Subject: Phil Angelides

• Less than an hour until the polls close...

  ... and I'm soooooo confused. I was out of town last Thursday through Sunday, and when I returned there were 17 messages on my phone from the likes of Pete Wilson, Dick Ackerman, Hillary Clinton, someone yammering about Jessica's Law, the Nguyen running for an OC school board seat and his partner in crime David Boyd, Wendy Leece (Costa Mesa City Council), Ben Stein, Alan Mansoor (Costa Mesa CC), sheriff's lieutenant Ron Cunningham (from which sheriff's agency, Lordy knows), "Don't Call Me" Shirl

  November 7, 2006

• Candidates Debate, Conga Lines Not Mentioned

  Yesterday afternoon's debate between Phil Angelides and Steve Westly on Univision's Voz y Voto (scheduled to air Saturday) "marked a sharp negative turn in the race", according to the Los Angeles Times. The rest of the media agrees– for example, the opening sentence of the San Francisco Chronicle's story on the debate declares: "The once-polite campaign for governor turned harsh Wednesday". But there are two problems with this turning-point-in-the-campaign trope that's echoing throughout

  April 6, 2006

• 43 vs. 43

  On On Politics, the San Jose Mercury News' political news blog, Kate Folmar reports: An internal poll conducted by Democratic pollster Mark Mellman of The Mellman Group out of Washington, D.C. recently found that the governor's race was a dead heat, I'm told. Forty-three percent of respondents favored Treasurer Phil Angelides and another 43 percent wanted to re-elect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The remaining 14 percent were undecided. The poll of 800 concluded on June 11, after Angelides emerged

  June 20, 2006

• The Short Shelf Life of Rev. Lou's Man

  What's a frothing-at-the-mouth preacher, who's been named one of the Top 10 Power Broker of the Religious Right and can squeeze more than $6 million a year out of the faithful (and/or gullible), got to do to get a public display of affection from the California Republican Party? If you know, you should contact OC Weekly favorite Rev. Lou Sheldon, the barking mad Moses of the Anaheim-based Traditional Values Coalition, because while the state GOP is willing to hug Rev. Lou and his flock/politica

  August 24, 2006

• Your Tax Dollars on the Campaign Trail

  Well, Arnold promised to be a different kind of governor when he ran for office back in the recall election, and he is. In some ways. In June, Governor Schwarzenegger's office put out a press release marking the 62nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion, and hailing the heroism of the US troops. This was a little surprising, since Arnold had ignored the 60th anniversary in 2004 (as well as the 61st the next year), but maybe it shows the different kind of thinking Arnold brings to the office-- he

  September 5, 2006

• The Distance Between Things

  Who knew Newton's laws of motion applied to flying politicians? Consider the case of President Bush, Governor Schwarzenegger, and Newton's third law, which states: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." President Bush flies into California to campaign for two Republican politicians, Rep. Richard Pombo of Tracy and Rep. John Doolittle of Rocklin (both of whom recently made Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's list of the Most Corrupt Members of Congress)

  October 4, 2006

• Eddie Rose on "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"

  Eddie Rose writes: "In California this year, we have--with one notable exception--the WORST slate of candidates, including a man who can't pronounce the name of the state he claims to serve! Were it not for the importance of several ballot propositions, it probably wouldn't make much sense to go to the polls at all--unless you believe that we should simply vote for the LESSER OF EVILS. What an option! Here are my recommendations: Prop. 1A: Use existing gas taxes for roads and transportatio

  October 29, 2006

• Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping Dollars

  In a state which has had as governor both Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, two men who could squeeze campaign contributions out of a stone, it would take a very special politician to set a new standard for money grubbing. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a very special politician. A story from The Associated Press shows just how special he is. An exhaustive review of campaign finance records by The Associated Press reveals that Schwarzenegger is on pace to become the most prolific fundraiser in California

