Tonight I was adding people to follow with Twitter. Sometimes I add animal welfare groups, sometimes friends, sometime environmental types. Tonight I was in a political kind of mood so I did a search of “California Assembly.” I was adding a few people. One of the names that popped up was Ron Nehring. When I tried to add, I received a message that he had blocked me.
Editor’s Note: As always, we appreciate the “likes,” clicks,” subscriptions, and comments. Naomi says “thank you” for the giant marrow bone.
(APPLE VALLEY, CA) – Angel’s Roadhouse once again hosted Americans for America, a faith-based offshoot of the Tea Party. Angel’s is a western-themed steakhouse complete with full bar and a dance floor. The Christian-based group meets in the dance floor area of the establishment, next to the bar where the restaurant’s non-Tea Party patrons get a dose of preaching, prayer, and patriotism whether they think they need it or not. Most seem to take it in stride and some even join in for the prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, and singing of a patriotic anthem. Last night it was “God Bless America” that could be heard throughout the dancehall.
Joseph Brady, president of The Bradco Companies, a high desert commercial real estate group, and a member of the Victor Valley College Board of Trustees spoke first. He discussed the local housing market, economy, and employment.
Can anyone shed some light:
Not to long ago I learned that Charles Munger gave a large amount of money to the Republican Party in San Bernardino County. My friends who attend the meetings told me it didn’t seem that big of a deal to their chairman. I’ve heard and read about some controversy with Munger and I was just curious if you’ve heard anything about Munger trying to pull strings in the local GOP?
Bill has the story on his blog: Herman Cain
Hello Sharon,
I recently started producing a public affairs television show called FOCUS: Inland Empire that airs on public access. We did our first episode on the Citizens’ Redistricting Commission and our latest episode last month was titled Red/Blue County with our guests GOP Chair Robert Rego and Dem Chair Ron Wall.
We aim to be neutral and educate viewers on the current events happening in the Inland Empire, in short, being another outlet for getting information out there.
I’d appreciate it if you can help us with a plug and post to the latest episode link.
Most importantly, if you can provide us some feedback and potential guests that your readers would want to see. If you’re willing, I’d also like to do an episode on iepolitics.com.
Thanks,
Robert Garcia
Host/Producer
FOCUS: Inland Empire
I realize he is still a long shot, but I have to think of all Republican candidates, Herman Cain is the one Republican that President Obama does not want as an opponent. It would certainly change the dynamics of the campaign.
At this point Cain is my choice. I can’t explain it exactly but he reminds me so much of former President Ronald Reagan in many ways. Bill has a good story about today’s Florida results on his blog: Herman Cain
Editor’s Note: This story has been all over Facebook today. It fits with much of what we discuss here. Any thoughts?
Chuck and Stephanie Fromm paid $200 in fines after receiving at least two citations from the city of San Juan Capistrano. They appealed the tickets to a hearing officer who sided with the city, leading to the August 31 lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court.
“How dare they tell us we can’t have whatever we want in our home,” Stephanie Fromm said. “We want to be able to use our home. We’ve paid a lot and invested a lot in our home and backyard … I should be able to be hospitable in my home.”
Someone sent me this. This is the third bill I was talking about. It did not make it to the Governor’s desk as it stalled in the Assembly. The Senate did approve it with an almost straight party-line vote although a couple of dems did cross over.
I get really confused as to when these bills are dead forever and when they can come back. This is the current status:
CURRENT BILL STATUS
MEASURE : S.B. No. 124
AUTHOR(S) : De León.
TOPIC : Ammunition.
HOUSE LOCATION : ASM
+LAST AMENDED DATE : 04/25/2011
TYPE OF BILL :
Active
Non-Urgency
Non-Appropriations
Majority Vote Required
State-Mandated Local Program
Fiscal
Non-Tax Levy
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 08/25/2011
LAST HIST. ACTION : Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under
submission.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
TITLE : An act to amend Sections 189, 12022.2, 16650, 16660,
30315, 30320, and 30325 of the Penal Code, relating to
ammunition.
