Recall-itis
So much is going on in Sacramento today my heads a-spinning
1. The Sac Bee e-mailed me in response to my criticism of the leashing of Daniel Weintraub. They said all will be explained this Sunday in the papes.
-----Original Message-----
From: julie
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:53 PM
To: ombud@sacbee.com
Subject: anti-blogging
How shameful are your recent efforts to squelch blogger Daniel Weintraub.
For the last month, the Bee has been getting high praise as one of the only major newspapers to understand the internet world. Weintraub is insightful and his site has been the go-to point for the real deal.
We'll never know now what he really thinks.
Dear Julie: Thanks for the e-mail. I'm passing along your message to the paper's editorial pages editor. Also, Tony's upcoming Sunday column will discussing the same issue. Stephanie Christensen, Admin. Asst.
2. Tom Sullivan, Sacramento Radio Host and frequent sub on Rush Limbaugh, read the riot act to McC's campaign manager. He said the McC campaign is as guilty as Bustamove in accepting illegal contributions (half mil from the Morongo's) and pretending it's anything but illegal is spin Then 2 hours worth of listeners jumped on and said they thought McC was principled but now they know he's not.
3. Arnold held a Sacto town meeting and I finaegled my way in ;^D
He answered all the questions with ease. He's going to be great tomorrow in the debate!
9/22/2003
Recall-itis
Financial Wizard?
Yesterday's LAT discusses McClintocks's state expenses (conclusion - he spends a fair amount of our money) and on August 8th the SacBee had an article about the candidate's financial filings. (sorry no link)
These articles show that McC has nearly nothing to show for 20 years of work. He owns a condo in Thousand Oaks and has less than $20,000 in investments.
His claim to fame is being smart about money. But how many smart people do we know who didn't invest in either the real estate or stock market run up during the last 20 years?
Financial Wizard?
Yesterday's LAT discusses McClintocks's state expenses (conclusion - he spends a fair amount of our money) and on August 8th the SacBee had an article about the candidate's financial filings. (sorry no link)
These articles show that McC has nearly nothing to show for 20 years of work. He owns a condo in Thousand Oaks and has less than $20,000 in investments.
His claim to fame is being smart about money. But how many smart people do we know who didn't invest in either the real estate or stock market run up during the last 20 years?
9/21/2003
Life Is Beautiful
Buon Giorno Principessa. How bout this for some great news...
PEOPLE with big heads really are brainier than those with small ones, research shows.
Buon Giorno Principessa. How bout this for some great news...
PEOPLE with big heads really are brainier than those with small ones, research shows.
Recall-itis
What's up with this? According to RecallWatch, Claudia Holman gave McC $8,388,607 toay. Isn't that a little bit over the cap?
Update: If you didn't check the recall watch before, you've missed it. The 8 mil contribution has vaporized. Trust me -- it was there.
What's up with this? According to RecallWatch, Claudia Holman gave McC $8,388,607 toay. Isn't that a little bit over the cap?
Update: If you didn't check the recall watch before, you've missed it. The 8 mil contribution has vaporized. Trust me -- it was there.
Recall-itis
I'm a little slow catching it, but XLRQ points to a post by Hugh Hewitt about the McClintock Democrats.
The post compares Tom McClintock to Pat Buchanan and blames Buchanan for Clinton's election and all the bad that came with it.
McClintock and Buchanan are linked
In 1992, conservatives in the California Republican Party submitted a resolution to suspend the rules at the state convention to endorse the re-election of President Bush. Party rules prohibit endorsements and people from all segments of the party were quesy about it especially moderates who thought it might be a sneak to get a primary endorsement for Danneymeyer for U.S. Senate (he was challenging appointed incumbent John Seymour). The feeling was that the conservatives who proposed the resolution were doing it to extract favors from the White House. The White House and Governor Wilson were opposed initially to the move, but once it hit the press had to go forward and make it a success. We had a million meetings (I was the California Young Republicans Chair at the time)
At the eleventh hour, Steve Franks said the conservative wing no longer supported the move. People trying to embarrass the President tried to have a secret ballot, knowing they could get more secret Buchananites to vote with them. I made the motion to change to a standing vote count. Gil Ferguson led a walk-out of the Buchanan people.
So who's supporting McClintock? Dannemeyer, Franks and Ferguson.
I'm a little slow catching it, but XLRQ points to a post by Hugh Hewitt about the McClintock Democrats.
The post compares Tom McClintock to Pat Buchanan and blames Buchanan for Clinton's election and all the bad that came with it.
