Brian Dahle for Congress (?)

Brian Dahle

Let's face some hard facts:

California State Senate Minority Brian Dahle is not going to be the next governor of California. The voters turned down a recall effort against incumbent Governor Gavin Newoms last year by 2-to-1. It was just so discouraging. Newsom has the backing of very major political interest, and the woke cult has such a stronghold on so many voters in the state.

So, why is Dahle running for Governor?

He is propping up his bid for higher office, i.e. Congress, when CA-01 House Rep. Doug LaMalfa resigns, retires, etc., or Dahle will go after a seat on the Board of Equalization once Ted Gaines terms out.

That's what swampy Republicans in the California State Legislature do. They are not interested in saving the state. Most of them do not speak up to stop bad legislation during the legislative session, even. They make no efforts to improve the well-being and quality of life for California residents. They don't care because they don't have to. They show up, cast their votes, collect their paycheck, then prep for higher office or local office or set up their consulting firms once they term out.

They are looking to hold onto whatever political power is available to them or make whatever money they can, including running for whatever higher office may be available to them in the near future.

How has the Dahle for Governor campaign spent its money?

Campaign Consultant Josh Cook  $115,000  (Cook is also the Senator Dahle Chief of Staff)

The consultant gets 10% of campaign take. Wow!

Slate cards    $256,000

Where does he plan on sending the slates? Orange County?

Other consultants:

Matt Shupe (Contra Costa GOP Chair)  $7500

Call to Action Consulting (a Redding firm)  $10,000

Fortune Masters Group—also from Redding    $10,000

Farah Farr Consulting   $7421

Janessa Zimmerman   $5500

You have five other consultants listed. FIVE! What's this all about?

It's all about feathering the nests of the permanent minority of failure that runs the CAGOP.

Notice again how consultants have taken over as chairmen for key committees throughout the state. The activists and the grassroots voters do not run things in the California GOP. It's all run by a receding number of well-connected political technicians and wonks who just want to cash a check. They don't care about California. They don't care about the voters. They only care about their nest-egg and their next real estate investment (or the next campaign gig, or they next bid for higher office, etc.)

Julie Haff—LAGOP Treasurer/Executive Director   $4500

Lo and behold, even the Los Angeles County GOP is moving in on the money, too! Now we know how they are managing to keep the lights on for the otherwise abandoned LAGOP Central Committee.

I have looked at Republican State Party programs, platforms, and apparatus in the other states, and it just excites me and depresses me all at once. Florida, Iowa, even Rhode Island and Maine, have active state parties that are looking forward to taking back territory and winning seats in the state legislature or Congress!

And what about California? It's just a sad decline of excuses and corporate payoffs. A handful of people get rich, and the rest of the state suffers. It's almost as though the Democrats have fully infiltrating the California Republican Party to ensure nothing but controlled opposition comes out of them.

Brian Dahle is running for Congress or the Board of Equalization down the line, and in the meantime he is propping up a host of consultants and campaign vendors to keep them happy, so that he can take advantage of them for his next political push. What a let-down.

New Boss, Old Boss: Dahle Promotes Another Cap and Traitor

Once again, the new boss in the Assembly GOP caucus is not better than the old boss.

Check out who else Assembly minority leader Brian Dahle has appointed to the GOP leadership:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Matt Mahon
January 9, 2017	(916) 319-2001
Assembly Republican Leader Dahle Announces  Additions to Leadership Team  SACRAMENTO – Today, Assembly Republican Leader Brian Dahle (Bieber) announced the following additions  to the Assembly Republican leadership team for the 2018 legislative session:   Assistant Republican Leader and Chief Republican Whip: Assemblyman Heath Flora (Ripon)   Republican Whip: Assemblyman James Gallagher (Yuba City)   Republican Whip: Assemblyman Vince Fong (Bakersfield)   The members will join the following individuals previously named to leadership positions:   Republican Floor Leader: Assemblymember Marie Waldron (Escondido)   Republican Caucus Chair: Assemblyman Jay Obernolte (Hesperia)   Deputy Republican Leader: Assemblyman Rocky Chavez (Oceanside)   Deputy Republican Leader: Assemblyman Frank Bigelow (O’Neals)   Assistant Republican Leader: Assemblyman Phillip Chen (Brea)   Assistant Republican Leader: Assemblyman Chad Mayes (Yucca Valley)   ###

This is a joke!

Heath Flora voted for the Cap and Trade renewal and extension.

Another Cap and Traitor has been added to Dahle's "leadership" team.

This is a real joke. In California, we do not have a government for the people by the people.

Notice also that Chad Mayes remains an "Assistant Republican Leader". Ugh.

