Fullerton and Redistricting

Every 10 years the practice of redistricting was done in the hands of the state legislature, until voters approved Proposition 11 in 2008 by a margin of 200K votes out of 12 million cast that put the power of redrawing the Assembly, State Senate, Congressional and Board of Equalization district lines to the"California Citizens Redistricting Commission".

Last Friday, the Redistricting Commission released and approved the "Draft" maps for public review by a vote of 14-0.

What does this mean for Fullerton?

Under the proposed Assembly Map shows that current Assemblyman Chris Norby will gain Buena Park, but lose La Habra, Brea and Placentia to neighboring Assemblyman Curt Hagman. The registration would be 38% Democrat vs. 36% Republican.

Under the proposed State Senate map shows that Fullerton will no longer have State Senator Mimi Walters and could be represented by current State Senator Bob Huff who hails from Diamond Bar. The registration would be 40% Republican vs. 34% Democrat.

Under the proposed Congressional map shows that Fullerton may face a new Representative in the U.S. Congress as sources are saying that current Rep. Ed Royce are making calls for endorsements in Rep. John Campbell's Congressional District as Campbell may end up running in the Orange County coastal district. The registration would be 41% Republican vs. 34% Democrat.

Though many politicos forget that Democracy puts the power into the hands of the people and not the electeds who wants to dictate power and pull the political strings at the expense of the people.

The redistricting exercise is like a nasty chess move where the current legislators and electeds are sweating by realizing that they are no longer master of the game.

Let the dominoes fall, which may benefit Fullerton for reasonable representation!

Ed Royce

 

District Update | January 31, 2011 Click here if you have trouble viewing this message.

Dear Friends,Actress Kristen Bell will provide the keynote address at my Third Annual Women's Conference. This event will be held in conjunction with Cal State Fullerton's Women and Philanthropy Network at CSUF's Titan Student Union Center on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Kristen Bell, this year’s keynote speaker, is a strong supporter of Invisible Children, a group that is dedicated to creating awareness about the plight of child soldiers in Uganda.  Bell is probably best known for her roles in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the TV series Veronica Mars. This year's conference will offer unique advice for job seekers, stress management techniques, nutrition tips, financial advice and safety tips that every woman should know. Click here to RSVP for the Women's Conference.  I look forward to seeing you in April. Sincerely, Representative Ed Royce Top District Issues Royce Reacts to President Obama's State of the Union Address In an exclusive to the FlashReport, Rep. Royce provides his thoughts on some of the specific issues raised by the president during his State of the Union address.  The following is an excerpt from that exclusive: This was the president that authorized the bailouts, signed the $800 billion un-stimulating stimulus package, created the $2 trillion entitlement program known as Obamacare and increased overall spending by 84 percent. Since the president’s last State of the Union speech (when he proposed his first failed spending freeze), our national debt has gone up by $1.7 trillion. Now he’s calling for a freeze rather than cuts? I am afraid he’s a day late and a few trillion dollars short. Click here to read the piece in its entirety.   House Republicans Committed to Cutting Washington Spending Last week, the House passed H.Res. 38, a resolution that puts the House on a glide path to a significant drop in spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011.  The resolution cuts non-security discretionary spending to pre-‘stimulus,’ pre-bailout levels or lower.  This legislation is expected to trim $60 billion or more from non-security discretionary spending. Click here for more information about this legislation. EVENTS March 14: Royce will host an informational meeting for students to learn more about West Point, Annapolis, Merchant Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard. Click here for more details. April 2: Royce will host his Third Annual Women's Conference.  Actress Kristen Bell will be this year's keynote speaker. Click here for more details. In Case You Missed It At the state dinner for China's President Hu Jintao, a Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang used his time in front of the two presidents to play an anti-American propaganda song, "My Motherland."  Royce blogged on this incident last week.  Click here to read Royce's blog post entitled, "Hu’s Tickling the White House Ivories?!" CONNECT RSS Feeds Facebook Youtube Foreign Intrigue Blog

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Ed Royce: "Obamacare is a 2 trillion dollar entitlement program"

Dear Friends,
Last year, despite our objections, despite the warnings from economists regarding the sustainability of this program, and despite the overwhelming opposition from the American people – the Democratic Congress passed one of the most intrusive bills this nation has ever seen.
Obamacare is a 2 trillion dollar entitlement program that is "paid for" by higher taxes and budgetary gimmicks. This government takeover of healthcare is an example of the reckless spending and burdensome regulations coming from Washington.
The assertion that this law will somehow cut our budget deficit is proof that logic does not always prevail in Washington, DC.
Just like past entitlement programs, this one will likely be far more costly than previously projected. As a result, our budget deficit will widen and our dependence on China and Japan to finance our debt will continue to grow.
That is why we took an important step and repealed this 2 trillion dollar fiscal train wreck. Now we can begin work on market-based solutions that will actually lower healthcare costs.  

