Earlier this week Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, perhaps startling to feel a little bit anxiety over becoming a lame duck as the race for his replacement heats up, lashed out at the term limits law that keeps him from running for re-election next year. Californians have established (and several times now voted to defeat) the weakening of the state’s term limits which limit Constitutional Officeholders (like Schwarzenegger) to two-terms in office, State Senators to two terms, and Members of the State Assembly to three terms.

Californians support term limits because they feel that we should not have career politicians in Sacramento. Those who create legislation in Sacramento should have to then return back to their local community and live under the laws they create. “Schwarzenegger is unwittingly serving the interests of the political… Read More

This is a "must watch" video… … Read More

Check out the attached .pdf. We’re off to the races!… Read More

This came in today to the Facebook Friends of RecallAdams.org:

“We just turned in another 22,000 signatures yesterday which brings our total count to approximately 57,000! Ironically, the folks who live closest to Adams and know him best are signing the Petition by an almost 2 to 1 margin over those who live in the LA County portion of the 59th.

I must have all petitions in my hand this coming Monday, the 12th, as Tuesday the 13th is our final day to turn in so please pass the word to anyone you know in the 59th. I firmly believe we will exceed our goal of 60,000 signatures. This is a HUGE first step in turning things around for California.

Thank you for your support!

Tim Whitacre

Campaign Manager”… Read More

This morning over at the Capitol Weekly, they have a short item where they list those legislators who have authored the most bills that currently are sitting on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk, awaiting either his signature, his veto, or his non-action (which would result in them becoming law).

Sixteen legislators together have 210 bills out of the 700 or so on the Governor’s desk.

FlashReport readers are welcome to take a guess here — how many of those sixteen legislators are Republican?

If you answered ZERO you would be correct.

We once again express our hope that the Governor will just veto all of the bills on his desk. Sure, there are a few bills that are okay, but by and large California would be better off if the entire final product of this legislature session was torpedoed.

We support nuking the package based on the substance of the bills themselves. But we are okay if he votoes them for the very fair reason that he doesn’t have time to review them while he is busy trying to get Capitol Democrats to agree to a reasonable water solution for the state — one that gets water to people and businesses to solve… Read More

I think it is fairly safe to say that San Francisco Assemblyman, liberal Democrat Tom Ammiano and former California Republican Party Chairman Mike Schroeder of Orange County, who is heading up the recall of Anthony Adams for breaking his pledge not to raise taxes, have virtually nothing in common.

That said, they do share one proclivity with each other — walking out on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

A couple of years ago, when Schwarzenegger came to the State GOP Convention and gave his infamous "you are losing at the box office and need to be more like the Democrats" lecture, Schroeder got up at the beginning of Arnold’s remarks and left.

Capitol Weekly reports today that Governor Schwarzenegger made an… Read More

When I met both Chris Norby and Dick Ackerman, both were serving on the Fullerton City Council. It was entertaining, to say the least, to watch the two of them duke it out in a special election for the Assembly back in the early 90’s.

Given that both the Ackermans and Norby have long histories of involvement in the city, I think it is at notable that Linda Ackerman’s campaign is rolling out endorsements from five of Fullerton’s current and former civic leaders… Current Fullerton Mayor Don Bankhead and current Councilman Dick Jones…as former Mayors Buck Catlin, Jerry Christie and Linda Le Quire (the latter of whom I enjoyed working with immensely during our time working together in the office of Congressman Ed Royce back in the day).… Read More

After last night’s AD 72 Republican candidate debate, there was some question as to whether or not Linda Ackerman, in response to a question about the Adams Recall, came out in support of the recall. Much like in a contested sporting event, we’ve gone back (along with Red County Editor Matt Cunningham) and reviewed the video. After review and discussion, it is pretty clear that anyone listening to Linda’s response to the question would have to conclude that she does, in fact, support Anthony’s ouster.

But you can be your own judge, as the actual video of Ackerman’s response to the question is now up on the Red County site here.… Read More