Maybe someone could enlighten us as to both what the status means and whether this author is being reactionary or has a valid argument. Anyway, here is the article.
Watch the video first:
Then read the article: Huffington Post
iePolitics has been told that former State Senator Jim Bulte’s address is among those being searched. Can anyone confirm or deny? He served as a mediator in the Colonies settlement.
I’m starting to think there may be a chance I will have to eat my words about President Obama winning re-election. That is one of those predictions in which I hope I was dead wrong.
I guess the dismal economy is finally affecting even the Dems, or should I say they are finally voting with their pocketbooks. Of course, Obama will take California but much of the rest of the country seems to be wising up. Politically speaking, next year is going to be a fun year, if we survive this year, that is.
Read all about it: Bachman
LOS ANGELES — A longtime Democratic campaign treasurer who has worked for dozens of state, federal and local politicians in California has been arrested on suspicion of mail fraud.
U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Thom Mrozek said Saturday that Kinde Durkee, who heads Durkee & Associates in Burbank, was arrested Friday afternoon by the FBI.
The arrest was first reported by the Orange County Register.
To read the rest of the story, click here.
I finally took a moment to call the Governor’s office to express my opinion on the Dream Act. Actually, it took more than a minute because the line was busy and it took several tries to get through, which surprised me at this time of night on a Saturday of a three-day weekend. I guess there are a few passionate people out there when it comes to college educations for illegals.
If you have not called, the number is (916) 445-2841. They have a line set up just for the Dream Act. You never speak to a real person. You first press one (1) for English, then two (2) to express your opinion on a bill, then one (1) for Dream Act, and then one (1) if you are in favor of it two (2) if you are against it.
We don’t spend much time discussing national politics here. However, yesterday I read the article below. Michelle Obama has always been an annoyance to me. From inauguration night with that hideous gown to all the fuss made over her tacky clothes, as a first lady I think she is a disgrace. She has always seemed like trailer trash to me. I can’t explain why I find her so tacky. I have no clue what her “causes” are because everything about her seems to concentrate on her possessions and lavish lifestyle at taxpayer expense.
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 26, 2011, 5:59 AM
$10 million worth of free advice.
From left to right: the first lady’s mother Marian Robinson, Assistant Minister of Finance and Development Planning Gloria Somolekae, Obama, nephew Avery Robinson, daughter Sasha, niece Leslie Robinson and daughter Malia in Botswana. (BET)
Nile Gardiner at The Telegraph offered the White House some advice today. If the Obama Administration really wanted to cut spending they could start by reining in on Michelle Obama.
The Telegraph reported:
With the United States facing a national debt of more than $14 trillion, the largest since World War Two, wouldn’t it make sense for the White House itself to start trimming its own spending? A good place to begin cutting would be Michelle Obama’s rather generous vacation programme. Keith Coffler, who edits the influential White House Dossier, notes that Michelle Obama spent no less than 42 days on vacation over the past year – that’s one in every nine days:
Her vacations, the cost of which are mostly borne by taxpayers, include trips to Panama City, Fla., Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, South Africa, Latin America, Vail, Colo., and her visit this week to her brother in Corvallis, Ore.
The total does not include a nine day sojourn in Martha’s Vineyard that the Obamas will enjoy this month. Nor does it include a trip she made to Ireland and Great Britain in May, which I’m counting as official travel.
As Coffler points out, there is a significant cost to the public purse:
Taxpayers pick up most of the cost of transporting the first lady and her extensive entourage – including Secret Service and her staff – to her various destinations. While she may in some cases pay some of the tab for her personal expenses and travel, the amount is dwarfed by the overall cost to the public.
It is unclear what the total cost to the taxpayer actually amounts to. According to one estimate provided by the Daily Mail, the First Lady stands accused by sources inside the White House of spending “$10 million of US taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.” Judging by the amount of vacation time Michelle Obama has taken and the level of security and staffing that she has, this sounds like a plausible figure. It would be in the public interest to have the exact numbers provided by the White House so that Americans know precisely how much of their money is being spent on vacations.
