Report: LAGOP Central Committee a Paper Movement, Propped Up By One Donor (?)

Fake Howard Hakes, CAGOP Vice-Chair for Los Angeles County

Now it all makes sense.

For a while, I could not understand why the California Republican Party (also known as the Oligarchy of Failure by Aaron Parks and others) had appointed Howard Hakes to take over as the regional vice-chair for Los Angeles County.

He was a do-nothing RINO who was foolish enough to go along with Andy Gharakani's grifter-machine consultant garbage.

And they were stupid enough to pose for this picture in 2017:

Howard is the pasty one on the right, by the way. Cheating Chad Mayes, in the middle, was the Republican Permanent Minority Leader in the state assembly in 2017, when the Republican caucus betrayed their base and the state and advanced the Cap-and-Trade renewal-betrayal. Some of those Republicans survived primary challenges that year, and Chad Mayes abandoned the GOP and went rogue as a liberal-leaning independent afterwards.

It was a stunning, embarrassing defeat for the California Republican Party, only made worse in 2018 when Republicans dwindled down to 18 seats in the legislature.

Now, back to Fake Howard Hakes ...

According to Steve Frank's California Political News and Reviews, Hakes is the only guy keeping the lights on at the Los Angeles County GOP Central Committee:

Now you have another problem with the LAGOP—they have little or no money.  Their FPPC# is 742145,  When you go to their filing for 4/3/22 through 6/30/22 you will be surprised.  Go to Schedule G and you will see expenses for rent, Executive Director, phones, Constant Contact and more was NOT paid for by the LAGOP.  No, Schedule G is for the reporting of Committee expenses paid for by a third party—in others words the Committee did not pay its own bills.  

They can't even pay their own bills? Are you telling me that the LA County GOP has become the John Fetterman of the California GOP Central Committee system? For those who don't know, John Fetterman is the stroke-victim Democrat US Senate candidate from Pennsylvania who lived off his parents' money into his forties. 

The rumor is that Howard Hakes was the payor of the bills.  He has been a major financier of the Do Nothing Committee, just to keep the doors open.  Too bad they can’t give money this year to candidates, for voter registration or a real GOTV effort.  They could not get candidates to run in the June primary in numerous districts.  The biggest County in the State literally has a paper Central Committee.

Paper tiger, paper central committee, weak and beggarly elements across the board.

I had received so much flak because I quit this Do-Nothing committee early last year. I see that my judgment was correct to quit as soon as I realized how corrupt and useless it is. This is a telling vindication.

And now we know why the CAGOP put Fake Howard Hakes in the regional vice-chairmanship: he's willing to spend his own money to keep the lights on and save the failing CAGOP from more embarrassment.