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I was forwarded a document for a recent California Federation of Republican Women's Southern Division meeting.

It is apparent that Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman are on completely different tracks.

In the wake of the discovery that Whitman is an elitist NIMBY and a fringe-left environmentalist (evidenced by her donations to protect the delta smelt)... we have further evidence that her campaign is attempting to veer to the left of Arnold.

Take a look at these quotes from their bios and decide for yourself:

"On September 15,2008 Poizner announced his candidacy for Governor of California. Poizner's campaign is based on strong in-state grassroots suppoer. The election will take place November of 2010. Poizner has worked for government reform, education reform, women's rights, and restoring California's position as a family-friendly, business friendly state."

and Whitman:

"On February 9,2009 Whitman announced her candidacy for Governor of California. Senator John McCain endorsed Meg Whitman for Governor of California. The election will take place November of 2010. Whitman supports Abortion Rights, same-sex civil unions and adoption rights for same-sex couples, but not same-sex marriage. Her views on same sex rights have created controversy related to her political aspirations."

Is it possible that Whitman thinks Republican women are obsessed with Abortion rights? Or is it quite simply that she is reaching out to Maria Schriver Republicans?

Poizner - Government Reform, Education Reform...

Whitman - Abortion Rights, Same Sex (insert issue here)... (Omitted: anti-gun, open borders, taxing the rich, donations to left-wing enviros, her huge fan list, etc etc etc)

I do believe that Republicans for Boxer (Clinton, Kerry, Gore, Obama) will enthusiastically endorse Whitman.

This just came over from State Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills, District 60):

*Meet With State Assemblyman Curt Hagman*

Coffee and Conversation with Curt

Saturday, November 21st

Stop by to have an informal discussion with Assemblyman Hagman about state issues that matter most to you. Suggestions for legislation are also welcome!

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Starbucks - Rowland Heights:  19759 E. Colima Road (NW Corner of Fairway and Colima)

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Starbucks - Walnut:  505 Grand Avenue (NW Corner of Valley and Grand)

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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The Los Angeles Times Blog has posted the story with confirmation that the Los Angeles County District Attorney opens inquiry to see if City of Industry Mayor Dave Perez has conflict of interest.

A complaint alleges that Perez "may have a financial interest in contracts between the city and companies he’s affiliated with,” said David Demerjian, head of the D.A.'s Public Integrity Division.

However, Mr. Demerjian will not disclose the who has filed the complaint.

It is very interesting that this inquiry gets under way and a book just recently came out entitled "City of Industry:  Genealogies of Power in Southern California" written by Victor Valle.

Meg Whitman is the Eco-Poster Child candidate for governor. When Arnold ran for governor, people told me that Arnold was to the left of Gray Davis on the environment.

Now, Meg Whitman is the latest "Republican" that has gone of the Left Green end of a cliff.

I have been roundly critical of her Megness on a variety of issues and her reliably liberal stances on them. Since she refuses to debate, we are left to ask, "Who is Meg Whitman?"
 
1. She is a Huge fan of Van Jones - the communist that had to be retired due to his embarrassing behavior and its' reflection on Obama.
 
2. She gave not $100K, but $200K (or was it 100K then 200K?) to the EDF. The Environmental Defense Fund spearheaded the lawsuits against the farmers of the Central Valley in favor of the Delta Smelt. Whitman's donations to them were in 2007 - around the time of their court case and around the time she first Registered Republican.
 
3. This article details the recent discovery of her donation of $1.15 million to a land-grabbing organization in Colorado. They won a court case (again) brought by a bunch of residents of Telluride (where Whitman has a horse ranch) aimed at stopping development.
 
The land owner in the case was stripped of his land and paid $50Million for it. The foundation solicited donations from the NIMBY's in the area to pay the guy after he was stripped of his rights by an activist court.
 
Her Spokesman Tucker Bounds says she gave the money after the court case was settled. For those of you scoring at home - Poizner is getting criticized for actions in 2004 - but now we have Whitman in 2008 giving money to leftist environmental causes.
 
Mr. Bounds. - that makes it worse. Now, Whitman is supporting a land-grabbing organization formed by a bunch of rich people that have theirs and wanted to keep others out. And, now Whitman is trapped in the vice-grip created by her actions vs her words.
 
I'm a huge fan of Steve Poizner. Meg Whitman keeps making it easier.

Evidently not. But Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama would have you believe that doctors support the House’s passage of the 2000 page Healthcare bill. Purporting that the AMA supports the bill would have most of us believe that doctors are supporting the bill. However, the AMA only represents 17% of doctors nationwide. In fact, Barack Obama would have you believe that doctors perform unnecessary tonsillectomies and amputate limbs of diabetic patients to make a quick $50k in reimbursement dollars:

These statements made by President Obama were the tipping point for Dr. Joel Strom, Dentist and former President of the California State Dental Board and professor of Ethics at USC. He sought out his childhood friend, Dr. Reed Wilson, a cardiologist in Beverly Hills, and together, they decided to do something before something was about to be done to them, their practices, and their patients. 

At first they thought about starting their own Southern California doctors organization, but the speed at which the legislation was being pushed through the House, they happened upon www.docs4patientcare.org. (D4PC). They believed in the organization’s prescription for reform, and Dr. Strom made a cold call to the founder, Hal Scherz, and the Southern California Chapter of D4PC was born.  

