EDITOR’S NOTE – THE STATE CRA HAS ENDORSED JOHN MCCAIN – THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT. WE TOLERATE DISSENT AS SOME IN THE CRA REFUSE TO ACCEPT SOME GOP NOMINEES FOR OFFICE. HOWEVER, THE BELOW POST IS BY A MEMBER OF THE PLACER CRA AND IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF BOB BARR OR ANY OTHER MARGINAL CANDIDATE BY THE PLACER CRA.

THE BY-LAWS OF THE CRA ARE CLEAR ON THIS ISSUE.

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“Democrats may be blasting Sarah Palin as a doctrinaire conservative, and Republicans may be embracing her for the same reason, but her husband and oldest son are independents.

Todd Palin, husband of the Alaska governor, hasn’t been affiliated with a party since he first registered to vote while he was in his early 20s, in 1989 — the year after he married Sarah Palin. And Track Palin, their 19-year-old son, registered as undeclared when he became eligible to vote last year.

Track Palin has yet to vote, according to the Division of Elections, while Bristol Palin, his 17-year-old sister, is not yet eligible to vote.”

So, I guess you “conservatives” now supporting the McCain ticket have got to ask yourselves, did McCain really do a good job in his background checking.

Sure, Gov. Palin is a plain speaking, hard nosed, Governor, but does being a “hockey mom” and having 5 kids really make you a good leader? Will taking on your kids PTA members going to qualify you to sit with the heads of state in North Korea, Russia and China? Condie Rice was basically laughed out of Europe as her role as Secretary of State and she’s a force to rekon with. What happens when Gov. Palin’s youngest kid gets sick in the middle of a major crisis, is she going to file for parental leave? Or will her union card carrying, oil drilling operator husband play nanny for the next 4-8 years? And what’s with the names of those kids, they sound more like the names of Jerry Brown’s kids than a “good family woman’s.”

All we hear from Sean Hannity and the other talking heads who read from the RNC talking points is that her experience is at the same level or better than Obamas. Does that really matter? Is that what they believe is going to get a solid Conservative voter to vote for McCain, a life long moderate who not only considered having a pro-abortion Governor on his ticket, but also a pro-abortion Democrat. McCain went so far (as I outlined in a previous post) as to change the GOP platform. He wanted to soften the party’s stand on border control and doesn’t want off shore drilling. Do you really believe Gov Palin will have any influence over stubborn McCain in trying to drill in ANWR?

We’ll see how well this plays out for McCain, but I would have rather seen a senior level statesperson with a solid conservative voting record fill out this ticket. But I don’t believe it would have convinced me to vote for McCain over Bob Barr, who does have a very good voting record on Second Amendment rights, illegal immigration, civil liberties and lower taxes.

Here we go again. McCain’s moderate political views are showing up again, and not too soon. Only 5 days until the RNC Convention and McCain is already showing his true colors. For those of us on the Conservative side of the GOP isle, we knew this all along. The RNC caved on some very important issues so that McCain can feel comfortable with the platform. What about those of us who like the platform and are in this party because of it? If McCain doesn’t like the party platform than I suggest McCain find a different party. I’m not quite sure why he’s a Republican anyway. First George W. Bush let’s the Neocons take over the party and now McCain has pulled the GOP all the way to the middle of the isle. Just as the Democratic Party left many blue collar, pro-American voters over the past 40 year, I feel the GOP is leaving, or has left, many of us Conservatives out in the cold. I may have to find a new party.

“Republicans are putting John McCain’s campaign priorities above some of their pet issues, including drilling for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and denying citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.

“The panel turned back a move to deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.”

“The platform acknowledges a human role in increased carbon emissions…”

“Committee member Trey Grayson of Kentucky called the document “the greenest platform we’ve ever had.”

Wow, I feel like this is the Democrat platform. I think my party has left me already…

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Strange pick. Not sure what he brings to the ticket. He’s not that controversial so maybe that’s why. I was expecting better.

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Gotta question a guy’s ability to relate to the common man when he doesn’t know how many homes he has. It’s probably a good problem to have, but not when you want to be President. Did the Reps really nominate this guy with Fred Thompson as an alternative? Wow.

“John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn’t know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.”

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Please Contact the Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee Today!

Three anti-gun bills have been placed in the suspense file due to cost constraints, however they could possibly be resurrected during a special Senate Appropriations Committee hearing scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, August 7.

Assembly Bill 2062 would require an individual to possess a license to purchase ammunition, require vendors to keep a detailed record of the transaction, and simply ban mail or internet ammunition orders.

Assembly Bill 2235 would ban the sale of handguns other than “owner-authorized (or “smart”) handguns”—that is, handguns with a permanent, programmable biometric feature that renders the firearm useless unless activated by an authorized user.

Assembly Bill 2948 would prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition on the property or inside the buildings that comprise the Cow Palace.

Please contact the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and respectfully urge them to oppose these anti-freedom measures. Contact information for the Senate Appropriations Committee is below.

SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:

State Senator Tom Torlakson (Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4007
Fax: (916) 445-2527

State Senator Dave Cox (Vice Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4001
Fax: (916) 324-2680

State Senator Samuel Aanestad
Phone: (916) 651-4004
Fax: (916) 445-7750

State Senator Roy Ashburn
Phone: (916) 651-4018
Fax: (916) 322-3304

State Senator Gilbert Cedillo
Phone: (916) 651-4022
Fax: (916) 327-8817

State Senator Ellen Corbett
Phone: (916) 651-4010
Fax: (916) 327-2433

State Senator Robert Dutton
Phone: (916) 651-4031
Fax: (916) 327-2272

State Senator Dean Florez
Phone: (916) 651-4016
Fax: (916) 327-5989

State Senator Sheila Kuehl
Phone: (916) 651-4023
Fax: (916) 324-4823
senator.kuehl@sen.ca.gov

State Senator Jenny Oropeza
Phone: (916) 651-4028
Fax: (916) 323-6056

State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas
Phone: (916) 651-4026
Fax: (916) 445-8899

State Senator George Runner
Phone: (916) 651-4017
Fax: (916) 445-4662

State Senator Joe Simitian
Phone: (916) 651-4011
Fax: (916) 323-4529

State Senator Mark Wyland
Phone: (916) 651-4038
Fax: (916) 446-7382

State Senator Leland Yee
Phone: (916) 651-4008
Fax: (916) 327-2186

I wonder if they offer drive-thru service in the nanny state.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Los Angeles City Council has approved a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a low-income area of the city.

The moratorium unanimously approved Tuesday is a bid to attract restaurants that offer healthier food choices to residents in a 32-square-mile area of South Los Angeles.

Councilwoman Jan Perry says residents at five public meetings expressed concern with the proliferation of fast-food outlets in the community plagued by above-average rates of obesity.

Nearly three-quarters of the restaurants in South L.A. are fast-food outlets. That’s a higher percentage than other parts of the city but the restaurant industry says the moratorium won’t help bring in alternatives.

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“California is making it mandatory for cars to be labeled with global warming scores, figures that take into account emissions from vehicle use and fuel production.

The law requiring the labels goes into effect at the start of next year for all 2009 model cars, though its expected the labels will be popping up on cars in the coming months.”

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Nearly 7 years after 9/11, the Bush Administration has failed on it promise to capture and/or kill the top leaders of Al Qaeda. LINK

Our government is too busy infighting, or at least it seems this way. What is really going on at the White House? Who’s in charge anyway? Isn’t Bush the Commander in Chief? Why did he not take his change to take out the Taliban leadership at a funeral in 2006?

“Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden’s terror network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas, a problem that had been exacerbated by years of missteps in Washington and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, sharp policy disagreements, and turf battles between American counterterrorism agencies.”

”...Special Operations forces are still waiting for the green light. The plan has been held up in Washington by the very disagreements it was meant to eliminate.”

“Just as it had on the day before 9/11, Al Qaeda now has a band of terror camps from which to plan and train for attacks against Western targets, including the United States. Officials say the new camps are smaller than the ones the group used prior to 2001. However, despite dozens of American missile strikes in Pakistan since 2002, one retired CIA officer estimated that the makeshift training compounds now have as many as 2,000 Arab and Pakistani militants, up from several hundred three years ago.”

“American intelligence officials say that the Qaeda hunt in Pakistan, code-named Operation Cannonball by the CIA in 2006, was often undermined by bitter disagreements within the Bush administration and within the intelligence agency, including about whether American commandos should launch ground raids inside the tribal areas.”

Who is running this dog and pony show? I thought Bush was serious about stopping terrorism? Why do we have open borders? Why is there no military presence on the US/Mexican border? Why are Taliban funerals attended by terrorist leaders and haters of America allowed to take place with US Intelligence knowledge and nothing is being done about it? I’m sick of all the talk and posturing, I want action!

If anyone is still having doubts about border security and the need to build a wall on our southern border better think again. Bush isn’t serious about closing the border so our next President better pull their head out of Mexico’s butt.

“Police documents show that at least one of the suspects involved in a home invasion and homicide were active members of the Mexican Army.”

“A top member of a Phoenix police union is standing by reports that at least one of the men involved in a Monday morning home invasion and homicide was an active member in the Mexican Army.”

“Even if you put aside the Mexican military, you have illegals in the country…they’re protected with tactical gear using tactical strategies in police uniforms willing to ambush police officers. I think that’s bad enough,” said Mark Spencer, President of the Phoenix Police Enforcement Association.

While on the J.D. Hayworth show Tuesday, Mark Spencer announced that the suspects were hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and murders.

The incident at 8329 W. Cypress St. resulted in the death of the homeowner. Between 50 and 100 rounds were fired at the house.

Spencer said a police officer told him that one of the men captured said they were completely prepared to ambush Phoenix police, but ran out of ammunition.

