Restore The GOP

Voter Guide for the November 2014 Election

Election Day is November 4, 2014 unless you are a died-in-the-wool, progressive Democrat.  I'd encourage progressive Democrats to be certain that you show up to the polls early on November 5th.

All kidding aside, here are my recommendations for the upcoming elections I care about.  The Republican Party of San Diego County (RPSDC) Voter Guide is here and my recommendations are mostly in line with RPSDC (with a few small exceptions).   Allan Bartlett posted his voter guide here-he and I are almost always in agreement (he has great picks for Orange County)

Number of + signs shows my enthusiasm for the candidate (scale of 1-5)

STATE OFFICES:

Lt. Governor:  Ron Nehring  ++++
Attorney General:  Ron Gold +++
Secretary of State:  Pete Peterson ++
Treasurer:  Greg Conlan +
Insurance Commissioner:  Ted Gaines ++
Superintendant of Public Instruction:  Marshall Tuck ++++
Board of Equalization:  Diane Harkey ++++
State Senate (38th):  Joel Anderson +++++
Assembly (71st):  Brian Jones +++++
Assembly (78th):  Barbara Decker ++++
Assembly (2nd):  Matt Heath +++++

FEDERAL OFFICES: 

52nd Congressional District:  Carl DeMaio +++
53rd Congressional District:  Larry Wilske  +++++


STATEWIDE PROPOSITIONS:

1:     NO-absolutely not
2-    YES-  why not?
45:  NO-- why vest that much power in one person?
46:   YES--let market forces dictate how physicians practice medicine
47:   YES--the war on drugs is an abject failure
48:  YES--respect property rights and let the Indians develop property they own or buy

Statewide Judicial Offices  (read this explanation and recommendations)

LOCAL OFFICES:

San Diego City Council, District 6:  Chris Cate  +++++
Encinitas Mayor:  Kristin Gaspar +++
Encinitas Council:  Alan Lerchbacker +++
El Cajon Mayor:  Bill Wells +++
Escondido Council District 2-John Masson ++
Poway Mayor:  Steve Vaus +++++
Vista Council:  John Franklin +++++
San Diego Community College:  Donna Woodrum ++++
Miracosta Community College:  Dran Reese +++++
Miracosta Community College:  Elliot Adler ++
San Dieguito HS District:  Maureen "Mo" Muir ++
Encinitas Union  SD:  Jennifer Hamler +++++
Carlsbad Unified SD:  Sage Naumann ++++
Lakeside Water District:  Frank Hilliker ++++
Otay Water District, Division # 1== Alex Galicia +++++

I omitted offices I have little or no interest in.  I deliberately chose to not recommend candidates for Governor, Controller, Attorney General, and Escondido and Vista Mayors--read into that if you choose to.

Statewide Judicial Offices (forwarded to me)

This was forwarded to me by a source I trust:

I was surprised when I received my "sample" voter pamphlet...and found out many critical positions were to be voted on:  Ca. Supreme Court and Ca. Appellate Courts.

I began my "research" on who was involved.  The first thing I found out was Jerry Brown is one person away from reconstituting his "Rose Bird" court, that he created his first time as Gov. in the 70's.

The Supreme Court before the "Bird Court" stated in a published opinion..."it is not the job of this court to legislate from the bench".  The "Rose Bird" court did just that...legislate from the bench.
Overturning long standing legal doctrine, with outrageous decisions that undermine the functions of "lower courts". Anything to throw out a "death sentence"...including striking down "enhancements",  that made the case a death penalty case.   { Not only death penaly cases...but in rape cases as well }

"Transferred intent" was one of those "enhancements".  EXAMPLE:

An off duty LA Sheriff's Deputy, walked into a bank robbery.Bad guys and Deputy exchange gunfire.  Deputy's 3 year old daughter is killed...they shot at the Deputy, missed him, killing her.
That's called "transferred intent"...they meant to kill the Deputy, but killed the daughter...murder in the firsts degree, during the commission of an armed robbery...death penalty is justified.
The "Transferred intent rule" had been the law for about 120 years, when they threw it out, saying we now had to "prove" they meant to kill the 3 year old girl.  That became the law for all such killings.