There does appear to be an unhealthy sense of entitlement on the part of the First Lady, which seems in poor taste at a time when 14 million Americans are out of work, the housing market is collapsing, and the United States is facing the strong possibility of a double-dip recession.
To read the rest of the story, click here.
I attended tonight’s meeting of this new Tea Party group. The guest speakers were Judy Morris, Paul Chabot, and Assemblyman Tim Donnelly. There will be an Examiner article tomorrow.
Tim and I did an excellent job of ignoring one another (actually I have no clue if he even remembers me as we have only met a few times). As much as I have had issues with Tim, I can honestly say I was impressed tonight.
Anyway, this Tea Party group seemed to consist of normal people and not all the whack jobs that usually attend high desert tea parties. Here is a link: Americans for America Tea Party
(I’m referring to our current leaders and their reaction to the earthquake, not our founding fathers.) I’m sure most have seen this already, but I thought it was cute:
VA QUAKE BREAKING NEWS: The USGS has determined that the epicenter of the earthquake was in a cemetery just outside of DC. The cause appears to be our founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
By Rachel Rose Hartman | The Ticket – Wed, Aug 17, 2011
A Philadelphia tea party rally July 4 (Joseph Kaczmarek/AP)
In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is “less popular than much maligned groups like ‘atheists’ and ‘Muslims.’”
But Campbell says the tea party was really an afterthought in their research.
“We didn’t go into this study to look at the tea party,” Campbell said in an interview with The Ticket.
The professors were following up on research they conducted in 2006 and 2007 for their book “American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us” and decided to add the tea party and atheists to their list of survey queries. By going back to many of the same respondents, the professors gleaned several interesting facts about the tea party.
Bill has an interesting story posted: Campaigning from the White House
Former First Lady Betty Ford
(Rancho Mirage) – Former First Lady Betty Ford passed away today at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. Family friend and chairman emeritus of the Ford Foundation, Marty Allen, confirmed her death. She was 93. Her cause of death has not yet been announced.
Mrs. Ford was one of the nation’s most outspoken first ladies. Her candor on such issues as abortion and premarital sex made headlines in 1970s as women were first achieving equality. “Having babies is a blessing, not a duty,” she once stated, taking a stance opposite of the president.
Mrs. Ford was best known for publicly admitting her addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs after family members performed a formal intervention. After a weeklong detoxification process, she entered the Long Beach Naval Hospital’s drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. At the facility she had to room with five other women and work the program like any other patient, including completing daily chores such as cleaning restrooms.
I really like Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone’s idea that part of California succeed from the state. However, I would split the state up differently.
Instead of “North California” and “South California,” I would propose “East California” and “the People’s Republic of West California.” West California would consist of all coastal counties from Los Angeles to the northern border. If there were any congruous counties that wanted to be part of the west they could. Orange, San Diego, and all inland counties would be part of East California.
I’m not convinced this is a good idea. I guess it depends on who is president: Presidential Appointments
Here is the story: Endorsements
I don’t get to listen to Rush Limbaugh very often but did happen to catch a few minutes of his show a couple days ago. He played a couple of Ronald Reagan soundbites I don’t ever remember hearing before. I searched YouTube to see if I could find them and I did. I don’t believe I have ever heard this speech. There are a few things in it that just might make the current crop of “Reagan Republicans” and tea partiers cringe, especially about collective bargaining. But mostly, I could not help but think about how history really does repeat itself. I so wish the current crop of Republican hopefuls would quit with their current rhetoric and take a lesson from Ronald Reagan so that the good part of history could repeat itself this time around.
Bill has got an excellent article over on his site: Glenn Beck
Bill posted a good one over on his site: Weiner Dude
I have to admit I am not overly enthusiastic about redistricting, except, as I have stated before, I am hopeful Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt does us both a favor and redistricts me out of his district. However, for political junkies, like Bill, this whole redistricting thing is like a chess game. Bill has added a link for the junkies among you who can’t live without viewing the latest in proposed maps.
