Office

Candidate

Remarks

US Senate

Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina is running as a conservative (thank you Chuck DeVore) and actually has a chance of beating Boxer.  But she only wins if the Republican Voters come out in high numbers and the Dems stay discouraged and stay home.  SO CALL ALL YOUR FRIENDS (Republicans only)

Governor

MEG WHITMAN

As much as Meg Whitman has her faults (she actually has had a private life and succeeded in big ways), she is our only chance to keep a runaway liberal legislature from irreparably ruining the best state in America.  Governor Moonbeam on the other hand has never held a private sector job.  He was the originator of the public employee unions, which threaten to bankrupt the state..

Office

Position

Remarks

Lt Governor

Karen England

WRITE IN

We are going to stand on principle here, we are advocating a write in.  Karen is a pro-family advocate in Sacramento and doesn’t stand a chance to win, but we cannot vote for turncoat Republican Abel Maldonado is the nominee.  He may as well be Gavin Newsom, the gay marriage loving mayor from San Francisco (who is the Dem in this heat), there is little difference.

Secretary of State

Damon Dunn

Conservative, tea party, on fire for government reform

Controller

Tony Strictland

Long time friend and conservative.  Tony could change State government from the bottom up in this slot.

Treasurer

Mimi Walters

Only Republican.  Orange County conservative.

Attorney General

Steve Cooley

Steve would be great and there is no choice compared to Democrat Kamala Harris the DA from liberal San Francisco would be a disaster.

Insurance Commissioner

Mike Villines

Villines was the Republican minority leader from the Assembly that allowed the tax increase with Arnold last year.  We don’t like him, but he will be better than the Dem

Board of Equalization

Michelle Steel

Great conservative candidate

US REPRESENTATIVE

40^th District:

42^nd District:

44^th District:

46^th District:

47^th District:

48th District:

49^th District:

Ed Royce

Gary Miller

Ken Calvert

Dana Rohrabacher

Van Tran

John Campbell

Darrell Issa

VAN TRAN is in a heated race with Democratic incumbent Loretta Sanchez.  WATCH THIS RACE

STATE SENATE

34^th District:

Lucille Kring

LUCILLE is in a winnable race against Democrat incumbent Lou Correa Another WATCH THIS RACE

STATE ASSEMBLY

60^th District

67^th District

68^th District

69^th District

70^th District

71st District

72nd District

Curt Hagman

Jim Silva

Alan Mansoor

Robert Hammond

Don Wagner

Jeff Miller

Chris Norby

ROBERT HAMMOND is another WATCH THIS RACE I have been heavily involved in this long shot.  The Republican Tide could include Hammond as well as others.

SCHOOLS

Superintendent of Public Instruction

DIANE LENNING

WRITE IN

We are going to stand on principle here, we are advocating a write in.  Diane Lenning ran in the June Election and didn’t make the top 2.  But both of these two on the ballot are liberal Dems

IUSD

JODIE LU STOUT HOFFMAN

We don’t like either of the 2 incumbents, liberal Dems Sharon Wallin and Gavin Huntly-Fenner.  We recommend the BULLET approach and vote ONLY for Jodi, DO NOT give either opponent a vote.

Capistrano USD

Anna Bryson

Ellen Addonizio

Larry Christensen

RECALL

NO, NO, and NO on ALL

Unions are attacking the school board because they cut salaries, because they do NOT have the money.  They offered to cut across the board and save jobs and the union said NO.  They asked for the unions to contribute 1% to their very liberal pension plans, the UNION said NO.

Newport Mesa USD

Judy Franco

Coast Community College District

David Grant

Shana Jenkins

Moorlach seems to think he is a good guy, although not a republican.

Moorlach did not endorse in this race, but the more competent choice is Jenkins

South Orange County Community College District

Kevin Muldoon

Nancy Padberg

Marcia Milchiker

 Kevin is a friend and a good conservative.  He will be great to replace Don Wagner.  Padberg is good.  Milchiker is better than her "crazy atheist opponent"

 Tustin Unified

Lynn Davis

Jonathon Abelove

 Both incumbents

 Orange Unified

Area 1- Christopher Nguyen
 

Area 4- Larry Cohn
Area 5- Tim Surridge
Area 7- Rick Ledesma

These are from our good friend Mark Bucher

COUNTY

Treasurer Tax Collector

Shari Freidenrich

Shari is the ONLY qualified candidate and endorsed by Moorlach.  Rodenhuis mislead the Court about his experience to stay on the ballot.  He is NOT qualified and is being pushed by Chriss Street.

