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Here’s a follow-up on the Waste Watch I posted the other day about the excesses of the First 5 program.

Our awesome Senate Republican caucus staff put the piece below together – but the real credit about exposing this abuse of the voter’strust goes to Senator Dave Cox. He’s been all over this issue for a long time.

Enjoy. __________

When the health care reform debate began in earnest at the State Capitol, well over a year ago, Republican legislators came to the table with a multitude of innovative ideas to solve many of the current and inevitable problems in California’s health care system. One of those, authored by Senator Cox (R-Fair Oaks), was to ask voters to reprioritize tobacco tax dollars currently collected under a 1998 voter-approved initiative, Proposition 10, … Read More

Jenn and I just finished hosting a McCain House Party. We posted something on a few blogs and sent a press release to the local newspapers.

For a Friday night we actually had more people than you might have expected. The important thing was the kind of people that showed up. We had a retired Sailor that met McCain years ago, a passionate independent that doesn’t like politics but loves McCain, a young medical student from the Ukraine, and a local elected official that is a life-long Democrat.

Many of you will probably comment below about how you think John McCain is one thing or another. The one thing I’m sure of is that he is the only one that can beat Senator Clinton in November. The choice right now is not really between Romney and McCain. It is between McCain and Clinton.

The people that came to our home tonight left with stickers, lawn signs, and other stuff. They left me with the firm belief that John McCain is the only Republican that can win in November. The courts, the United States military, and the health care system of our country depend on his election.… Read More

When it comes to United States foreign policy, there is perhaps no one more respected for his expertise on the subject, at least by conservatives, than Bruce Herschensohn. These days, Bruce is a professor teaching over at Pepperdine University, with an office right near that of Law School Dean Kenneth Starr. FlashReport Managing Editor Nicholas Romero and I had an opportunity to sit down with the conservative icon for the better part of an hour yesterday, courtesy of the John McCain for President campaign.

To say that Bruce is an ardent supporter of John McCain would be an understatement. As you will see from the interview below, Bruce feels that with the post 9-11 state of affairs around the world, foreign policy expertise and gravitas is reasons one through ten to suppport McCain.

Without any further introduction, here are Nicholas Romero and… Read More

I guess old Barry Jantz was right I missed a day of reporting on mail (Thursday) because I was on the road. Nothing came Thursday. Today though a large 12" x 12" 1 fold ‘Yes on Props 94-97’ arrived from their committee for my wife.

It was a really good looking piece. We both gave it an A for how it looked. But the trick, really, that it came addressed to HER.Even though my wife is a female,she is a conservative Republican. She read through the piece and right away said she didn’tlike a bunch of the people, or who they represented, in the pull out quotes. She said it made her more likely to vote NO than YES.She gave it a D on targeting. Even though the piece was not addressed to me, I read it and read it first. I happen to know and like Lani Lutar from the San Diego Taxpayer’s Association so I pretty much ignored the other endorsements and was pretty content with my A vote until Valerie pointed out the mailer really was for her and for her it didn’t work. So I’ll run with her D for targeting.… Read More

I had the privilege of interviewing one of my conservative heroes, yesterday: Bruce Herschensohn. Bruce is a man of principle and integrity, and the purpose of the interview was to give him the opportunity to pitch his reasons why his fellow conservatives should vote for Sen. John McCain for President (and muchas gracias to Jon Fleischman of the FlashReport for manning the UnSteadiCam): … Read More

I just got off of the phone with former California Coalitions Director for Rudy Giuliani, political consultant, and internet publisher Steve Frank. He wanted to make perfectly clear to me and FlashReport readers that while he respects Mayor Giuliani’s endorsement of Senator John McCain, he will not be following in his footsteps. He was adamant about this. He is endorsing Governor Mitt Romney for President of the United States. Here’s the rationale for his decision: “Governor Romney’s economic policies match those of Mayor Rudy Giuliani. We know that Governor Romney, as President of the United States,will provide an economically conservative, tax-cutting administration. We also… Read More

As a former supporter of Rudy Giuliani, I’ve gravitated now to Governor Mitt Romney and have endorsed him as of today. First, my reasons for opposing McCain:

He’s a demagogue on the Bush tax cuts, which saved the post 9-11 economy, and uses class warfare rhetoric; Wrote an amnesty bill and a completely unworkable overhaul of the immigration system; Crafted an anti-free speech campaign finance bill, McCain Feingold; Believes in "climate change", which is a fraud; Opposes exploration for our OWN oil in ANWAR, while we finance terrorism in the … Read More