Brown left office, and " Duke" Deukmejain was elected Gov.

The "Bird Court" became so bad, that Judges began rebelling against the cases "Rosie and the Supremes" activist majority were reversing.  One Judge, after "Rosie" and her cohorts appeared able to "read the minds" of the Police Officers involved in the case, wrote in his decision that he sent back to them, if "they could read the minds of the officers, and knew what they were thinking, so could he"...and he "read" their minds, justifying their actions, and sent the case back up to the Supreme Court, without changing his original finding.

But what he wrote at the end became the "Battle Cry" of other Judges, District Attorneys, Police Command Staff Officers, Attorneys in private practice, conservative groups and individuals, throughout the State.  He wrote..." I refuse to go Lemming like, into the sea.  I reserve my right to kick and scream, all the way down".

A translation..."We are mad as hell...and we aren't going to take it anymore".

It took two years of work by us, but Rose Bird, and 2 of her "activist court" cohorts, were voted out of office...the first Supreme Court Justices to be voted out of office, in our States history.

Deukmejain replaced them with experienced Justices, with practical and Constitutional law experience.  Once in place...the "Deukmejain Court" began to "revisit" cases from the Rose Bird Court.

The very first case they "revisited" was the "transferred intent" case, and they "reversed" that court decision, and reinstated the death penalty against those robbers who had shot and killed the Deputy's 3 year old daughter.  And that meant that anyone who shoots at someone, and misses, but kills an innocent bystander, was also once again tried under the "transferred intent" law.

Today...Brown is getting his "second bite at the apple"...his new "Rose Bird Court"...a court that will "legislate from the bench", which has already started, and without a doubt, a court that will "rubber stamp" laws passed by the democrats controlling Sacramento.

At the end of this year, a "conservative Justice" will retire--Brown nominated his replacement.
The democrats "rubber stamped" the nomination.

Goodwin Liu.

Law Professor from Berkley.
{ Need I say more?..."we will take the law and shove it down the courts throat, until it chokes"...the Radical Lawyers Guild, Berkley Chapter, 1960 }

Liu was given a position in the obama administration.
obama's people nominated him for an appointment to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals...the most radical, and the most overturned court, in the history of our country's Federal Court system.
The Republican's in the Senate said no...and threw down the gauntlet...and it turned into a bitter fight.  Finally, Liu withdrew his name.

So now...Brown appoints him to our Supreme Court...and it's Rose Bird time all over again.

So...for what it's worth.

Supreme Court

Goodwin Liu...no.

Mariano Florintino Cuellar...no
{Another Brown appointee }

Kathryn Mickle Werdegar...yes
{ Pete Wilson }

For State Courts Of Appeals

Appeals Court Div 1
Terry B. O'Rourke...yes
{ "Duke" }

Appeals Court Div 1
Gilbert Nares...yes
{ "Duke" }

Appeals Court Div 1
Alex C. McDonald...yes
{ Pete Wilson }

Appeals Court Div. 1
James A. McIntyre...yes
{ Wilson }

Appeals Court Div. 2
Thomas E. Hollenhorst...yes
{ Duke }

Appeals Court Div. 3
Kathleen E. O'Leary...yes
{ Duke }
San Diego and Imperial County are in this jurisdiction

Appeals Court Div. 3
William F. Rylaarsdan...yes
{ Duke }

William M. Aronson...no
{ Appointed by Gray Davis...who I call "Jerry Brown Jr". }

Appeals Court Div 3
David A Thompson...no
{ Jerry Brown }

Appeals Court Div. 3
Richard D. Fybel...no
{ Gray Davis }

Pass this on to anyone you want.