CITY COUNCILS

City of Lake Forest

Scott Voigts

You can vote for 3.  But we recommend taking a “Bullet” approach and ONLY vote for SCOTT.  Scott is a Christian Coalition Conservative, who has been in the trenched for decades.  If you vote for anyone else, then it potentially helps one of Scott’s Opponents.

City of Tustin

City of Mission Viejo

City of Irvine

Mayor –

Chris Gonzales

Council –

Jeffrey Lalloway

Lynn Schott

Chris is throwing himself on the sword , going against a popular incumbent (socialist) mayor.  Chris would be a great mayor.

Jeff Lalloway has been running for over a year.  He is a good conservative and has been fighting the Agranistas as a finance commissioner for Christina Shea.  He is running a campaign like we should against Agran, starting early and going right after Agran's socialist ruling elitism. 

AGRAN is attacking Lalloway with 15 and 20 year old resolved conflicts that many normal people have in life, trying to paint it as though it is Jeff's lifestyle.  Or that Jeff is leading the charge on making El Toro an airport again because 10 years ago the Lincoln Club was for it and now Jeff is a member of the Lincoln Club.  Obviously Agran is worried about Jeff.  Agran spends $230 Million on an ORANGE Jack o lantern and needs to divert attention away from the real issues.

The latest attack on Lalloway is coming from our own side, by Christina Shea.  Christina is being divisive by calling Lalloway divisive.  His supposed sin??, claiming he is the only GOP endorsed candidate in the race.  Lynn Schott, below, has also been endorsed by the GOP, although she was endorsed a month later and Lalloway's mail had already been printed.  Christina is giving more ammunition for the Agranistas.  Makes you wonder whose side Shea is on anyway??

Lynn Schott is a long time friend (our daughters were in girl scouts together).  She is a little late getting into the race as no one else seemed willing to take on the Agranistas.  She is running a low budget grass roots, tea party type campaign and in this year's republican tidal wave, has a chance to beat Agran. 

City of Orange

Fred Whitaker

Fred is a long time Friend and great conservative.

City of Costa Mesa

Jim Righeimer ONLY

Do NOT cast a second vote

Jim is a long time friend and great conservative.  Only vote for Jim.  Do NOT vote for anyone else as that vote could help Jim's opponents and it is important to get JIM in there.

Wendy Leece voted 10/26/2010 to give the unions a 4 year contract extension, one week before Jim gets elected because they were afraid that Righeimer would strike a better deal for the taxpayers.

Before this we recommended Wendy.  Now we would have to say she doesn't have the fortitude necessary to continue as a councilwoman.

 City of Santa Ana

Mayor- Charles Hart

Long shot against perennial incumbent Miguel Pulido

City of Huntington Beach

Matt Harper

We know Matt personally and can say that he will stand up to the unions and go with what is best for the citizens.

WATER BOARDS

IRWD

PAUL BETTENHAUSEN

RICHARD E. BARON

All non Incumbents

Municipal Water District of Orange County

Jeff Thomas

Good guy, long time friend and conservative

Santa Margarita Water District

Saundra Jacobs

I have known Saundra and worked with her.  She is a great water board member and hard worker.  She has and will continue to protect the people of Rancho Santa Margarita and Ladera.

Yorba Linda Water District

Phil Hawkins

John Summerfield

Gary Melton

 Orange County Water District

Shawn Dewane

Cathy Green

Kay Barr

Proposition 19

Legalizes Marijuana

NO

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

 If this simply allowed people to cultivate and smoke marijuana themselves and left the rest of us alone, it would be worth considering.   But it goes much further and provides that "no person shall be discriminated against or denied any right or privilege" for pot use, inviting a lawsuit every time an employer tries to require a drug test, for example.  If you want to smoke pot in your own world, I don't care.  But don't bring it into mine.

Proposition 20

Redistricting Congressional Districts

YES

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

This finishes the work we began in 2008 to get redistricting decisions away from self-interested state legislators and into the hands of a bi-partisan commission.  The original reform omitted Congressional districts – this simply adds them.