Some remember the influence the Christian Coalition had in political circles in the 1980s and 1990s. The group was conceptulized by TV evangelist Pat Robertson. He asked then-27-year-old Ralph Reed to build the coalition and build he did into a voting forced feared by politicians.
Bill set me an article on Reed’s latest group and I was going to post it. However, Bill then asked me to post it to his site so I’m linking instead. I think it is interesting, especially in light of the current Tea Party movement. Here is the story.
Editor’s note: Needless to say this headline caught my eye for a couple of reasons, one of which should be obvious. But it points out one of the biggest “dirty little secrets” of the Republican party. With all the gay-bashing and homophobic rhetoric of the conservative end of the party, there are a heck of a lot of closeted gays in this party in elected and/or leadership positions, including right here in San Bernardino County. As we watch our party’s influence diminish to almost nil in this state, perhaps we should rethink our policies about being so exclusive and hateful.
Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk has had a dramatic few days, and now a popular gay blogger known for outing politicians claims to have sources confirming that Kirk is a closeted gay man.
Before the February Illinois primary, Kirk, a Republican vying for President Obama’s former senate seat, faced attacks from birther Andy Martin claiming that Kirk was gay. Kirk denied the claims, but now faces an attempted outing from the other side–the gay community.
Activist blogger Mike Rogers tends to target politicians with antigay voting records, and “outed” Sen. Larry Craig and Rep. Mark Foley. He was also featured in the film “Outrage” where he discussed closeted politicians who work against the gay community. In a Tuesday post on Rogers’ BlogActive, he explained why he decided to bring up Kirk’s sexuality now:
Until now, Mark Kirk elected not to play the typical Washington game. Instead of supporting his party’s dismal record on gay rights, Kirk received Human Rights Campaign ratings of 67% in 2002, 88% in 2004, 76% in 2006 and 85% in 2008. That’s more impressive than a lot of Democrats. I even let Kirk slide by when he didn’t co-sponsor earlier legislation relating to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. My thoughts then were that he wasn’t THAT bad on gay stuff and that the bill was going nowhere anyway.
To read the rest of the story, click here.
May 25, 2011
Dear President Obama,
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that will make California a more dangerous place for law-abiding residents to live. According to the Declaration of Independence, it is the purpose of government to secure the people’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By ordering the State of California to release more than 33,000 state inmates back into our communities within the next 2 years, the Supreme Court is directly infringing on the rights of every Californian.
The court has ignored the fact that California has been working with a federal receiver to mitigate problems in our broken prison system. There is no doubt that California has more work to do, but the court’s decision is perilously unreasonable. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that this decision is “gambling with the safety of the people of California,” and Justice Antonin Scalia stated in his dissent that this is “what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation’s history,” and continued with saying, “terrible things are sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order.”
These opinions accurately contend that this decision is not under the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction, and furthermore that it would seriously endanger the State of California, our local communities, and our law abiding residents.
Well here is a political cartoon for all of you Tea Partiers: Cartoon
This is one of those posts I write with great trepidation but I am apparently a glutton for punishment. Announcements are already being made. Attack ads are already being planned. Dirty campaign tricks are already being discussed. Fundraising . . . well that has no beginning and no END! So, with the primary about a year away, it is time to start running political ads. It’s too early for me to solicit them, but any candidate is welcome to submit them and I will post as I have time. Also, any campaign that wants its own log-in just needs to ask.
I’ve been on the Fred Karger for President mailing list for some time now. He is an openly gay Republican, which is unusual as half the ranking male members of the party are closeted gays, living a double life because of their fear of the extreme right. Here is a little more information on Karger.
And here is his latest video:
Robert asked in the “One Tin Soldier” post below why I am a Republican. That is a post I think I shall write for Examiner.com. For now, I will leave you with this hint:
Republican Platform -1860
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago I ran into the president of the local chapter of Republican Women Federated in the market. We talked about the club for a little while and I explained why I am no longer a part of it. Basically, I could not tolerate the Tea Party racist/bigoted influence. It was getting ridiculous. That’s not to say that even a majority of the ladies were racist or bigoted, but the loudest of the ladies were clearly racist and/or bigoted.