He added that all were all dressed in military tactical gear and were armed with AR-15 assault rifles. Three other men involved in the invasion escaped.

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In case you haven’t heard….

“Individual Americans have a right to own guns, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday for the first time in the country’s history, striking down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital.

The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly 70 years the high court has addressed the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It rejected the argument the right to keep and bear arms was tied to service in a state militia.”

LINK to article.

It seems as though our conservative African American friends are more racist than they are loyal to their own political ideaology.

“Black conservative talk show host Armstrong Williams has never voted for a Democrat for president. That could change this year with Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s nominee.”

“Among black conservatives,” Williams said, “they tell me privately, it would be very hard to vote against him in November.”

“J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman who once was part of the GOP House leadership, said he’s thinking of voting for Obama. Watts said he’s still a Republican, but he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community. Black Republicans, he said, have to concede that while they might not agree with Democrats on issues, at least that party reaches out to them.”

“Likewise, retired Gen. Colin Powell, who became the country’s first black secretary of state under President George W. Bush, said both candidates are qualified and that he will not necessarily vote for the Republican.”

I guess it’s more about race than doing the right thing. Very sad. Just another thing that’s wrong with politics and our GOP leadership.

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Wow, you gotta love the French, and those loving Muslims.

PARIS (AP) – The bride said she was a virgin. When her new husband discovered that was a lie, he went to court to annul the marriage—and a French judge agreed.
The ruling ending the Muslim couple’s union has stunned France and raised concerns the country’s much-cherished secular values are losing ground to religious traditions from its fast-growing immigrant communities.

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Did anyone see this? What a mess Sen. Robert Bird is. And to think, the media and liberal Republicans were all over Strom Thurman to resign because of age. What about call for Bird to resign? He’s a bigger mess, can’t even talk coherently. He’s so old, 90, and in such bad shape that today, a few days after this speech on the Senate floor, he himself had to be taken to the hospital. Our Founding Fathers must be ashamed at this country right now.

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Earlier this week the Assembly passed Assembly Bill 2948 by a vote of 41 to 25. AB2948 seeks to ban the sale of firearms and ammunition on the property or inside the buildings that comprise the Cow Palace. The bill now heads to the Senate for its consideration. Also headed to the Senate are Assembly Bill 2235 and Assembly Bill 2062.

AB 2062 would make it a crime to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month, even between family and friends, unless you are registered as a “handgun ammunition vendor” in the Department of Justice’s database. Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed and store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers. The bill would also require vendors to keep a record of the transaction including the ammunition buyer’s name, driver’s license, the quantity, caliber, type of ammunition purchased, and right thumbprint, which would be submitted to the Department of Justice. All ammunition sales in the state of California would be subject to a $3 per transaction tax. Lastly, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited. Any violator of AB2062 would be subject to civil fines. AB2062 was amended to remove the requirement that law-abiding gun owners obtain a permit to purchase handgun ammunition.

Please contact your State Senator and respectfully urge him or her to oppose AB2948, AB2235 and AB2062 when they come before them for a vote. Contact information for your State Senator can be found by clicking here.

Dang it! There was no way I was voting for McCain, but now I might have stumbled upon a reason to do so. If we could get Madanna, Oprah, Alec Baldwin, Hillary and John Kerry to make this same promise I may have to vote for McCain after all.

“SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie “Bernard and Doris,” is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, “It’s a critical time, but I have faith in the American people.”

“I thought the whole point of feminism is that you’re not supposed to be defined by gender. I don’t understand the reasoning behind that, because I wouldn’t vote for Condoleezza Rice, and I hated Margaret Thatcher.”

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Tancredo: “I was there” when Doug Ose Voted to give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens

Congressman Tom Tancredo, the founder and former chairman of the bipartisan House Immigration Reform Caucus, has endorsed Tom McClintock for Congress and urged voters not to be fooled by Doug Ose’s claims that he is tough on illegal immigration.

“I was there when liberal congressman Doug Ose twice voted to give amnesty to illegal aliens,” Tancredo said. “He never joined our Immigration Reform Caucus and was never a reliable vote on border control, sanctuary cities or federal requirements for a secure ID.”

“Doug Ose can spend 3 million dollars trying to hide his votes, but it doesn’t change the truth,” Tancredo said. “Don’t be fooled by Doug Ose’s claims. His voting record tells the real story. When he voted to protect ‘sanctuary cities’ from punishment for violating the law and harboring illegal aliens, he showed his true colors.”

The vast majority of the public support measures to improve the enforcement of our existing immigration laws, and overwhelmingly oppose granting amnesty to illegal aliens. Tancredo is steadfastly opposed to any form of amnesty, and has worked to prevent the passage of any legislation that would provide a path to citizenship to illegal aliens, or any expansion of guest worker programs.

A school teacher by trade; Tancredo taught for several years at Drake Junior High before serving in the Colorado Legislature. He worked at the Department of Education for former presidents Reagan and Bush. Tancredo is a member of both the House Foreign Affairs and Natural Resources Committees and is retiring from Congress after the current term.

