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The blog then supposedly “linked” to what it called CA Attorney General Complaint Against Chuck Devore. Click on that link and what is found are two letters, one to California attorney general Jerry Brown (who is a Democrat running for governor) and another to the Federal Election Commission. The letters request that an investigation be started into Chuck DeVore’s purported misuse of government funds by having his volunteer campaign staff on the payroll of his state assemblyman’s office. But this is where the “independent citizens’ group” story unravels: –First of all, these letters are REQUESTS that DeVore be investigated. There...

This interview is part of an ongoing series of conversations with former Congressman and conservative activist Duncan Hunter. The intent is to keep this rock ribbed conservative’s ideas in the public square which will hopefully help guide his former colleagues still in office, as well as inspire the American people to embrace his Reaganesque views on American politics. With any luck, Hunter will seek the presidency again in 2012, but for now he is concentrating on helping the GOP regain the majority in the House by supporting a lineup of like-minded, young conservatives running for seats currently held by liberal...

Sarah Palin has angered fans by endorsing former Hewlett Packard chief Carly Fiorina instead of a more conservative challenger in her bid to become the Republican candidate aiming to unseat California Senator Barbara Boxer. Palin, a darling of the right-wing, announced on her Facebook page on Thursday that she was backing Fiorina as she attempts to win the Republican ticket for the election in California later this year. The 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate said she was supporting Fiorina as a "Commonsense Conservative" on the basis of her "fiscal conservatism rooted in real life experience." "We can trust Carly to do...

Former clients are distancing themselves from Erik Brown, the California-based consultant in the spotlight for billing the Republican National Committee for a trip to a risqué Los Angeles nightclub. California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R), who's running for Senate, announced Monday he "has severed all ties" with Brown's consulting firm, Dynamic Marketing, Inc (DMI). The DeVore camp had been using DMI to print some campaign letterhead, signs and stickers, it said in a release. Their business dealings "ended some weeks ago when we contracted with a different printer, and will not resume." "There is no present relationship with DMI," DeVore's camp...

I just finished strong in a one hour debate with Tom Campbell and Carly Fiorina (to be broadcast Sunday morning — we’ll send you the media analysis when it comes in). But before I went to bed tonight I wanted to take a moment to type out some of my thoughts on the day’s news and provide you with an update on my campaign. If you didn’t hear, Sarah Palin posted a Facebook message earlier today about the California Republican primary. She bashed Tom Campbell. She tried to ignore me. And she announced her support of Carly Fiorina. She called...

The three major Republican candidates for U.S. Senate jousted Thursday over which would be the most effective steward of conservative principles, covering territory from Afghanistan to gun rights in their first face-to-face debate of the primary season. Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore repeatedly questioned the conservative credentials of former Rep. Tom Campbell and sought to cast Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, as inconsistent on issues such as immigration and the Wall Street bailout. .. Minutes into the debate DeVore lobbed his opening attack on Campbell's record on taxes, faulting him for supporting temporary tax increases last year —...

Over at his Right Now blog, David Weigel comments on my column about Jim DeMint, declaring that the Republican South Carolina senator would “look like a genius today” if he had endorsed Rand Paul in Kentucky and Mike Lee in Utah, instead of supporting Chuck DeVore in California and Marlin Stutzman in Indiana. Weigel misses the point of DeMint’s efforts. DeMint is not interested in “looking like a genius” -- he is interested in helping underdog conservatives get a chance in the primaries against the hand-picked candidates of the establishment. This means taking risks and backing candidates who have a...

Way back in November, right after announcing her bid for the U.S. Senate in California, Republican candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina told conservatives in Washington that she "shared Sarah Palin's values." Today, Palin returns the favor. Carly is the Commonsense Conservative that California needs and our country could sure use in these trying times. Most importantly, she’s running for the right reasons. She has an understanding that is sorely lacking in D.C. She’s not a career politician. She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job creation. Her fiscal conservatism is...

All but one of the top Republican candidates for governor and Senate support the new anti-illegal immigration law in Arizona, now that Steve Poizner and Carly Fiorina have joined Tom Campbell and Chuck DeVore in backing it. “I think I have a better plan for California,” GOP governor candidate Meg Whitman told Register editorial and and news writers today. She reiterated her call to tighten up border security and crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants. She said that would address 90 percent of the problem – and that the Arizona law means a lot of legal controversy ahead....

Washington (CNN) – Sarah Palin broke ranks with the conservative movement on Thursday and endorsed former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in California's Republican Senate primary, prompting a flurry of criticism from many of her loyal supporters. After Palin announced the endorsement on her Facebook page, a number of her followers questioned why she would side with Fiorina instead of the more conservative candidate in the race, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. DeVore has the backing of several leading voices in the conservative movement, including Sen. Jim DeMint, RedState.com editor Erick Erickson and the Tea Party Express. Though a handful of readers agreed...

