California GOP at a Crossroads ... or on a Cross!

July 12, 2017.

Richard Eber published the following article:

California GOP at the crossroads

We are not a crossroads.

We are hanging on a cross, but dying for nothing.

We have leaders in the state legislature which have routinely sold out the voters, the business owners, the taxpayers and rate-payers.

How much are we going to take getting taken on like this?

Part of being a political writer involves reading blogs and emails from both the left and right side of the political spectrum. If there is a middle of road one, it has escaped my attention thus far.

Middle of the road is always based on reaction to the extremes. Such political posturing has never helped our country.

Progressive Democrats leave little to the imagination. They express their views on sanctuary cities, health care, global warming, affordable housing, law enforcement and pro-choice policies with a passion that is to be admired. There are no secrets despite how radical some of these stands might be.

They are no longer ashamed of these radical points of view. They should feel ashamed.

Democratic Party Central Committee meetings reflect this energy as there is never a shortage of advocates for any issue. Except for rare occasions when determining endorsements for political office, the press is welcome to cover their events. Transparency and openness dictate democratic proceedings.

How about that? Well, it really is no surprise that Democrats welcome the press. The mainstream tilts left and supports many of these left-wing narratives. They will often write the most glowing articles about the Democratic Party. Because the media is the pet lap-dog for the Left, activists for Berniecras an the corrupt Democratic Party are not ashamed of their views.

Not so with the Republican Party in California these days. It would seem that it is their policy to not discuss issues as a party and allow individual office holders to deal with the press. The state party under the leadership of former state Senator Jim Brulte, (with financial assistance from Charles T. Munger) is content to act as a fund-raising apparatus.

And yet even there is fails. All the major money is coming from Munger. Thtat's why eight Republicans in the state legislature voted for the Crap and Betray deal yesterday (July 18). They do not discuss issues because they have no interest in standing for anything anymore. The powers that be who have taken over the California GOP 

Interviews with party officials on the state and county level are almost impossible to obtain. In fact, in Contra Costa, where I live, the chairwoman intervened to have me disinvited to an event where she was speaking. Gaining publicity and educating voters does not seem to be a priority with the state GOP game plan. They seem to be content with their current “benign neglect” role  in “Left Coast” politics.

Wow! Who was the chairwoman at the time?

I know your pain, buddy. The Republican Party of Los Angeles County revoked the charter of the Beach Cities Republicans because ... for no good reason. They routinely lied about what was going on. They took no clear stance on issues, and I did. I welcomed Latinos for Trump to speak at our club, and they tried to shut it down.

What was supposed to happen? What was I supposed to do? Just let them get away with allowing nothing to happen? RPLAC turned into RINO-PLAC, with nothing to show for their efforts.

One might ask why things have not been shaken up in the Republican Party as it exists today. In terms of achievement today we find:

• GOP registration has continued to decline and is projected to represent less than 25% of registered voters behind the decline-to-state group.
• The party has less than one third of membership in both houses of Legislature thus affording conservatives negligible influence in formulating legislation or approving budgets that requires a 66% majority to pass.
• Republicans have zero state office holders and haven’t elected anyone to such a post in 10 years. Even worse, in most cases such as the U.S. Senate race in 2016, two democrats ended up squaring off in the run-off.

The Republican Party leadership does not want to fight.

They don't want to do anything.

Guess what? I want to do something. I still want to fight! I want to bring down the regressive leftists who are destroying our culture and our way of life. I want to fight for what is right and stand for truth in every arena. After all, it's the truth that sets us free.

It's the truth WHO sets us free!

This headline says it all about the GOP in California

Despite these dismal statistics, the state GOP acts as if everything is “A OK at the KOA.” At the Republican State Convention that followed the general election last November, Jim Brulte ran without opposition for a third term in office. His organization was basking in the victory of Donald Trump for which they had nothing to do with. In fact, Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote was almost entirely due to her landslide win in California.

Hw true this assessment has become. They California Republican Party leadership is taking credit for something that they had nothing to do with. Nothing at all. I remember seeing President Donald Trump fighting hard to enter the CAGOP Convention in Burlingame in February 2016.

The only reason national Republicans care about California is two-fold:

1. The Presidential primary, and the large cache of delegates which follow
2. Donations and fundraising.

That's it.

There are no victories to be had in California, whether at the state or the national level

All of this has not escaped conservative rank-and-file Republicans who feel left out of the party. They are tired of having no say trying to revitalize the organization that has failed them. This group of the disenchanted regularly sends out emails and tweets that find their way to me. What separates current complaints from past correspondence is their belief that the current GOP does not have the ability to do a makeover and reform itself.

The current CAGOP leadership is happily committed to accomplishing very little. They spend more time stalling and thwarting opportunity to change the party rather than allowing the grassroots determine the time and direction of their own party, then taking the fight to the corrupt Democracy.