“Congressman Tom Tancredo was there when Doug Ose voted to give social security benefits to illegal aliens,” said Stan Devereux, spokesman for McClintock. “As a member of Congress, Tom McClintock will carry on Tom Tancredo’s fight against illegal immigration.”

Ose’s Lifetime 55% rating from Federation for American Immigration Reform
Ose’s Lifetime “C” rating from Americans for Better Immigration

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This is great news to those of us on the right who can’t stand voting for McCain in any election!

“Former US congressman Bob Barr on Monday announced plans to run for president on the Libertarian Party’s ticket, in a move some analysts say could hurt Republican presumptive nominee John McCain.
“My name is Bob Barr and I’m a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America,” said the former Republican lawmaker, who played a key role in the congressional impeachment of former president Bill Clinton.

Barr said he was running because there was not “currently or anywhere on the horizon” any candidate who understood the principles of fiscal conservatism and basic principles on which he said America was founded.”

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This is a good article on some of the protest going on about McCain being the GOP nominee.

Virtually all the nation’s political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there.

But in the meantime, quietly, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in Minnesota at the beginning of September.

Just take a look at recent Republican primary results, largely overlooked because McCain locked up the necessary 1,191 delegates long ago. In Indiana, McCain got 77% of the recent Republican primary vote, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, who’ve each long ago quit and endorsed McCain, still got 10% and 5% respectively, while Paul took 8%.

On the same May 6 in North Carolina, McCain received less than three-quarters of Republican votes (74%), while Huckabee got 12%, Paul 7% and Alan Keyes and No Preference took a total of 7%.

Pennsylvania was even slightly worse for the GOP’s presumptive nominee, who got only 73% to a combined 27% for Paul (16%) and Huckabee (11%).

As Politico.com’s Jonathan Martin noted recently, at least some of these results are temporary protest votes in meaningless primaries built on lingering affection for Huckabee and suspicion of McCain.

Link to full article.

The Eagle Forum PAC has endorsed Tom McClintock in the race to represent California’s 4th Congressional District.

“I am happy to endorse Tom McClintock,” said Eagle Forum Founder and President, Phyllis Schlafly. “Tom has stood for conservative values in California for many years. He understands the issues facing families, including securing our borders, protecting the unborn, and giving taxpayers back more of their money.”

“We need Tom’s leadership in Washington at this critical time because he understands the proper limited role of government,” Schlafly continued. “We can trust Tom’s record in the California Assembly and State Senate, knowing he will fight just as hard in Congress for our values.”

Eagle Forum PAC supports candidates who are committed to a conservative philosophy of limited government, national sovereignty, and traditional values.

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Anyone still think border security is not a top issue for our country?

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Fifteen Mexican drug gang members were killed in a gun battle near the U.S. border on Saturday, their bodies soaked in blood in the road after one of the deadliest shootouts in Mexico’s three-year-long narco-war.

Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border fought each other with rifles and machine guns in the early hours of the morning, police said.

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From rosevillept.com 4/17/08

William Jessup University will host a debate featuring the two leading Republican primary candidates for the 4th Congressional District from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 8 at the University’s campus in Rocklin at 333 Sunset Blvd.

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By Shane Goldmacher – sgoldmacher@sacbee.com
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4

Over the next seven weeks, the congressional campaign of Doug Ose will hammer opponent Tom McClintock as a carpetbagging state senator from Southern California.

But the truth is, McClintock has lived with his family in the greater Sacramento area for more than 10 years while representing a Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles county seat – enabled by loose state laws that allow legislators to make their homes hundreds of miles from the districts they represent.

Under federal law, both McClintock and Ose are eligible for the 4th Congressional District seat, despite the fact that neither has made his home there. Congressional candidates must only reside in the state in which they are running, be at least 25 years old and have been a U.S. citizen for seven years.

“I’ve always interpreted my responsibility as a state legislator to cast my votes in the interest of the entire state,” McClintock said. “I believe that every congressman has the responsibility to cast his or her vote in the best interest of the United States.”

To me, this is a none issue. See the full article here.

On Tuesday, April 15, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will consider Assembly Bill 2235, a bill to forbid the sale of handguns other than “owner-authorized (or “smart”) handguns”—that is, handguns with a permanent, programmable biometric feature that renders the firearm useless unless activated by the authorized user. No proven, viable handgun of this type has ever been developed.

Introduced by Assemblyman Mark DeSaulnier (D-11), AB2235 would require the Attorney General to report to the Governor and Legislature on the availability of owner-authorized handguns; once the Attorney General finds that these guns are available, only “owner-authorized” handguns could be approved for sale in California.

The law enforcement community has even expressed concerns about the use of this technology in firearms. How often has your computer malfunctioned while simply sitting stationary on your desktop? With that in mind, are you willing to put your personal safety, and that of your loved ones, in the hands of a sensitive computer system exposed to recoil, heat, solvents, dirt and grime? For an informative article about smart guns and the New Jersey law this bill is based on, please click here.