Proposition 21

INCREASES Vehicle License Taxes

NO

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

Right now, state park users pay a nominal fee that helps pay for upkeep, assuring that those who use our state parks help pay for them.  This measure ends the day-user fee and shifts the cost to the rest of us by imposing an $18 per car tax increase whether we use the parks or not.   Stealing money from highway travelers used to be called "highway robbery."  Now it's called "Proposition 21."

Proposition 22

Prohibits the state from taking funds from local government

YES

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

This takes a giant leap toward restoring local government independence and protecting our transportation taxes by prohibiting state raids on local and transportation funds.  Local governments are hardly paragons of virtue, but local tax revenues should remain local.

Proposition 23

Suspends the CA version of CAP and TRADE

YES

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

In 2006, Sacramento's rocket-scientists enacted AB 32, imposing draconian restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions (yes, that's the stuff you exhale).  They promised to save the planet from "global warming" and open a cornucopia of new jobs.  Since then, California's unemployment rate has shot far beyond the national unemployment rate and the earth has continued to warm and cool as it has for billions of years.  Prop 23 merely holds the Environmental Left to its promise: it suspends AB 32 until unemployment stabilizes at or below its pre-AB 32 level.

Proposition 24

Repeals minimal tax relief given to businesses

NO

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

This is a predictable entry by the public employee unions to impose an additional $1.7 billion tax on businesses.  The problem, of course, is that businesses don't pay business taxes – we do.  Business taxes can only be paid in three ways: by us as consumers (through higher prices), by us as employees (through lower wages) and by us as investors (through lower earnings on our 401(k)'s).

Proposition 25

CHANGES 2/3^rd requirement to raise taxes to simple majority

NO

McClintock says (but we clarified a few things since McClintock was too much "inside baseball"):

This changes the 2/3 vote requirement for the state budget to a simple majority, so the legislature can pass the budget with a majority, but NOT raise taxes without 2/3rds vote – a reform McClintock has long supported.  Experience has shown that the current 2/3 vote requirement for the budget does not restrain spending and it utterly blurs accountability (because the Republicans get blamed for the Democrats high spending budgets). 

But such a reform MUST repair the 2/3 vote requirement for all tax increases (for instance by calling something a "fee" a simple majority can RAISE "fees" i.e. taxes). 

So allowing a majority to pass the budget is OK, if you can limit the true tax increases ("fees" too) requiring a 2/3rds vote.  THIS PROP does NOT do that, therefore without these provisions, Prop. 25 would be a disaster for taxpayers and a recipe for bankruptcy.

Proposition 26

Clarifies what is a fee and a tax and requires a 2/3^rd vote

YES

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

Under the infamous Sinclair Paint decision, virtually any tax may be increased by majority vote as long as it is called a "fee," gutting the 2/3 vote requirement in the state constitution to raise taxes.  Prop. 26 rescinds Sinclair Paint, restores the Constitution, and calls a tax a tax.

Proposition 27

REVERTS BACK to allowing Legislators to choose their voters

NO, NO, and HELL NO

McClintock says (couldn’t say it better ourselves):

Want to go back to the days when politicians drew their own district lines, literally choosing their own voters?  This will get us there.

Measure R

YES

This initiative will direct some of the City of Irvine's tax dollars to the School District if the Foundation matches the funds.  They have to be used for certain purposes and it is only for 3 years.

The school system is what makes Irvine in many ways.  Without it Irvine would not be what it is today as far as property values and community.

That being said, is IUSD using its resources wisely?  NO.  Is it their fault?  PARTIALLY!, Most of the problem are the state's mandates and funding mechanisms.

This gives IUSD 3 years to try to fix the system, and prevents them from trying to pass a parcel tax for the 4th time (all previous times failing).

Measure S

NO

This initiative is environmental politically correct clap trap.  Much to do about nothing, but adding costs to taxpayers and builders that does NOTHING for the environment.  BUT housing will cost more in Irvine because of this measure which is based on NON EXISTENT Carbon Dioxide Pollution based on Pseudo Science.

Measure V

YES

This initiative cleans up the current city charter.  Taking voter approved initiatives from 1938 and 1966 and bring them compliant with prop 13.  Takes out limitations from 1955 regarding the chamber of commerce and consolidates oil wells in west Newport and does other mundane things like not requiring the publishing of every word of every ordinance in the paper - like the proposed zoning code of several hundred pages and 50 maps, instead only the title and summary in the paper and the rest would naturally be on the web site for public review.  This alone will save $120,000 in publishing costs.  Several other cleanups as well.