Sincerely,
Ed

Top District Issues

Royce Introduces the Government Reform Act

Rep. Royce introduced legislation that will set up a commission to eliminate waste in the government.  With a growing federal budget, stimulus packages, and government financed bailouts we’ve seen a massive shift towards more government, which has resulted in trillion dollar deficits.  Not only is Washington’s spending irresponsible it is unsustainable.  Moving forward we have got to eliminate wasteful spending and duplicative programs to get our economy back on track.  Click here to read more about Royce's legislation.

Tour the White House in Spring

Did you know that Royce's office can help you arrange special tours of some of the sites in Washington, D.C.?  Many tour locations, especially during peak tour season in the spring, will fill up six months in advance.  If you are interested in touring the White House this spring please be sure to submit your tour request as soon as possible.  To fill out the online tour reservation form, please click here.   Click here to learn how Royce's office can assist you with tours in Washington, DC.

OC Register's Top 10 Political Stories

Van Tran vs. Loretta Sanchez
Tan Nguyen faces prison time
Delecia Holt spends another Christmas in jail
Nativo Lopez jailed
Orly Taitz continues 'birther' battle
Tony Rackauckas vs. Todd Spitzer
Candidate loses son, wins Assembly seat
GOP secretary of state race
The Scott Baugh manifesto*
Anti-union saber rattling**

* The "Baugh Manifesto" is an interesting story in its own right. OC Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh announced in January 2010 that the Party would not support or endorse any candidate who took public employee union money or support. It seemed to be gaining traction but after the November 2nd election it was discovered that several OC candidates received support from both the OCGOP as well as public employee unions. Among them is Fullerton's newly sworn council member, Pat McKinley. McKinley was one of 3 officially endorsed GOP candidates who is also the retired chief of police from Fullerton. He benefited from playing both sides of the aisle.

Fullerton's own congressman, Ed Royce, plaid a significant role in the Fullerton city council election. He opened what was dubbed as the "North OC Republican Party HQ" with help from the California Republican Assembly and Republican Womens Federated. He opened the retail office space to ALL candidates who were registered Republicans, thereby nullifying any possible advantage that the endorsed candidates may have had over the non-endorsed candidates.

Marty Burbank, Barry Levinson, Roland Chi, Aaron Gregg, and Don Bankhead were all given ample room for their signs and literature at the North OC HQ. Part of the trouble may have come from Royce's decision to endorse his old pal Don Bankhead, a non-GOP endorsed incumbent. How could Royce open his little shop of horrors to Bankhead without inviting ALL of the republican candidates? Royce's decision helped one Democrat, Doug Chaffee, nearly win a seat on the council.

In the future, the OCGOP should pull their endorsement for candidates who receive public employee union support if the candidates do not make a public rejection of the union support. Congressman Ed Royce should either get on board with the OCGOP and support ONLY their endorsed candidates or he should stop calling himself an OC Republican.

** The anti-union saber rattling was a real problem for good and bad candidates alike. In the 2010 Primary Election we saw retired OC Sheriff's lieutenant and chief of San Clemente police services go toe-to-toe with a deputy chief of police from Anaheim and the appointed sheriff, Sandra Hutchens. Hunt solicited and received public employee union support while as did deputy chief Craig Hunter- both Republicans. Sandra Hutchens, a former Democrat, received considerable support from Los Angeles County area Democrats as well as L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, also a Democrat.

2010 also brought the public employee unions home to roost. The California Republican Party's Spring 2010 Convention was paid for in large part by public employee unions. Needless to say, the OCGOP was well represented at the convention.