Please contact the members of the Public Safety Committee today and respectfully urge them to oppose this ill-advised proposal. Contact information for the Committee can be found below.

State Assembly Member Jose Solorio (D-69), Chair
(916) 319-2069
Assemblymember.solorio@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Greg Aghazarian, (R-26), Vice Chair
(916) 319-2026
Assemblymember.aghazarian@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Joel Anderson (R-77)
(916) 319-2077
Assemblymember.Anderson@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Hector De La Torre (D-50)
(916) 319-2050
Assemblymember.DeLaTorre@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Fiona Ma (D-12)
(916) 319-2012
Assemblymember.Ma@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Anthony J. Portantino (D-44)
(916) 319-2044
Assemblymember.Portantino@assembly.ca.gov

ASSEMBLYMAN BEALL PROPOSES BIG INCREASE
By Mike Zapler
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau

Joe Six-pack will have to pay a lot more to get his buzz on if Assemblyman Jim Beall has his way.

The San Jose Democrat on Thursday proposed raising the beer tax by $1.80 per six-pack, or 30 cents per can or bottle. The current tax is 2 cents per can. That’s an increase of about 1,500 percent.

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Yesterday, Tuesday, April 8, the Assembly Public Safety Committee passed Assembly Bill 2948, sponsored by State Assembly Member Mark Leno (D-13). AB2948 would ban the sale of firearms and ammunition on the property or inside the buildings that comprise the Cow Palace.

While AB2948 passed the Public Safety Committee, another anti-gun bill, Assembly Bill 2566, introduced by State Assembly Member Loni Hancock (D-14), failed to pass after several votes. AB2566 would have repealed statewide preemption statutes and allowed cities, counties, and other such localities to enact their own forms of restrictive regulation on handguns. Uniform laws regulating firearms and ammunition are necessary to protect the constitutional rights of California’s law-abiding gun owners and to prevent anti-gun municipalities from passing their own laws, which may conflict with state law.

Please continue contacting your State Assembly Member and respectfully urge him or her to oppose AB2948 and AB2566.

PLEASE CONTACT THIS BLOG IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IS!!!!

“The Republican race for the Fourth Congressional District is shuffling once again.

Citrus Heights attorney Suzanne Jones has officially filed papers and has announced she will vie for the seat being vacated by Rep. John Doolittle, R-Roseville, who said in January he would not seek a 10th term in Congress.

Though she currently lives in Citrus Heights, she said she has plans to move back to Granite Bay.”

Wow, I guess another person outside the district is running…that makes it 3 of 3 now. Does that issue really matter in this race now?

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sacbee.com

“A new program in Placer County aims to ensure that every child age 5 and younger has health insurance.

The First 5 Placer Children and Families Commission this week unveiled the program, which works to enroll eligible children in government-funded insurance programs and offers a new health insurance product for those from families whose incomes are too high to qualify.

Coverage costs between nothing and $15 per child, with a maximum monthly payment of $45 per family. Eligibility is limited to families with incomes less than 300 percent of the federal poverty level, about $60,000 a year for a family of four.”

Who’s the Placer Co official behind this one? Don’t we have enough budget problems in this county? You’re telling me someone making $60K a year is elgible for public assistance? So where were the Placer Co. Stupivisors at when Oracle and HP are paying $30K for most of their lower level employees? I guess these folks should be on food stamps and in public housing.

Any of you “Children First” apologists rethinking your position on education funding yet???

By Deb Kollars – sacbee.com

“If I were to get laid off, I’d get my last paycheck and then get booted out the door,” Young said. “To see administrators soaking up the gravy is really infuriating.”

Young was referring to the March 19 decision by the Grant school board to give big buyout checks to as many as 19 top tier administrators in the district. The proposed individual payouts range from about $100,000 to more than $250,000. If all 19 take the buyouts, it will cost $3 million, according to Dave Gordon, Sacramento County’s superintendent of schools, who is investigating the buyout package.

The retirement deals included $10,000 cash incentives that were required under employee bargaining agreements at the time.

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OPPOSE AB2062

On Tuesday, April 8, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will consider legislation that would require gun owners to obtain a “permit-to-purchase” before buying handgun ammunition.

Introduced by State Assembly Member Kevin De Leon (D-45), Assembly Bill 2062 puts ammunition sales in the crosshairs. AB2062 would require that law-abiding gun owners obtain a permit to buy handgun ammunition and would impose severe restrictions on the private transfers of handgun ammunition. Applicants for a “permit-to-purchase” would be required to submit to a background check, pay a $35 fee, and wait as long as 30 days to receive the permit.