A divorce and a new political party is what they want.

I think that take is acceptable.

According to a perplexed Pamela Olson, “Please correct me if I am wrong in this. I do believe unless we cut the dysfunction out of current boards, we will never unite a strong 2.0 versions and rebirth of conservative ideals just as we birthed Reagan conservative ideals. We’ve the right groups and right people … wrong folks on dysfunction boards is our issue.”

Indeed, especially if they are talking about the abortive, useless central committees.

Indeed, these boards and associations are supposed to be invested in raising money, recruiting candiates, and registering voters. None of this is happening, and even worse, the latest RINO actions of assembly Republicans vote to increase taxes and regulations, while handing over more power to unaccountable government boards.

Self-proclaimed “political contractor” John Bechtel believes the fractured state of the Republican Party goes beyond the leadership in the state level. He thinks, “In many cases, the local county chairs are the problem, alienating critical sectors of the community, proving the reality of guilt-by-association, and undermining the efforts of good people.”

Yes indeed! The RINO-PLAC Central Committee revoked the charter for the Beach Cities Republicans, and also threatened the Mountain View Republicans in northeastern Los Angeles County. Who needs Democrats when Republican, or "Republican" leaders are more interested in playing along with the left-wing descent into madness.

To show how far things have deteriorated, Bechtel said, “The GOP is weak and apathetic that as of yet they have not applied to have a table at the State Fair in Sacramento to recruit new members. I guess it does not bother them that less than one quarter of the voters in the state belongs to the party.”

Who wants to join the California GOP now? Who wants to go along with the left-wing tilt and fallout of the latest betrayal vote! Of course the state party has not invested any money into registering voters. Why would anyone want to be a Republican.

What to call the organization which is intended to recruit disgusted Republicans, many of whom have become decline-to-state voters? It was suggested by John Bechtel to replace the current GOP and call the new one the Jefferson Party, in honor of the founding fathers.

This appeals to Pamela Olson who says, “Personally it’s my favorite, though I wonder if we should avoid names already associated with hard founded groups such as the Jefferson State. We need not burn bridges just to rebuild a party that is worse than a paper house on fire!”

What is the chance that there would be the necessary manpower and funding to start a new political organization for Republicans to rally around to become a strong force in the Golden State? Probably not much but we must not underestimate the power of grass roots politics as Donald Trump’s election demonstrated.

It's time for grassroots activists to take control. We showed our muscle and our might with the election of Donald Trump. We need to direct our efforts toward true representation for individual citizens.

Perhaps as Bobby McGinnis stated, “Personally I think Republican/Conservative groups already have a number of groups, chartered or nonprofits that already exist.” Naming over 10 of them she added, “I am a member of 5 of them. Not to mention all of the different clubs. Each of the above groups are chartered, file tax returns, establish mission statements & by laws and perform various duties all in the name of getting Republicans elected.”

The Beach Cities Republicans is still up and running!

No reason for people to stop coming! We are still active, and we are still conservative.

Regardless of whether conservatives want to start from scratch or reform the existing organization, there are few rank and file Republicans who think that their party is doing a very good job enticing voters to join their ranks. Jim Brulte and the country organizations under his care should know this and try to improve an ineffective structure that has delivered dismal results in partisan elections.

Rather than wait another 4 years to continue the trend of losing voters and office holders to unaccountable progressives, the right thing to do is to admit there is a problem and that the current strategy operating  as a low key stealth political organization is not working and needs to changed. As such Brulte should consider resigning and ask all county chairs and boards to do the same.

The problem is represented all too well by Charles Munger Jr. who has all the money in the world, and yet chooses to misuse his inheritance ruining the Republican Party of California and allowing it to stand for nothing and gain nothing.

To replace these individuals, mini constitutional-like conventions should be held throughout the state to redefine what being Republican means. Instead of hiding in the weeds, conservatives need to show voters what they stand for and present an alternative to the unabated liberalism which completely dominates California politics.

They do know what we stand for. The problem is that we have leadership which refuses to stand behind us.

Regardless of the outcome we need to praise this band of Jefferson Republicans who want to bring conservative government back to the state. Their enthusiasm is needed to combat liberal democrats who are equally intense in their beliefs. Such passion will only serve to improve our current one sided governmental environment.

I am all for Jeffersonian Republicanism.

I am all for the state of Jefferson, too.

I am furthermore in favor of either burning down the California GOP as we know it and rebuilding from the ground up. Why not? It's time for all of us to audacious! It's time for us to take clear stances on issues and demand that our leaders do the same.

Conservatives, citizens do indeed find themselves at a crossroads. We can either get off the cross and start reigning in life, or we can hang on a cross and die the ignominous death which faces all martyrs and losers who have nothing new in life to look forward to.

