Statewide
Governor: Meg Whitman. Not my idea of a great conservative but far better than Poizner who is worse than she is. A part of my rationale is that her money could possibly help other GOP candidates on the ballot that are in close races by bringing out more Republicans and like-minded independents to vote.
Lt. Governor: St. Senator Sam Aanestad. He has been endorsed by major conservative groups. Need another reason? The current Lt. Governor, Able Maldonado is a lying liberal wienie.
Secretary of State: Damon Dunn. The other guy is a lunatic birther! Not just a lunatic birther but a big-time lunatic birther!!!
Controller: Tony Strickland. A conservative, who knows how to campaign. Best shot at wining in November. A hack politician, but a good guy and we have to get over our fears of hack politicians if they are good guys!
Treasurer: Mimi Walters. Currently a Republican state senator, and more importantly, the only GOP candidate running for Treasurer.
Insurance Commissioner: Brian Fitzgerald. Best reason? He's not Mike Villines, a well-known wienie.
United States Senator: Carly Fiorina. Not nearly as conservative (especially on social issues) as Chuck Devore, but Chuck Devore will go down the tubes big time in November if he is the GOP nominee. Just a fact. Tom Campbell is a liberal! His campaign using Ronald Reagan's name and image is disgusting to me. Another reason for Carly Fiorina is she can and will finance her own campaign with what it takes to run a great campaign. And like Whitman, the money she spends to draw out voters could help other GOP candidates.
Board of Equalization, District 4: No GOP candidate filed to run. No recommendation.
Superintendent of Public Instruction: You are on your own here. I'll probably vote for Karen Blake because she says she will end bi-lingual education. That's a good start. But I haven't had time to research the candidates for this office and have found no endorsements for anyone yet.
STATEWIDE MEASURES
Prop. 13. Seismic Retrofits. YES: Earthquake proofing your house shouldn't trigger a tax increase until you're ready to sell. Any questions?
Prop. 14. Distorted Primary. NO: (Note: Beware of the deceptive language in the title of this Proposition) Instead of voters of each party putting their best candidate forward, this jerry-rigged system is designed to disguise the difference between the parties and force those pesky third parties off the general election ballot entirely. It could result in run-off elections between two Democrats rather than a Republican, a Democrat and other third parties. Political parties should have the right to choose who their candidate is. This is a bad proposition for the possibility of electing Republican (or third party) candidates in the future.
Prop. 15. Taxpayer Funded Elections. NO: The real purpose of this measure is to allow the legislature to tap taxpayers to finance political campaigns. Jefferson said it best: "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Prop. 16. Utility Elections. YES: Cash-guzzling city governments have been taking over the territory of utilities through eminent domain and PG&E wants to put it to a vote. This measure gives you the choice upon whose mercy your future electricity bills will depend: the monopoly of city hall or the monopoly of your utility. Here's a better idea: restore the freedom of individual consumers to choose among competing providers who actually have to earn their business. Alas, that part was left out by the suits at PG&E.
Prop. 17. Insurance Rates. YES: A simple question: should drivers be able to take their "continuous coverage" discount with them when they change insurance companies? A simpler question: why are our laws such a micro managing mess that we have to vote on something as self-evident as this in the first place?
LOCAL MEASURES
Prop. E. LAUSD Parcel Tax. NO: The LAUSD is proposing a parcel tax of $100.00 per household for additional school funding. LAUSD has been unable to manage its funds efficiently, has made no efforts to significantly decrease its wasteful spending. We believe that no parcel tax should be imposed on already over-burdened homeowners. Let LAUSD do the work of reducing spending before it asks homeowners to bail it out.
Judicial Recommendations (from the California Republican Party)
The following are our recommendations for Los Angeles County Superior Court Judges. This is based, for the most part, on the recommendations of Craig Huey on his site, Judge Voter Guide.
Judge-Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 28
Kim Smith
Judge-Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 35
Soussan G. Bruguera
Judge-Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 73
Laura A. Matz
Judge-Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 107
Tony De Los Reyes
Judge-Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 117
Pattricia M. Vienna
Judge-Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 131
Maren Elizabeth Nelson
Thanks to Glenn H. Thornhill, B.A., ECV, noted political analyst, for his assistance in compiling these recommendations. For the races not mentioned, go to Part 1.
2 comments:
I understand the occasional — repeat occasional - need for “strategic voting”: accepting half or two-thirds a loaf from a moderate GOP candiate instead of none from the typical Trotskyite Democrat nominee. This year requires no such compromise with principal. This is the year for the Republicans to put forward their conservative A-Team, most especially here in California.
For me that means the following in contested primaries: Chuck DeVore for U.S. senate; Steve Poizner for governor; Sam Aanestad for lt. governor; John Eastman for attorney general; Tony Strickland for controller and Brian Fitzgerald for insurance commissioner.
Giving reasons for supporting each of the above would take far too long. I feel strongly about all of them, there were no “close calls” in making any of the choices.
Because of the nature of their opponents, however, two candidates deserve special mention — Sam Aanestad for lt. governor and Brian Fitzgerald for insurance commissioner. Aanestad is opposed by state senator, now appointed lt. governor, Abel Maldonado while Fitzgerald is opposed by Assemblyman Mike Villines.
Maldonado and Villines have shown themselves to be dishonorable and untrustworthy, even by Sacramento’s lax standards. They were ringleaders of the traitorous six Republicans who broke ranks and voted for Governor Schwarzenegger’s tax increases in last year’s budget.
Even worse, Maldonado and Villines had both signed pledges saying specifically that they would not vote for tax increases. Both had been elected and re-elected to the Legislature on the strength of this solemn promise not to raise taxes. Their resolve lasted only until the governor found the price to buy each of them, then they both became strumpets. They lied — repeatedly — to their constituents. The people of California desrve better, and, happily, we have better.
Armand, I think you got it wrong on Prop. 16. "No" seems like the right vote.
Southern California Republicans are ground zero for PG&E's saturation television advertising. Aimed at an electorate which the San Francisco utility assumes will be dominated by drooling wingnuts and slobbering knuckledraggers, the campaign aims at repeating the taxpayer rights mantra over and over enough times so voters forget that competition drives down prices and customer choice is the cornerstone of capitalism.
A spontaneous groundswell against Prop. 16 appears to be erupting within the Southern California target audience. In recent days, the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the Orange County Association of Realtors, the South Orange County Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce, have all independently -- there being effectively no organized campaign against 16 -- thrown off the trance. They join the earlier apostates at the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce.
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