Yes, THAT Jeff Flint! The founder of Red County Placer... you see, Jeff is a partner in the leading political consulting firm in America defending family values.

The MSM gives Schubert-Flint PA (the 2009 Winner of some consultant award - the equivalent of the MVP in Baseball, though) some grudging praise.

Their article points out repeatedly that people really believe in Gay marriage until Frank Schubert figured out in some right-wing focus group that running ads depicting the homosexual children's books was the ticket.

You can read the article here

Far be it from me to say - but the people that wrote/edited this article seemed irritated. I wish I could have been there when they finally decided to include the sentence about how Gay Marriage has lost all 31 times it has gone to the ballot. Of course, they leave out that the Courts (again, like with abortion, rights that nenver existed before for criminals/terrorists/illegal aliens) were and are the only way to force Gay Marriage on society.

But, I digress - oh and notice that this article gets buried in the late friday wire.

Thank you Schubert-Flint for defending the fabric of society.

This morning, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi was sworn in as a member of the US House of Representatives, thereby leaving the post of Lieutenant Governor vacant.  I previously blogged about that here, but most people probably missed since the Mike Duvall scandal buried that post a short time later.

However, since that post, I've heard from multiple sources in Sacramento that there's a buzz going around the Capitol about the Governor appointing former Republican Northern California Assemblyman Stan Statham.  Statham is now a registered decline-to-state and is President of the California Broadcasters Association.  Influential politicians on both sides of the aisle who have the ear of the Governor are apparently lobbying the Governor to pick Statham.

There are several key factors in favor of a Statham pick:

1. The Governor has an excellent relationship with Statham.
2. He'd be a caretaker.  As a registered independent, he is of minimal threat to any of the candidates running for Lieutenant Governor since independents almost never win elections.  Plus, he will be 71 next year; if he were to run for the post, he would be 75 years old when the term expires.
3. He would be easily confirmed, as he is popular with current legislators from both sides of the aisle in both houses.
4. If picked, he would not trigger a series of special elections (unlike picking a legislator).
5. He's articulare and media-savvy as head of the Broadcasters Association, as well as a former television news anchor.
6. He understands the political process, having spent 18 years in the Assembly.

I've not heard other media sources covering this story despite multiple solid sources in the Capitol backing it, so you heard it here first on Red County: Stan Statham is a major contender for appointment to the Lieutenant Governor's post.

Tonight, Rancho Cucamonga Mayor Dr. Don Kurth has kicked off his campaign for State Assembly from the 63rd Assembly District which covers Highland, Loma Linda, Rancho Cucamonga, and Redlands.

Dr. Don Kurth is the front-runner candidate seeking to replace termed-out Assemblyman Bill Emmerson.

The event was held at the Etiwanda Gardens was packed with various elected officials, community leaders and business owners throughout the district.

Dr. Kurth stressed it is time for legislators to make the necessary hard decisions on the budget, water, education and other critical issues that affect every Californians.

Tonight event had a Special Guest Wally Kurth, Don Kurth's cousin, who is a famous Daytime Television Actor on Days of Our Lives and formerly General Hospital.

Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills, District 60) just sent over his thoughts regarding the controversial Assembly oil vote, which then was expunged by Assemblyman Alberto Torrico (D-Fremont, District 20):

By State Assemblyman Curt Hagman

Serving all or parts of Anaheim , Chino Hills, Diamond Bar, Industry, La Habra , La Habra Heights , La Mirada , Orange , Rowland Heights , San Dimas , Villa Park , Walnut, Whittier and Yorba Linda .

Last month, the California State Assembly considered numerous budget bills and among them was Assembly Bill 23, which authorizes an oil drilling lease off the Santa Barbara Coast (T-Ridge). The plan would have implemented state-of-the-art slant-drilling techniques to increase the amount of oil extracted without increasing the number of oil rigs. Probably best of all, the lease would have allowed new drilling on an existing rig, so the ‘footprint’ of the project wouldn’t have changed.  The lease would have provided an immediate $100 million payment to California . In fact, this lease would have paid more than $1.8 billion in royalties over the next 14 years. After the termination of the lease, the oil platforms and all onshore processing facilities would be dismantled and 3900 acres of land would be donated for public use and conservation.   

