Beach Cities Republicans Update: Redondo Beach, CCA, and Sanctuary Cities, Oh My!

Hello Beach Cities Republicans!

We have seen some notable victories in the South Bay, despite the growing backlash againsnt Donald Trump.

1.       Rex Tillerson, Trump’s Secretary of State, has cut the fat out of the state department.

2.       The Keystone Pipeline has been approved.

3.       Jobs are up—way up: 238,000 added in the last month—more announcements to come

4.       ICE is arresting and deporting illegal aliens at a rapid pace.

5.       Conservatives including members of the Beach Cities Republicans) stormed corrupt, lawless Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and shut down his corrupt campaign stop/town hall in Ontario California

6.       Republican Art Kaskanian won a seat on the Gardena City Council (now the first Republican at this time on the council). Tasha Cerda, a Democrat who supported David Hadley, won her bid to be the next mayor of Gardena.

7.       Republicans attended the March 21 Redondo Beach City Council meeting, too, and witnessed the defeat of the Big Green Agenda, a fight which Hermosa Beach resident and BCR Secretary-Treasurer Tracy Hopkins has been waging for the last eight years.

Well … our side is very close to winning.

Apparently, Redondo Beach has to revote whether to pursue or abandon Community Choice Aggregation (CCA).

So, we need your help!

Please contact the city councilmembers, and tell them to reject the Big Government, Big Tyranny Boondoogle!

Click on this link to contact the Redondo Beach City Council:

Martha Barbee

Bill Brand

Laura Emdee

Christian Horvath

John Gran

Todd Loewenstein

We need all South Bayt residents to attend the April 4^th, 2017 Redondo Beach City Council meeting to voice opposition to Community Choice Aggregation.

Also, please sign up and help Martha Barbee for her re-election bid. Her presence on that Redondo Beach City Council is crucial for the future growth and prosperity of that Beach City!

Please click on this link for more information. Her election is May 16!

Also:

Please attend the Torrance City Council meeting for the following:

1. Demand full enforcement of our immigration laws—current, the Torrance Police Department is not requesting ICE detainers for illegal aliens. Click here for more information.

2. Demand a resolution opposing SB 54, a bill which if passed would turn the entire state of California into a sanctuary state.

Here’s the agenda for more information.

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 7:00pm (you can come later for Oral Communications #2)

Torrance City Council Chambers

3031 Torrance Blvd.

Torrance, CA 90503

If there are any other events coming up, let me know!

See you soon! Let’s keep working to Make California Great Again!

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper

President, Beach Cities Republicans

Beach Cities Republicans--Eblast for March 20, 2017

Hello, Beach Cities Republicans!

I hope you had a chance to attend the St. Patrick’s Day part at the Long Beach for Trump headquarters.

Check out some of the photos from the event below!

Here is the St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun!

The Los Angeles Irish dancers brought down the house!

Los Angeles for Trump (including members of the Beach Cities Republicans)

I hope you enjoyed the last Beach Cities Republicans meeting!

Tracy Hopkins and other residents in Hermosa Beach have risen up to stop Agenda 21!

Make sure to attend the April 5^th Hermosa Beach City Council meeting to put the final nail in the Big Green coffin (details below).

Here are other events to keep in mind for the next week

1. Redondo Beach City Council Meeting – Support Martha Barbee for Re-election!

Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 6:00pm

 
415 Diamond Street, Redondo Beach, CA 90277 
AGENDA

Good news: Republican Martha Barbee is in the run-off to retain her seat on the city council.

But the fight to remove her from office is strong.

We need to stand for Martha and show our support for her!

Click here to see her website or call this number for more information: (424) 254-9950

Call this number to connect with her campaign, too.

2. Support Sheriff McDonnell: No Sanctuary State

Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 5 PM - 8 PM

211 W Temple St, Los Angeles, CA 90012-3205, United States

The original, pro-illegal event is here, and Trump supporters will counter-protest to support the Sheriff and President Trump.

Contact me if you have any questions.

3. Protest California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Obamacare/Single-Payer program for California

Thursday, March 23 at 5 PM - 8 PM

Chaffey High School – Hill Auditorium 211 West Fifth Street Ontario, CA 91762

Every one of us has the right—and necessity—to hammer our lawless Attorney General over the illegal immigration and health care crises.