Fullerton Republicans must come together with their money and actions to bring quality leadership to the community. We don't need more retired public employees and we do not need crisis managers. We need conservative leaders who will keep Fullerton out of the troubled waters that lie ahead.

The Fullerton Sentinel

OC Register: Recount of Fullerton council race cancelled

By HEATHER McREA

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

(re-posted here without permission)

FULLERTON – Doug Chaffee has called off the recount he requested for the Fullerton City Council four-year term race, the Orange County Registrar of Voters announced Tuesday.

Nearly 2,200 ballots had been counted in the first two days before Chaffee asked to end the recount, according to the announcement. The original results will stand, leaving former police chief Patrick McKinley as the second-place winner. Don Bankhead had held a clear majority all along.

McKinley took the oath of office on Dec. 7 along with Bankhead and Bruce Whitaker, who was elected to a two-year term left open when Shawn Nelson was elected to the county Board of Supervisors earlier this year.

According to the official election results, McKinley received 10,346 votes to Chaffee's 10,256.

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It is sad and unfortunate that Fullerton voters chose Pat McKinley and Doug Chaffee at nearly the same rate.  However, this was to be expected considering that both are fiscal liberals who are quite content to raise taxes. 

The 2012 election cycle will be starting up in just a few months and conservatives will have an opportunity to replace two liberal council members, F. Richard "Dick" Jones and Sharon Quirk-Silva. 

Jones, a registered Republican, and Quirk-Silva, a registered Democrat, are both fiscal liberals.  However, Quirk-Silva has voted NO on more expenditures than Jones, making her more conservative than the self-avowed conservative Jones.

Take time to know the candidates and then support them by volunteering your time and money.

Poll: Barbarity Still Quite Popular in the Muslim World

by Ed Royce, U.S. Representative, 40th Congressional District (includes Fullerton)

(Originally for http://www.redcounty.com/, re-posted here without permission)

On Monday, The Los Angeles Times reported on a new Pew Research poll of the Muslim world. Seven countries - Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey –were surveyed. The findings shoot off the page like a cannon…

For most Americans, things like stoning are the stuff of Biblical times. Readers of this space will know that it's still common in a place like Iran. But as this new survey shows, the practice enjoys widespread support in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Nigeria. For what it's worth, most of these countries are fairly close to the U.S. and rake-in much aid. The practice of lopping off the hands of robbers --as well as the death penalty for apostates-- also have support off the charts.

In Pakistan – a country of 184 million and 70 nuclear weapons – over three quarters of the population supports all three harsh punishments. Even where support for stoning is "low," the numbers are alarming high. Stoning is least popular in Turkey, with 16 percent support. But that still gives you over 12 million Turks supporting this barbaric punishment. I have to say that Egypt's 82 percent is a shocker. I take polls with a grain of salt, especially in this part of the world. But still...

Finally, Pew reports that in nearly all of the countries surveyed, support for this harsh punishment "coexists with support for democratic governance." Too bad their understanding of democracy doesn’t "coexist" with things like religious freedom, individual liberty, or decency.

Royce loses bid to head financial services panel

by Martin Wisckol
Politics Reporter, Orange County Register
(re-posted here without permission)

 Rep. Ed Royce, R-Fullerton, has lost his bid to become chairman of the House’s high-profile Financial Services Committee, as the House Republican Conference today confirmed the steering committee’s choice of Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-AL.

Bachus has been the ranking Republican on the committee since 2007 and was first in line for the job, but Royce had gained support for taking a harder line against federal stimulus and bailout packages. Bachus also ruffled some Republicans’ feathers with comments critical of Sarah Palin.

Another Orange County Republican hoping to win a chairmanship, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa, lost his bid to head the Science and Technology Committee. Ralph Hall from Texas got the nod.
Bachus indicated he’ll be taking a firm position in pulling in the reins on bailouts while at the same time helping small businesses.

“We are going to protect taxpayers by ending ‘too big to fail’ and the Administration’s unlimited bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” he said in a prepared statement. “We are committed to going title by title through the 2,300 page Dodd Frank Act to correct, replace, or repeal the job killing provisions that unnecessarily punish small businesses and community banks that did nothing to cause the financial crisis.”

Royce issued a brief statement congratulating Bachus and vowing to work with him.

Bachus will replace Democrat Barney Frank as head of the committee, thanks to Republicans winning the House.