McClintock and Buchanan are linked
In 1992, conservatives in the California Republican Party submitted a resolution to suspend the rules at the state convention to endorse the re-election of President Bush. Party rules prohibit endorsements and people from all segments of the party were quesy about it especially moderates who thought it might be a sneak to get a primary endorsement for Danneymeyer for U.S. Senate (he was challenging appointed incumbent John Seymour). The feeling was that the conservatives who proposed the resolution were doing it to extract favors from the White House. The White House and Governor Wilson were opposed initially to the move, but once it hit the press had to go forward and make it a success. We had a million meetings (I was the California Young Republicans Chair at the time)
At the eleventh hour, Steve Franks said the conservative wing no longer supported the move. People trying to embarrass the President tried to have a secret ballot, knowing they could get more secret Buchananites to vote with them. I made the motion to change to a standing vote count. Gil Ferguson led a walk-out of the Buchanan people.
So who's supporting McClintock? Dannemeyer, Franks and Ferguson.
9/20/2003
Recall-itis
The whiners at the Los Angeles Times are annoyed because they don't get to be in charge of the message of the recall. Between talk radio, the blogoshpere and Arnold's ability to go direct, they are out of control. poor things.
Newspaper readership continues to decline, voter participation each year sets a new all-time low participation record, and the LAT think we should continue business as usual.
They can't control political thought any more. Too bad, so sad.
That's why Arnold could have such a powerful, positive impact on California. He gets elected. He raises money to get some much needed reforms on the ballot. He stars in the commercials to support those reforms. The voters love him and vote yes on the reforms. California turns around and helps improve the economy of the whole country. Life is Beautiful.
The whiners at the Los Angeles Times are annoyed because they don't get to be in charge of the message of the recall. Between talk radio, the blogoshpere and Arnold's ability to go direct, they are out of control. poor things.
Newspaper readership continues to decline, voter participation each year sets a new all-time low participation record, and the LAT think we should continue business as usual.
They can't control political thought any more. Too bad, so sad.
That's why Arnold could have such a powerful, positive impact on California. He gets elected. He raises money to get some much needed reforms on the ballot. He stars in the commercials to support those reforms. The voters love him and vote yes on the reforms. California turns around and helps improve the economy of the whole country. Life is Beautiful.
Recall-itis
the ACLU has just triggered my favorite law, the Law of Unintended Consequences. They had hoped to delay the election til March, giving Davis hope for survival. Instead they'll get:
1) the election held as originally scheduled on October 7th (likely) with a reenergized anti-davis electorate or a
2) election moved to March with anti-car tax, anti-drivers license and political reform referendums on the ballot to screw up the other things they were going to try and do to us in March.
Mickey Kaus and his friends seem confident that the election will go on as planned on October 7th
PR for Me ;^D
I got another mention in blogland, this time from Miller's Time. Thank you so much! That makes 4 now.
the ACLU has just triggered my favorite law, the Law of Unintended Consequences. They had hoped to delay the election til March, giving Davis hope for survival. Instead they'll get:
1) the election held as originally scheduled on October 7th (likely) with a reenergized anti-davis electorate or a
2) election moved to March with anti-car tax, anti-drivers license and political reform referendums on the ballot to screw up the other things they were going to try and do to us in March.
Mickey Kaus and his friends seem confident that the election will go on as planned on October 7th
PR for Me ;^D
I got another mention in blogland, this time from Miller's Time. Thank you so much! That makes 4 now.
9/19/2003
Jazz Chicks Soundtrack - Diana Krall - Devil May Care
(hit on the real audio or windows media as you read this post)
Recall-itis
Today the Sacramento Chamber held their 9th Annual Perspectives Conference and the headliner was Dennis Miller
Some of his jokes...
If Bill Clinton were any more low rent he'd be a spring break destination.
I'm just saying listen, I'd like to have allies too. What's happening in this world right now, we have a competency chasm. We are getting real good at what we do and the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket. As that gap gets wider, they'll hate us more and more and more. We are simultaneously the most hated, feared, loved and admired planet — nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra and you know something, the Chairman didn't get to be the Chairman lying down for punks outside the
Fountainbleu.
The only thing I have against Gray Davis is, you know, let's face facts. California is circling the crapper at the speed of light. The deficit doesn't even bother me that much. ... They talk about us owing like $400 billion or something. I always think, 'Do we actually owe somebody that?' And if we do, you know, don't pay 'em. Nobody pays us! There ya go, I just solved the deficit."
