This just dropped in my In box from Tom Harman for Attorney General Campaign. If viewed widely this video should destroy any chance Cooley has at winning the Republican nomination for Attorney General.

From Tom Harman for Attorney General:

Sacramento, CA – In a new video posted on Vimeo this week by USC law professor Jody Armour, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley spends much of a 63-minute interview attacking California’s Three-Strikes law, as well as “Jessica’s Law.” The video of an interview at the Univeristy of Southern California’s Unruh Institute of Politics on October 23, 2009 captures Cooley railing against Jessica’s law, blaming on “Republican ideologues.” He then advises the audience if they want to pass a law in California to “name it after a female.”

The event was titled: Crime, Punishment & Rehabilitation: The Politics & Policy of California’s Prisons and featured Cooley, former Assemblyman Pat Nolan and Armour.

“Earlier this week a Cooley spokesperson tried to tell a leading news agency that he never took a position on Jessica’s Law. Well this certainly sounds like a clear position to me,” noted Harman campaign strategist Tim Rosales.

Steve Cooley has continually shown contempt for Republican voters and tough-on-crime laws like Jessica’s Law and Three Strikes. As this video makes abundantly clear, “his liberal positions on the issues put him far out of the mainstream, not only of Republican Primary voters, but of the 70% majority of all Californians who voted for Jessica’s Law,” said Rosales. Jessica’s Law protects Californians from violent sexual predators.

“Californians have a better choice for Attorney General,” concluded Rosales. Tom Harman brings over 40 years of legal experience to the job, supports Three Strikes and Jessica’s Law and is the author of legislation to streamline the death penalty.” In February, 2010 Harman was named Crime Victim United’s “Legislator of the Year.”

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Patrick Ruffini, noted and syndicated conservative blogger, had a quite entertaining tweet yesterday, it read:

“Carly Fiorina’s Facebook page is still defaulting to show “fan” posts. Not the best move, in her case. http://bit.ly/bvSOsG”

Apparently Carly doesn’t have as many “fans” as she would like.  On the page, if you subtract Carly’s own posts, the majority of the comments on her wall are calling her a RINO and are people disgusted with her.  It seems everyone is ready to put the failed presidential candidate, John McCain, and his cronies out to pasture and move forward with a real brand of conservatism.  Let’s see how long her wall on facebook is “public”….her overpaid media consultants are probably flipping coins on deciding whether to make her page private or not…either way, they will be hit.  In the spirit of baseball season, all I can say is.: “SWING and a miss Carly.”  Lets just hope she continues to vote after she’s defeated.  That is a tough task for her.

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For the past week I have been trying to think of a reasonable defense for a candidate for any office to refuse to appear in a debate or at least a campaign forum.  If you’ve frequented the Flash Report (www.flashreport.org) you may have read that by a 10-1 margin members of the California Republican Party want to see a debate for key statewide races at the convention next month.  It seems however, that two of the major candidates are responsible for holding these debates up.

The two candidates who are bending over backwards to avoid a debate and actively trying to shut down an effort to organize a debate?  Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina.  Apparently the dynamic duo who have been MIA at the polls until recently apparently have no eager desire to join in another cherished part of the American democracy…discussing and comparing ideas with your opponents!

Steve Poizner responded to the “debate or not debate” question by offering t surrender his slated speaking appearance at the CRP Convention to make room for a debate with Whitman.  To up the ante a little more the Poizner Campaign sent out an email today uging voters to sign a petition to have a debate at the CRP Convention.   You can find the petition here:

http://stevepoizner.com/debate-petition/?tr=y&auid=5959384

From the looks of it Whitman has not offered much of an explanation other than she doesn’t want to debate.

Similarly the other diva making their political debut, Carly Fiorina is dancing around the same issue.  Fiorina however, is a multi-talented debate dodger.  Everyone’s favorite failed CEO is not only dodging the CRP debate, she is now refusing to attend a debate that was being organized by Chapman University.  Clearly the organizers of the Orange County debate aren’t too please with Ms. Fiorina either, this scuffle was chronicled in today’s OC Register Total Buzz Blog:

http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2010/02/18/is-fiorina-ducking-o-c-debate/30437/

If Whitman and Fiorina are serious about representing California they should not treat interest voters as subjects.  The spirit of representative democracy finds its soul in an open disscussion of ideas by those who hold and seek power.  Carly and Meg should repect this tradition. Their refusal to debate sadly is not surprising, but what should we expect from candidates who have just recently figured out how to vote, only to ask for ours a few years later?

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This is fresh from a caucus meeting this afternoon – and about two hours old.

