“Steve Poizner” on The Daily Caller

California’s 32,000 prison guards and parole officers — notorious for enjoying political clout wildly exceeding their meager numbers — tried to negotiate a new contract with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for four years but got nowhere. After just three months of negotiations with Jerry Brown, they got their contract, and hapless Californians got the clearest signal yet that Brown is not going to deal responsibly with the state’s unfunded public employee pension liabilities of as much as $500 billion. (more)

Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement. (more)

If money is the key ingredient to any winning political campaign, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has had a serious across-the-board advantage in the race to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. (more)

Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina didn’t think it would be so easy. Both women fought hard and campaigned like champions. Both Women had Republican challengers that ran aggressive campaigns against them. But both Carly and Meg won big. And both races were over shortly after 9 p.m. (more)

“A party divided” is the Democrats’ attack line, as they have argued for months that the Tea Party is provoking a civil war within the Republican Party. But on Tuesday in Arkansas, most of the political discord was within their own ranks. (more)

Today is Election Day in 12 states. Here’s what you should know about the hottest contests: (more)

California’s presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, Jerry Brown, badly trails the leading Republican candidates on the fund-raising front. Oddly enough, though, he appears well-situated for the general election. (more)

California’s GOP primary polls are moving back and forth so dramatically some observers might have whiplash.  Any conventional wisdom about how the U.S. Senate and governor’s races will shape up should be tossed out the window until the real tally on June 8.  Consider this: two weeks ago former Congressman Tom Campbell held a 11 percentage point lead over Carly Fiorina in the GOP governor’s primary. That lead has now incredibly evaporated into a 23 point deficit if SurveyUSA’s new poll results are accurate. (more)

California is not without its fair share of characters, and Douglas Hughes is no different. Mr. Hughes is running for the GOP nomination for governor against Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, although he lags far behind in both the polls and in fundraising. His ideas appear to be quite unique for instance: he wants to build a “triple fence” along California’s border with Mexico, let immigrants have a green card reward system, and wants the state of California to sell drugs to addicts for half price. While these are a crucial part of his platform for governor, one idea is getting Mr. Hughes national attention: creating “Pedophile Island.” As the Hughes campaign website says: (more)

The Republican who spent $1,946.25 on “meals” at a bondage-themed Hollywood nightclub — and expensed the charges to chairman Michael Steele’s Republican National Committee — is the owner of a marketing firm who works for a number of Republicans including a current gubernatorial candidate in California, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

As I sat through the California gubernatorial debate on Monday, listening to Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner lay out their plans for the once Golden State, it dawned on me what the problem is with the California Legislature and the U.S. Congress—they are full-time. (more)

California Republican gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner “skipped lightly over detailed solutions to California’s grievous fiscal mess” during a “genteel debate” Monday, the LA Times reports. (more)

Republican candidates for governor Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner met in a generally genteel debate Monday evening that skipped lightly over detailed solutions to California’s grievous fiscal mess in favor of the familiar arguments that each has made for months as they drive toward the June 8 primary. (more)

The two Silicon Valley billionaires vying for the Republican nomination to be California’s next governor are challenging each other’s conservative bona fides while trying to downplay their support of Democratic causes. (more)

Just like that, the Republican Senate primary in California has a new front-runner, and another traditionally Democratic seat is in play.

Tom Campbell, the 57-year-old former congressman who had been running for governor, ejected less than two weeks ago out of that high-spending contest and parachuted into the Senate race, which already had two serious Republican candidates, in Carly Fiorina and Chuck Devore. (more)