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It makes you wonder if the California Department of Corrections still operates with ribbon typewriters. Governor Schwarzenegger ordered state corrections officials to stop destroying sex offenders' parole files and to make as much of their contents available to the public and press as possible. Tuesday the Governor was informed that the states discharged parolees' records, detailed notes and overall data are systematically shredded 12-months after each parolee was discharged from the system. Then, after the public shock, the story seemed to change somewhat. As the hour grew older, more and more correctional employees and retirees of the system called my talk show to tell me how wrong I was - that there is a micro-film stash of every recorded parolees files. So we called the corrections department to find out if this is true.

Tom Campbell is a gentleman, scholar and one of the nicest, most well mannered politicians the Republican Party has ever had to offer to the public. As a political moderate, Campbell is not divisive, nor is he a moderate out of personal bitterness or narcissistic means. Tom Campbell is not an anti-Semite. What Tom Campbell has done is offer votes that worked against Israel and her interests, but he is not consistently anti-Israel at his core. In the end Tom Campbell is, to his own detriment, a very loyal academic. Herein rests his biggest problem as it relates to this senatorial race.

So this past weekend was the California Republican Assembly Convention. There were a lot of interesting story lines - the endorsement of Steve Poizner, the breakdown and crying of Lydia Gutierrez while seeking an endorsement, and the domination of John Eastman in the Attorney General race, but perhaps the story no one heard about (yet) is rooted back in that District 2 Board of Equalization race. For those that do not attend these events, there is a lot of paper at them. And when I say, a lot, I mean A LOT. Campaign signs, fliers and petitions all over the place. Campaigns struggle to get the attention of this key conservative audience. One piece in particular grabbed my attention, but it was not because of a strong campaign message or a key graphic (or at least not a campaign graphic), it was because the flier was printed on a rather unique type of paper - taxpayer-funded state paper.

Just a little different today on the format. We’re more than happy to entertain the three Republican candidates for U.S. Senate on the GOP side of the aisle here on 1380 KTKZ. Welcoming the state. We’ve got many people listening via the website at KTKZ.com and our thanks off the top here to our sponsors, which have cleared the way for the entire hour. We will have three short breaks in this hour during this debate, and they will be very, very short. Right around 15 minutes after the hour, thirty minutes after the hour, forty five minutes after the hour. The debate does have some rules today, and they’re rather simple, just to give us some structure and some format to get the answers out so you can hear the candidates here. Real simple, I will ask a question, an initial question in each round to one of the candidates, and then they will have two minutes to respond and I will keep track of the time right here...