Julian Assange: The Democratic Party is Doomed

The winning!

The winning never ends for us Trump supporters.

It's been an incredible week for all of us.

President Trump can boast about a rapidly improving economy.

He has signed off on legislation to assist whistle blowers who want to report incompetence and wrongdoing in the Veterans Administration.

Then the Supreme Court upheld key portions of his travel ban until the October hearing.

This is incredible. There is so much winning going on.

Then there's the revelation that Trump was never colluding with Russia to fix Election 2016. CNN news had to issue a major retraction, and three journalists were forced to resign. It's probably a matter of time before the White House revokes the press credentials for CNN.

One question: what took them so long to do so?

And now, there's more evidence that the Democratic Party, aka "The Democracy" is doomed to end up in the ash heap of history, just like its Communist predecessor in Russia.

Here’s the story:

ASSANGE: Democratic Party isdoomed, Russia narrative ‘consumed all its energy’

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange took to Twitter on Saturday to denounce the

Assange argued:

1. The Democratic establishment has vortexed the party’s narrative energy into hysteria about Russia (a state with a lower GDP than South Korea).

Yes, and for all that hysteria, they look like the deranged, impotent madwomen who entertain city dwellers, and nothing more. The Democratic Party has turned into a self-parody of empty power-grabbing.

Yep. Heckuva job there, Barry!

Great work! He really was the hope and change that we were waiting for.

Democratic campaigns have conspicuously promoted racial and sexual identity politics (for everyone but whites and males).

Indeed, working white men and women are facing an increasingly hostile, PC culture which demonizes them for ... being white. That shift is the essence of racism. Besides, more Americans of different ethnic backgrounds are embracing the same Western, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Judeo-Christian culture and ethic. Let us never forget that true liberty does not discriminate, but is open to all who are willing to receive it.

Not only that, but legal residents, men and women of all colors and backgrounds, are getting fed up with this corrupt nonsense. Americanism is the new creed, and it does not discriminate based on color.

2. The Trump-Russia collusion narrative is a political dead end.

I attended Feinstein's town hall at the AME Church in West Adams, where she declared her intent to push the Russia investigation as far as she could--and nothing came out of it. Now liberal US Senators, especially those up for re-election next year, are acknowledging that they spent too much time on this one issue, which was not an issue to begin with,

Without collusion, we are left with the Democratic establishment blaming the public for being repelled by the words of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party establishment.

How about being repelled by her corruption, her hateful ambition, her racism, or decadent disdain for working people? Cheating and selling out to Wall Street-that's a perfect recipe for voters choosing to elect "the other guy".

A party elite that maintains that it is the “crime of the century” for the public and their membership to discover how they behave and what they believe invites scorn.

We need justice for Seth Rich. He was the DNC leaker who went to every length to show how corrupt his former political party had become. Then he was dead. He was killed, and only Republicans are the ones asking for answers.

3. The Democrat establishment needs the support of the security sector and media barons to push this diversionary conspiracy agenda, so they ingratiate themselves with these two classes leading to further perceptions that the Democrats act on behalf of an entrenched power elite.

The media barons are falling apart. The peasants have revolted with guns and pitchforks. And they have overtaken the media.

The politicization of our national and global security forces should terrify anyone who cares about ensuring a safe and secure state for all Americans. The Deep State needs a deep cleaning. How about clearing out whatever isn't needed. The Secretary of the Interior wants to cut 1,000 jobs, and the Secretary of State wants to slash the State Department staff by 21%.

Julian Assange: "The Democratic Party is Doomed"

4. The twin result is to place the primary self-interest concerns of most Americans, class competition, freedom from crime and ill health and the empowerment of their children, into the shadows and project the Democrats as close to DC and media elites. This has further cemented Trump’s anti-establishment positioning.

BAM! Great analysis, there, Assange! The Democratic Party has offered nothing to meet the needs of average Americans. They are worried about their economic welfare and the future of their children. Where have the Democrats gone? What has happened to them? Their most activist flanks are more interested in social justice and radical equity--but what about the average joy who has kids to raise and bills to pay?

5. GOP/Trump has open goals everywhere: broken promises, inequality, economy, healthcare …. Democrat establishment can’t kick these goals since the Russian collusion narrative has consumed all its energy …

They had too much ire on their hands, and they did nothing with it but find ways to smear good people and diligent politics who just want to Make America Great Again!

6. The Democratic base should move to start a new party since the party elite shows no signs that they will give up power.

I could not agree more -- but they are going to lose in 2020. Bet on it. I would even submit that there will not be a pure Democratic Party candidate. There will be a liberal-leaning Independent who will try to present himself (or herself) as completely out of the political mainstream.