First of all – we have to have Steve Cooley as Attorney General. The AG’s office has been used as a Left-Wing partisan hammer by both Bill Lockyer and Jerry Brown.

Steve Cooley also has a proven track record in LA County putting criminals in jail… Kamala Harris loves Cop-Killers.

Prop 8, Prop 187 and others have been allowed to die and the AG’s office has subverted the will of the people – most recently, Jerry Brown has obsessively used his power as AG to sue to stop development.

Which brings me to Meg Whitman.

She has done one key thing that Arnold never did – she has finally enumerated a fiscal plan with some details. I still have significant issues with Meg Whitman – but, she has real-world experience and that places her head and shoulders above anyone who has run for Governor since Bill Simon.

Jerry Brown will decimate what’s left of the state period. Chelene Nightengale can’t even balance her own checkbook or herself for that matter.

Abel Maldonado – he is not Gavin Newsome. Gavin Newsome is a liar, hypocrite and in the words of State Senator Elect Doug LaMalfa, “Evil”.

Damon Dunn – a compelling candidate who is talking openly about dealing with election fraud. Debra Bowen is bought and paid for by ACORN.

Tony Strickland for Controller – maybe for the first time in 30+ years we can have someone who is not a rubber stamp of the Democrat leadership who uses their office to exacerbate the year after year budget crisis.

Mimi Walters for Treasurer – see comments about Strickland

Mike Villines for Insurance Commissioner – if you want socialized insurance vote for Dave Jones. Jones also hates insurance agents, insurance companies and small businesses – he scored a perfect 0 from the NFIB and other groups. Villines is to the right of the current Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.

Doug LaMalfa for State Senate – he will score 100% from the CRA year after year. Need I write more?

Apparently, Nightengale borrowed $6k from someone right before running for Governor, and filing for Bankruptcy. I have been very suspicious of her and her motives for running. Basically, disaffected Conservatives should think long and hard before giving any serious thought to her.

A Commenter Davi Rodrigues left the following:

I have worked with her at Save Our State.
First off, Save Our State did not go bankrupt. Instead, it was left to expire. That’s a long story. Basically though, Joe Turner incorporated it, ran it for awhile, and then turned it over to Nightingale as managing director. Her management style was iron hand, and it soon became apparent that it was all about Chelene instead of our agenda. I was there since the beginning and became one of the administrators, but I’m a stickler for legalities, and when things weren’t adding up about the corporate status and the donations, I started asking questions and was soon ostracized by Chelene. I then did my research and discovered that both Joe and Chelene had let the corp lapse, in addition to never completing the 501C3 requirements. Basically, we weren’t a charity,,,ever. So I filed and reincorporated it, and have been slowly trying to get to the bottom of the old corp management through the AG’s office and the Sec of State. Nightingale knew. She knew.

They then had several years of our written effort removed from the internet so it would not reflect badly on her run for office. There has been a file opened at the AG’s office, and now it’s headed to the FTB, but it’s going.
Yes, Chelene filed the chapter 13 BK, and then it was converted to a 7, She had borrowed 6K from one of our members just a few weeks prior to the BK, and after having been left out of the loop pn the Bankruptcy and the later finding out that Chelene was running for goivernor instead of paying him back, our member sued and obtained a judgement. She appealed this week, but it looks like she lost again. I have zero respect for Nightingale. Even after all her previous activism which seemed pretty good to me at the time, I realize now that it was intended for personal gain at the expense of everyone else’s contribution. As far as I’m concerned, she should tarred, feathered, and run out of the conservative movement as a poser.
http://publicdocumentdistributors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=414

And Nightengale had a judgement against her for that $6K as well:

