The Folsom Chamber of Commerce held a candidate forum last night. It featured 9(!) of the candidates for #AD06. For reasons unbeknownst to me, Brian Caples and the other Dem were no-shows. I am going to focus on the funded candidates - so let me summarize the...
Your intrepid blogger has learned that long time Placer County Clerk-Recorder-Registrar of Voters Jim McCauley is scheduled to retire the end of this month. According to well-placed sources within the CalPERS system, McCauley will make his last day March 30,...
Let’s party for our Party! The Placer County Impact Republicans is open to new members who want to help elect Republicans to local office. Join us as we kick-off the 2016 election cycle! Ginger’s Restaurant 1410 E. Roseville Parkway Roseville, CA 95661 Thursday,...
Joe Montes is running for CA-01 against Congressman Doug LaMalfa. Apparently, the Congressman is losing his grip on the district and several within it are getting restless. An unapologetic conservative, Joe Montes enjoys support from talk radio host Lars Larson and...
Last Night, Ted Gaines was rejected by the CRA. The CRA endorsed Stephen Baird for State Senate last night over Ted Gaines. My feelings about the CRA aside, this is a stunning rejection of the Gaines dynasty and further proof that their aloof acerbic style of...
Let’s party for our Party! The Placer County Impact Republicans is open to new members who want to help elect Republicans to local office. Join us as we kick-off the 2016 election cycle! Ginger’s Restaurant 1410 E. Roseville Parkway Roseville, CA 95661 Thursday,...
With these two endorsements, Bill now has the support of all five City Councilmembers for Roseville, the biggest city in the 6th District along with the political action committee of the Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce. "Bill Halldin has been very involved in...
While Ken Campbell is promoting a non-republican running for supervisor against Kirk Uhler, the other four Supervisors voted to advance an initiative to legalize marijuana cultivation in Placer County. (Don't hold your breath waiting for the Central Committee to...
Liberal Republican Cristi (Beckstead)-Nelson has been making feeble attempts to keep up in the endorsement war with Leading Candidate and Well-Respected Real Business Owner Bill Halldin. She has sent out some interesting "I have to keep up with Bill emails"....
Well - leave it to the young Kevin Kiley to feature this cycle's first legitimately BAD endorsement. When you are a young first-time candidate, these are the sorts of mistakes you make. Kiley lists "Former US Attorney McGregor Scott" in his campaign communication....
The OC Weekly had a fascinating article about some political machinations in the 2014 election. Let me write it in crayon, this post is not about Jeff Lalloway, who benefited from the Independent Expenditure. This is about #epicfails of Orange County GOP...
I was pinged on a poll that referenced Andy Pugno and Cristi Nelson. This is consistent with his pattern from 2012 when he ran a poll very late right before filing closed and then pulled papers and filed against Beth Gaines. I just received a call from someone who...