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AD03 Follow Up: Belza Vs Johansson Thank You to All Who Have Reached Out, More on Yuba and Butte GOP Situations
I will start by saying that the warnings about the pitfalls of the party endorsing in contested partisan races continues to play out day by day, month by month and so on down the line. Ground Zero I have talked to a lot of stakeholders in the California AD03 Race in the last week. As such, I am following up on the Yuba / Butte GOP endorsement...
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Today’s Political Notebook: AD-03 Musings, Statewide Musings and a Dose of Placer
I will start with a snippet about Steve Hilton. I am actually pleasantly surprised at the performance of his campaign. All the signs I am seeing indicate that he is getting as much traction as you can expect for a candidate starting out against a 23% registration...
What I am Tracking in my Old Backyard – Placer Politics General Election 2026
The following blog represents the opinions of Aaron F Park Your intrepid blogger, and are not reflective of the opinions of others (but they should be...) The ballot in South Placer County is pretty boring with a few high impact local races. The biggest pattern are a...
If you pay attention to CAGOP Politics this post is for you…
IF you pay attention to politics in CA, you are 100% aware that Heath Flora was removed and replaced as Assembly Republican Permanent Minority leader recently. The vote was 10-9 and the event was being literally texted about in real time. Within minutes of the caucus...
Americans Disagree on Decency
For years, Americans have been told their country is fundamentally broken. We're supposedly hopelessly divided, systemically unfair, irredeemably discriminatory, and one cultural disagreement away from complete societal collapse. If you listened only to cable news or...
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Hiring Illegal Workers Becomes an Election Hot Button
Washington has spent years telling Americans that the immigration debate is complicated. The voters appear to have a simpler question. If it’s illegal to hire illegal workers… why aren’t employers being punished for doing it? Apparently,...
There is only one thing I see coming this fall – Anti Incumbent Fervor
Washington may want to prepare itself for a difficult conversation with the American people. The message voters are sending ahead of this fall’s midterm elections is becoming increasingly clear: They’re tired of the people currently in charge. Not just...
LA Vote Count Doesn’t Pass the Sniff Test
There are certain things Americans expect to happen quickly. A credit card transaction. A text message. A food delivery order. Apparently, however, counting votes in California is not one of them. In what may be the only industry where taking more than a month to...
Voters Worried That Midterm Elections Will Be Rigged… Again
Five years after the 2020 election, America still has one very large, very unresolved problem: A massive portion of the country no longer fully trusts the electoral system. Not the candidates. Not the campaigns. The system itself. And whether Washington likes it or...
So the 2026 California Primary Election Finally Arrived! Allow Your Intrepid Blogger to do the Usual Analysis…
Barring some sort of massive (ahem) surge of democrat ballots – Hilton and Pratt make their respective runoffs. This gives a Republican Governor Candidate for an open Governor Seat for the first time since Prop 14 passed, and a viable Republican Mayor of LA...
Covid Conspiracy Theory Becomes Conspiracy Fact
There’s an old rule in modern American politics: Today’s “dangerous conspiracy theory” has an annoying habit of becoming tomorrow’s congressional hearing. And nowhere is that transformation more obvious than the ongoing public reassessment of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Voters Don’t Trust Voting Machines
Americans have reached a fascinating place politically. They trust their phones to: hold banking information unlock their homes track their children and recommend suspiciously accurate late-night purchases But ask them whether they fully trust electronic voting...
CA SD-04 Update: Complete Amateur Night By Alexandra Duarte. Shooting Alvarado-Gil in a Mailer?
So – your intrepid blogger got this inbox about a week ago: To: Interested Parties Fr: Tim Rosales, Consultant to the Marie Alvarado-Gil for State Senate 2026 campaign. SD 4: Either GOP’er Alexandra Duarte’s team are terrible at political mail design, or they...
Leftist Education Issue Edge Fades – Cracks Starting to Show
For years, Democrats treated education like a permanent political monopoly. Teachers’ unions? Check. University systems? Check. Administrative bureaucracies with six assistant vice provosts for interpretive wellness equity? Absolutely check. The assumption was...
SPLC Indictment: Race Baiting Scam Finally Exposed
Image Credit: Yellowhammer News Well, well, well. Nothing says “moral authority” quite like a federal indictment. For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center—better known as the SPLC—positioned itself as the nation’s self-appointed referee of extremism. They...
Placer County Sup D2 Update: Holly Andreatta’s First Mailer Tells Us Everything We Need to Know
When an underfunded challenger candidate attempts to gain election, there is an often followed pattern. Create Drama and Controversy and then claim to be the person to fix the problems. Typically such an approach is filled with several false claims and an overall...
AD01 Update: Right On Daily Remedial Candidate Training Continues, More on the Legislative Process
Know the rules Mr. Hale – you know, like Speed Limits. In our previous installment of the AD-01 Race, we broke down the latest and greatest of Darin (Seig) Hale’s facebook rants. Since Hale is broke, unemployed and has few donors… facebook exists...