A couple of years ago the Chaffey Club made national news with the “Obama Bucks,” which featured a picture of Obama on a food stamp with fried chicken, Kool-aid and watermelon. Although highly offensive, I do believe that some of the ladies in that age group had no clue about the racist aspect of the cartoon. I know my mom would never have figured it out. So, although I can’t excuse what happened then, I can at least feel it was possibly an honest mistake.
However, the latest Republican fiasco in Orange County is anything but an honest mistake. This is flat out outrageous. I heard about it on the radio earlier this evening but the description did not do the picture justice. I, for one, am sick of the bigoted, racist Tea Party wackos. I mean we have got the nut jobs handing out anti-Semitic literature at the SBGOP meetings, this crap at the OCGOP, Obama Bucks at RWF, High Desert Tea Partiers who more worried about rats than human dignity in Hesperia, and the same group acting like obnoxious hoodlums at Victorville City Council meetings. Enough is enough. Time for them to go away or go form a real party of their own dedicated to the wack jobs of the world.
OC Republican Receiving Death Threats After Obama Chimp Email
 Email sent by Orange County Republican Party official Marilyn Davenport (April 17, 2011) |
KTLA News10:16 p.m. PDT, April 18, 2011
ktla-obama-offensive-email
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KTLA) — An Orange County Republican official who sent out an email containing a doctored photo depicting President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee is reportedly receiving death threats.
Marilyn Davenport, a tea party activist and elected member of the central committee of the Republican Party of Orange County (RPOC), claims the photo was a joke.
The caption accompanying the photo read “Now you know why no birth certificate.”
Donald Trump says that the “right messenger” could tell OPEC to lower crude oil prices, insisting that prices ”will go down if you say it properly.”
Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul who is considering a 2012 GOP presidential run, added that he would have gone into Libya and “I would take the oil.”
By Debbie Siegelbaum
03/31/11
Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year’s election.
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, called the study “a disturbing wake-up call” that should cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting.
“We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes,” Harper added.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.
Editor’s Note: Geez, half of the male members of the Republican party in California are gay, including here is SB Co. I guess someone forgot to tell them.
Becky Yeh – OneNewsNow California correspondent – 3/25/2011 4:10:00 AM
The California Republican Party has elected its first openly homosexual board member. One incumbent is hopeful the action will not further enforce a “gay” agenda on citizens of The Golden State.
Tonight I received a email from Janet. She was concerned because I had not posted in a few days. When I don’t post regularly I get phone calls and emails from bloggers, many of them like Janet who I have never met, but at some level have become friends.
The blog has been amazing that way. I have met a lot of people because of it—sometimes that has been a real blessing and other times not so much so, like ET. But overall it has been a great experience, especially when I finally get to meet someone who I have corresponded with for a couple of years and probably talked with on the phone. That happened the other week with the person responsible for bringing the whole Doreen Boxer situation to light.
Then sometimes I hear about someone who reads the blog and it makes me cringe. That also happened a couple of days ago.
My old timers know my father was a minister and I was raised Pentecostal. I have really struggled with my faith for the past few years. And it has showed in some very dramatic ways on the blog. So imagine my dismay when a friend told me he was meeting with his pastor, who happens to pastor the largest church in the high desert, and the subject of iePolitics came up. Seems the pastor reads the blog on occasion. Oops. I would like to say I cringed just a little, but in reality, I cringed a whole heck of a lot.
So, I’m thinking to myself I should spend more time listening to my Casting Crowns or Third Day CDs and less time to John and Ken! 
I always used to write a Sunday post and took some criticism for it but decided to get back to it just a bit. So, for this Sunday, I came across this video that could be said to be political and religious at the same time:
I asked one of my Assembly contacts if the claim made by John and Ken about Republican defectors is true. I’m told it is not.
I also emailed all of the “defectors” except Emmerson, as I do not have his personal email address. I doubt I will get responses, but we shall see.
