Comments on: California’s Future ‘Political Rock Stars’

By: Eric Hogue

Eric Hogue — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:23:14 +0000

Hugh and I thank you for your support, and very kind words. We both are determined to bring you material that intellectual for the political arena we all play within. Again, thank you for the spreading of our work and sites, very appreciated. (I passed along to Hugh as well.)

By: Miguel

Miguel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:09:09 +0000

This is said in service of spreading Eric’s great work around some. I left this on As a Mom, which is a good group to help and maybe give information to their members, many never politically active before:

Incredibly Smart People to Listen To: Also: 111 New Bureaucracies Under Obamacare

* Posted by Miguel on November 3, 2009 at 8:22pm in CA Region 3 – Sierra / High Sierra
* Back to CA Region 3 – Sierra / High Sierra Discussions

To The Wonderful Ladies (and a few gentlemen) on this site,

I want to give a leg up, so to speak, to the people here so to hear and learn from at least two very good sources of important information, both of whom have helped me (as a one-time very liberal art teacher) get through my painful transformation from liberal college student to conservative voter.

These two fine people are Hugh Hewitt (hhewitt.com) and Eric Hogue (hogue@hoguenews.com). Both have KTKZ radio shows in the daytime. Both have great blogs on their sites. Eric Hogue is local in Sacramento. I leave with all of you just one story on Hugh Hewitt’s Blog on his site. Hugh’s a Constitutional Law professor who can go toe to toe with Obama. Hogue’s blog’s stories are equally as great. Both give original authors full credit.

By: Eric Hogue

Eric Hogue — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:28:47 +0000

Jim,

You’re right, the more you read the more concerned you become with the results. Who will these 14 people be? And what type of education, ideology and agenda will they be following? I voted for Prop 11, but this may turn into a fiasco if we get the wrong 14 individuals. Maybe we should have used computer models and enlisted unbiased geeks to simply process the data…then we’d be asking who wrote the prpgrams…

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:19:32 +0000

I was looking over the process also. I thought it might be something that I could apply for. But, after reading the application and how they are going to select people, I decided it’s not really for the average California taxpayer. They have three essay questions on the application asking about how diverse you have been and your experiences with that. They boil it down to 3 pools of 20 Democrats, 20 Republicans, and 20 Independents. Then they have a bingo ball system to choose the 14 from this pool. I don’t think it will be any better than the gerrymandered system we got now.

By: Nick Kump

Nick Kump — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:02:59 +0000

Wow…and it is not just that they have been politically apathetic their entire lives, but that they have raised their children to not care about the political process or do not have any family at all. This diversity criteria seems like a recipe for one of those, “everyone is created equal, but some people are more equal” type of scenarios.

By: Eric Hogue

Eric Hogue — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:00:05 +0000

To share a fear, these are people who will treated to a very public process; how will they handle the stardom? For a private citizen, the attention can lead to some amazng results. Your “Jon and Kate” concerns could become “reality” themselves.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:52:44 +0000

well, the may become “rock stars” but whither goest California if they, as more likely, become reality-show celebs like Jon and Kate?