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Subscribe to RSSCALIFORNIA: “One day after Texas Gov. Rick Perry released a radio ad in California criticizing the Golden State's business climate and encouraging businesses to relocate to Texas, California Gov. Jerry Brown said today that Perry's campaign is ‘barely a fart,’” the Sacramento Bee writes. "‘It's not a serious story, guys,’ the Democratic governor told reporters at a business event here. ‘It's not a burp. It's barely a fart.’” Perry’s only spent about $25,000 on the radio ad.
FLORIDA: Rick Scott is planning on spending $100 million on his reelection bid potentially against ex-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist (D). “In addition to darkening the sky with paid media, Scott’s team is looking at the possibility of creating a state-specific data and analytics division, either within the campaign or at the Republican Party of Florida,” Politico writes.
GEORGIA: Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R) won’t run for the Senate to replace Saxby Chambliss. The others potential Republicans: Reps. Paul Broun, Jack Kingston, Tom Price, Phil Gingrey and Tom Graves. Broun is expected to announce his bid today.
NEW JERSEY: “Gov. Chris Christie, who has acknowledged to Barbara Walters he’s ‘more than a little’ overweight and munched on a jelly doughnut on David Letterman’s talk show, is addressing his weight issues head-on as speculation intensifies he’s positioning himself to run for president in 2016,” AP writes, adding, “Christie, who is widely mentioned as a possible presidential candidate as his national reputation has grown since the storm, had one health scare during his first term: an asthma attack on a humid summer morning in 2011 that diverted him from a scheduled press conference at a farm to a hospital. He addressed the press when he was discharged hours later, saying the heat, not his weight, contributed to the attack but vowing dietary modifications.”
And catch this: Christie “said Tuesday ‘there is a plan’ for his weight. ‘Whether it’s successful or not,’ he said, ‘you'll all be able to notice.’”
NEW YORK: “Less than a week after a Quinnipiac University poll showed a significant drop in support for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after the Democrat's successful push to pass new laws restricting gun ownership, a new Siena College poll suggests that any changes in how Empire State voters feel about their governor were more modest, and Cuomo remains very popular,” National Journal’s Steven Shepard writes. “More than two-thirds of voters retain a favorable opinion of Cuomo, the Siena poll shows. His favorability rating of 67 percent is slightly lower than the 71-percent reading on that question in mid-January, during Cuomo's push for new gun laws, and the 72 percent he earned on that measure in December. On the question of Cuomo's job performance, there has been little change over the past two months. In December, 60 percent said Cuomo was doing an ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ job. In January, 59 percent viewed his job performance favorably. The new poll shows Cuomo at 58 percent on that measure.”
SOUTH CAROLINA: Ted Turner’s son having trouble raising money in his SC-1 race to replace Tim Scott (that also includes Mark Sanford), National Journal reports. And, it notes: “Turner has a lot of work to do in a crowded field, both to get his name out and to combat certain associations with it; Turner's family are all well-known liberals in the South. Turner admitted that his family's history had been a "little bit of a hurdle," but he said he wasn't worried about the other candidates bringing it up on the campaign trail.”
“It looked on Friday as if Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., might have avoided a primary in 2014, as one of the only remaining potential challengers, state Sen. Tom Davis, decided to take a pass on the Senate race. But on Monday, state Sen. Lee Bright, a fiscal conservative who was recently supported by former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, for reelection, announced that he is seriously looking at the race,” National Journal writes.
Britain’s moving toward legalizing gay marriage.
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Who in their right mind would want to move from gorgeous sunny California to God forsaken Texas just to save a little on taxes??? Not me!
The heat in Texas is so bad, that the governor has brain damage as proved in the GOP debates...
I'll take sunny California any day over Texas... Also, I voted for the tax increase... If you want nice things, you have to pay for them...
Texans are also fat. I'd rather move to California, just for the fruits and vegetables.
Terry and Amy - California WELCOMES you!! Especially if you (Amy) like the fruits and vegetables, both of which hold high places in California politics! Terry, I suspect that you're not one of those who pays high (or any) taxes no matter where you live. Have you noticed that your tax revenue is actually DECLINING? Of course you wouldn't. Your check arrive on time and for the correct amount (which should be higher, of course). I'm guessing that neither of you would save a dime by moving to a low / no tax state. In fact, the reduction in your liberal benefits would probably hurt you. Good! California NEEDS you!!
Just remember, you have to flunk an IQ test to live in Texas. No cheating...
Every time Perry opens his mouth, out comes this horriffic stench!!! There is not one single person from sunny Calli, that would ever dream of moving to that steer shat state of Texass!!! Give it up, Perry, no one likes you except for those dumbed down people, you know, the GOP/TP!!!
Keep up the good work Cuomo!!!
If fat ass Cristie loses enough weight, will that help him win the Presidency in 2016? Doubtful! He is still one of those stupid GOP/TP members, after all!!! Go for it anyway, fat ass!!!