4. MAGA March for Los Angeles County

Saturday, March 25, 12 PM. (be there at 11:00am)

6250 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90028

March 25 is going to be a national movement!

Be a part of the Make America Great Again Magic!

The California for Trump Team has official endorsed this event

PLEASE JOIN US!

5. South Bay Republican Assembly

Monday, March 27, 2017

6pm refreshments

7pm meeting

El Segundo Public Library Central Library  

111 W Mariposa Ave

El Segundo, CA 90245

6. Torrance City Council Meeting

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Be there at 8:30pm for Second Oral Communications

We need to protest the City’s non-enforcement of key immigration policies, a.k.a sanctuary city status.

PLEASE be there – especially Torrance residents!

Disclaimer—the time to be there is subject to change, depending on the length and severity of the Agenda.

7. Stop Carbon Neutrality/Agenda 21!

April 5, 2017 at 7:00 PM. 

Hermosa Beach City Hall Council Chambers
1315 Valley DR Hermosa Beach.

Looking forward to fighting for our state, country, and our President!

Let’s Make California Great Again!

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper

President, Beach Cities Republicans

Good News: Martha Barbee in Run-Off for Re-Election

OK ... I was (gladly) wrong.

Martha Barbee, incumbent appointed councilmember for Redondo Beach, District One is in the Runoff.

One source informed me that she should have won outright, but for a third-party perennial candidate.

It's time to make sure that Barbee makes back onto city council.

Redondo Beach City Council is an interesting creation.

The mayor of they city of Long Beach normally does not vote on key proceedings.

If there is a deadlock on the city council, then the mayor votes (?).

If this information is wrong, please let me know.

Martha Barbee has a clear platform in her bid for a full term in her own right.

Here is key information from her campaign website:

I CAN WORK WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND GET THING DONE

In case you forgot, the previous council unanimously appointed her to the city council!

LOCAL CONTROL OF POLICE AND FIRE

BRING BACK THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH: Neighborhood watch programs in our neighborhood create a closer sense of community and enhanced security for all of us – strengthening our sense of community.

Seriously! I cannot believe that any city would do without Neighborhood Watch

This is outrageous!

SCHOOL SAFETY

MAINTAIN AND ATTRACT BUSINESS AND EMPLOYERS

Barbee's election bid shows a commitment to helping businesses begin, grow, and thrive in Redondo Beach. The last thing that any city should be doing is ... pushing businesses out of business.

The Slow Growth-No Growth people are gobbling up local governing boards all over the South Bay. In Hermosa Beach, however, these Agenda 21 types are meeting stiff resistance. More South Bay homeowners need to wake up to the poor use of their property tax dollars, too.

MANAGE CITY REVENUES

Fiscal discipline is non-negotiable, and Martha Barbee wants to ensure that essential services do not fall away because of poor spending and no saving. Barbee's appointment is all aboard for spending

HOMELESSNESS

This divisive concern is turning into another third rail in South Bay politics.

What is leading to this untenable surge of homelessness within the Beach Cities? After all, this is one of the richest, safest regions of Southern California. How is it possible that an uptick in homeless vagrants has increased all of a sudden in this area?

What can cities do to curtail this problem?

RESPONSIVENESS: Maintaining a high level of responsiveness as your representative and fulfilling my duty in getting the City to provide us as residents the level of service that we demand and deserve.

Elected officials by and large have lost touch with a fundamental premise of their office: to serve citizens.

Big Green/No Growth types are all about serving an agenda,  and forcing everyone else to like it, or at least to shut up their concerns and criticisms about it.

Final Reflection

South Bay residents, Redondo Beach taxpayers: WAKE UP!

The last thing that this Beach City needs is another anti-business, anti-taxpayer technocrat more interested in stopping everything in the name of "protecting the planet."

Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Torrance -- everyone in the South Bay -- it's time GOTV.

On May 16, vote for Martha Barbee for Redondo Beach City Council!

Endorsements include:

Steve Aspel, Mayor of Redondo Beach

Mike Gin, Former Mayor of Redondo Beach

Brad Waller, RBUSD School Board Member

Redondo Beach Police Officers’ Association

Redondo Beach Fire Association

Assemblyman David Hadley (ret.)

