Catch up on the Drama in California’s First Senate District Race

Those of you following the news would have heard that Senator Dave Cox passed away after a long fight with cancer.

The fight to replace him in the State Senate will be quite short. (2 1/2 months)

At my home blog - I profiled the three likely contestants on the Republican side. This is a safe seat, so the battle is in the Primary.

I followed up with some more insider dirt here.

I will be taking sides in this race and soon – and you will have a front-row seat.

CA-11 Update: Sgt York Endorses David Harmer, Why It Sucks to Be Jerry McNerney

Jerry McNerney.

A left-wing cylon that would be on the fringe of any district. But – what makes McNerney worse is that he is an empty military uniform that ran for office on a platform of “I’m a Veteran” and “Pombo is corrupt”.

Guess what? Pombo never came close to getting indicted and John Doolittle was exhonerated.

Oh and McNerney has had his fair share of Dirty Money.

Now McNerney has a four-year track record of screwing the military, raising taxes, promoting socialism and moral values that belong in a psychological manual as opposed to in mainstream society.

Very simple.

David Harmer = lower taxes. Jerry McNerney = Higher Taxes.

David Harmer = less government. Jerry McNerney = socialized healthcare, tax payer-funded abortion and government takeover of industry.

David Harmer = values. Jerry McNerney = 100% record from NARAL, high ratings from LGBT groups and the ACLU.

Now who’s the extremist?

If you want a return to common sense – David Harmer is it. Jerry McNerney has distinguished himself as being the incumbent Congressional Politician who is way on the fringe.

Need more? Mcnerney has served his master Nancy Pelosi well – 98.5% of the time he has done her bidding.

Meantime – the Delta Smelt still gets precedence over the farmers of the Central Valley.

Justifying taking from others, liberals rationalize theft

I finally got to see Avatar today. The parallel to the experience of native Americans in the 1800’s in America was obvious. Someone wanted what the Na’vi (planet Pandora natives) had and rationalized their right to take it. To make it easier to justify taking the Na’vi’s land they demonized them as savages, then forced them from their homes in an ugly display of aggression.

It got me thinking of the many examples of some people taking the property of others for their own justified reasons and I came to an interesting conclusion. What is the difference between greedy capitalists stealing from Native Americans in the 1800’s and today’s liberals taking from some in the form of taxation and giving it to others? I suppose you could say the capitalists are doing so out of greed, and liberals do so for their version of the greater good. But who contributes more to the greater good? The Capitalists must be delivering a relevant product to succeed. Take an oil company for example. They employ thousands, pay dividends to shareholders, many who are retirees living off the income, and deliver an essential product to millions. That is certainly the greater good.

The liberals for their version of the greater good need no such relevant product. They need the force of government behind them. They simply find a group of people they decide are underserved, decide that said group “deserves” more, take it from those who have it (earned it), and give it away. Either way one person or group of persons self rationalizes that they have a right to some other person or group of person’s property for some reason.

The liberals demonize those they take from as “wealthy” as though it is a bad thing. Those damn rich people deserve to have their property taken, after all they can afford it.  Accumulation of wealth is an American ideal is it not? Well it used to be.

This is really interesting. If you asked about say Wounded Knee or some other really awful example of native Americans being exploited during the migration to the American west, liberals would probably be the first to grab the moral high ground. Yet liberals exhibit willingness to take from some for their version of greater good more than conservatives.

So liberals are continuing the same behavior as witnessed in Avatar, or the American west, where some are demonized to justify taking their property by others.

Is this the America we want?

Polls Suggest Whitman Smacks Poizner Around, Pretty Well…

The billionaire former CEO of online auction firm eBay will square off in the Nov. 9 general election against Democrat Jerry Brown, who faced no serious opposition in Tuesday’s primary vote.

With 7 percent of precincts reporting, Whitman, 54, had captured 66 percent of the Republican vote, while Poizner had won 25 percent. Brown claimed his party’s nomination with 84 percent of the Democratic vote.

Since declaring her intention to run on Feb. 9, Whitman has virtually rewritten the rules of campaigning. She spent twice as much as any statewide candidate in primary history, starting her paid advertising campaign 14 months before the general election and heavily limiting her exposure to journalists.

If tonight’s results hold, she will be the first woman to win the Republican nomination for governor.

Whitman entered the race promising to spend as much as $150 million of her own money on her campaign. By primary day, she had put in $71 million and raised another $16 million.

“From the beginning of the campaign, we built a plan and executed against it,” said veteran Republican consultant Jeff Randle, a top Whitman adviser. “When the campaign got really ugly this year, we stuck to the plan. That’s a complete reflection of who the candidate is.”

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/06/post-election-n.html#ixzz0qKILWLx3

Early Polls Show Ashby Over Tretheway

Sacramento City Council Race:

In District 1 in Natomas, challenger Angelique Ashby leads Tretheway, 52 percent to 42 percent with 3,601 votes counted. That’s roughly one-quarter the number of votes the campaigns expected to be cast.
Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/election-2010/2010/06/early-returns-show-incumbents-trail-in-sacramento-council-races.html#ixzz0qKEBdyCH