  November 3, 2006

• Crushed Bones and Coats with no Tails

  The final numbers for November's election are now posted on the Secretary of State's website, and according to the final tally, Gov. Schwarzenegger carried Orange County with 69.7% of the vote. Writing at California Progress Report, Frank D. Russo describes the gov's margin of victory in OC as "bone crushing", but points out that Phil Angelides bones were crushed to even finer dust elsewhere. [Schwarzenegger] carried other counties outside of the Orange Curtain by higher margins, including 14 r

  December 14, 2006

• Life Imitates The Simpsons (Phil Angelides edition)

  Last night on The Simpsons there was a Harold Stassen joke. This morning in the Oakland Tribune there's a story titled "Angelides eyes another gubernatorial bid". Phil Angelides, the Democrat who lost to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in last month's election, announced Friday he plans to launch an investment firm, advocate for education causes and lay the groundwork for a possible gubernatorial run in 2010. [emphasis added] This has been Life Imitates The Simpsons (Phil Angelides edition).

  December 18, 2006

• Change in the air?

  This is certainly a refreshing development, although the participation of a gubernatorial candidate smacks of political posturing. NEW REPORT ON COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA, ELSEWHERE TO FIND WIDE DISPARITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSES; INVESTORS WILL PUSH POOR-PERFORMING FIRMS TO SHAPE UP NEWS ADVISORY - March 21, 2006 -- A first-ever comprehensive assessment of a half-dozen of California's largest companies on their handling of climate change risks and opportunities is the subject of a major new

  March 17, 2006

• Is There an ECCO in Here?

  Interesting June 6 election endorsements from the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), a political action committee aimed at mainstream (change to:) Democrat Party hacky gay lesbians Democrats: GOVERNOR Steve Westley (D) - endorsed Phil Angelides (D) - acceptable Arnold Schwarzenegger (D, er, R) - unacceptable ATTORNEY GENERAL Rocky "The Liar" Delgadillo (D) - endorsed Jerry Brown (D) - acceptable 69th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Armando "Not My Real Last Name" de la Libertad (D) - en

  June 1, 2006

• How 'Bout a Hummer?

  Oh, why or why can they not bring back the open primary? If allowed today, we would have strolled into our (provisional) polling place with our GOP registration, crossed party lines to pick one of dem battling Dems, and sung just loud enough for the old lady in the next booth to hear: Goin' down with Phil Angelides Dude could use a coupla keys Don't touch my girls if you please Mr. EBay maaa-aaannnnn HEY! That poll lady bogarted our "I Voted" sticker. For a provisional ballot, couldn't we hav

  June 6, 2006

• Ahnuld Terminates Fair Elections

  Perhaps you've seen those commercials showing Phil Angelides walking backward--the same direction the Democrat nominee for governor wants to take the state, according to the folksy narrator. These, of course, are not to be confused with Angelides' response ads, which show someone who looks a lot like The Terminator riding a motorcycle moving backwards--the same direction Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken the state, according to the folksy narrator. We don't recall who funded the anti-Arn

  July 12, 2006

• Endorse-O-Matic!

  November 7, 2002

• Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars

  Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes, hired uniformed security goons to stand outside Latino-heavy polling places in Santa Ana and demand identification from the mostly Democratic voters while carrying signs in English and Spanish that

  March 3, 2009

• Not a 'Stiff,' Nor a 'Loser'

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  November 2, 2006

• Commie Girl

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  October 26, 2006

• Commie Girl

  October 12, 2006

• Commie Girl

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  September 28, 2006

• Commie Girl

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  July 20, 2006

• Good Grief!

  March 30, 2006

• Commie Girl

  February 2, 2006

• Capitol Punishment

  How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  June 2, 2005

• Blood on the Water

  April 28, 2005

• Death, Taxes and the FPPC

  Millionaire Richard J. O'Neill died, reportedly of natural causes, on April 6, but not before the government took its last piece of flesh from Orange County's monumental Democrat. The 85-year-old real estate developer who headed the California Democratic Party 30 years ago and was a major contributor to Democratic candidates in OC and throughout the state during his life was fined $1,500 by the state's Fair Political Practices Commission a month a two days before he died.His mistake? Failing to

  April 6, 2009