In the last few weeks, Dr Strom and Dr. Wilson, cold called hospitals and doctors and found that many doctors had no idea, like many legislators, what the healthcare bill would do to medicine.

Here are some facts about the legislation:

Sec. 303 (pp 167-168) makes it clear that, although the “qualified” plan is not yet designed, it will be a “one size fits all” variety.

Sec. 59b (pp 297-299) says that when you file your taxes, you must include proof that you are in a qualified plan. If not, you are fined thousands of dollars. Illegal immigrants are exempt from this requirement.

Sec. 222 (p 617) provides reimbursement for culturally and linguistically appropriate services. This program will train health-care workers to inform Medicare beneficiaries of their “right” to have an interpreter at all times and with no co-pays for language service.

Sec. 305 (p 189) provides for automatic Medicaid enrollment of newborns who do not otherwise have insurance.

Sec 3003(b) (p 683) punishes doctors by cutting their pay if they give older patients more can than the GOVERNMENT deems appropriate.

Sec. 1161 (pp 520-545) cuts payments to Medicare Advantage plans (used by 20% of seniors) and these plans have warned that this will result in reductions in optional benefits such as vision and dental care.

Had enough yet? These are only 6 examples in a 2000 page bill, but these facts, no less, prove that the government will become your doctor from cradle to grave; interferes in the doctor-patient relationship; and verifies that Joe Wilson nailed it.

Dr. Reed Wilson said it best: “I wake up every day, 7 days a week, and I work all the time and I love it. I take care of families, from the grandparents to their grandchildren. It is special. I have seen medicine torn down so that the best and brightest don’t want to enter medicine. There is a different mentality from some one that wants to leave the office at 5 or someone that commits their life to a process. If this process continues to decline, who is going to take care of my daughter and grandchildren?”

Both Dr. Strom and Dr. Wilson will be speaking at the Federal Building in Los Angeles on Saturday. Los Angeles is one of 5 National Events taking place that day across the country. All doctors and patients are encouraged to attend for what is to be a very informative and important event.

Event Details:

Doctors for Patients Healthcare Rally
Los Angeles Federal Building
11000 Wilshire Blvd.
12:00-1:30 pm

To hear Strom and Wilson's short conversation with Chip Hanlon on why they oppose Obamacare, click the 'play' button below to listen:

Political humorists are sort of the wartime diplomats of political debate. Their audiences give them safe passage through their defensive walls and grant them permission to directly influence decisions of hostile entities. Humorless conservative commentators spend years laying siege to liberal castles, pounding their walls with the artillery of reasoned argument, only to fail to dent the hardened fortifications that were designed over a lifetime to resist any fire that they can muster. But the besieged liberal might temporarily lower his drawbridge to receive a political humorist to impress an argument directly upon the soft underbelly of the brain that is not clad in the armor that automatically rejects all conservative arguments. 

Quality political humorists of any ideological stripe that can entertainingly deliver profound political messages are particularly rare, and even more so in conservative camps.  Michael Ramirez comes to mind as an editorial cartoonist whose drawings can resonate with viewers so quickly that with just a glance at his work their predispositions are bypassed. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have successfully used humor to make their respective cases, but they are each persona non grata in liberal camps and are utterly dismissed by them.

Then there’s Evan Sayet, whose stand-up routine I recently saw at a small club in Ventura. Sayet spent most of his career working side-by-side with liberals in Hollywood, as a comedian and television writer. In fact, he is a reformed liberal himself, which he says helps him understand them.

The centerpiece of his routine concentrates on liberals’ childlike misperception of the world--that everyone will play nice with you, that fighting is always bad, guns are scary, hard work is to be avoided, if it feels good do it, and in the end if all doesn’t turn out like we want, we can run to our government to make things right for us.

His is truly a profound explanation of why liberals want the government to run their lives: their psychologies failed to grow into adulthood in pace with their bodies, and rather than replace their parents with themselves as the absolute authority in their lives, they substitute them with the government.  That way they can pursue selfish goals without the burden of having to be responsible for themselves. The comparison of liberals to children is also rich with comedic opportunities for Sayet to explore.

Isn’t there ample evidence to support Sayet’s thesis? Don’t liberals have a naïve and innocent wish to negotiate with dictators and terrorists? And don’t they want the government to tell them that everything’s going to be better when they get laid off or injured at work? Aren’t liberals the ones pushing “if it feels good, just do it.” And when they make a mess of their lives, they want the government to clean it up, to cries of “It’s just not fair?”

Of course, just like children, even as they are completely dependent on others for subsistence, their parents are always in the wrong when it comes to discipline.  When times are tough and we need to buckle down and get some chores done, the children whine and drag their feet.  When we need to go to war, the United States becomes the bad guy. We are the imperialist dictators, not Saddam Hussein or the Taliban (if we’re the warmongers, why haven’t we invaded defenseless Canada yet? asks Sayet).

And to liberals, it’s always the other kids’ parents who are cool. “But France is doing socialism, why can’t we?”  and “unlike Americans, everyone in France can speak three languages”. Sayet points out that this comes in handy when your country gets invaded so many times.

These aren’t just the rants of an upset conservative trying to belittle liberals, although he does rant, he is an upset conservative, and he does belittle liberals. But his routine is carefully crafted around a very legitimate point of view that is worthy of discussion, and it’s one that I recommend to both my liberal and conservative friends. 

Evan Sayet's next performance is at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 19th at JR's Comedy Club in Valencia.