The Demon Sheep of Zion It is time to say openly what Jewish Republicans in California whisper quietly: throughout her years in public life, Carly Fiorina never associated demonstrably with those supporting a secure and safe Israel with united Jerusalem as her capital. Quite the contrary: everything she has written, down to her memoirs, points otherwise. Everything she has said – the curious way and timing of her pronouncements on the Middle East – points otherwise. Even her close associations, as with the Reverend Jesse Jackson , augur otherwise. There is something unseemly in Ms. Fiorina’s posturing on Israel in...

In California Senate primary, Republicans fear RINO label WASHINGTON — In California and across the nation, it's open season on RINOs. For many conservatives, there's nothing worse than being a RINO — that's a Republican In Name Only, a moderate, a politician who's allegedly squishy on core principles and a little too independent. When California Republicans go to the polls to choose a Senate candidate next month, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore says he'll be the only non-RINO on the ballot. He says both of his challengers, former Rep. Tom Campbell and former businesswoman Carly Fiorina, are true RINOS: Campbell because he...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- DeVore for California today responded to Carly Fiorina's denunciation of Republicans concerned about immigration as having a "racist tone." In an interview conducted by Politico's David Catanese and Josh Kraushaar (at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36629.html), Fiorina responded to an explicit question about whether "Republicans needed to make any changes in their approach to the growing Hispanic community" with this statement: "There has been a very unfortunate racist tone that has emerged in a lot of the discussion about immigration and that's inexcusable. We must be a country that welcomes legal immigrants to this country." Chuck DeVore said, "It looks...

DeVore campaign response to CA Pro-Life Council Endorsement of Carly Fiorina from Josh Trevino, campaign Communications Director Joe Garofoli at the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the California Pro-Life Council will tomorrow endorse Carly Fiorina. I find this rather astonishing, given Fiorina's record -- or lack thereof -- on pro-life issues. It certainly does not stand to reason that the Council would endorse a candidate who has .... 1) .... no record of pro-life activism whatsoever. 2) .... affirmed her willingness to confirm pro-abortion judges. 3) .... demonstrated an ignorance of pressing pro-life issues. 4) .... publicly stated that...

<p>Leaders who serve with honor Former warriors are ready to take on Congress.</p> <p>George Washington, a soldier's soldier - a leader with impeccable and unquestionable loyalty to the United States and its citizens - once said that "few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." That sums up the problem with many of our so-called leaders, from inside the Beltway to the smallest towns of California. They can be bought, swayed and led by the highest bidder or the special interest with the deepest pockets.</p>

Chuck DeVore's GOP Senate campaign began running its billboard campaign today. ...the 48-foot billboards will be up in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, and along Highway 99 in the Central Valley. "This extraordinary effort is the result of conservatives in Hollywood taking action to support Chuck DeVore...

DeVore and Campbell explained their reasoning in interviews. "I certainly view it as a symptom of the fact that the federal government has still not become serious about implementing or enforcing immigration law," DeVore said. "You know, the Arizona law is a cry for help for the federal government to start doing its job. And I think the reaction from Democrats against it is just more proof that not only do the Democrats not oppose illegal immigration, they in fact celebrate it." Should California pass a similar law? "I think California would benefit from passing a similar law, but it...

MEAN MORRIS Some California conservatives were scratching their heads over an email being sent around by longtime Democrat and Clinton adviser Dick Morris, telling California Republicans not to support Senate candidate Tom Campbell, who has been leading a number of different polls, and who has declined to sign the Americans for Tax Reform pledge to not support tax increases. "Guess Campbell didn't take any of Morris's advice or a phone call," joked one California political consultant. Morris has gained the reputation for using his emailed newsletter and Fox News appearances to criticize candidates he has attempted to rope into any...

DeVore Slams Backroom Deals, Only Republican To Oppose Maldonado Confirmation FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- (SACRAMENTO) – California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, (R-70-Irvine), today spoke out against the backroom deals involved in the effort to confirm state Senator Abel Maldonado as California’s Lieutenant Governor. He then voted against the motion to confirm Maldonado and urged other lawmakers to do the same. DeVore cited Maldonado’s vote for the higher taxes included in 2009’s Proposition 1A in exchange for an agreement by the Governor and Democrat leaders to place Proposition 14, the open primary measure that infringes upon the rights of partisan voters...

Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore may be lagging in the polls in his bid for the Republican Senate nomination but he’s in the hunt when it comes to raising money for the June 8 primary. DeVore’s has raised almost $625,000 during the first quarter of this year. That’s less than his two opponents – Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell. But the $1.8 million he’s raised for the campaign is more than the $1.6 million Campbell has reported raising. Now Campbell has been in the race for less time than DeVore and so has raised more than twice what DeVore has during...