8/31/2010 TRIAL DE NOVO OF A SMALL CLAIMS.
THE ABOVE ENTITLED CAUSE CAME ON REGULARLY AT THIS TIME TODAY FOR HEARING WITH PARTIES PRESENT AS FOLLOWS:
FRANCISCO GASPAR JORGE (PL-1) APPEARS IN PROPRIA PERSONA.
MICHAEL BENJAMIN NIGHTINGALE (DE-2) APPEARS IN PROPRIA PERSONA.
DEFENDANT, CHELENE HOPE NIGHTINGALE APPEARS BY PHONE.
PLAINTIFF IS DULY SWORN AND TESTIFIES.
MICHAEL NIGHTINGALE AND CHELENE NIGHTINGALE DULY SWORN AND TESTIFIES ON BEHALF OF THE DEFENSE.
EXHIBIT LIST ATTACHED AND MADE A PART HEREOF.
JUDGMENT FOR PLAIONTIFF AGAINST DEFENDANTS, CHELENE HOPE NIGHTINGALE AND MICHAEL BENJAIME NIGHTINGALE, JOINTLY AND SEVERALY FOR PRINCIPAL $6200.00 PLUS COSTS OF $165.00.
NOTICE TO ISSUE FROM THE COURT.
THE COURT ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: EXHIBITS RETURNED TO THE OFFERING PARTY.
THE COURT ORDERS ADJOURNMENT

8/31/2010 – Nice, Huh? If you’re a Conservative and you support Nightengale – you’re being led down the garden path.

We already know that Meg Whitman’s Spanish language ads basically say she opposes Arizona and supports Obama’s lawsuit against securing the borders.

There has been a considerable amount of controversy over that.

Now – I have been told by a few reliable sources that as of now, Team Whitman has spent more on Spanish Language outreach Headquarters than she has on Victory 2010 outreach Headquarters.

Meantime – the Whitman crew is running a full-court press to control the outcome of the California Republican Party Convention next weekend.

I’m getting a headache.

California Governor Candidates: Jerry Brown – freaked out liberal Mayor of Oakland, Atty General who likes to sue to stop development.

Meg Whitman: Admittedly Liberal Republican

Lt. Governor Candidates: Gavin Newsome – Mayor of Bankrupt San Francisco, sanctuary city where innocent citizens are murdered by illegal alien felons and who violated state law by Marrying people at City Hall (when he was about to be overrun by scandal)

Abel Maldonado: Sold his vote on the largest tax increase in state history for Prop 14. 22% score from the CRA in 2009, worse than some democrats.

Atty General: Kamala Harris – hates punishing criminals, and part of the SF establishment behind the maintenance of their sanctuary city

Steve Cooley: reportedly a social Liberal. Out of the above six – easily the most conservative, taking stands in favor of border security, three-strikes and enforcing existing laws regardless of whether he agrees with them

US Senate – Barbara Boxer, Freaked Out Liberal from San Francisco. Hates the Military, 28 years in office

Carly Fiorina – finally, we hit a top-down conservative.

The question is – are the liberal Republicans enough of a contrast from the Freaked-Out Liberal slate from San Francisco?

I think Cooley can make that case.

Carly makes that case easily.

Maldonado and Meg Whitman?

Failure to have a USP (Unique Selling Proposition) other than Jerry Brown is bad – will not fly.

I can’t help myself. Seeing the polling data and the reactions to it tells me it is real. Steve Poizner has overcome $100million dollars.

I started asking myself – self? My did Whitman’s Campaign fall apart?

10. Whitman gave $300,000 to the Environmental Defense Fund – the Group that sued to turn the water off to the Southern Central Valley in Favor of the Delta Smelt.

9. Whitman supports Taxpayer-Funded Abortion and attacked Steve Poizner for being Pro-Choice. (see also Hypocricy)

8. Whitman opposes across-the-board-tax-cuts. This puts her in the category of Thomas the Tax Engine (Tom Campbell).

7. Whitman thinks California’s Gun-Control Laws are OK.

6. Whitman waffled on the AB-32 suspension initiative (does #10 have anything to do with that?)

5. Whitman took 5 different positions on Prop 8. (She originally supported Prop 8 then tried to clarify it)

4. Whitman is tied to Goldman Sachs – like a noose.

3. Whitman really didn’t have all that money?

2. Whitman bought the Red County Blog. (Couldn’t help myself) See the payments of $20K and $15Kx3 to Greenfaucet.com

1. Meg Whitman is a huge fan of Van Jones.

Steve Poizner only need two things – The California Republican Assembly Endorsement and the Endorsement of Tom McClintock.

Ouch.