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Carly Fiorina formally announced she’s running for U.S. Senate in California a couple days ago.

Fiorina faces Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) for the Republican nomination.

“I’m a lifelong registered Republican but I haven’t always voted,” she said Thursday during an event in Sacramento. “And I will provide no excuse for it. You know, people die for the right to vote. And there are many, many Californians and Americans who exercise that civic duty on a regular basis. I didn’t. Shame on me.”

Will you remember to vote as a Senator? If you’re not committed enough to the political process that you vote, then why run for office? where she’s only voted 5 times in the last 18 elections. Was she just trying to avoid jury duty?

I suppose her competition, the incumbent Barbara Boxer really isn’t all that accomplished either for a 4-term, 18 year member of the Senate.

“Barbara Boxer has been a senator for almost 18 years. During that time, she’s only gotten three laws enacted – naming a river in Virginia, a courthouse in Fresno, and bringing bridge repair money to the Bay Area, where she is from.  One piece of real work in 18 years isn’t much of a track record.”

Like Carly said “That’s not good enough for California,” but neither is someone who “was fired by her last employer after taking $100 million for herself,” per John Burton, California Democratic Party chairman.

I can’t think of a good reason to give a shout out here. Can Anyone?

Full Text is only 2 pages long so someone might actually read it:

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It is quite ironic that the state that introduced the practice of no-fault divorce to the country and forever changed marriage would want to stop divorce entirely. Here’s a quick history lesson for all of you, in 1970, State Assemblyman Jim Hayes of Long Beach was going through a nasty divorce. To make life easier for people like himself he introduced a bill, which resulted in the nation’s most progressive no-fault divorce law.

The first full year of the no-fault law, the state registered a record 112,942 divorces, a 28 percent increase from just the year before. To put that number in perspective consider that, in 1960, there had been only 105,352 marriages in California. By 1980, embarrassed by the divorce plague in their midst, California lawmakers implemented a quick fix of world class caliber: they would no longer keep or publish statistics.

Anyway, now RescueMarriage.org, has proposed an amendment would change California’s constitution, to eliminate the ability of married couples to get divorced. They could, however, still seek an annulment. Its not on the ballot yet and would require 700,000 signatures to get an up or down vote.

The measure is being pushed by those who support gay marriage to make a point to those who argued for Proposition 8 last year. Remember those people saying that gay marriage should be banned because it ruins the sanctity of marriage and the family unit? Well this campaign is a direct, and hilarious, response to them.  I think I’m more excited for the opposition’s response than anything.

The “Some of us still try to do journalism,” line is gold. Granted I wouldn’t talk to someone who turns down dissenter’s mics or has a host who won’t let anyone who disagrees finish making their point. FoxNews should really drop the victim card. There may be a freedom guaranteed to the press, but theres no promise of access in that guarentee.

He was one of just 16 legislators who opposed the series of bailouts which rewarded irresponsible behavior with taxpayer dollars in 2008 and 2009, so hes not a complete failure.