Anyways, check it all out below, and if you missed out on yesterday’s featured piece on Tax Freedom Day by Doug Wilson, you can toggle to yesterday’s FR in the upper-right hand corner of the main page…

YESTERDAY’S COMMENTARY POSTED TODAY… TAX FREEDOM DAY Today, April 26, 2006, is Tax Freedom Day. What does that mean? It means that the average … Read More

I figure it’s time for some news that does not involve publisher Jon Fleischman’s ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ to Washington D.C with Howard Kaloogian…

In the major suburban cities that circle San Diego City, there are Democrat Mayors in Oceanside, Lemon Grove, and Chula Vista. To be fair, Oceanside’s Mayor is not a Democrat. But he is a lickspittle of the labor unions and lefty extremists like Councilwoman Esther Sanchez so I figure I may as well toss him in. Not to digress on Oceanside, but the Democrat/labor dominated government is all the worse because the GOP has a clear registration advantage there. Unfortunately, as anyone who has had the misfortune to work there for a while knows, Oceanside is the Iraq of San Diego Republican politics. Various GOP factions are more interested in taking the knife to one another than they are in forming a winning coalition that actually governs. Oceanside is a pretty free-wheeling city… a Republican candidate who can unite the factions and organize the business community will find himself a powerhouse in local politics.

More interesting is yesterday’s revelation about Chula… Read More