I received an e-mail today from OC Young Americans for Freedom, with a PDF attached (you can see it below).

It’s entitled "The Real Silva Bullet" — a play on The Silva Bullet, the campaign missive of the Silva for Assembly campaign. [Full disclosure: I created The Silva Bullet when I was part of Jim Silva’s re-election consulting team back in 1998.]

In any case, the YAF piece questions Supervisor Jim Silva’s conservatism and takes him to task for supporting a $4.50 tax on travelers flying out of John Wayne Airport. It was passed 4-1 in December, with Supervisor Chris Norby casting the lone dissent. The tax will finance a $512 million porject to expand JWA by 68%.

I’m a big fan of YAF, but this piece is obviously a component of Cypress Councilman Mike… Read More

That’s right Fabian thinks Arnold is asking for too much bonding authority. The rest of his comments are absurd of course. More bonds for affordable housing and the like. Jim Sanders of the Bee has it all right here.… Read More

I posted stories on the main page this morning so early, I missed this gem (it wasn’t up on the Sacramento Bee website yet).

In this column, Dan Weintraub focuses on the role of State Senate President Pro-tem in the BIG BOND$ process. He starts with the analogy below, and then details later in the column where Perata has staked out positions on some of the Governor’s demands. The two of them DEFINITELY do NOT see eye-to-eye.

The column starts:

The University of California‘s PR problem over compensation packages given to high-ranking employees doesn’t seem to be going away. And it shouldn’t. UC officials continue to give weak answers about why some employees have received such bloated compensation packages and why the public hasn’t been fully informed about the deals.

Senator Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria) held a hearing last week on the issue and will hold another one on Feb. 22. In today’s San Francisco Chronicle, the legislator says that UC President Robert Dynes has yet not provided clear answers to questions about UC employee compensation packages.… Read More

The campaign Adam Probolsky’s orchestrating against Stanton’s mandatory home inspection ordinance has beginning to gain attention outside the blogosphere. For example, today’s item from OC Register columnist Frank Mickadeit:

God bless Adam Probolsky, though. He did two things to ease my funk. First, he was sitting there with some kind of cranberry drink, which allowed me to ask him rather loudly whether he had a yeast infection and thus divert ridicule in another direction, and, second, he slipped me a delicious example of political hit mail the good people of Stanton should have found in their mailboxes yesterday.

Stanton recently passed a law that requires the seller of every home to pay $150 to have a city building inspector check out the dwelling, both inside and out if he wants.

I don’t want to get into the propriety of such a law or note that this is something the private sector already does – I might find myself coming… Read More

There are a number of ‘must read’ stories today — but start with the exclusive column from State Senator George Runner and Assemblywoman Sharon Runner. This dynamic husband-wife legislative duo have been the main driving force behind the qualification of the Jessica’s Law ballot measure which, if passed, would enact in the Golden State some of the toughest anti-sexual-predator laws in the nation. They have collected enough signatures, they believe, to qualify the measure for the ballot, and will start turning them in this week, says the consultant handling the measure, Dave Gilliard. … Read More

This post on OC Blog about the campaign my friend and colleague Adam Probolsky is running against the Soviet of Stanton reminds me of some intelligence I’ve picked up recently in this matter that reveals how stunningly out of touch Stanton apparatchiks and their captive City Council are. [For those just tuning in, click here and here for a briefing on the City of Stanton‘s brilliant home inspection scheme]

This ordinance in question — and a virtually identical one targeting rental units — is being fought by the Pacific West Association of Realtors (PWR) and the… Read More

There are a number of ‘must read’ stories today — but start with the exclusive column from State Senator George Runner and Assemblywoman Sharon Runner. This dynamic husband-wife legislative duo have been the main driving force behind the qualification of the Jessica’s Law ballot measure which, if passed, would enact in the Golden State some of the toughest anti-sexual-predator laws in the nation. They have collected enough signatures, they believe, to qualify the measure for the ballot, and will start turning them in this week, says the consultant handling the measure, Dave Gilliard.

I will try to post more to the FR blog later today, but I have to run out the door very early this morning. When you review the main page, note the link to the SF Chronicle political news page – this is there because the Chron doesn’t update their page until 6am, and I am posting this close to 5am. You can check yourself if they have any stories on California politics, or… Read More