Under AB2062, it would be unlawful to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month, even between family and friends, unless you are registered as a “handgun ammunition vendor” in the Department of Justice’s database. Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed and store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers. The bill would also require vendors to keep a record of the transaction including the ammunition buyer’s name, driver’s license, the quantity, caliber and type of ammunition purchased, and right thumbprint, which would be submitted to the Department of Justice or the number of his handgun ammunition purchase permit. Vendors would be required to contact the purchase permit database, to verify the validity of a permit before completing a sale. All ammunition sales in the State of California would be subject to a $3 per transaction tax. Lastly, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited. Any violator of AB2062 would be subject to civil fines.

Please contact the members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee and your State Assembly Member TODAY and respectfully urge them to oppose this onerous attack on our Second Amendment freedoms. Contact information for the committee members can be found below. Please click here to find your State Assembly Member.

State Assembly Member Jose Solorio (D-69), Chair
(916) 319-2069
Assemblymember.solorio@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Greg Aghazarian, (R-26), Vice Chair
(916) 319-2026
Assemblymember.aghazarian@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Joel Anderson (R-77)
(916) 319-2077
Assemblymember.Anderson@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Hector De La Torre (D-50)
(916) 319-2050
Assemblymember.DeLaTorre@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Fiona Ma (D-12)
(916) 319-2012
Assemblymember.Ma@assembly.ca.gov

State Assembly Member Anthony J. Portantino (D-44)
(916) 319-2044
Assemblymember.Portantino@assembly.ca.gov

Contact these people today!

“Need more confirmation that a majority of Americans support the Right to Keep and Bear Arms? Look no further than the results of a Gallup poll, which were reported in a March 27, Gallup.com article. The poll found that an overwhelming majority of the United States public—73%—believes that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of Americans to own firearms.

Other recent polls have shown that Americans support gun rights. A Zogby International poll for Associated Television News, conducted December 13-17, 2007 found 27% of voters would be more likely to support a candidate endorsed by NRA (through its PAC, NRA Political Victory Fund). That survey showed that NRA ranks above Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, the AFL-CIO, Oprah Winfrey, and Barbara Streisand in influencing voters! And another Zogby International poll conducted earlier in 2007 found that 66% of the American voting public rejects the idea that new gun control laws are needed.”

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From the Washington Times
By Bill Gertz

Part One Link

“The inspector general of the Government Printing Office today said his office is conducting an “end-to-end” review of the agency’s production of electronic passports.”

“The Washington Times reported that the GPO had contracted with two European companies to produce computer chips with a wire antenna assembled at a plant in Thailand. The company in Thailand, Smartrac, charged in a court filing in Netherlands last year that its technology was stolen by China.”

GPO profits go to bonuses and trips
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“When the government’s main printing agency booked $100 million in unexpected profit it went on a spending spree: large bonuses to top managers, trips to Paris and Las Vegas, and an official photo of the boss that cost $10,000.”

“Investigators say that at least 25 GPO officials received bonuses of between $2,000 and $12,920 that totaled $181,593. The bonuses were paid for fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2006, but have not yet been paid for 2007, investigators said.”

“The Washington Times’ investigation disclosed that the security of the blank-passport production involves computer chips purchased in Europe and then shipped to Thailand for outfitting with a wire antenna that transmits personal data to an electronic scanner at U.S. border entry points. Security specialists said the use of foreign chips and assembly abroad makes the blank passports, a key travel document, vulnerable to theft or counterfeiting.”

“Additionally, records obtained by congressional investigators show unusual travel by senior GPO officials to conferences and other events in such places as Las Vegas; Atlantic City, N.J.; London; Paris; Hamburg, Germany; and Tokyo, among other locations. Mr. Brink, the assistant public printer for Security and Intelligence Documents, for example, traveled to Paris in June 2006 for an electronic-passport forum that cost more than $5,000. He also traveled to London in May 2006 for a trip that cost $3,800.”

And our President, pretending that national security is so vital we need to send 4000 troops to die for a country which does not want, or appreciate, freedom. This same President allows open borders and US passports to be manufactured in a foreign country with no ovesight. What a joke.

Hillary caught lying about trip to Bosnia.

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NAS Says Ballistic Imaging Database “Should Not Be Established”

The good news for gun owners is that a highly regarded committee of experts, including some who are known supporters of gun control, have concluded as NRA has been saying all along that an image database is not necessarily capable of the crime-solving solutions its advocates have long claimed. LINK

Outrage Of The Week—Political Hypocrisy By Obama

A March 2 commentary in National Review Online (NRO) demonstrates the hypocrisy that often abounds in the campaigns of anti-Second Amendment candidates. This time, the transgressor is Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. LINK

Reposted with permission from the NRA

WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans have a right to own guns, Supreme Court justices declared Tuesday in a historic and lively debate that could lead to the most significant interpretation of the Second Amendment since its ratification two centuries ago.

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This is great news! Ose will never support the Second Amendment, just look at his backers…Dan “the gun grabber” Lungren?? This is why you HAVE to vote for Tom McClintock in June!

By Gayle Garbolino-Mojica –
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, March 13, 2008
Story appeared in SOUTH PLACER ROSEVILLE section of the SacBee, Page G5

This sad story of poor, whiney school officials doesn’t tell both sides.