Beach Cities Republicans Meeting: February 16, 2017

The Beach Cities Republicans welcomed new members and also saw welcome familiar faces, too.

A number of guests shared about causes they are fighting for in the South Bay and throughout the region.

I invited three LA City candidates running for office in the next two months.

William Rodriguez Morrisson is running for Congress to replace Xavier Becerra, who was appointed and confirmed as the state of California's next attorney general.

His defense and adherence to lawlessness will hurt California, but he will no longer direct or influence federal policy in Washington DC, and we will never have to worry about him serving as minority leader or speak of the House.

Morrison is the only Republican running in the 34th Congressional District--out of 22 candidates. It is more likely that he can slip through to the Top Two, whatever his chances may be following that primary.

Gwendolyn Posey is running for LAUSD School Board, Districst 6. She is a black Republican woman, a triple threat for the liberal Democratic machine of Los Angeles.

Finally David Hernandez of North Hollywood is running for Mayor of Los Angeles.

He is the real deal: pro-second amendemnt, against corruption, fully fledged conservative who wants to Make Los Angeles Great Again!

So, on to the meeting.

We were truly blessed to have new faces, new people, as well as a friend of mine whom I connected with last year just three days after the election!

Wendy Yang, a representative stateside for the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan joined our meeting! It was wonderful to see her!

Wendy dining with Congressman Ed Royce

Before our featured guests arrived we had Martha Barbee, who is running for re-election, her first full term as a Redondo Beach City Councilwoman.

Redondo Beach has not gotten as much love and attention as it needs in the South Bay.

The mayor, Steve Aspel, has taken on the public sector unions in the city.

But the actual Republican registration and representation on the city council has hit a number of snags.

GOP activism improved on the city council with the election of Laura Emdee--who had run unopposed!

Then Martha Barbee was unanimously appointed to replace Councilman Ginsburg!

That says a great!

Here are some shots of Councilwoan Barbee addressing the Beach Cities Republicans

Then Dean Cilva, a staunch active Second Amendment supporter addressed the club.

He is working on an initiative to enshrine with full protections the Second Amendment in our state Constitution and culture.

This man worked very hard to stop Governor Brown and Governor Newsom's Gun-maggedon gun grabs.

His team came up short to collect signatures, but they are going to double down and fight all the more now that Donald Trump is our President--and he is prepared to sign national reciprocity of concealed carry licenses into law.

Check out my good friend Harim Uzziel, Latino and Jewish American for Trump!

This man is a social media powerhouse! He gets views and followers from all over the country! Everyone is learning about the hard work that Los Angeles County for Trump is doing to Make LA Great Again!

With his help, our group received 400 more viewers from all over.

It was quite a treat. Thanks for coming, Harim:

Our featured guests are fighting right in the middle of election season right now.

Morrison's campaign for the 34th Congressional district is a special election with an extremely short window of opportunity. One February 16th, a special candidate's forum was called.

He was not able to attend. Same situation emerged for Gwendolyn Posey.

The Beach Cities Republicans wish them both the best.

But the last guest, mayoral candidate David Hernandez, arrived on scene.

He has networked with numerous activists and local groups in the city of Los Angeles.

He has assembled an association with small businesses in the city who have been hammered by the trash collection monopoly. A select number of firms are allowed to conduct their trash collection business in Los Angeles, which in turn has led to higher costs and fees for business owners.

The racketeers invested in this program all donated heavily to Mayor Eric Garcetti's campaign.

Hernandez opposes the sanctuary city policy and is dedicated to cooperating with federal authorities to rid Los Angeles of criminal illegal aliens.

This move would free up LA jails to house local and domestic criminals and keep LA streets safe.

Hernandez is a vocal Second Amendment supporter, and will direct the chief of police to issue concealed carry licenses to all applicants who qualify as soon as possible. Currently, in the state of California municipalities and local law enforcement officials command wide discretion whether they issue CCWs. That must change, especially since a 40% spike in violent crime has overtaken Los Angeles.

Hernandez' efforts with animal rights groups and the anti forced-vaxx groups have increased his following and opportunity for a Top Two upset to challenge current Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Let's wish Hernandez the best and help him in his fight to take back Los Angeles.

New members and a chance for some welcome changes in Los Angeles County--what's not to like!