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Mike Cernovich, author, journalist, and producer of Hoaxed, said he was considering running governor of California on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. A poll of registered voters in California published last week had three percent of respondents selecting Cernovich as the most likely person they would support to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the event of a gubernatorial recall. Republican candidate Caitlyn Jenner received five percent. You’re a viable gubernatorial candidate out in California, which is super cool,” Marlow stated....

<p>Decision will become final in 10 days unless Newsom’s attorneys can raise new challenge..</p> <p>A judge on Monday preliminarily ordered California Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop issuing directives related to the coronavirus that might interfere with state law.</p> <p>Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman tentatively ruled that one of the dozens of executive orders Newsom has issued overstepped his authority and was “an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power.”</p>

In the springtime, strategists for Meg Whitman in her campaign for governor of California probably felt they’d died and gone to heaven in. In a state roiled in political in-fighting, effectively bankrupt, and a political atmosphere in which the electorate was sharpening pitchforks and boiling tar, you had a non-political woman, an internet legend, immensely successful, running as a moderate Republican, which all the pundits agree is the only way for Republicans to get elected in California. Meg Whitman, the first female billionaire in fact, with all the private money available one could ever hope to spend. And the opponent?...

Calif. Pol Touts 'Pedophile Island' for Sex Offenders (May 21) -- California gubernatorial candidate Douglas Hughes has made quite a name for himself in recent weeks -- not so much by surging ahead in the polls, but rather by promising, if elected, to create a "Pedophile Island" for convicted sex offenders. "I read the newspapers, and always somewhere buried in the paper somebody has [been] raped, tortured, kidnapped and so forth," Hughes told AOL News. "We are not getting anywhere [by] putting them back in the neighborhood. ... It's like any alcoholic, sex or drug addict -- have it around...

We are currently looking to fill the following positions for Meg Whitman's campaign in Merced county. If you would be (or know anyone who would be) interested in working on the campaign, please send an e-mail to mercedcountyformeg@gmail.com. We could really use all the help we can get. The following positions are on the executive committee for Merced County. Also, if you can't take on the responsibility of a position on the committee, but would still like to volunteer, please send an e-mail as well! Thanks for all the help! Volunteer Chair : * help county chair to recruit city...

Edward C. Noonan, American Independent Party nominee for Governor of California, is an established leader in the effort to protect the rights of parents to teach their children parental and social family values, rather than those demanded by politicians and educational bureaucrats. This year, Noonan led opposition to three bills in the Legislature which he believed would force “the bedroom into the classroom” while “locking the parents out.” One of the bills would have required all California school districts to increase awareness and prevent discrimination based on “perceived gender identity and sexual orientation.” Noonan says that the bill would require...

<p>California business interests have begun pouring money into the campaign committees of Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who over the weekend raised nearly $725,000 in new donations.</p> <p>Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante received a $300,000 contribution from one of the state's leading Indian gambling tribes with whom he has long been associated.</p>

Poll Finds Governor's Support Still ErodingBy DEAN E. MURPHY AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15 — A new statewide opinion poll shows that Gov. Gray Davis of California continues to lose support in his effort to keep his job, while Lt. Gov. Cruz M. Bustamante and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor, are at the top of the list of possible successors.Mr. Davis, who faces a recall election on Oct. 7, has become so unpopular among registered voters that the pollsters, Field Research, likened his standing to that of President Richard M. Nixon before he resigned in August 1974."We've been doing polling for...

<p>Bill Simon, a Republican candidate in the California recall, calls Arnold Schwarzenegger a political "unknown."</p> <p>SANTA MONICA, California (CNN) -- Republican Bill Simon, the recall candidate who lost to Gov. Gray Davis in the governor's race last November, said Tuesday that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a household name but a political "unknown."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With the filing deadline only two days away, former U.S. Olympics President and former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth has decided to take the first step in a potential bid to replace California Gov. Gray Davis in an October 7 recall election, sources close to the Republican businessman told CNN.</p>

<p>August 1, 2003 -- OK, so The Terminator finally terminated his political ambitions. We've all heard how Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to run for governor of California and how he threatened to run and how he actually toyed with a run and how, now, suddenly, he backed out of running to support his friend, former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan for the job of ousting the incumbent Gov. Gray Davis on the Oct. 7 recall election. Arnold's a Republican, Riordan's a Republican, Davis is Democrat.</p>

All I wanted to do was videotape the governor ... and all the governor wanted to do was prevent me from doing it. Much fun ensued! I know a lot of people here are not enthusiastic about Bill Simon, and I'm not sure why. One possibility is that they simply haven't seen him in action, or don't think he's that different from Gray Davis. Well, this video also contrasts their behaviour at campaign events. So if you have time to watch just one of my productions, make it this one. Then, if it whets your appetite for more, you can...

WOW! What a great sendoff for tomorrow's election! This was a high-energy event, and I was there to capture it all on video! A fantastic band with great music, a capacity crowd of hundreds, and an infectious high-energy spirit wrapped up my event video making with flair! No boring speech warning needed for this one - Bill Simon had the crowd at his fingertips, and the band made a great backing. Compared to the Pasadena event for Davis, this was a lot more fun, a lot higher energy, and the speeches were even entertaining! Relive this great event by checking...

<p>Los Angeles -- In a critical meeting in his effort to court gay Republicans, Bill Simon expressed unqualified support for gay equality and the rights of domestic partners, say several members of the gay community who attended the meeting.</p> <p>Simon's support for gay rights issues at the July 23 meeting was similar to positions the Republican candidate for governor took in answering a questionnaire later from a gay group, the Log Cabin Republicans -- positions he disavowed this week in the face of pressure from conservatives and the religious right.</p>

Now is the time for all good FReepers to come to the aid of the NEXT governor of California, Bill Simon! IMHO, members of this forum need to "supplement" the traditional campaign now being conducted by the Simon team with the kind of "guerilla" tactics for which we are uniquely suited. Our overall STRATEGY should be to effectively communicate one simple message to the undecided "swing" voters in this state: Gray Davis is CORRUPT, so we need to "Dump DAVIS!" (lifesize Styrofoam cutouts courtesy of FReeper Howie) and (bumper stickers courtesy of FReeper antaresequity The evidence against him is overwhelming,...

<p>SACRAMENTO - Attempting to right his foundering, financially struggling gubernatorial campaign, Republican Bill Simon on Wednesday fired nearly two dozen staff members, many of whom were let go without being offered severance pay.</p> <p>Up to one-third of the staff was dismissed or asked to find other jobs with the state Republican Party as part of a plan to free up more campaign money for costly television ads.</p>