Nice to see the Register’s Frank Mickadeit finally catch up to the blogs on the Dick Ackerman running for Mayor of Irvine rumor we first reported on, with no confirmation or denial from Ackerman’s staff, and which Matt Cunnnigham quashed a few days later on Red County (apparently Ackerman can only return calls to...
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Two things to report:
1. Still no denial from Senator Ackerman’s office that he’ll run for Mayor of Irvine once termed out in Sacramento; I thought for sure after my Saturday post on the matter, he’d deny it to Matt Cunningham at Red County or Jon Fleischman at Flash Report. Nothing at either site on...
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“Typically in Republican primaries and typically in Orange County, the candidates are going to be pretty close together philosophically, so it makes it more challenging to indicate differences between the candidates that can convince voters they should vote for you and not the other guy.”
- Dick Ackerman, Soon-to-be-termed-out State Senate Minority Leader (R-Irvine)
I was...
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We got a tip Wednesday morning and a second tip Wednesday afternoon alerting us that State Senator Dick Ackerman had decided to run for Mayor in Irvine once his term in the State Senate is complete.Â
I called the Senator’s Tustin office Thursday morning, and the person answering the phone said, “It’s the first I’ve...
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HT to our friends at Orange Juice for this lead of an article that ran last week in the SacBee.
But some commentary first. The Flash Report continues to practice Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment which is “Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican (unless they are convicted).” Hence, two weeks after Sheriff Mike...
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