So why didn’t this idea to add millions of dollars to our state pass the Legislature? Because 40 years ago, the oil spill off Santa Barbara is still affecting the mindset of our legislature. The 1969 oil spill was cleaned up but the concerns have lived on and permanently slowed the state’s willingness to expand its off-shore drilling capabilities. Since 1969, tremendous technological advances have occurred like cell phones, satellite TV, CAT scans, the Internet, etc. that have benefited our society and those same types of advances now make oil drilling much safer.  The world has changed since 1969, and now it’s time to act like it.  No longer can a legislator claim that the’69 spill is ‘proof’ that off-shore oil drilling is disastrous.  

AB 23 was the remedy California has needed: a boon to state coffers, an increase in local industry and employment, and the promise of environmental protection. It was an oil-drilling proposal that even local environmental groups, such as the Environmental Defense Center based in Santa Barbara , supported. Regardless of the support it garnered from Sacramento and Santa Barbara , the State Assembly rejected the bill on a partisan vote.  

What occurred next on the vote of AB 23 was unbelievable. Moments after the bill was defeated, Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico rose to ask that the vote be expunged. “Expunging” a vote means it is erased from the record. This practice is illegal in the California Senate but for some reason is allowed in the Assembly. Those who voted against the bill do not want you to know how they voted so the officially recorded vote just disappeared. Why did numerous Assembly members vote to hide their vote on AB 23? So much for accountability, so much for transparency, so much for standing up and being counted.  

We need the revenue that this bill promised and we need it now. At the same time, we also need State Assembly members to stop trying to hide behind political maneuverings that are deceptive and unethical.

Note:  Assemblyman Torrico is running for the Democratic Nomination for California Attorney General.

According to Capitol Weekly's report and the Sacramento Bee's Capitol Alert report, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the race for Governor.  This leaves Attorney General Jerry Brown unopposed for the Democratic nomination for Governor (although Brown has not technically entered the race, so officially, there are no Democratic candidates for Governor, but it's assumed Brown's entrance is a formality).

This means in 2010, Republicans will have a contested primary between multihundred-millionaire Steve Poizner and billionaire Meg Whitman (and Tom Campbell, to a lesser extent) while Brown gets to hoard money to save for the general election.

For Constitution Day this year at Sacramento City College Associated Student Government (ASG) President and student Steve Macias arranged for a group named Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion group, to participate on campus in the Constitution Day activities.

The group was approved for participation by the ASG and set up its booth at the appointed time. And then the world came to an end. Pro-Infanticide groups such as Planned Parenthood set up their own, countering booths the next day and left-wing hatemongers in the student body immediately began to circulate a recall petition to have Mr. Macias removed from the Associated Student Government leadership.

There is also some speculation that this insane, un-American recall effort being visited upon Mr. Macias is being tacitly approved of by the College adviser overseeing the ASG.

Even the local press tried to pile onto an attack of Mr. Macias. The SacCity Express originally reported on October 13 that Macias presented the anti-abortion group under a false name when he submitted the group for the vote of the ASG board. On the 26th the paper printed a retraction admitting their "mistake."

On his FaceBook site, Mr. Macias also reports that one of Sacramento College's professors has engaged in a nasty email exchange with the student, too. "Why Do these teachers feel that it is there role to put us students down?" Macias asks. "I am deeply offended that an instutution that taxpayers pay for and pay to attend would allow this individual to clearly descriminate against people of faith. Calling Christianity 'make believe.' is unacceptable dialougue from Teacher to student. Especially when you seek out and attack the student."

Amusingly, with her quote on the matter, ASG Vice President Debbie Dixon proved that her parent's money is being sorrowfully wasted on her failed education.

“I am highly offended, I have rights, just as they have rights to not be offended!”

Sorry Debbie, dear, but there is NO "right" not to be offended. The Constitution safeguards political free speech but it does not safeguard your right "not to be offended." No one has a right not to be offended because such a right would preclude everyone else's right to free speech in the first place. After all, what one person feels is right and good to say someone else somewhere will find offense contained therein. So, dear, dear, lil' Debbie, no one has a right not to be offended. But, I do have to say, I am offended by your ignorance.

So, what we see with this dispiriting case is typical of the distempered left. All these caring, civilized, open minded, more tolerant lefties are in full attack mode trying to shut down the free speech of people with whom they disagree... as always. Sadly, that's the fascist, Obamaesque sort of actions we are coming to expect from the extreme left and the bubble ensconced, pointy-headed, ivory tower dwellers in academe, isn't it?