Cap and Traitor Money Laundering? Mayes Donates to Dahle Donates to Steinorth

Now read this.

Cheating Chad Mayes, the Cap and Traitor who stepped out on his wife and cheated on the taxpayers by voting for an extension of the corrupt Cap and Trade program, is still funding campaigns within the Republican caucus.

Does that mean he is still essentially in charge, even though he was supposedly pressured to step down as minority leader?

What is going on?

Check out this link, and you will find that Brian Dahle donated $8,800 to "Marital Trouble" Marc Steinorth's re-election campaign:

AD40: STEINORTH FOR ASSEMBLY 2018; MARC
- Brian Dahle For Assembly 2018 : $4,400 
- Brian Dahle For Assembly 2018 : $4,400

Mayes donated the exact amount to Dahle last week, and this week Dahle sends the same amount to Steinorth.

This is beyond disgusting. What do we see here? We see Mayes still controlling politicians within the GOP minority caucus, even though there was an appearance of taking away power from Cheating Chad.

I don't think anyone can walk away from this whole debacle without acknowledge that the New GOP Minority Leader Boss is the same as the old one. 

Unbelievable.

Breaking: Cheating Chad Mayes Donates to CAGOP Minority Leader for Re-Election

It just goes from bad to worse sometimes.

The fate of the CAGOP?

Republican lawmakers and leaders are finally taking steps to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Let me remind you that not all of them are fully on board. Those "Republicans" who have been thwarting the President and the GOP base for decades are starting to see their opposition fail in the face of a renewed opposition.

Brian Dahle (R-Redding)
New State Assembly Minority "Leader"

But in California, only now are voters like me seeing how deep the Deep State runs.

And it's not good.

I can't believe that Republicans, including the weak-kneed, spineless former minority leader Chad Mayes would broker one of the most corrupt, bankrupted, and useless legislative deals in the state. The Cap and Trade cop-out was beyond unseemly, and sad proof that both parties in Sacramento have sold out for third-house money.

The grassroots throughout the state raised their voices and demanded Mayes' ouster. Yes, he finally stepped down, but he pretty much dictated the terms of his own surrender. His replacement, Brian Dahle, seemed like a step in the right direction.

He seemed like one ...

I confronted him at the Anaheim Marriott last October, and he and his handlers were not that interested in hearing from me and other grassroots activists fed up with both parties selling out to the Deep State and making the rest of us pay for it.

Then I found this out today:

CHAD MAYES FOR ASSEMBLY 2016 SACRAMENTO, CA 95814 4400 2017-12-29 2018-01-02
CHAD MAYES FOR ASSEMBLY 2016 SACRAMENTO, CA 95814 4400 2017-12-29 2018-01-02

This is beyond untenable. This is not leadership. This is capitulation. Chad Mayes has no business ever serving in the state legislature at all. He should not only have resigned his leadership, but should have resigned his seat in the state assembly.

Cap and Trade is a tax hike on our gas, on our food supplies, and a total giveaway to Big Business and Big Labor--and 8 Republicans voted for it, including Cheating Chad. Other Republicans were also tempted to go along witht the corrupt program, too, but at the last minute changed their votes.

This corrupt deal was brokered not just with Chad Mayes, but his swamp-creature chief of staff Joe Justin, an "Obama Republican" political consultant whose only interest has been enriching himself.

Brian Dahle is supposed to be leading the state party out of this left-wing wilderness, but instead he's going along with it!

We are witnessing how both parties, especially the "conservative" GOP, which is supposed to favor lowering taxes, regulations, fees, as well as reducing the size and scope of the state in general.

Now we see, once again, that the  new leadership is just the old leadership with a new face.

Californians! We need to take our state back, every part of it, from corrupt Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

Shame on Brian Dahle. Call his office right now and demand that he stand with the voters and taxpayers.

CAPITOL OFFICE: State Capitol, Suite 3104, Sacramento, CA 94249 | 916-319-2001

DISTRICT OFFICE: 280 Hemsted Drive, Suite 110, Redding, CA 96002 | 530-223-6300

(This story is developing. More information to follow ...)

UPDATE:

This post had previously reported that Brian Dahle had donated to Chad Mayes' re-election campaign. I apologize for the error.

The Deep State Strikes Back? Dahle's Chief of Staff Another Government CONSULTANT!

Well Well Well.

We have another well-connected chief of staff in the Assembly minority leader's office.

Joshua Cook, Chief of Staff
Minority Leader Brian Dahle

His name is Joshua Cook.

So, once again we have proof that the new boss in the California Republican Caucus is not much better than the old boss.  The one difference is that Dahle has not betrayed his caucus, his party, or the state ... yet.