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Martin Garrick is in his first day as leader and he takes a faceplant right out of the gate. No wonder the Tea Party out polls the Republican Party…

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If you’re a Republican – here’s a list of don’t do’s:

1. Parade around as a Conservative while nailing a lobbyist (Duvall, et al)

2. Bloviate on your blog about ethics while getting paid off by a campaign (Chip Hanlon / Matt Cunningham)

3. Ask people to put fake posts up on your behalf (Hanlon)

4. Delete posts of contributors on behalf of people you’re supporting (Cunningham)

When emailed about his hypocricy – Hanlon’s response was “you can quote me here: “Yawn”.”

That’s Red County – folks, the home of Bush-McCain-Whitman squishes…

Want the details – read my latest post on www.rightondaily.com

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If you’re entertained by politics in California, then you should have your popcorn ready watching  a few statewide races on the GOP side this past week.  Gubernatorial hopeful Steve Poizner lopped the first grenade of the week by holding a press conference accusing Meg Whitman of unethical, and even illegal campaign tactics.   The accusation stems from an email that was sent by a Whitman campaign official Mike Murphy directly to the Poizner campaign.  In the email Whitman’s camp urges Poizner to drop out of the race to preserve political capital that would be better spent on the US Senate in 2012.  The email also pretty blatantly vows that Meg will drop $40 million in negative expenditures against Poizner in the primary should he stay in the race.  During the press conference Poizner indicated that he was filing a complaint with the FBI, US Attorney and California State Attorney General’s Office.  Of course the irony with this complaint being filed with the AG’s office brings the 3rd major candidate, Jerry Brown, into the mess as well.

Not to be outdone entertaining us political spectators, while the Poizner was conducting his press conference, mailmen around the state were delivering complimentary signed copies of Whitman’s new book “The Power of Many” to California Republican Party members.  The reason Meg’s campaign is trying to get in the good graces of the CA GOP faithful may be because of the news on Tuesday that she wouldn’t be participating in a debate with Poizner at the coming CA GOP State Convention in March.  For those CA GOP members who didn’t appreciate the gesture from Meg, there is now a Facebook group for them to consider should desire to cash in on Meg’s gift:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=451343800471

And then there was the Demon Sheep…

This disturbing image that would make Freddie Krueger blush is brought to you by the Carly Fiorina campaign.  In her new ad she criticizes Tom Campbell for being a “F.C.I.N.O” (pronunciation still unknown).  The ad has generated a huge internet buzz, not for its substantive content, but for the ridiculous imagery.  In fact, late last night #DemonSheep became a trending topic on Twitter.  A conservative activist reportedly from North Carolina has started a twitter profile for the Demon Sheep (http://twitter.com/demonsheep) and had over 1,200 followers in under 24 hours.  The updates are actually quite hilarious.  In fact US Senate GOP rival Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s campaign has already capitalized on this buzz by vowing to eradicate Demon Sheep from our political discourse and has set up http://www.demonsheep.org to advance that objective.

This ad is incredibly embarrassing for Carly’s campaign despite the what her campaign is proclaiming.   Fiorina campaign spokeswoman Julie Soderlund acknowledged the avalanche of attention the ad has received when the National Review quoted her today:  “It has taken on a life of its own. We produced it with the intent of breaking through the clutter, but it has exceeded our expectations. It seems to be everywhere online. Some people call it the best ad ever, some say it is the worst, but everyone is talking about it.”  Really Julie?  Some are saying the best ad ever?  Apparently denial isn’t just a river in Egypt in Fiorina world.   Successful political ads usually garner attention and drive a message home, all the attention surrounding this ad has been focused almost exclusively on the bizarre “Demon Sheep.”  Furthermore, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is urging the Fiorina Campaign to make more video “preferably featuring farm animals.”  At least the Fiorina creative team received a vote of confidence from the enemy.

For those who have not seen the now famous ad, here it is:  (Warning characters in this video may cause nightmares and is not suitable for children)

Demon Sheep

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This press release from Senator Harman’s campaign just hit my inbox.

It is interesting to note how far Steve Cooley’s numbers drop once the public is informed that he is opposed to California’s popular three strikes legislation.

Press Release below:

Harman Leads Cooley by 6 Points in Latest

Attorney General Poll

FIRST BALLOT

California Senator Tom Harman 21.3%

District Attorney Steve Cooley 15.1%

Republican Senator and Attorney General candidate Tom Harman leads Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley 21.3% to 15.1% in a new statewide poll of Republican likely voters conducted last week.  “Basically, Steve Cooley is unknown outside of Los Angeles County, L.A. is only 19% of the Republican vote, and Mr. Cooley is by no means universally loved there,” said Harman strategist Wayne Johnson.