I look at the California budget, and I see that we're paying to remove tattoos. It's the petri dish for untethered liberalism. I'm telling you, this place is turning into Sweden. Except, at least there the blondes are authentic.
I would work for Arnold in a second. You know, it's no longer the San Andreas Fault. It's become Gray Davis's fault."
You know all the Democrats are going to hell in a handbasket. Now they got [California's] Nancy Pelosi. ... You ever see she has that pop-eyed look all the time? I always thought she might be hyper-thyroid, but then I heard her speak a couple times. She's stupid! The reason her eyes are so wide is that she's as shocked as we are that she made it that high!
Robert Byrd, this guy stands there and lectures Bush in the well of the Senate. He was in the Ku Klux Klan! He's demented. You know this guy's burning the cross at both ends! And you know something, if Robert Byrd were your grandfather and he came to Thanksgiving dinner and went off one of these demented screeds, everybody would sit there smiling at him, and as soon as he left the room, somebody'd say, 'Hey, what the hell are we gonna do about grandpa?
Howard Dean can roll up his sleeves in public all he wants, but as long as you can see that heart tattoo with Neville Chamberlain's name on his right forearm, he's never going to get off the pad. I hope they send Howard Dean out to do battle with Bush because he'll get his ass handed to him quicker than someone who just got out of liposuction surgery.
And the Clintons won't shut up. If that marriage were any more about convenience, they'd have to install a Slim-Jim rack and a Slurpee machine at the base of the bed. [Hillary] jumps on every opportunity to take a shot at Bush. They have a blackout in New York, she starts blaming it on Bush. You know, this woman doesn't miss a trick – unless it's the one her old man's with on any given night
When you notice that 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked us are from the same country, that's not profiling, that's being minimally observant.
The French should just gas up the dingy and go fishing with Fredo, they are dead to me.
Shakespeare said first kill all the lawyers. I've been doing some some thinking, I think we could get away with it because if you kill all of them, at our murder trial, we wouldn't have adequate representation.
There's a lot of differing data, but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference.
i took some notes while he was speaking, but to get the words just right, my thanks to political humor
(hit on the real audio or windows media as you read this post)
Recall-itis
Today the Sacramento Chamber held their 9th Annual Perspectives Conference and the headliner was Dennis Miller
Some of his jokes...
If Bill Clinton were any more low rent he'd be a spring break destination.
I'm just saying listen, I'd like to have allies too. What's happening in this world right now, we have a competency chasm. We are getting real good at what we do and the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket. As that gap gets wider, they'll hate us more and more and more. We are simultaneously the most hated, feared, loved and admired planet — nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra and you know something, the Chairman didn't get to be the Chairman lying down for punks outside the
Fountainbleu.
The only thing I have against Gray Davis is, you know, let's face facts. California is circling the crapper at the speed of light. The deficit doesn't even bother me that much. ... They talk about us owing like $400 billion or something. I always think, 'Do we actually owe somebody that?' And if we do, you know, don't pay 'em. Nobody pays us! There ya go, I just solved the deficit."
I look at the California budget, and I see that we're paying to remove tattoos. It's the petri dish for untethered liberalism. I'm telling you, this place is turning into Sweden. Except, at least there the blondes are authentic.
I would work for Arnold in a second. You know, it's no longer the San Andreas Fault. It's become Gray Davis's fault."
You know all the Democrats are going to hell in a handbasket. Now they got [California's] Nancy Pelosi. ... You ever see she has that pop-eyed look all the time? I always thought she might be hyper-thyroid, but then I heard her speak a couple times. She's stupid! The reason her eyes are so wide is that she's as shocked as we are that she made it that high!
Robert Byrd, this guy stands there and lectures Bush in the well of the Senate. He was in the Ku Klux Klan! He's demented. You know this guy's burning the cross at both ends! And you know something, if Robert Byrd were your grandfather and he came to Thanksgiving dinner and went off one of these demented screeds, everybody would sit there smiling at him, and as soon as he left the room, somebody'd say, 'Hey, what the hell are we gonna do about grandpa?
Howard Dean can roll up his sleeves in public all he wants, but as long as you can see that heart tattoo with Neville Chamberlain's name on his right forearm, he's never going to get off the pad. I hope they send Howard Dean out to do battle with Bush because he'll get his ass handed to him quicker than someone who just got out of liposuction surgery.
