Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, fresh on the heels of landing LA as the site of the big Microsoft World Partners Conference, has set his sights on bringing Comic-Con — the world’s largest convention for comic book enthusiasts — to the City of the Angels and to the downtown LA Convention Center. Bringing this massive gathering to Los Angeles would be a big feather in the cap of the beleaguered Mayor and welcome news as he and his City Council cope with a massive shortfall in the city’s budget that is dominating the news.

Unfortunately for Antonio, he has two well known Angelinos working at cross-purposes with him … Read More

FR friend Seth Unger, who serves as Director of Communications for State Assembly Republicans hits it out of the park with his comments on this news story about the latest "Nanny State" measure passed by the liberal Democrats who control the state legislature (and apparently yearn to replace parents with government)…

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In the continuing battle in the 11th Congressional District (Full Disclosure: My client is Brad Goehring), the recent revelations of David Harmer taking his TARP golden parachute while making six figures (over $400K) and receiving unemployment benefits has rocked the campaign. The problem probably wouldn’t be so bad for him except for the fact that in recent debates, David Harmer whined incessantly that running for Congress was the most difficult decision he has ever had to make in his life and that he wished he could own a home instead of just renting. I guess when you’re a silver spoon politician’s kid life can be pretty tough.

True to form, David Harmer shows his mettle once again by sending out his wife to respond. The Elizabeth Emken campaign has mercilessly attacked Harmer on this issue and a recent Stockton Record story highlighted the Harmer hypocrisy for decrying bailouts while stuffing dollars in his pocket. The Harmer campaign earlier sent out Elayne Harmer to decry an attack on their faith after a mailer from Emken included excerpts of Harmer declaring in the… Read More

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, fresh on the heels of landing LA as the site of the big Microsoft World Partners Conference, has set his sights on bringing Comic-Con — the world’s largest convention for comic book enthusiasts — to the City of the Angels and to the downtown LA Convention Center. Bringing this massive gathering to Los Angeles would be a big feather in the cap of the beleaguered Mayor and welcome news as he and his City Council cope with a massive shortfall in the city’s budget that is dominating the news.

Unfortunately for Antonio, he has two well known Angelinos working at cross-purposes with him … Read More

As we get close to the June primary, we thought we would check in on Audra Strickland’s campaign for Ventura County Supervisor. FR readers may recall that Strickland is challenging an incumbent Supervisor who, while a "registered" Republican actually endorsed and supported liberal Democrat Hannah Beth Jackson for State Senate against Audra’s husband, now State Senator Tony Strickland.

As a State Party officer, I am well aware that the Ventura County Republican Party and the California Republican Party have both endorsed Strickland, and are engaged in a substantive member communications effort to GOP voters on her behalf. But here’s a more "on the ground" perspective from FR friend Eric Ingemunson…

AUDRA STRICKLAND – CLOSING STRONG IN THE CLUTCH Eric Ingemunson

Audra Strickland has a date Friday night, but it looks like she… Read More

The National Rifle Association, one of the most reliable and effective advocacy groups in the country, stunned Second Amendment supporters by weighing in on behalf of Don Kurth over conservative pro-Second Amendment businessman Mike Morrell. Kurth’s sordid history includes efforts to gather and destroy guns in order to erect peace memorials (“Annual Gun Destruction Day”). The memorials, a passion-project of New York-based anti-arms activist Lin Evola-Smidt, stated goal is “To melt down weapons and create peace in the United States will inspire the entire world to do what is possible.”

Admirable though Ms. Evola-Smidt’s efforts may be, they are not typically an effort embraced by the Second Amendment community nor the NRA. In fact, as an NRA member, I distinctly remember the NRA aggressively attacking Dan Lungren in his 1998 run for governor for… Read More

DATE: 5/25/10 TO: DEMOCRAT LEADERS IN D.C. AND SACRAMENTO FROM: JON FLEISCHMAN, CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY RE: KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! As the saying goes, “adversity creates opportunity.” Your opportunity as Democrats who are supposed to be in charge, given the fiscal crisis facing… Read More

* For the first time, Rasmussen is reporting that Steve Poizner is actually polling better in a matchup against Jerry Brown than is his primary foe Meg Whitman.