“In Placer County, our districts stand to lose more than $25 million in general fund revenue and another $8 million in categorical funding, for a total of $33 million in loss of revenue. That equates to about $580 less per-student funding for our county.”

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Oh please! Every time state budget cuts come up the schools and firemen all scream bloody murder. Schools are very top heavy with administrators getting 6 figure salaries; almost 100% job security, a pension, etc etc while the private sector pays for this. What Garbolino won’t tell you is that she (or a close relative) is in the teaching profession, or related, so there’s a conflict of interest. Also she fails to let the reader know that by law, over 50% of the entire state budget of CA is earmarked for K-12 alone. This doesn’t include all the money going to the community colleges, the California State Univ or the University of California campuses. It’s almost a scam folks the amount of money the taxpayers of this state throws at education. Any yet we don’t get much for our money. Please be smart and informed about this issue and don’t fall for these fear stories in the media. The schools of CA do very well for themselves monetarily and the budget already reflects that to a fault.

Sac Bee Metro Staff – March 14, 2008

Legislative staff members are more likely than most state workers to earn six figures, though typically state Senate and Assembly staffers make about the same as their peers elsewhere in state government.

Those and other facts were gleaned from a Bee analysis of state salary data, which has just been updated with salaries for legislative staffers and is available at sacbee.com/statepay.

Link to story.

In 1994, a race for the U.S. House was decided by four votes. In 1998, a U.S. Senate race was decided by 400 votes out of 400,000 cast. In 2002, an anti-gun candidate won a state primary in Arizona by five votes. Last year, a pro-gun State Senator in Virginia was re-elected by less than 100 votes. And of course, in the 2000 presidential election, 537 votes in Florida elected George Bush U.S. President over Al Gore.

Think one vote doesn’t count? History is replete with examples such as these that demonstrate the importance of every single vote.

No doubt, many elections this year will be determined by the slimmest of margins. Will your vote make the difference? To ensure that pro-gun candidates prevail, NRA-ILA has launched an aggressive voter registration drive.

One of the most important components of this endeavor is a new webpage—www.nraila.org/vote2008 will provide you with all of your voter registration needs. Here are some of the many features you will find at www.nraila.org/vote2008:

Voter registration applications that can be completed, downloaded, and mailed to your elections officer to ensure gun owners are registered to vote;

Information on election dates and corresponding deadlines for the general and primary elections;

Links to identify and contact your local Election Volunteer Coordinator so you can work with NRA members and gun owners in your area to elect pro-Second Amendment lawmakers to office;

Ability to identify “Second Amendment Activist Centers” in your state to retrieve NRA-ILA materials;

Link to purchase your official NRA-ILA campaign yard sign, and;

All of the information and links currently found at www.NRAILA.org, and more!

Registering to vote is not only the most important step gun owners can take to ensure victory in the 2008 elections. It is also one of the easiest.

Please forward this link to all of your family, friends, and fellow firearm owners to ensure they are registered to vote as well.

Reposted with permission from the National Rifle Association of America, Institute for Legislative Action

So much for the global warming cult. Doesn’t seem like much evidence is backing up AlGore’s lam theories of the earth getting warmer. What about all the Hollywood Hypocrites who last night drop to the Academy Awards show last night in super stretch limos, even one celeb in a super stretch Hummer H2. How’s that for principle?

“Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.”

Read the full National Post article here

Another good article:

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
“Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile—the list goes on and on.”

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If you care about your Second Amendmednt rights, keep the pressure on your electeds to make certain this bill doesn’t get anywhere. When we lose the White House and Congress in November, this will be an even larger concern.

In 1974, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said that the “manufacture and sale of handguns should be terminated. Existing handguns should be acquired by the states.” Since then, Kennedy has been the most anti-handgun member of the Senate, having introduced legislation to ban handguns, register handguns, license handgun owners, ban ammunition, authorize the Consumer Products Safety Commission to prohibit the manufacture of firearms and ammunition, and impose waiting periods on handgun purchases.

As we recently reported, on February 7 this year, ten days after endorsing another handgun ban supporter Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president, Kennedy renewed his efforts to ban handguns by introducing S. 2605, a bill that seeks to ban the manufacture, importation, and transfer (sale, etc.) of any semi-automatic pistol that does not possess “a microscopic array of characters that identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol . . . etched into the breech face and firing pin of the pistol,” and stamp both sets of characters into the cartridge case of a round of ammunition, when the round is fired. On the same day, Representative Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) introduced an identical bill, H.R. 5266, called the “National Crime Gun Identification Act.”

The Kennedy-Becerra bill is much more severe than the micro-stamping handgun ban passed in California last year. Where the California ban applies only to models of semi-automatic pistols that are produced after January 1, 2010, the Kennedy-Becerra bill would apply to all models of semi-automatic pistols.