And the Clintons won't shut up. If that marriage were any more about convenience, they'd have to install a Slim-Jim rack and a Slurpee machine at the base of the bed. [Hillary] jumps on every opportunity to take a shot at Bush. They have a blackout in New York, she starts blaming it on Bush. You know, this woman doesn't miss a trick – unless it's the one her old man's with on any given night
When you notice that 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked us are from the same country, that's not profiling, that's being minimally observant.
The French should just gas up the dingy and go fishing with Fredo, they are dead to me.
Shakespeare said first kill all the lawyers. I've been doing some some thinking, I think we could get away with it because if you kill all of them, at our murder trial, we wouldn't have adequate representation.
There's a lot of differing data, but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference.
i took some notes while he was speaking, but to get the words just right, my thanks to political humor
9/18/2003
Jazz Chicks Soundtrack - Jane Monheit - The Waters of March
(hit on the real audio or windows media as you read this post)
Recall-itis
One of the many reasons why I'm so enthusiastic about Arnold's campaign is the progressive/reform factor. If only legislative districts were drawn with common sense boundaries, politicians had to tell us who they took money from and electeds couldn't take money from special interests at the exact same moment they were voting on legislation that effected those special interests, we'd have a good shot at good government. We don't need to prevent people from expressing their point of view (by speaking or by giving money to represent their speech) we just need to bring that speech out of the cloakroom into the sunlight.
No elected or candidate has had the personal power/charisma to get the ordinary people to listen to these arguments. Only Arnold, with his common sense approach combined with his star power, can get the public to understand the importance of these poindexter type issues.
Daniel Weintraub, the California Insider explains it:
Schwarzenegger's political reform plan
While the court battle and the debate over debates rages on, Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to burnish his policy credentials. His latest is a wide-ranging and detailed plan to clean up Sacramento with measures on open records, campaign fundraising, and redistricting. The plan would:
--Make access to public records a right of the people under the state constitution, covering both the legislative and executive branch and, like a model sunshine law in Florida, make public the appointments schedule of the governor and every other state official, drafts of state documents and internal e-mails.
--Ban political fundraising between the time the governor proposes a budget in January and signs one later in the year. Lately that’s been anytime between July and September. But Schwarzenegger aides said he also plans to overhaul the budget process in a way that would shorten the deliberation time-frame to between January and early May.
--Require immediate disclosure on the Internet of all campaign contributions and make willful violations of campaign finance laws a felony punishable by one year in prison.
--Take the job of drawing district lines out of the hands of the Legislature and give it to a three-person panel of retired judges chosen by lottery under the direction of the state Judicial Council.
Schwarzenegger also said he would not sign any bill that did not receive a full hearing by a policy committee in the Legislature prior to passage, a limitation aimed at ending the practice of “gut-and-amends” through which lawmakers strip bills of all their contents at the last minute and replace them with entirely new provisions that are passed without public scrutiny.
“There is no such thing,” Schwarzenegger said at a Sacramento press conference, “as democracy in the dark.”
If the past is any indication, most of these measures would have trouble getting through the state Legislature. But Schwarzengger has said before that he would be willing to go over the heads of lawmakers and take issues directly to the people on the ballot. Presumably he would be willing to do that with these proposals as well.
Posted by dweintraub at 04:33 PM
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Recall-itis
One of the many reasons why I'm so enthusiastic about Arnold's campaign is the progressive/reform factor. If only legislative districts were drawn with common sense boundaries, politicians had to tell us who they took money from and electeds couldn't take money from special interests at the exact same moment they were voting on legislation that effected those special interests, we'd have a good shot at good government. We don't need to prevent people from expressing their point of view (by speaking or by giving money to represent their speech) we just need to bring that speech out of the cloakroom into the sunlight.
No elected or candidate has had the personal power/charisma to get the ordinary people to listen to these arguments. Only Arnold, with his common sense approach combined with his star power, can get the public to understand the importance of these poindexter type issues.
Daniel Weintraub, the California Insider explains it:
Schwarzenegger's political reform plan
While the court battle and the debate over debates rages on, Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to burnish his policy credentials. His latest is a wide-ranging and detailed plan to clean up Sacramento with measures on open records, campaign fundraising, and redistricting. The plan would:
--Make access to public records a right of the people under the state constitution, covering both the legislative and executive branch and, like a model sunshine law in Florida, make public the appointments schedule of the governor and every other state official, drafts of state documents and internal e-mails.
--Ban political fundraising between the time the governor proposes a budget in January and signs one later in the year. Lately that’s been anytime between July and September. But Schwarzenegger aides said he also plans to overhaul the budget process in a way that would shorten the deliberation time-frame to between January and early May.