Interview of the Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney in Palm Beach, Fla., conducted by Tasha Kheiriddin on Feb 1, 2011.
Q: From a prime minister’s perspective, how would you describe the importance of the relationship between Canada and the United States?
The Canada-U.S. relationship is the most important bilateral relationship that a Canadian Prime Minister has to deal with, by far. First, we have this tremendous trade relationship, we have security matters, and everything from culture and the military in between. Second, other nations around the world look to our relationship because we live cheek by jowl with the Americans. They are interested in what the relationship with the prime minister of Canada is with the president of the United States. I was known as a very good friend of president Reagan, and I was able to leverage that in Canada’s interests around the world.
So it’s very important that the prime minister of Canada maintain an excellent relationship with the president, but also with the leadership of both houses, on both sides of the aisle, and with the media and interest groups in Washington. The Canada-U.S. relationship is not a one trick pony. It’s a very complicated, sensitive matter that requires direction and leadership from the prime minister himself. It’s not something he can farm out to the minister of foreign affairs on a regular basis.
Q: By 1984, the year you were elected, the relationship between Canada and the United States had become frosty, to put it politely. How did you set about to change that?
The first time I met Ronald Reagan was in June 1984, when I was leader of the opposition. I met him for 45 minutes in the Oval Office, and he was very impressive. He had a very good command of the Canadian files that I raised, everything from acid rain to protectionism to steel imports from Ontario, and it looked very promising if I could win the election, which was clearly upcoming.
After two years of so-called leadership by Supervisor Gary Ovitt and Assemblyman Anthony Adams from 2007 to 2009, Ken Willis assumed the chairmanship of the San Bernardino County Republican Party. Ovitt and Adams had left the SBGOP in a financial and leadership shambles. Within months Willis resigned.
Adams hired Matt Schumsky as Executive Director but some on the Executive Board did not want a professional executive director and his position became a bone of contention. After a couple of months of wrangling between politicos and non-politicos, Robert Rego was elected to the chairmanship Under his leadership, the county party lost more and more ground to the Democrats and lost the support of the state party.
Ron Nehring
He lost to a DC committee member. How pathetic!
From Capitol Alert:
California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring today lost a bid to become treasurer of the Republican National Committee.
Nehring was defeated by Tony Parker, a Republican National Committeeman for Washington, D.C., in a run-off ballot at the RNC’s winter meeting in Maryland. Continue reading
Assemblywoman Connie Conway
Assemblywoman Connie Conway, who represents Northeastern portions of San Bernardino County, including the cities of Barstow and Needles and communities of Lucerne Valley, Baker, Cima, and Mountain Pass, was elected by her colleagues as Assembly Minority Leader last month. She had lost her leadership position as Caucus Chair when she attempted a coup on Republican Leader Martin Garrick just prior to the November 2, 2010, election.
After Republicans unexpectedly lost an Assembly seat in November election, Conway was voted in as Assembly Minority Leader, ousting Garrick, leader of the Republican conservatives. Conway is a moderate Republican.
By Union-Tribune Editorial Board
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at midnight
The pro-Republican wave in the rest of the nation on Nov. 2 is likely to pay dividends for the party for years to come, with the GOP so strong in the state legislatures, which control post-2010 census redistricting, that gerrymandering alone may yield 20 more House seats for the party in 2012. But in California, Republican prospects could scarcely be grimmer.
Exit polls showed independent voters were overwhelmingly opposed to all but one of the statewide GOP candidates. Independents were key to Republican gains elsewhere.
Barbara Cram Riordan
Earlier this year popular KFI 640 radio talk show hosts John and Ken focused a number of shows on the California Air Resources Board (CARB), detailing the facts that show the agency is out of control. The upcoming implementation of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, only makes this very powerful agency all the more dangerous to the teetering economy of California.
John and Ken primarily focused their attention on Mary D. Nichols, who is the chairperson for CARB. Nichols was first appointed to the CARB in 1978 by then-Governor Jerry Brown. She served under Brown until 1983. She was reappointed as chairman in 2007 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.