If you struggled through the Presidential debate last night like I did, you knew two things would come from it. The first is that the McCain Campaign would start to use "Joe the Plumber" in their messaging. The second is a skit on Saturday Night Live featuring Joe. Well, check out the ad below from the McCain for President campaign… One down… … Read More

We here at the FlashReport hear that there is an interesting political movement emerging in San Bernardino County. Apparently, and I wouldn’t have known this, it is getting harder and harder to find a wedding singer in those parts. Because of this, liberals in the 63rd Assembly District, currently represented by Dentist-turned-Legislator Bill Emmerson, are running a behind-the-scenes effort to pull the rug out from Emmerson’s Democrat opponent, the wedding singer, Mark Westwood (pictured).

I guess the presumption is that if Westwood were to become a member of the State Legislature, his time to “rock out” weddings and bar mitzvahs would be severely reduced. Actually, it’s not only that special once-in-a-lifetime event in your life that Westwood wants to “rock” – if you check out the website of the… Read More

In the midst of our own election in California and with a workload that would rival the weight ofAgamemnon’s armor,I am nevertheless in Columbus, Ohio, the state capitol for a few days, and there is no escaping full-blown court room political drama. More than 200,000 "voters" here will be required to cast "provisional" rather than regular ballots as a result of a Federal Court order that attempts to reconcile huge discrepancies between the secretary of state’s voter rolls and the actual voter roles of local election officials. Fast at work here have been ACORN and other Democratic voter registration groups that have been accused for vote rigging. Apparently, one individual here was registered to vote 72 different ways by these "do-gooders." In a tight, heavily campaigned swing state, that could make a difference. It looks like Florida all over again, but a midwest version, in this current Presidential election.

There is an underlying dirt to this election coming from the Obama supporters. Enemies lists. Threatening anonymous letters to Republican activists. Voter fraud. I predict we will… Read More

Just the other day, I won an auction on eBay, purchasing the Lil’ Lion Elite costume for my son, Matthew, who will be celebrating his second Halloween this year.

As I was completing this transaction on the world’s largest internet auction site, I had three thoughts. The first was that I was thrilled that someone didn’t come along in the final seconds of the auction and beat my offer. The second was that my wife would be thrilled that I "got" the costume. And lastly, it made me realize I hadn’t really given much coverage here on the FlashReport to the rising GOP phenomenon of Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay who now has such a high profile within the GOP that the party’s nominee for President, Senator McCain, mentioned her specifically as a potential pick to serve as Treasury Secretary should he be… Read More

Just the other day, I won an auction on eBay, purchasing the Lil’ Lion Elite costume for my son, Matthew, who will be celebrating his second Halloween this year.

As I was completing this transaction on the world’s largest internet auction site, I had three thoughts. The first was that I was thrilled that someone didn’t come along in the final seconds of the auction and beat my offer. The second was that my wife would be thrilled that I "got" the costume. And lastly, it made me realize I hadn’t really given much coverage here on the FlashReport to the rising GOP phenomenon of Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay who now has such a high profile within the GOP that the party’s nominee for President, Senator McCain, mentioned her specifically as a potential pick to serve as Treasury Secretary should he be… Read More

I always say that public employee unions exist really to accomplish two goals, and that anything else that they do is ancillary to these goals. First and foremost to increase salary and benefits for their union members, and second to pursue any state policies that would increase the number of members of their union.

Pretty simple, right? This is why public employee unions are so insidious.

Well, apparently there is an exception to my theory. Apparently yesterday the California Teachers Association donated a staggering $1,000,000.00 (a cool million bucks) to the No on 8 Campaign. Proposition 8 is the Protect Marriage Act.

So you have to start scratching your head, and wonder why the state union that looks out for the salary and benefits of teachers is spending its member-dollars on a ballot measure that is about defining marriage in California?

One has to conclude that the decision making body of the CTA PAC is not only filled with union-hacks (as you would expect)… Read More

As always, someone or two are on my flights to or from Sacramento. On my flight home with me are CRP Treasurer Keith Carlson and former LA Times Reporter turned OC government bureaucrat Jean Pasco. I'll be spending my time talking to Jean!… Read More

As I write this, nearly a hundred Republican activists have been evacuated from the Sacramento GOP Heaquarters on Madison. Apparently a strange, unknown man came into the HQ with a box, and left the package and split. The police are on the scene and the bomb squad is rolling… Good grief!… Read More