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The battle for the last statewide office is over in California, as San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris declared victory in the race for California Attorney General. GOP candidate and Los Angeles County district attorney Steve Cooley threw in the towel for the race last Wednesday, but Harris waited until today’s deadline for state’s counties to certify their results. The attorney general spot, currently held by newly elected Governor Jerry Brown, was the GOP’s last hope of taking one of nine statewide offices

The Michael Kinsley definition of politcal gaffe is the accidental telling of an embarrassing truth — and if that’s the case, Jerry Brown committed the ultimate gaffe. Only Brown didn’t commit the gaffe in this campaign; he committed it fifteen years ago in an interview with CNN. Brown told the network that politicians in his experience don’t really have plans for governing, or at least specifically in his own experience. He admitted that he lied in order to win election in 1974, and Meg Whitman pounces on it in this eleventh-hour ad:

Earlier this week Michael Barone reported that the battleground for 2010 indicated the Democrats were being wiped off the election map everywhere except the coasts and even there Republican Meg Whitman was slightly ahead of Democrat Jerry Brown. I'd barely read this when the odious Brown supporter and mistress of the legal female victim genre, Gloria Allred, leapt into action, hugging a sobbing illegal alien (Nicky Santillan) from Mexico who claimed Meg Whitman for whom she'd worked as a housemaid and nanny had abused her for nine years.

What's that you say? Ann Coulter is a national figure who would never be the guest-of-honor at a fundraiser for a mere state assembly candidate? Wrong. I was there. I have the pictures to prove it. Who is the man, the candidate for a state legislature, who got Ann Coulter to help give his campaign it's official launch? It's Jeffers Dodge, running for the California State Assembly from the 47th, a district in the west-central part of Los Angeles. ModernConservative is pleased to have been able to send a representative (me) to the event, and I will describe that event...

Could California turn out to be a surprise? Could Arnold have been convincing enough in his RNC speech to entice his people to come out in support of Bush? It could happen. Take a look at the early results. It is not a stretch to see California swing. I know it's somewhat of a long shot, but the early numbers are surprising.

<p>A Nazi groper, running the fifth-largest economy on the planet? I mean this time you gotta see why the liberals are jumpin' mad! Nixon was one thing, with the hiring of the burglars and all to lift McGovern's secrets, and the bombing of Cambodia on the sly, and goofy, like when he'd shoot his arms straight up in the air like a giant V, I guess for victory (or maybe it was a big human Y, for Yes), but at least Tricky Dicky didn't pronounce it "Collifornia," and he didn't grab up a Kennedy woman for his own. No, this time it's worse. I saw the nude Arnold photos on Drudge. Nixon wouldn't even walk along the surf without wearing his suit and tie, and dress shoes.</p>

[Editorial] Sean, Sean, Sean... From the very minute that Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy for Governor of California, Sean Hannity's behavior has been more like a star struck groupie than a professional commentator or political pundit. Sean has admitted many times, on both his radio and television shows, that his views are much closer to those of State Senator Tom McClintock, the real conservative in the race. Yet, Hannity supports Arnold. He insists that he "hasn't endorsed anyone," but it's clear who his horse is in this race. Hey, we like Arnold too--and if McClintock wasn't running, we'd support him...

I didn't see this posted, so forgive me if a duplicate: Fox just carried a speech of Arnold's at the CA Republican meeting. It was a live clip of him speaking about taxes, and at the end of the "they-tax-us-when-we-get-up" standard line, he said, "and that's why the first thing I'll do is repeal the CA car tax." I'm paraphrasing, and Fox cut away, so I didn't hear any more. Did anyone else have any info on this?

That’s it. I’m changing my name from Steven Greenhut to Esteban Casaverdi. It’s not an exact translation, but it’s close enough. My oldest daughter is happy about the change, given that her A-/B+ grades probably won’t get her into the best University of California schools. Add the new last name and, heck, she could get Cs and still get in. Once I have her scholarship sewn up, I’m heading down to the Department of Motor Vehicles, with my fake Mexican papers in hand. The folks at the DMV might not read Spanish, so they won’t know my papers are really...

Form a nice big circle boys and have at it. You guys can whip yourself to a frenzy as you have done everyday since the recall has started. I'll start Arnold is a RINO Tom is unelectable A vote for Tom is a vote for Bustamante Why vote for Arnold when you can vote for Cruz You are an ignorant fool. You are a sell out. Troll DU

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MOVIE SUPERSTAR AND REPUBLICAN activist Arnold Schwarzenegger is quietly examining his prospects as a write-in candidate for governor in the November election. Pollsters working for Schwarzenegger's after-school programs initiative, Proposition 49, interviewed likely California voters last week about a possible Schwarzenegger write-in candidacy. When the Weekly asked his advisers, who include some of the most senior members of former Governor Pete Wilson's political team, to elaborate on the poll and the actor's goals, they did not have an immediate answer. Eight hours later, Sean Walsh, an adviser to Schwarzenegger's initiative, got back with an answer steeped in campaign jargon. "They...

SANTA ANA, California - In a California primary, voters recently had the choice between a "low-level officer who examines dead bodies" and an "office secretary" — at least that's what the Vietnamese translation of their titles said. A group representing Vietnamese-Americans has complained that Orange County election officials did not translate some of this month's primary ballot descriptions correctly. Among the examples of poor translation cited by the Vietnamese-American Voters Coalition of Orange County were the job titles of Sheriff Michael Carona listed as a "low-level officer who examines dead bodies" and District Attorney Tony Rackauckas as "hamlet prosecutor."...