AD05 Update - Pugno bags Gaines, Runner, Former Mayor of Folsom (and $$$)

By Sgt. York | 10/24/09

Andy Pugno is the prohibitive favorite in AD05. Andy has already gained the endorsement of AD03 Assemblymember Dan Logue. In addition, former AD05 member Anthony Peschetti endorsed early. However, former AD05 Assemblymember Barbara Alby and sitting AD04 Assemblymember Ted Gaines have added their names to the Pugno bandwagon. These are significant as adjacent districts are lining up behind Pugno. Roger Niello historically never endorses, or... read more »

Meg Whitman's North State Supporters Tell Us Volumes About Her

By Sgt. York | 10/24/09

Recently, Meg Whitman rolled out the endorsements of several current and former County Supervisors. Among them was Former Supervisor Sue Horne from Nevada County and Current Supervisor Steve Lambert of Butte County. Lambert and Horne have a few things in common - the grassroots don't like them, they both voted to raise taxes many times and David Reade. Yes, that David Reade - the campaign manager for Doug LaMalfa / Cheif of Staff for... read more »

Jerry Brown was a Talk Jock? Yes and he was and is a wackjob...

By Sgt. York | 10/21/09

Al Franken and Jeanine Garafolo(sp) would be impressed... what is scary is what Jerry Brown had to say when he was in between stints of screwing California. The genesis of today's problems took root in the Brown Governorship of the 1970's - terminating Freeway Projects, Stopping Dam Construction, Shutting off Natural Gas and Oil Wells, the ban on Nuclear and Coal power plants... Interestingly enough - in the middle of Jerry Brown's... read more »

Jim Nielsen for Assembly Leader? What did Meg forget to Mention in Her Updates/Website?

By Sgt. York | 10/18/09

Quick note - in a comment on another Post, Matthew Cunningham indicated that he sat down with Whitman for 1/2 hour (with interruptions). It should be interesting to read his breakdown and hopefully to hear some sound. I have gotten recent reports that Meg Whitman has praised the Cap and Trade bill 'as the right thing to do'... (is that different than being a Huge Fan?) on a talk show. Given her other comments - the Cap and Trade comments... read more »

PCWA Member Ben Mavy Gets "Scolded" for Asking Budget Questions

By Sgt. York | 10/18/09

Below is an email in its' entirety that pretty much says it all. Note that Ben Mavy is 20 years or more younger than the other board members. I think it is time for a house-cleaning... Hi, Last year the Placer County Water Agency board of directors was curious about the agency’s impact on the environment, so they spent nearly a quarter million dollars on a study to find out what the agency’s carbon footprint is.  For those not... read more »

Is Meg Whitman Starting to Take Interviews?

By Sgt. York | 10/17/09

Warner Todd Huston recently re-posted the very inciteful interview that Meg Whitman had with Jon Fleishman of the Flash Report. In said interview - Whitman staked out a fringe-left position on the Abortion issue. This seems to dovetail well with past interviews where Whitman praised the (then) largest tax increase in State history, said we can't enforce immigration laws, said we shouldn't raise taxes "right now", and on and... read more »

CA-10 Watch: John Garamendi Attacks David Harmer - EPIC FAIL... Wrong David Harmer

By Sgt. York | 10/15/09

John Garamendi hates insurance companies, insurance agents, Steve Poizner, policy holders and Northern California. Witness how his insurance regulations were aimed at making Northern Califonria subsidize Southern California - witness his idioc handling of executive life's collapse where thousands of policyholders lost their life's savings. Now Garamendi is carving out a new niche of stupidity and is stooping to new political depths. He sent out... read more »

Supervisor Jim Holmes Leaves the GOP

By Sgt. York | 10/14/09

The significance of this article is that Jim Holmes brother ran against John Doolittle for Congress in 2006 - Mike Holmes was also in the race in 2008, but left when Doolittle retired. Those of us in the McClintock camp have long felt that the close election of 2008 could well breed a primary challenge. This should not be a surprise to anyone - the Placer GOP Cent Com endorsed against him. I have seen Mr. Holmes at several conservative... read more »

Three Articles Show Whitman's Campaign Floundering With Republican Women

By Sgt. York | 10/12/09

Actually - read more »

U-Tube Video Commerates Meg Whitman's First Epic Fail: The 13 Days of Meg Whitman

By Sgt. York | 10/10/09

(The Fail Whale is property of Twitter and signifies when the system fries from too many messages or a server outage - Multiple fail Whales can lead to an Epic Fail) It hasn't been the five positions on Prop 8, supporting taxpayer-funded abortion, not raising taxes "right now", lauding Pete Wilson's then record tax-increase, failing to be able to discuss state economics in specifics, or stiffing California Media repeatedly that... read more »