The race for the right to represent the GOP in California’s upcoming gubernatorial election is another one of those head-scratchers that the oft-rumored Republican party here is known for producing. Meg Whitman, whose Republican credentials don’t extend much beyond her voter registration, has a comfortable over Steve Poizner in most polls at this point. Here’s [...]

With friends like this… Even as former eBay CEO Meg Whitman acted as a high-profile backer and adviser to 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain, her top aide Henry Gomez — now an eMeg gubernatorial campaign majordomo — donated the maximum to Democrat Barack Obama, federal records show. Gomez, a trusted top insider in Republican [...]

Raising money in California without a sadistic tax burden?!?!? What kind of politician would think of such a thing? Chuck DeVore. (SACRAMENTO) – Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) today introduced a proposal that generates as much as $16 billion by 2011, enough to fill more than three-quarters of California’s estimated $21 billion budget deficit. The proposal [...]

Yesterday I set up a separate, California-centric blog to post information I receive from some of the campaigns I’m interested in. Much of this info will be posted with little or no commentary from me, which isn’t generally how things are done on this blog. That’s why I thought a separate site would be better. [...]