I have shared, however, what a negative experience I had confronting him about two weeks ago at the Republican Party Convention.

Here's my brief confrontation with him at the Marriott Hotel restaurant.

So, what do we know about this Joshua Cook fellow?

He runs a consulting firm, just like RINO Cap and Traitor Joe Justin!

Here's more info:

He makes big money and is an adjunct professor for USC.

He's a chief of staff with his own consulting firm.

Here's more information about his wife, who also serves as a consultant:

Robinette Cook - President

Robinette Scott Cook is the President of Cook Communications and Government Affairs and directs the communications and coalition building efforts on behalf of Cook clients.  Robin has more than 20 years experience working in politics, government and communications. 

Appointed by Governor Pete Wilson in 1993, the California State Senate confirmed Cook by a vote of 38-0 as a member of the California Student Aid Commission.  The Commission serves as the principal state agency responsible for administering financial aid programs for students attending public and private universities, colleges, and vocational schools in California.   

So, Husband Joshua removes conflict of interest because he is no longer the President?

I don't think so. Look how Robinette had a government job way back in the day. I wonder how many contacts--and contracts--she was able to scoop up for her communications firm through her work as a governing board member.

And information about Joshua:

Josh Cook is a seasoned government affairs and communications consultant with over 20 years of experience solving complex political problems in California and Nevada. 

His clients have included Senators, Assembly Members, Members of Congress, homebuilders, local candidates, political action committees, advocacy groups, ballot measures, law firms, local governments, businesses, cities, and Indian tribes.  

What?!

Are we anywhere closer to draining the swamp in Sacramento when we have another well-connected consultant type working in Sacramento?

Or can we expect that we will finally get some coordination and leadership that will reflect the needs, the interests of the overburdened California voters and taxpayers.

CAGOP Convention: Confronting Minority "Leader" Brian Dahle

Chad Mayes was supposedly run out of the Assembly GOP Leadership position three months ago.

Unfortunately, he was allowed to negotiate his departure, and that has not worked out well for the angry grassroots in California.

Brian Dahle of Redding took over the caucus, and appointed Chad Mayes his assistant minority leader.

Yes, he did. How could he do this? There are other pictures of Dahle making nice with the Speaker of the State Assembly Anthony Rendon:

Give me a break. We have seen this dance before:

Well, at the CAGOP Convention in Anaheim, I ran into Dahle at the Marriott Hotel restaurant.

At first, he did not recognize me, but I told him plainly that I wanted to talk to him about key concerns I had in Sacramento.

Next, I saw Kathy Ponce of the Redlands Tea Party, and we confronted him together as he was walking toward his table.

Here's my initial report about what happened, which I posted on Facebook:

I just confronted assembly minority leader Brian Dahle. I did not have a chance to speak with him last night since he was not at his ice cream social. I spoke with him and said that Chad Mayes should not have any leadership position.

This guy then said unless you've been up there don't criticize me. I refuse to accept that excuse. He said to me that his enemy are the people across the aisle. Granted but we have enemies within our own caucus who are undermining our values!

He told me he wasn't sure he was even going to be on the convention floor this morning! I had to confront him at The Breakfast Table.

Make sure to check this out and share it, Aaron F Park, Michael W. Triggs, Nathan Mintz, and Joseph Turner!

Kathy Ponce was there, too!

The arrogance is pretty stifling, I must say. They play the pity party card, and then expect us to tolerate their legislative exploits as we get rolled every sessions.

Enough already!

I then approached his gathering at the back of the restaurant. I immediately called on Dahle and Philip Chen--who was also tapped for a leadership position within the Assembly GOP--that I am displeased with what is going on in Sacramento.

One member of the group tried to push me aside, lecturing me "This is not the appropriate time." For elected officials who do not want to do to their job, there is never an appropriate time to do anything. When will this arrogance end?

The politicians in Sacramento still don't get it, or more accurately do not care. They have gotten away with third-house money paving their way for everything. They have no interest in caring about our needs or the daily concerns of voters. Such is the result of the Capitol Kleptocracy running things in California.

Final Reflection

One constituent in Dahle's district informed me about his intense indifference to the plight of California residents in Northern California. If they don;'t like it here, they can just leave. 

I heard the same snide retort at the Grace Napolitano illegal alien town hall in April. Their attitude is that homeowners, residents, taxpayers etc should just accept the abuse. If they don't like the Blue State culture of California, then just move.

But when people are getting robbed left and right in their home, they shouldn't have to leave. They have every right and necessity to fight back and demand more than a redress of grievances. They have every right to throw a bad government out of office entirely!