Political Tidbits Posted: July/18/2005

1. The Special Election (Armageddon) is coming! We need your help. If you are a public employee union member, please act now. If you are an elected official--school board member, city council member, local agency member, etc. please act immediately. If you are a public policy or political activist, you are needed, immediately.

Go to: www.caforpaycheckprotection.com and sign up directly on line. Paycheck Protection gives workers a choice of how their political donations are spent.

If we are going to support public employee unionized workers that don't want union bosses making political decisions for them, you are needed NOW!!! Go to the web site as soon as possible.
As they say in the Navy (though I was an Army man), "All hands on deck".

2. Diversity! What a great concept. No merit is needed, no competence, just be the flavor of the day and you are "in like Flynn". But, the concept is dying, and I have proof. During the 1990's as parliamentarian of the CRP I had the opportunity of analyzing the bylaws of the Democrat Party of California. At that time appointments to the State Democrat Committee read like an Orwellian novel--certain number of females, blacks, Asian, Asian Pacific, Native American, Gays, Lesbians, transgendered, etc. I have no idea how they filled some of those quota's.

Last week I went back to the Democrat by-laws. Now the only quota is for women--half of all appointments, regionals chairs, everything, must be women. They have two regions, North and south. The chairs for these regions must be of different sexes. In other words two women are NOT allowed to be regional chairs at the same time. Sounds like discrimination to me. That is why I am proud to be a Republican. Folks are appointed and elected based on ability, who they know (yes), value to their county or leadership. With the changes in the Democrat by-laws, looks like they are becoming more like America then the quota system they promoted in the 1990's--glad they are imitating the GOP in this regard!

3. Matt Cooper, the Time magazine reporter is no ordinary journalist. He is the guy that would have gone to jail if he didn't testify before the Grand Jury in regard to Ms. Plame. He is married! Married to Mandy Grunwald--don't know her? She is a former Clinton administration official, now on the staff of Senator Hillary Clinton. Could Cooper be non-partisan?
Doesn't pass the giggle test, does it?

4. Thank you Governor Schwarzenegger! From Dan Weintraub, July 11...Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed $190 million from the budget, including $115 million from the general fund, before signing the document. His most interesting veto was of $6.1 million to preserve 114 positions in the office of State Publishing, a move made by Democrats to reduce the state’s use of private contract printers.

5. This is a must see! This is one of the funniest things that I have ever seen!! Hillary at her "best"...... http://www.michaelhodges.com/stuff/funny/2008cc1.swf

6. The Los Angeles County GOP, lead by Linda Boyd, is challenging the other 57 to step up to the plate for victory in November. "The Republican Party of Los Angeles County (RPLAC) held a day long Precinct Training Workshop on Saturday July 9, 2005 as part of it's comprehensive "ground game" strategy for the November 2005 special election. Fifty AD Chairmen and Assembly District Precinct
Chairmen and Headquarters Chairmen participated, with over 80 more expected at the second Workshop to be held on July 23rd at LA County Headquarters, 6055 E Washington Blvd., Commerce Ca 90040. To sign up, call 323-215-4505 and ask for Francisco.

The Party organization is being looked to by the media and the Governor to supply the "boots on the ground" this fall to counteract tens of thousand of paid union "volunteers" expected to descend on California from all over the country on behalf of the Democrats.

RPLAC also sponsored an in-depth training session for Party and campaign leaders in January 2005 known as the RPLAC Academy. Chairman Linda Boyd has committed all available funds and the LA County Party's maximum effort to winning the Special Election for Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Republican Party."

If you want copies of the brochure or the PowerPoint presentation, just email me and I will send it to you. For more information www.lagop.org or to sign up for July 23rd event.

7. Of course the big news of the week is Attorney General Lockyer opposing one million Californians, the Secretary of State and the right of people to vole on an initiative. Instead he is using tax dollars to protect Nunez, Perata and the rest of his career politico friends! Attached is a copy of Bill Mundell's Op-Ed piece in the San Jose Mercury News.

Mundell Mercury News op-ed.doc

8. SPECIAL NOTE: Congressman Randy Cunningham has decided not to run for re-election next year. Howard Kaloogian is going to announce he will be a candidate. Kaloogian, one of the leaders of the Recall Gray Davis effort, is also a former Assemblyman. Now is he the founder of Move Forward America, an organization dedicated to supporting our efforts in Iraq and the troops. In fact, he is now on his way back from Iraq to make the announcement! A solid conservative, with lots of credentials and a willingness to be a leader, not a back bencher for the cause of Freedom.