--Require immediate disclosure on the Internet of all campaign contributions and make willful violations of campaign finance laws a felony punishable by one year in prison.
--Take the job of drawing district lines out of the hands of the Legislature and give it to a three-person panel of retired judges chosen by lottery under the direction of the state Judicial Council.
Schwarzenegger also said he would not sign any bill that did not receive a full hearing by a policy committee in the Legislature prior to passage, a limitation aimed at ending the practice of “gut-and-amends” through which lawmakers strip bills of all their contents at the last minute and replace them with entirely new provisions that are passed without public scrutiny.
“There is no such thing,” Schwarzenegger said at a Sacramento press conference, “as democracy in the dark.”
If the past is any indication, most of these measures would have trouble getting through the state Legislature. But Schwarzengger has said before that he would be willing to go over the heads of lawmakers and take issues directly to the people on the ballot. Presumably he would be willing to do that with these proposals as well.
Posted by dweintraub at 04:33 PM
Recall-itis
Yesterday I got another blog mention, this time from the Condor. Here's what he said:
"How Well Did Arnold Do on Ophrah?
To find out, you should check the The Irish Lass blog, run by Julie Gallaher. She said that if she were writing for men, "I'd say Arnold's performance on the show was a grand slam, a hole in one, a touchdown and a three-pointer combined. But we're talking about the women's vote. It was a creme brulee/tiramasou/chocolate decadence with a glass of Villa Toscano Barbera."
The Irish Lass is a devote Arnold partisan and longtime Republican activist. Her blog does have a different perspective and can be fun to read. Here's her take on Arnold's speech to the Republicans during the weekend: "I didn't mention how great Arnold's speech was at the convention. I had a fabulous seat, front and center and he was marvelous. The speech was powerful, substantive, funny, inspirational ... everything one could have wanted. (And he looked very handsome)."
How fun is that? And I got an e-mail from Mickey Kaus! I love this blogging ;^D
Last night I worked the phone banks at Arnold's campaign headquarters. We were calling volunterrs (obviously friendlies) but I've never worked a volunteer list where people thanked you for calling them, picked up when they heard you on their answering machines, etc. The peeps are highly enthusiastic!
Do you think this means Arnold will be living in the neighborhood?
KING: How about Sacramento? Are you looking forward to Sacramento? Not your kind of town, is it?
SCHWARZENEGGER: No, absolutely. You know, it's a funny thing, people sometimes come up to me and says, can you imagine you, Arnold, going form Hollywood to Sacramento? I say, you know something, I love Sacramento. I think that the whole, the huge, beautiful parks that they have there, the trees, that the buildings, the historic buildings and all this stuff, it's a beautiful quaint little town.
Yesterday I got another blog mention, this time from the Condor. Here's what he said:
"How Well Did Arnold Do on Ophrah?
To find out, you should check the The Irish Lass blog, run by Julie Gallaher. She said that if she were writing for men, "I'd say Arnold's performance on the show was a grand slam, a hole in one, a touchdown and a three-pointer combined. But we're talking about the women's vote. It was a creme brulee/tiramasou/chocolate decadence with a glass of Villa Toscano Barbera."
The Irish Lass is a devote Arnold partisan and longtime Republican activist. Her blog does have a different perspective and can be fun to read. Here's her take on Arnold's speech to the Republicans during the weekend: "I didn't mention how great Arnold's speech was at the convention. I had a fabulous seat, front and center and he was marvelous. The speech was powerful, substantive, funny, inspirational ... everything one could have wanted. (And he looked very handsome)."
How fun is that? And I got an e-mail from Mickey Kaus! I love this blogging ;^D
Last night I worked the phone banks at Arnold's campaign headquarters. We were calling volunterrs (obviously friendlies) but I've never worked a volunteer list where people thanked you for calling them, picked up when they heard you on their answering machines, etc. The peeps are highly enthusiastic!
Do you think this means Arnold will be living in the neighborhood?
KING: How about Sacramento? Are you looking forward to Sacramento? Not your kind of town, is it?
SCHWARZENEGGER: No, absolutely. You know, it's a funny thing, people sometimes come up to me and says, can you imagine you, Arnold, going form Hollywood to Sacramento? I say, you know something, I love Sacramento. I think that the whole, the huge, beautiful parks that they have there, the trees, that the buildings, the historic buildings and all this stuff, it's a beautiful quaint little town.
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