Really? How did Texas pick up electoral votes (4)? It's based on representation, which is based on population. California's stayed the same based on the exodus of the productive and an equal importation of the useless. People are moving from NY, CA, IL, etc. TO Texas. Why? The real question is "why are they allowed to move when they are only doing it for themselves, and think not a whit about those less productive than themselves. Lower taxes, less regulation, a better business environment maybe? Maybe they don't want to pay for sex change operations for state prisonors? Maybe they don't want their children to be brainwashed by Moonbeam and his lunatics?
I personally got a 150 dollar a week raise (just the tax difference) with no change in pay....JUST for getting away from NY's Cuomo!! Not to mention savings in insurance, gasoline, electricity, etc. Yah! Keep up the good work Andy, you crook!!
Love the HATE filled tolerance of the liberal mind
Silicon Valley employment is back to just before the dot com boost and along comes Rick Perry, too inept to create jobs in his own state as he tries to steal jobs from Californians. Governor Brown...Perry isn't just gas he's worse than that. Press down the handle and watch him swirl in the water as he goes back to Texas.
Watch your tax base swirl around in the water along with the Good Governor on their way to Texas (and other points "not" California. So COOL that in California, an income of 100k for a family of 4 will soon be FILTHY RICH, worthy of ire.
Without Undocumented Workers, Texas would collapse, sure I can just see it Silicone Valley Tech. companies, all rushing to Texas to avoid taxes and take advantage of that highly educated workforce--sure.
Georgia--Broun--isn't he the one that said "pit from Hell," regarding science and evolution? don't Georgians that ignorant to elect that fool to the Senate.
And California doesn't have an undocumented problem? Wow!
GREAT MOVE Governor Perry.... way to save our tax dollars.... let the negative media do the advertising for Texas.... businesses aren't as stupid as Mr Brown thinks they are.... taxes are killing both profits & worker's incomes... families can sell their 1500 sq ft HOVEL in CA and move up to 3500 sq ft (or MORE) HOME here in Texas.....
Other Steve. I wonder if Texas, Florida and others are PAYING Gov. Moonbeam. He's probably the BEST spokesman for "Why you don't want to live in California". I got the heck away from Cuomo's NY and save 150 bucks a week, just in (some) taxes. In addition, gas is cheaper (lower taxes), cost of owning a home is lower (lower taxes), and stuff is less expensive (lower taxes). I now live somewhere where your hard work is rewarded, not chastized. I now live in a right to work state where no union is allowed to intimidate you or your employer and extort money from the economy without returning a thing (like mob "protection") to it.
I smell something, is it coming from Texas?
California is thankful we gave Meg Whitman the heave-ho and we are now heading in the right direction.
Talk to anyone from California.... they're always from SOUTHERN California or from NORTHERN California.....
Ask anyone from Texas where they're from....... it'll just be TEXAS.... that says it all........
So Cal, No Cal, we love each other and are proud to live here.
Best places to live according to Money Magazine...... McKinney Texas #2, Allen Texas #13.... only ONE California city even made the top 25.... Irvine at #6
Home prices? Irvine $904,753.... McKinney $245,917...... for the same house
Jerry Brown can eat me.
Wasn't it a Place in Silicon Valley that was just busted for Paying Mexican Nationals in Pesos, cheating them out of the minimum wage? California will soon implode from the weight of it's own consumption, other people's money eventually runs out.
why not when you can buy a mansion house for what a hovel runs in cal. and should you be making $100000/year i dare say $20000 saving is not just a little. but cal has been losing the millionairs for years due the irresponsible taxes on it---as they leave they take jobs with them --others follow . keep it up and soon all that will be left are the union and state workers scratching their heads wondering what went wrong--even the film industry is leaving--business is business without it you have no --no taxbase to pay for anything. why treat business and workers as criminals or slaves whose sole purpose is to feed the insatiable appetite of government spending--just saying---
Right you are DD, NYer here and that is what has happened to this once great state. First business left, then the white middle class. Now we have tons of seniors with SS and pensions, even more lack of public service worker union memebers, and of course welfare peeps. Roads, bridges all falling down, cities that you wouldn't walk down the streets without a Marine escort, and taxes on top of taxes. Our consumer prices our the highest in the country and it is only getting worse.
reading of some smartalecks saying that texas would collapse without illegals--how full of it are they when i read that a la county manager said that la alone has 10% of the total illegals in the us --1+ million in la alone--why do you think cal is broke?? due in large part to money used to pay for cal's illegals. ps the estmate given was from government figures--i think the number of illegals is much higher --near 19 million--think about it the national academy of sciences says each one of the illegals cost the us $100000/year--out "poorest" can't get more services at that level.
Trust me the last thing Texas needs is another illegal, oh I mean a yet to be registered Dumbocrat voter from Mexico. Or even worst the Dumbocrat voters from Californication. All you have to do is take a look at the once Red State of Or, Wa, and Nv to see what an invasion of these dopes will do to you state.
yeah california is making a comeback ...as in please comeback