California Articles

1. Supreme Court upholds Workers Comp Reform

Workers' comp lawsuit rejected
http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/13230263p-14072898c.htm
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit aimed at overturning new workers' compensation rules, a ruling that means the issue will have to first be decided in local workers' compensation courts. It is the second such decision in a month for labor leaders and advocates of injured workers who asserted that a new formula to calculate benefits for workers with permanent disabilities was illegal and would result in sharply reduced benefits

2. Government never gets it right

Proposed School Must Pay L.A. Port for Rehab
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-port14jul14,1,493191.story?coll=la-headlines-california
A proposed charter school must reimburse the Port of Los Angeles thousands of dollars for building renovations made by the port despite the state's warnings that the work was illegal. The charter high school intends to lease a port building in San Pedro and begin classes this fall. Port officials moved ahead with more than $6 million worth of work, despite warnings from the state Lands Commission that the spending was a misuse of port funds, which must be used for water-related purposes and the people of California.

3. Orange County agency uses tax dollars to teach "Dharma"

Money flushed down toilet
http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/editorial/story/5585604p-5558224c.html
Do you hear the chanting? Thanks to the Orange County Register, we learn it is the sound of Orange County toilets flushing. It is the sound of Southland poop being hauled over the Tehachapi Mountains and plopped onto Kern County farmland. It's the sound of Orange County Sanitation District officials paying more than a half million dollars to fine- tune their dharma. "Dharma" means "protection," according to a Dharma Web site, "By practicing Buddha's teachings, we protect ourself from suffering and problems. All the problems we experience during daily life originate in ignorance, and the method for eliminating ignorance is to practice Dharma."

4. Jon Coupal notes immigration could destroy California economy

The Future Of Prop. 13
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/07/12/sections/commentary/california_focus/article_593250.php
Recently a liberal think-tank, the Public Policy Institute of California, released a study estimating that the population of California will increase from 36.5 million to around 48 million over the next 20 years.
A large chunk of the new arrivals will come as the result of "international migration" and many of these future residents will lack the education skills needed to land good jobs.

5. LAUSD wants more money while failure rate grows

L.A. Unified May Seek More Money
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lausd12jul12,1,425378.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Amid mounting concerns over state education funding, the Los Angeles Board of Education is considering asking voters to approve a multibillion-dollar bond, as well as a property tax, on the November special election ballot. Some board members and others, however, are questioning the idea of again turning to taxpayers less than a year and a half after they approved a school bond in March 2004.

Charters Threaten To Find Bond
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2960941,00.html
Charter school proponents threatened on Monday to fight Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Roy Romer's proposed $3.85 billion construction bond, saying they are being shortchanged in the amount that would go toward building schools. Officials with the California Charter Schools Association have organized dozens of people to appear at the school board meeting today, when the board will discuss putting the bond on the Nov. 8 special-election ballot.

6. Investigate John Garamendi for corruption, past due
Full Probe Of Executive Life Giveaway Is Long Overdue
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/columns/walters/story/13214112p-14057109c.html The state's giveaway sale of Executive Life and the insurer's fat portfolio of junk bonds is the gift that keeps on giving - political headaches, that is. State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, who seized the troubled insurer in 1991 and then approved its sale, desperately wants to deflect the onus for the multibillion-dollar debacle that left tens of thousands of disabled and retired annuitants twisting in the wind.

7. Educrats want to boss around three year olds!

Thinking Young
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/13209174p-14052163c.html
Pushing to improve instruction of its youngest students, California is considering setting learning standards and curriculum guidelines for children as young as 3. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell is leading the drive, hoping to narrow the state's achievement gap by reaching students at a younger age. The goal is to ensure consistency and better prepare youngsters for kindergarten, but opponents fear that too much academic pressure would be placed on 3-, 4-and 5-year-olds.

8. A Gil Cedillo special?
Loophole Lets Unlicensed Buy Vehicles
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050710/NEWS01/507100332/1001
In California, you can buy a car, register a car and even insure it -- though you may not legally be able to drive it. Car dealers throughout Stockton are using this quirk in California's law to cater to customers without driver's licenses, drawing concern from critics who say the practice promotes illegal driving. With banners that announce "No Licencia, No Problema," dealerships are targeting the Latino community, hoping to cash in because many other dealers won't sell to buyers without a license.

9. Some folks need to get a life
Cigar-Tent Debate Flares Up
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/13209178p-14052166c.html
A group of anti-smoking organizations gathered at the south steps of the state Capitol on Saturday to make a stink about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's cigar-smoking tent. "This is not his house. It belongs to every Californian," said Debi Austin, a cancer survivor who smoked through a hole in her throat in public service announcements circulated across the country. Cynthia Hallett, executive director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, said the governor is a role model and he is sending the wrong message.

National Articles
1. United Nations plans to run the Internet
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050715/D8BBO8U00.html
U.N. Panel Presents 4 Internet Options Associated Press, by AOIFE WHITE 7/15/2005 A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate. ... Some countries were satisfied with the current arrangement, while others, particularly developing ones, wanted to wrest control from ICANN and place it with an intergovernmental group, possibly under the United Nations.

