Crossposted at Calitics.com

So today, I received the latest volley of Steve Francis mailers (it's been an average of two a day for the last two weeks).  Today, there was the regular Francis stuff, but also another one that would seem to be clearly targeted at people who think (for a change).  This one only mentions Steve Francis in the return address.

It has a big picture of Mayor Jerry Sanders standing next to George H.W. Bush, with the caption "Why has the Republican Party endorsed Jerry Sanders for Mayor?"  It goe on to answer with statements such as "Because Sanders has no plan to protect the environment . . . Because Sanders gives favors to fat cat developers . . ." and so on.

This thing is not going away any time soon folks.  This weekend the California Republican Party (CRP) will be holding their convention in the desert.  While they are there, they will be considering endorsing the dirty tricks initiative, which would steal 20 of California's electoral votes.  Ron Nerhring, Norquist's former right hand man is now the Chair of the Party and sounds excited about the enthusiasm from the Republican activists about the initiative and shakes his head at the response from the Democrats.

This is behind the paywall at the SacBee:

When I need a little humor, I just open the newspaper to follow those wacky exploits of the GOP.  More often than not it includes the irrepressible Grover Norquist (BTW where did he get his name....maybe the final product of "lebensborn" in Norway).

Read on...this time its immigration...

The GOP doesn't think Americans are good enough to run their presidential
race. Perhaps they need to invest more in education???

     In the NCTimes today Darryl Issa, Ca-49 said Congress "Was lied to." Issa is the Congressional Representative largely credited with forcing Carol Lam from office, for her lack of progress on illegal immigration and human smugglers. In defending his own political backside Issa repeated his position that "his complaints about Lam started long before Lam's office began investigating... Duke Cunningham."
    Since Lam only took office in 2002, one wonders how soon Issa started his campaign to oust Lam from office, and how effective it was. My guess is not very.  
Sen Dianne Feinstein said she believes the ouster "was connected to Lams' prosecution of Cunningham." Some critics of the DOJ have expressed sympathy for Lam, and the other fired prosecutors. Issa is on the record that he never made any complaints to DOJ or the White House, relating to the Cunningham matter.
    The architect of the plan to fire Carol Lam is Ron Nehring.  

We all should view Prop. 75, the antiunion initiative, as part of a 50 state strategy, a Norquist agenda item. If it's not in your state, it will appear soon.

In California, a past Norquist director pushing antiunion initiatives nationally is now a Schwarzenegger appointee, sitting on the Board of Forestry.