A hat tip to the LA Times for this post about how the California Fair Political Practices Commission wants to require candidates for political office to disclose payments to bloggers to post positive pieces for a candidate or attack sites to…
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Watchdog Group Says Rohrabacher Personally Benefits from His Office
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
The Daily Pilot reports that Huntington Beach Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is one of the members of Congress who personally benefits — financially — by holding his office beyond his Congressional salary through extended benefits to family members. From the…
LA Times Profiles Jon Fleischman’s Flash Report; Fleischman Admits to Being a Monkey
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
Flash Report publisher Jon Fleischman is the subject of a page one story in today’s LA Times. And while I wished writer James Rainey took it a bit further, readers of this blog won’t be surprised by anything Fleischman had…
A Word on Andrew Breitbart’s Passing
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
Andrew Breitbart is dead and allow us to take the high road and express our sympathies to his wife and four children who now must go on without a husband and father. The local newspapers have considerably different accounts of…
IPSF Meets 2011 Fundraising Goal
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It’s remarkable when, even in a down economy, that a community that values education can make up where our tax dollars fall short. And thanks to the Irvine Public Schools Foundation, the community raised $500,000 in 2011 which will be…
No Denials and No Pala IEs as Tweets on a Train Story Goes Viral
by Dan Chmielewski • • 6 Comments
The “Tweets on a Train” story featuring an overheard cell phone conversation of AD-69 candidate Michele Martinez by investigative journalist Bob Salladay has gone viral being picked by by the Sacramento Bee, a variety of technology/social media web sites, and…
LA Times: Myths and Facts about California Taxes, Spending and Government
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
LA Times columnist George Skleton lays it all out for us with his column in Monday’s newspaper. There’s a perception of runnaway government, massive overspending and sky-high taxes and then, there’s reality. Things are about the same as they were…