The poll results prompted Johnson to strongly re-affirm Harman’s commitment to win the Republican nomination for Attorney General. “I find it disingenuous that the rumor mill of an opponent who is trailing in fundraising, trailing in endorsements and trailing in the polls would suggest that the frontrunner should consider leaving the race,” said Johnson.  “These numbers should put to rest any notion that Tom Harman is not only the frontrunner, but that he is in this race to stay. He will be the nominee.”  In the same internal poll, Harman led Chapman law school dean John Eastman, another rumored candidate, by a margin of 27.9% to 11.7%.

FIRST BALLOT

California Senator Tom Harman 27.9%

Law School Dean John Eastman 11.7%

“We’re very confident that Tom Harman will be the Republican nominee and that he will be the best match-up, by far, against any of the potential Democrat nominees,” added Johnson.  “California Republicans, particularly primary voters, are looking for a candidate who will defend the Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out initiative to keep repeat felons off the streets.  Tom Harman is that candidate.”

Harman has been endorsed by Three Strikes proponent Mike Reynolds.  Reynolds has recently criticized Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley as “the most prominent opponent of California’s ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ law.”

“In 2006, Steve Cooley teamed up with pro-prisoner rights Democratic Senator Gloria Romero to promote legislation that would have devastated ‘Three Strikes,’” Reynolds reminded voters. “Serious violent criminals would be released and put back on the streets only to commit more crime.  In fact, under his [Cooley’s] plan over 2,400 convicted felons would have been put back into our neighborhoods.”

When voters are informed that Cooley has been a leading opponent of Three Strikes, Cooley loses to Harman by a margin of 57.6% to 17.1%.

SECOND BALLOT

California Senator Tom Harman 57.6%

District Attorney Steve Cooley 17.1%

The statewide survey of 500 likely California Republican voters was conducted by Val Smith, PhD.  Field dates were January 13-15. Margin of error +/- 4.4%.

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Before Jerry Brown has even officially announced his candidacy for Governor, his past is already catching up with him.

California Watch is reporting that, as Governor, Jerry Brown pardoned over 400 criminals.  With so many pardons, the odds are that someone pardoned by Jerry Brown committed a serious crime. 

With both of Brown’s potential Republican opponents having millions of dollars to spend on negative ads.  I am sure Brown’s soft on crime record will be well know to the public before election day. 

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Here is the press release from Steve Poizner’s campaign.

POIZNER ENDORSES THE CITIZEN POWER INITIATIVE

Republican candidate for Governor Steve Poizner issued the following statement today announcing his endorsement of the Citizen Power Initiative, a ballot initiative which prohibits deducting earnings from public employees for political activities:

“The Citizen Power Initiative will help break the endless flow of money into the pockets of the special interest groups that have dominated influence in Sacramento and help put us in a budget crisis.  Rank and file public employees in our state should not be forced to fund political machines, and I’m proud to be an active voice to help the Citizen Power Campaign stand up for Californians.  I encourage all voters to support the Citizen Power Initiative and help get it on ballot this November.”

The official initiative title, as provided by the Attorney General, is “Makes Illegal the Use of Public Employee Wage Deductions for Political Activities.” Read the summary here (scroll down to 1403) and full text here.

To learn more about the Citizen Power Campaign, visit their website.

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The grassroots effort to qualify a constitutional amendment that would make illegal for public employee unions to take political contributions from employee paychecks announced a new weapon today.  According the press release, which I copied below, voters will now be able to sign the petition electronically, by using an iPhone.  If this new method proves to be legal, it could revolutionize the way that signature gathering is done in the future.

Press Release:

CITIZEN POWER CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES NEW iPHONE APPLICATION

ALLOWING VOTERS TO SIGN INITIATIVE PETITIONS VIA iPHONES

California voters can now sign the Citizen Power Initiative, a ballot measure and proposed constitutional amendment to make it illegal for political contributions to be taken from public employees’ paychecks, using an iPhone.

In three simple steps, voters can read the full text of the initiative, fill out the required information, such as their name and residential address, and then sign the petition, just as they would on paper, on the iPhone’s touch-screen. Petition gatherers can also have other registered voters sign the petition on their iPhones.

“This is groundbreaking technology that will revolutionize California’s initiative process and we’re at the forefront,” said Mark Meckler, one of the measure’s five proponents who also serves as the California co-coordinator and a National Coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots. “The Tea Party Patriots used the Internet to organize rallies to defeat tax-raising ballot measures last May we’re using the latest technology tools again to make sure the Citizen Power Campaign gets on the November ballot.

Read more here,

Here what the Presdient of Verafirma has ot say on using this revolutionary tool…

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/use-your-iphone-sign-ballot-initiative-test-case-launches-ca

We are so excited about this new tool here at the campaign that we are busting out to use it!www.unplugthepolitcalmachine.org

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