Okay. You’re a State Senator that voted for two horrific budgets in a row, raising the spending baselines to unsustainable levels, in effect creating the fiscal crisis we have in California today. On top of that, you cast the deciding vote to put Proposition 14 on the ballot when you thought you were running Statewide, enabling one of the biggest RINOS in the history of California, Abel Maldenado, to cut HIS budget deal to raise our taxes and further bankrupt California.

Your reward?

An endorsement in one of the most hotly contested Congressional primaries in California, from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Yep, you read it. State Senator Jeff Denham is the endorsed candidate of HJTA in the 19th Congressional District primary.

To be sure, taxpayer advocates and Lincoln Club members fell out of their chairs today all over Central California. Nobody on the HJTA board bothered to check with any of us, I guess. We actually vetted all the candidates, did the research, and came up with a dual endorsement of Pombo and Patterson. There were NO, and I mean NO, votes for Jeff Denham for an endorsement. I guess we just pay too much… Read More

KENNEDY FOR SACRAMENTO CITY COUNCIL “Letter” this is an individualized chase letter… but Patrick you didn’t ‘see me’ when you or your walker stopped by. KENNEDY FOR SACRAMENTO CITY COUNCIL “Neighborhoods a Voice” which is a color booklet that comes in an envelope… looks expensive (Today’s winner). COOLEY FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL “Shameless” a double whack on Eastman and Harman, could have been more clear what the race was that the mailer was talking about. SLATEMAILER “Small Business Action Committee” featuring Whitman for Governor and Maldonado for Lt. Governor.… Read More

My Red County colleague published this post today about the U.S. Senate race — a must read for those deciding whether to cast their ballot for Chuck DeVore or Carly Fiorina.

Chip’s post includes an op-ed Fiorina co-bylined in 2000 in support of Prop. 26 — which would have have weakened Prop. 13 by reducing the threshold fro passing local school bonds from two-thirds to a simple majority.

Click here to read it. It’s substantive food for thought for those trying to parse through the competing claims of who the conservative in the race is.… Read More

Mike Murphy of the Meg Whitman campaign shared a brief memo from their campaign pollsters with me. I pass it along to you. It is attached below. Upshot – internal poll shows Whitman up by 26% (53% to 27%).… Read More

From today’s Wall Street Journal Opinion Page…

Cap and Flee: California refutes its own ‘green jobs’ policy. California, that former land of opportunity, was one of the first states to pass its own version of "cap and trade" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2007 when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the law, called AB-32, he said it would propel California into an economy-expanding, green job future. Well, a new study by the state’s own auditing agency—its version of the Congressional Budget Office—has burst that green bubble. The study released May 13 concludes that "California’s economy at large will likely be adversely affected in the near term by implementing climate-related policies that are not adopted elsewhere." While the long-term economic costs are "unknown," the study finds… Read More

Assemblyman Jeff Miller is an endorser and supporter of (very) longtime FR friend and Assemblyman Joel Anderson’s campaign for State Senate. Anderson is running for the seat currently held by Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, who is retiring at the end of this year. Last week, Miller brought a group of folks down to help Anderson with get-out-the-vote activities…

Big Team Effort Will Elect Joel Anderson To The State Senate By Assemblyman Jeff Miller Last year, when my Assembly Republican colleagues asked me to serve as the Elections Chairman for the Caucus, I pledged that we would campaign aggressively at the grassroots level and energize our efforts in the field. The leader who first approached me… Read More

Back in March I featured a guest column from Chason Bullock, the head of Students for Meg Whitman. I got a lot of positive feedback, and told Chason that as we got closer to the primary I would love to get an update on how things are going… Below is a new column from Chason for your perusal…

Students For Meg Get Organized For Final Push By Chasen Bullock, Statewide Youth Coordinator of Students for Meg and a senior at California State University, San Marcos The Students for Meg Coalition now has 40 chapters on California college campuses and students up and down the state are doing their part… Read More

I want to remind the readers that I live in a HEAVILY DEMOCRAT neighborhood… I generally don’t get a ton of Republican mail. JAY SCHENIRER FOR CITY COUNCIL “Timeout” this is the second in a series of sports related pieces. The first piece confused me, but I took the time to read this one and I agree with the guy that we shouldn’t donate land to the Kings team. PATRICK KENNEDY FOR CITY COUNCIL “Creating Jobs” Kennedy is running against Schenirer (above) – and I leaned towards Schenirer because of his early grassroots campaign but I’ve got to write that Kennedy’s mail is better, just more clear. COOPER FOR SHERIFF “Keeping deputies on the street” very clear (Today’s winner). SLATE MAILER “Council of Concerned Women Voters” featuring Whitman and Nakanishi.… Read More