Once again, the tea-partiers fail to get their way. The Orange County launched recall attempt against Republican Anthony Adams failed to meet the required number of signatures to move forward the Secretary of State's office announced on Friday. Adams 59th Assembly District covers parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties.
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Tags: Anthony Adams, Assemblyman Anthony Adams, Recall, Republican mistakes, Tea Baggers, Tea Partiers
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On Wednesday the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute released a study, “The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform: Implications for States,” underscoring the urgent need for reform and why inaction is not an option for Americans. Data for each state are in the study.
Without health insurance reform, within 10 years,...
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Tags: 2008 American Community Survey, California, Congressman John Campbell, Health Care Refore, Health Insurance Coverage, Health insurance reform, Orange County Statistics, Republican mistakes, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Study, the uninsured, Urban Institute
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California Senate Republicans, with the exception of Senator Abel Maldonado, blocked passage of SB 65, the legislation necessary to facilitate the ability of local governments to finance the loss of funding due to the implementation of Prop 1A in order to “balance” the state budget. Again, the Republicans in the Senate placed partisan bickeing...
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Tags: Caifornia State Senate, HUTA, Prop 1A financing, Republican mistakes, SB 65, SB 67, Senate Republicans
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It’s Monday, the legislative session is “completed,” and “Open Mike” Duvall is still getting spanked by columnists around the state. I’ve gathered a few of them together to make your Monday morning more entertaining.
Politics and sexual deviants
Don’t look now, but the two are intersecting all over the place.
Martin Wisckol
Columnist: The Buzz
The Orange County Register
Disgraced...
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Tags: Assemblyman Mike Duvall, Frank Mickadeit, George Skelton, LATimes, Martin Wisckol, Mike Duvall, Orange County Register, Republican mistakes, sex scandal, Spanky Duvall, Steve Lopez
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In a nutshell it looks like the California GOP Vice-Chair Jon Fleischman is up to his eyeballs in the “Open Mike” Duvall sex talk scandal. Back in 2007 Fleischman’s wife Maureen worked for Mike Duvall on his Assembly staff. Sources tell us she was let go for having an attitude problem. We are hearing it was something...
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Tags: 72nd Assembly District, California State Assembly, FlashReport, Jeff Miller, Jon Fleischman, Mike Duvall, Mike Schroeder, Republican Dirty Tricks, Republican mistakes, sex scandal, Sex talk
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From the bizzaro world of the GOP, Republican Assemblyman, and former Ethics Committee member Jeff Miller claims:
From: @CapitolAlert
Sent: Sep 10, 2009 2:31p
Asm. Jeff Miller says “he wasn’t paying attention” when Duvall dished on sexcapades http://bit.ly/PDrZi.
So let’s see if we’ve got this right? Miller wasn’t listening and Duvall was making it all up.
Do these guys...
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Tags: Assemblyman Jeff Miller, GOP, Mike Duvall, Republican Excuses, Republican mistakes, sex scandal
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Last night during the President’s Health Care speech to Congress, South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson heckled the President yelling “You Lie!” There was little respect from the entire GOP Caucus last night but this nut went a bit too far for a member of Congress. He behaved more like the nut-jobs fired up by...
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Tags: disrespect, GOP, Health Care Reform, Health Care Speech, Joe Wilson R-SC, Liar, President Obama, Republican mistakes, Republicans
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