Please support Amanda “Mandie” Tingler, Glenn Moeller and Todd Lowell.
Quite simply, the Rocklin Unified School Board needs some change.
For too long there has been personal animosity that has overridden the best interests of governance.
I have spoken with Todd Lowell a few times and am convinced that Todd does indeed have the best interests of the children at heart. I also empathize with him about how it feels to get used as a punching bag.
Steve Paul. I do not know him at all.
Having met Glenn Moeller a few times – he has tripped over his own feet campaigning several times… but he wants to serve and he is also an honest man. We can do far worse.
I believe that others see that – which is why this race has not gotten nasty. How can you attack a music leader at a local church?
Amanda Tingler? She’s a Republican, Wendy Lang is not. Case closed.
With respect to those supporting Wendy – there is no such thing as a non-partisan race.
I have probably cost myself a few endorsements and supporters if I run for Rocklin City Council – but that is not the calculation. I am a Conservative first, a Republican second and a candidate third and I am willing to live with the consequences.
Once the primary is over – then I am a Republican – which is why I am voting for Abel Maldonado and Meg Whitman.
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?
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.
Survey USA. Lampooned as ‘leaning Republican’.
Yet, survey USA accurately predicted the national kool-aid drink of 2008. (the Obamunism tsunami)
Here’s the summary:
Carly 47 – Lt. Col. Boxer 42
Meg 44 – Moonbeam 43
Any-Twosome Newsome 42 Abel Maldonado 41
Whitman went down 2 and Brown up 4 between this and the last poll.
I believe that Whitman’s difference in the polling is that her stances on social issues – being those of a Democrat – are alienating the base of the GOP to a degree. Perhaps a strong immigration stance and stance in favor of Prop 23 would help Whitman pull even with Carly?
That’s if Whitman is concerned about those voters – after all, Prop 23, that the California GOP endorsed unanimously is mysteriously off the CRP’s website.
Despite Whitman’s apparent separation from some of her base – Carly is suffering no such separation.
As to those that lampoon Survey USA – take a look at the following from Talking Points Memo:
But here’s the thing. SurveyUSA had a really good record in the 2008 cycle. That’s not just my recollection. Nate Silver’s mega-number crunch suggested the same. So are they picking something up which other pollsters aren’t? Given their record in the past cycle, it’s not something I’m inclined to rule out.
Bottom Line: It sucks to be Barbara Boxer.
Tom McClintock warned us that Meg Whitman is the third term of Arnold. She appeared to confirm this on the John and Ken show recently.
Don’t take my word for it – listen here.
It appears that Meg Whitman does not care about her Republican base or is she taking it for granted? The best suggestion this blogger can make is for people to call her campaign office and/or email her campaign office and hold her accountable for her weak positions on Key issues.
Quoting Carla Marinucci of the SF Chron:
In the interview, Whitman said “yes” when asked if, as governor, she would layoff 40,000 state workers, admitted she was still undecided, but unlikely to support Prop. 23 on the November ballot, and strongly defended her immigration policies.
Then This:
Whitman — who has been sharply critical of the state’s climate change bill AB32 as a “job killer — said that “in all likelihood,” she will vote against Prop. 23. That measure on the November ballot would suspend AB32 until unemployment rates drop to near 5 percent for four consecutive quarters; Whitman has called for a moratorium on the bill to further study it.
To further study what!? AB32 is the largest tax increase in state history! We have the second worst unemployment rate in the country and Meg Whitman wants to study? We have three months to go before election day – there is no time to study…
Oh and Whitman’s own staffer – hired for the CRP for the “Victory 2010″ effort didn’t have a clue that the state GOP endorsed YES on Prop 23 already. (Read Carla Marinucci from the SF Chron again)
… but there is plenty of time for the GOP base to abandon ship. If Whitman refuses to act like a Republican by being unafraid to stand up for soverignty and freedom from Eco-Tyranny, we’re sunk. Steve Cooley is Sunk. Damon Dunn is Sunk. Abel Maldonado is Sunk. It could also dash hopes of Fiorina taking Barbara Boxer out.
Just go home Conservatives. It’s Arnold all over again – now if it is as simple as Whitman not following her script, then her instincts are those of a Liberal Democrat.
Either way – the only way Whitman can climb out of this hole is to acknowledge that Conservatives are her base. Her appeal across the middle is financial management and economic revitalization and that AB32 is environmental extremism.
Anything else is a disaster for California – we already have a Liberal Democrat running for Governor.
Call Meg Whitman’s campaign – click here to find a list of contacts - and ask them why she is taking the Republican Party down the green drain.
It is not too late – I finish with a final quote from the SF Chron article: