SBAC/M4 Strategies Poll: Tight Races for Top Ticket Offices
The hotly contested race for the Republican nomination in both the U.S. Senate and Attorney General races are tightening up with the primary only three weeks away, the Small Business Action Committee/M4 Strategies Poll found.
In the U.S. Senate contest, Tom Campbell leads with field with 32.6%, with Carly Fiorina close behind at 28.2%, and Chuck DeVore tallying 15.3%. Fiorina has made the biggest movement since the SBAC/M4 Strategies poll in February. At that time, Campbell had a similar 32%, Fiorina was at 18% and DeVore stood at 11%.
The poll conducted on May 12, 13, and 16 of 600 high propensity Republican voters has a margin of error of 4%.
California 2010: Athens-on-the-Pacific
For those of us who live in California or as we like to call it "Athens-on-the-Pacific", things have never looked bleaker.
Last week, Governor Schwarzenegger released what will be his last budget to the
Legislature and the people. It projects a deficit of $19.1 billion and
will make drastic cuts in social spending.
Right
on cue the Democrats who have had a death grip on the Legislature for
decades began their whining and caterwauling about the destruction of
the safety net and that the "rich" weren’t paying enough and business
needs to pay more.
Balboa Island
When I started posting, I told our publisher, Joel Fox, that I’d only write on the dynamics of jobs in California. But I think he’ll indulge me on the post below about a segment of California past-and hopefully future.
Donna and I were at UC Irvine recently, and took the opportunity with our oldest daughter Sonia to drive to Balboa Island.
From the university to the Island is a short drive straight down Jamboree. The hilltops above Jamboree are filled with oversized condos and apartment complexes. But as you cross the Pacific Coast Highway, the road narrows to a two lane bridge, the condos and apartments disappear, and you find yourself on Marine street, the main street for Balboa Island.
Dunn and Done: Let Our Children Go! Return Local Control of Education Now
State and
federal lawmakers and bureaucrats are holding our children hostage.
They are well-intentioned, no doubt, but the road to hell is paved with
their good intentions. And the travel is getting hotter every day.
Sacramento is broke, programs are being cut, legislators’ management
skills are questionable and California’s economic recovery is not
evident. Local educators are doing their best with constrained, delayed
school funding, making the tough decisions every other private sector
company is making to get by.
But complicating this mess further, Orange
County educators have zero flexibility on 73% of the public funding
they do get! They are dictated by Sacramento and, frankly, Washington
as well, on how to spend, when to spend, who to spend on, leaving no
flexibility to meet local community needs for our children in tough
times.