Another Day, Another Violation, a Different Strickland
Apr 1, 2010 No Comments ›› Bruce LittleYesterday we reported that Tony Strickland will pay a $3,000 fine for violation of state campaign law. Today we hear that Audra Strickland, soon to be ex-assemblywoman, appears to be in violation of the city ordinance prohibiting campaign signs earlier than 45 days prior to an election [TOMC 9-4.2304(d)]. Yesterday an Audra Strickland for Supervisor ...
Continue ReadingPoll Finds Strickland Viewed Negatively
Feb 17, 2010 No Comments ›› VCDCC AdminA public opinion survey this month showed a “toxic” level of negative views about Assemblywoman Audra Strickland just before she launched her campaign for county supervisor, the pollster said Tuesday. The poll was commissioned by the Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association. The union supports Strickland’s opponent, 2nd District Supervisor Linda Parks. Precision Politics, ...
Continue ReadingTermed-out Assemblywoman Turns Carpetbagger
Feb 6, 2010 No Comments ›› VCDCC AdminAs Audra Strickland's time in the state assembly draws to a close, and with little to show for it save a steady paycheck, she has announced she will move to Thousand Oaks and run against popular fellow Republican Linda Parks for County Supervisor. Parks, who enjoys rare bi-partisan support, was elected District 2 Supervisor in ...
Continue ReadingCounty GOP / Stricklands Involved in Attacks on Parks
Jan 19, 2010 No Comments ›› VCDCC Adminas reported by Timm Herdt, Ventura County Star, 1/19/10 The chairman of the Ventura County Central Committee on Tuesday all but acknowledged that the county GOP was behind a politically charged telephone survey conducted earlier this month that questioned Thousand Oaks voters about a potential challenge of incumbent Supervisor Linda Parks by termed-out Assemblywoman Audra Strickland. The ...
Continue ReadingRaising the Bar for County Treasurer
Nov 24, 2009 No Comments ›› VCDCC AdminBy Michael Sullivan Ventura County Reporter When Ventura County Treasurer-Tax Collector Larry Matheney announced last week that he would not seek another term, it came as a big surprise that Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, whose professional experience is limited to her political work and her time as a private junior high schoolteacher, was going to run for ...
Continue ReadingTony Strickland Sides With Tobacco Companies Again
Jun 20, 2009 No Comments ›› Marie LakinIN A MOVE THAT WILL SURPRISE absolutely nobody, State Sen. Tony Strickland (R-Moorpark) voted in committee last week against a proposal to tack a tax on cigarettes to raise about $1.2 billion annually for the state's ailing general fund. He also recently voted against two measures, SB 602 and SB 603, which would make it harder ...
Continue ReadingLocal Democrat Challenges Assemblywoman Strickland on Budget Solution
Jun 16, 2009 No Comments ›› Bruce LittleThe following letter to the Ventura County Star is in response to an opinion column by Assemblywoman Audra Strickland from June 14, 2009. Once again Assemblywoman Audra Strickland wastes three columns of print on the Opinion page of the Sunday Star. She calls for the legislative leadership to reform and streamline the budget process, ...
Continue ReadingOur new ‘green’ state senator flunks his first test
Apr 2, 2009 No Comments ›› VCDCC AdminIt didn't take long. State Sen. Tony Strickland, (R-Moorpark) who listed himself as a "renewable energy businessman" on the ballot in the Senate District 19 race last fall, predictably failed to vote on renewable energy legislation on Tuesday, March 31. The bill, SB 14, would require investor-owned utilities to receive one-third of their power from renewable ...
Continue ReadingEric Bauman Drops Bid for CDP Chair, Announces Run for Vice-Chair
Dec 16, 2008 No Comments ›› 1st Vice Chair David AtkinsFull disclosure: I am president of The Pollux Group, a qualitative consulting firm. My firm worked this cycle (almost entirely pro bono) for Eric Bauman's LACDP on multiple races, including that of Ferial Masry in AD-37. Eric Bauman, chair of the LACDP, announced in a conference call to supporters and media this evening that he ...
Continue ReadingHannah-Beth Jackson Concedes; Tony Strickland Watch Begins
Nov 27, 2008 No Comments ›› 1st Vice Chair David AtkinsThe protracted count is finally over, and it appears that Hannah-Beth Jackson's outsize effort to defeat Phony Tony Strickland has come up just short. With only a few hundred ballots left to count, Strickland currently maintains a 903 vote lead out of 414,587 ballots cast. That margin is .2%: well within the margin ...
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