I’m penning this brief blog entry while here at the California Republican Party convention. At the luncheon today, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, in conjunction with her speech, will be unveiling a new web video. Her last campaign video — "Demonsheep" as it has been dubbed — went "viral" with the better part of a million hits on You Tube alone.

This blog post is set to go live at 12:45, when the campaign has given me a green light to share the video with FR readers….

So…

Here it is! (If the video doesn’t play, it may be a little early. They will allow views in conjunction with the live debute here at convention.)

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Today Carla Marinucci is running a blog piece on the venerable San Francisco Chronicle Politics Blog entitled, Carly Fiorina a "lifelong Republican" — but not in voter records. The basic assertion in the piece is that Fiorina is on record, multiple times, calling herself a "Lifelong Republican" — and the Chronicle dug up Fiorina’s voter registration form, showing that in 1997 when she was living in Morristown, New Jersey, Fiorina was apparently registered as an "unaffiliated" voter.

I contacted Julie Soderlund with the Fiorina campaign. Julie says that time in New Jersey, voter did not register to vote by political party. Rather a voter selects a partisan ballot when they vote. She provided Fiorina’s voter registration card from New Jersey, which is attached below.

Already vetting, but worth reminding readers is that Fiorina has already done a mea culpa round for having a spotty voting record in the past, which apparently included this period of time.

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Yesterday the Meg Whitman for Governor campaign announced their new Students for Meg organization. The head of this new group is Chason Bullock, who is a senior at California State University, San Marcos. What follows is a column by Chason, and below that a web video created by the Whitman campaign highlighting many student leaders supporting her candidacy…

Why Students Support Meg Chason Bullock Students are rallying to elect Meg Whitman to be the next Governor of California. They share Meg’s focus on three… Read More

*FR Exclusive* "CA Forward" Legislative Proposals Seek GOP Votes To Eliminate Taxpayer Protections By Assembly Republican Leader Martin Garrick This morning in a Capitol press conference, legislative Democrats and the political reform group California Forward announced bill proposals to weaken long-standing taxpayer protections. While there are parts of this proposal that might take legislative reforms a step forward, the package would send California… Read More

Why do people keep coming back with this dumb idea that if a budget is not passed on time, legislators should not be paid?

This kind of proposal presupposes that a bad budget is better than a late budget.

I obviously look at ideas like this through the prism of a conservative — but if I have like-minded legislators in Sacramento who are holding out against a bad budget (a myriad of things, like tax increases, could be what makes a budget "bad"), why would I want them to get pressured into voting for it by preventing them from paying their mortgage or rent?

These kinds of "sounds good" proposals aren’t going to solve our problem in Sacramento.

The reality is that the biggest problem that we have in the State Capitol is not structural, it is ideological. For decades now, liberal Democrats have been in charge of the State Legislature and they have over-spent us into oblivion.

The "reform" we need is pretty obvious – Republican majorities!… Read More

The following is a continuation of my interview with Charles Moran, national spokesperson for the Log Cabin Republicans:

Hesperia School Board Member Anthony Riley has picked up the endorsement of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. A big coup here and of course are the recall committee far behind? HJTA supported the recall of Assemblyman Anthony Adams. Three more candidates have taken out papers from the San Bernardino side. Tim Donnelly from his website is running as a constitutionalist. Very Similar to the message that Ken Hunter has. been spreading. Hunter announced his race before Adams announcement. Iver Bye. For those of you without long memories, Iver Bye ran for Los Angeles County District Attorney in 1988. I think I voted for him. He was a Deputy District … Read More