2. The truth about Joe Wilson
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18798
Joe Wilson's Credibility Problem FrontPage Magazine, by Joel Mowbray 7/15/2005
The virtual vigilantes circling Karl Rove have everything lined up for the brand of justice they see fit for “the Architect”: public humiliation, all-out character assassination, firing, near-fatal damage to the White House, and if they get the cherry on top, “frog-marching” the President’s closest advisor from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to a federal prison. There’s just one hitch: their entire political case rests on the quicksand known as Joe Wilson.

3. Phony liberal programs hid corruption
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2005/07/15&ID=Ar00201 G8 and Live8 Don't Help the Poor The New York Sun, by Alicia Colon 7/15/2005
Every summer in our parish, we have a priest from Africa assist our pastor for approximately two months. Last Sunday, Immaculate Conception parish welcomed Father Isaac from Ghana to our church, which serves many newly arrived immigrants who come to Staten Island from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Ghana, and Liberia. The recent Live 8 concert and the G-8 conference have been covered in the news, but nosy me was trying to get the facts.

Quotes of the Week
From FederalistPatriot.com:

Still clueless: "The lesson should be that Bush has put the West, including the American people, at life-and-death risk by going to war for fabrications. We will never be 'safer' as long as we invade and occupy Iraq, prop up the Saudi dictators, and crawl towards only a token Palestinian state. We will be safe when we no longer forcibly occupy Muslim lands in the oil-driven search for dominance."
--political activist Tom Hayden, ever the hippie "peacenik" (Hayden doesn't get it. The jihadists don't only want Palestine or Israel, they want Spain back!..Steve)

Jokes of the Week

Sent by my daughter, Amy:

"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."
Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show August 22, 2004

"Whenever I watch T.V. and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry.I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
-Mariah Carey

From Jay Leno:
Hillary Clinton also gave a speech in Aspen, Colorado and accused President Bush of damaging the economy by catering to the rich. Why was Hillary in Aspen, Colorado? Because she was catering to the rich.

Condoleezza Rice is on a6 day trip to Japan. I never thought I’d see the day when we’re sending "Rice” to Japan.

A high school in Vail, Colorado has become the 1st paperless wireless and textbook free school in America. Everything in the school is done electronic. Like even when the teachers have sex with the students they do it on the Internet with a webcam.

The 10th annual Redneck Games were held this weekend in East Dublin, Georgia. I think it's sponsored by the "Jerry Springer Show”. The events include bobbing for pigs feet, the hubcap hurl…and my personal favorite, the "name one tattoo on the last relative you slept with”. That’s my favorite.

"The president of CBS News has commissioned his staff to come up with an evening news format that favors more of a 'storytelling' style over the traditional news format. Storytelling? So it sounds like they're bringing back Dan Rather, huh?" - "

Question of the Week

DO YOU FEEL THAT "DIVERSITY" IS THE BEST WAY TO FILL JOBS, POSITIONS OR FILL SEATS IN SCHOOLS?
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Events of Note

1. The Republican Women of Simi Valley/Moorpark will be hosting Dennis Prager at the Reagan Library. August 11th. At 6:30 in the evening. Coffee and dessert will be at the conclusion of the speaker. Doria is the contact at Doria57@aol. Dennis Prager is a real treat, I will try to go myself!

2. 4th District Board of Equalization candidate Glen Forsch is holding an "Anti-Tax Tea Party on July 30 from 2-5 PM. Glen is an old friend of this newsletter and a solid conservative. For more information on this event contact Alice at 310-506-8391 or Glen Forsch at 818-415-1199

3. August 13 - SAVE THE DATE Placer County Republican Party Fourth Annual BBQ and Family Picnic at the Sunset Communty Center in Rocklin. This family picnic, with lots of activities for children will be a salute to the military families who have sacrificed so much for our liberty. Donations are being accepted to sponsor military families. All others $80 per family or $40 per person. If you are a member of the military or have a member of your immediate family serving in the military, please call Lynn Kyme to reserve your spot as our guest. Make a donation or RSVP by Aug. 8 to Lynn Kyme Kyme@surewest.net or (916) 791-2640

4. July 24 from 3-6:pm the California Women's Leadership Association will hold a Garden Party. The special speaker is Carol Platt Liebeu, radio talk show host and public policy speaker, her topic is "Becoming Media Savy".
This is a real opportunity to learn more about how to work with the media. For an invitation go to http://cwla.us/losang.html

Web Sites to See A. The URL to help the Initiative to create a California Border Patrol group to stop illegal aliens from crossing our borders is www.calborderpolice.com

B. Want to stop voter fraud? Just mandate voter I.D. at the polling place. There is a petition circulating to do just that! Get the info and download the petition: www.voteridact.com

Action Item

Time to call radio talk shows and write letters to the editor. Encourage President Bush to appoint a strict constructionist to the Supreme Court..

For California status of bills and legislation: Full legislative text, analyses and votes are available on the State web server at: http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2.htm

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