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  • Fiorina All Talk on Public Employee Unions

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 2
    Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate Carly Fiorina is all talk (and no action) when it comes to California's public employee unions. She raises the issue in every interview, but offers no solution. Even as taxpayer activists with the Citizen Power Campaign march forward to fix California government by stopping the [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:25am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Rackaukus Argues Self-Defense

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 1
    Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackaukus has joined 33 other California DA's in a Supreme Court brief supporting the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The California DA's joined with several Nevada and Arizona district attorneys, police organizations, and other persons and groups concerned with protecting the public [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:35am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • ACLU Files Suit to Free Turkeys

    —Orange Juice

    A turkey executioner! The ACLU today filed a federal lawsuit seeking a stay on “turkey executions”.  The ACLU claims that the Presidential turkey pardon is evidence of a growing trend toward animal rights.  “We are seeking a temporary restraining order barring any further holiday turkey executions,” said an unidentified ACLU attorney, [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:01am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Take the Taxpayer Protection Challenge

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 1
    It's time for California's major Republican candidates (Carly Fiorina, Chuck DeVore, Meg Whitman, Tom Campbell, Steve Poizner) to take the Taxpayer Protection Challenge. These candidates talk the talk - claiming they support fiscal responsibility and taxpayer protection. But, are they willing to walk the walk - take on the public [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:44am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Fiorina Plays Gender Card

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 6
    Senate candidate Cary Fiorina has made it clear who wears the pants in her Senate Republican Primary - Chuck Devore. Fiorina told the American Spectator that she can beat Barbara Boxer because Boxer knows how to win against "white men". "With all due respect and deep affection for white men" [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:29pm EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • How Obama Got His Groove Back

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 4
    Why did the President decide to try KSM and four others in U.S. criminal courts? This was not Eric Holder's unprecedented legal decision, but the President's political decision. The President's political decision raises concerns of both conservative and liberal legal scholars. It seems that the President has made a short-term [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:06am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation

    —Orange Juice

    Enclosure: [download]
    Number of comments: 4
    The public employee unions are plundering and bankrupting California and the nation. That's the bottom line of Steve Greenhut's new book, Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation. KFI radio's Bill Handel interviewed Greenhut, former editor of the Orange County Register, earlier [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:56am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • SEIU Charged With Coercing Immigrants

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 1
    The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) has charged the SEIU with intimidating immigrants in a recent Fresno union election. NUHW has been seeking to break away from the undemocratic SEIU. According to the NUHW, SEIU has engaged in violence and worker intimidation. They are not the only victim of [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:31am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • ACORN Nuts Sue Over Funding Cuts

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 9
    "Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground." It's important to remember this saying when considering the federal lawsuit that ACORN has filed claiming that its federal funding cuts were unconstitutional. ACORN claims in its suit that Congress defunded it through an [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Urge Governor to Oppose Pension “Reform” Sham

    —Orange Juice

    Taxpayers must act today to urge the Governor to oppose CFFR's poorly conceived pension "reform" initiative. CFFR's pension reform amounts to a sham that does nothing to fix the current pension mess, and gives state workers a Constitutional right to guaranteed pensions - something taxpayers don't have. Please take time' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:38am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Unplug the Political Machine

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 11
    The public employee unions have corrupted California state government.  The public employee unions have become the most powerful special interest group in Sacramento.  As a result, California’s state and local employees are the best compensated in the country.  Californians pay ever higher taxes for ever worse services.  Now, taxpayers are [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:08am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Wicked Witch Drops House on Munchkinland

    —Orange Juice

    In a shocking twist on fairytale fiction, the Wicked Witch of the West has dropped the House on Munchkinland.  Still stinging from last week’s election losses, California’s Wicked Witch, Nancy Pelosi, has taken her revenge on the wee folk by dropping the House on their healthcare plans.  It remains to [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:56am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Fiorina – the McCainian Candidate

    —Orange Juice

    Senate candidate Chuck DeVore's latest campaign video should strike a chord with centrists and fiscal conservatives. DeVore effectively points out how opponent Carly Fiorina and Democrat opponent Barbara Boxer are much the same. He correctly points out how Fiorina has supported the fiscally reckless Democrat agenda that mortgages our children's' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:11am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Pension Reform Sham

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 8
    A proposed pension reform initiative, the Public Employees Benefits Reform Act (PEBRA), should die an early death and never see the ballot box. PEBRA gives state workers pension guarantees superior to private sector workers. It does nothing to fix the current pension mess. PEBRA does little to reform the generous [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:00pm EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • GOP Gives Licking, But Clock Not Ticking

    —Orange Juice

    Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so goes the cliche.  This week’s elections show the power of that cliche, with notable GOP victories despite the utter cluelessness of GOP leadership (another powerful cliche).  GOP leaders have learned nothing from their wins  (encouraging Democrats onward in their central [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:39am EST
    by Rogue Elephant

  • More Tricks Than Treats

    —Orange Juice

    In case you missed it, a Bay Area group is proposing an initiative to call a constitutional convention to rewrite the state constitution. While most agree that the state needs reform, taxpayers should not conjure memories of the wise sages who crafted the nation's foundational document. Instead (in the spirit [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:57am EDT
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Paycheck Protection Protects Taxpayers

    —Orange Juice

    Everyone agrees that California needs reform to make it governable. And there is much debate over what reforms are needed. But, there can be no meaningful reform until we first limit the corrupting influence of the overpowerful public sector unions that are bankrupting California. This means stopping these unions from [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:39am EDT
    by Rogue Elephant

  • OC GOP at the Crossroads

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 6
    Legendary bluesman Robert Johnson penned the immortal song “Crossroads”, where his protagonist sings, ” I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees. Asked the Lord above for mercy, “Save me if you please.’” Today, the Orange County GOP stands at a crossroads, only it is taxpayers that [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:24am EDT
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Loretta Sanchez Dances to Big Labor’s Tune

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 6
    It was no surprise that Rep. Loretta Sanchez (CD 47) supported government-run healthcare in yesterday's "town hall meeting". It appears that Sanchez has been put on a leash by her Big Labor masters. Locally, Big Labor is pushing hard for government-run healthcare using a front group - Health Access California [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Loretta Sanchez Phoning It In

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 3
    When it comes to the healthcare reform debate, it looks like Loretta Sanchez (CD 47) is phoning it in.  Sanchez is again hiding from opponents of a government healthcare takeover, as she did at her last town hall meeting.  Those interested in the healthcare debate should use this opportunity to [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:04am EDT
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Truth in Advertising

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 1
    If truth in advertising laws applied equally to politicians as they do to businesses, then Ackerman, Inc. might be hauled into court for its latest hit piece on Chris Norby.  Yet, politicians hold themselves to lower standards than they do the entrepreneurs and business people who create the prosperity that [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 8:11am EDT
    by Rogue Elephant

  • Ackerman Political Slush Fund Money?

    —Orange Juice

    Number of comments: 1
    Is Linda Ackerman using political slush fund money to fund her campaign for the Assembly seat (AD 72) vacated by the disgraced Mike Duvall? A recent campaign finance disclosure indicates that she took thousands of dollars from a suspicious political committee - Citizens for Brulte. The committee is apparently controlled [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:33pm EDT
    by Rogue Elephant

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