Micro-stamping has repeatedly failed in scientific tests. Micro-stampings are easily removed. And most gun crimes cannot be solved by micro-stamping, or do not require micro-stamping to be solved. Additionally, most criminals who use guns get them through unregulated channels, thus micro-stamping may increase gun thefts, home invasions and other burglaries, and expand the black market in guns. Moreover, most guns do not automatically eject fired cartridge cases, only a small percentage of guns will be micro-stamped, and most violent crimes are committed without guns. Finally, micro-stamping would waste money—money that is better spent on traditional crime-fighting and crime-solving efforts.

The New York Times lands a bombshell on McCain today. Interesting to note they’ve sat on this story for quite some time and decided to release this after McCain has pretty much wrapped up the GOP Presidential Nomination. This is what conservatives have been saying all along, McCain is not the guy we want representing our party or in the White House. Anyone now doubt the liberal media bias?

New York Time article

From that rag: “A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.”

“Every time I hear the word ‘conservative’ it makes me sick to my stomach.” – Charles Barkley

If you liked this guy before, here’s a great reason to re-think that position if you are a Conservative or a Christian or both. And he uttered these words on non other than CNN.

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DEKALB, Ill. – Another person shot when a gunman opened fire at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University has died, bringing the toll to seven, including the gunman, a coroner said Friday.

This one, like some others before him, even stopped to reload. One gun. That’s all it would have taken. But that campus, like all the others, is a “gun free zone”….“To everyone except the killer.“

Folks, here’s another example of why guns laws for the most part are a joke. The only thing they do is prevent law abiding citizens from owning them. If a student with a background in firearms was able to carry a weapon, or get one from his/her vehicle, this could have been prevent. But as always, these bastions of Liberalism prevent that and have proclaimed “gun free zones” all over campus….but someone forgot to tell the killer that.

I hope Doug Ose isn’t reading this post because someone will have to explain to him what this means, he won’t be able to comprehend a criminal ignoring a “gun free zone.”

Link provided by KXNet.com

A good article about how McCain will act if he gets into office. It’s scary how many Republicans are behind this guy, even conservatives. It’s all a fraud. McCain says he’ll end the Republican Party as it’s known today, and I don’t doubt him one bit.

“RUNNING as a conservative, John McCain rolled up huge victories last night in New York, New Jersey and beyond. But if history is any guide, the McCain we’ve seen of late on the campaign trail is the most conservative McCain we’ll ever see.

He will return to his lifelong positions as soft on illegal immigration, skeptical of tax cuts and favoring strong federal control over things like campaign financing.

McCain has so radicalized key conservatives that some have vowed to turn themselves into suicide voters next November by pulling the lever for Hillary Rodham Clinton over him.

But if those conservatives sit out the general election, they will help Democrats make history by electing either the first black president or the first female president next November.”

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Yes, you read right, the Ose 5 are looking for more money. Even though this is barely a part time job, $30K is just not even. What’s the median income in Placer County you say? Well, not much more than $30K and yet these guys want more money. And they will push for almost $100K in March!!!! Are you flipping kidding me? Well I say if you want more money get a second job or get a real private sector job. I heard CarMax and the Casino are both hiring.

By Art Campos – SacBee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, January 31, 2008

Placer County supervisors soon may try again to increase their annual salaries, which have been capped at $30,000 because of charter requirements.

Voters would have to approve any changes in the county charter, and they have defeated past attempts to raise the supervisors’ salaries.

The supervisors reviewed the salary issue earlier this month and asked their staff members to return on March 11 with further information.

A charter review committee made up of Placer citizens has recommended that the $30,000 salary cap be replaced with an annual salary, including benefits, for the supervisors.

The committee said eight counties of comparable size to Placer are paying an average of about $99,000 annually to their elected supervisors.

The committee also has recommended that a statement be made to the charter that the county supervisor position is at least a full-time job.

Placer County voters approved a charter in 1980. The charter can be reviewed every five years to consider recommended changes.

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More anger from the Right. You cannot with good conservative conscience vote for McCain, not now, not Tuesday and not this November.

As the Democrats debated Thursday night, Ann Coulter was on Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes” declaring that if John McCain faced Hillary Rodham Clinton in the general election, she would vote for Clinton.

“She’s more conservative than he is,” Coulter said.

McCain also faces a conservative insurrection over his opposition to interrogation techniques that border on torture and opposition to drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The Wall Street Journal headed its editorial Thursday, “McCain’s Apostasies.”

That same day, Human Events headlined its lead story online, “Who hijacked the primaries?”

And then there’s Rush Limbaugh. In recent days, the supremely influential radio icon has been vociferous (even for him) in declaring that a McCain nomination will cause the destruction of the conservative movement.

“My so-called base is not rushing to vote for McCain,” Limbaugh said on his radio show.

“He relishes kind of tweaking conservatives,” said Don Devine, vice-chairman of the American Conservative Union.

“He doesn’t have, or has very few, friends in the leadership of the conservative movement. There is no question about it.”

Devine said he would likely not vote for McCain should he win the Republican nomination.

Article from the Politico

Watch the video here if you missed it on Fox….

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