David Hadley (Inadvertently) Condemns the CAGOP Establishment

David Hadley sent out another eblast, and he insisted on sending it out with his masthead "David Hadley for CRP Chair".

Seriously?

In the email, he announces a whole series of problems with the three remaining candidates running for CAGOP Chairman.

Really?!

Sounds like someone is bitter. I can understand why there would be hurt feelings. After all, he helped swing a seat which had not been in Republican hands for twenty years and brought it back into the GOP fold for one term.

His decision not to support President Trump did hurt him, and his very public voting and rhetorical record did cost him significantly, too.

Check out his snarky comments going after Travis Allen for being late all the time -- you know what? David Hadley is right about that. He was often late to events, and he would routinely blame something else, like the traffic or other issues.

Granted, the traffic in California is terrible, but in the meantime, as an elected official, it is essential to make it on time, not just make excuses.

As for what David Hadley had to say about Jessica Patterson -- well, she is Establishment with a Capital E!

(Note: I’m using my old email template but I have NOT resumed my campaign for CRP chair) The First Sixty Days After the CRP Convention After we elect the next CRP chair, what is he/she going to do? Unfortunately, less than one month before the convention, I don’t know. Travis Allen’s supporters tell us he has the “energy,” the “bold vision,” the “volunteer army” and the fundraising ability to rebuild the CA GOP. I have no idea what Travis would do as CRP chair, except that he’d be late for a lot of meetings. The only specific idea I’ve heard from Travis is the “California 100,000,” to which I suggest you google “Youtube Kramer levels” and watch the top video. Jessica Patterson says she is going to “take the fight to Democrats,” “execute aggressive programs,” and bring the CRP the "operational excellence" that wins elections. I consider Jessica a capable staffer and she has announced her candidacy for chair recently, so maybe there is more “there” coming. But right now I have no idea what her plan or vision are. To his credit, Steve Frank has released a blizzard of plans, programs and goals. I consider some of them worthwhile. But Steve’s plans fail to address two key issues:  Planning and leadership are about setting priorities with limited time and resources. Steve and the CRP staff cannot possibly execute on most of Steve’s plans, which really means Steve doesn't have a plan until he sets priorities and focuses his resources. Steve has no serious plan for fundraising, and the financial agreement between the CRP and the legislative caucuses that today provides most CRP funding (“One Ask”) will probably not be renewed if Steve is chair. So within 60 days of the convention, CRP will likely have little money and a skeleton staff. Which means that the CRP could mostly be Steve traveling the state giving talks and training volunteers (which he has been doing for years). To be fair to Steve, I think the CRP will also have a financial crisis promptly if Travis is elected. Given the support Jessica has received from GOP elected officials, I suspect she expects to renew One Ask. So what would be my sixty-day action plan if I were chair?  I would spend time before February 24 preparing the February 24 CRP board meeting agenda. I would seek input on that agenda, especially from existing board members who remain. We have no “transition period” for our new officers, it would be irresponsible for any chair candidate not to be prepared to lead an effective board meeting upon his/her election. The most immediate question to address is whether the legislative caucuses and the CRP will renew One Ask. If the terms of such an agreement can be negotiated before the February 24 CRP board meeting, that would be most efficient. But clarity is essential, because the new board has decisions to make. I personally believe there is value in One Ask, for all parties, if the party is well led. Having three groups competing for Sacramento funds would hurt our cause. I would reframe One Ask as a “services agreement,” in which the caucuses specify what services they want the CRP to provide and the revenue shares depend on that. Whether One Ask is approved or not, the incoming and outgoing treasurer (thank you Mario Guerra!) should provide a status report to the new CRP board. Cash on hand and debts, burn rate at current staff and program levels, revenue from CRP programs. How much time does CRP have to execute the vision of the new board while aligning expenditures with revenues? The new chair should ask Cynthia Bryant (CRP executive director) to provide a confidential (no staff) board briefing on the programs the CRP executed in 2017-18 and on the staff that executed them. While our 2018 election results were catastrophic, it would add insult to injury not to learn the appropriate lessons and who our most effective staffers were. The new chair and the CRP board also need to reach an understanding with Cynthia. Whether the plan is to retain her on a transitional or indefinite basis, or not to retain her, is a decision that should be made on February 24. On February 24 or soon after, the CRP needs to actively manage its small dollar donor programs (direct mail, telemarketing and email) and launch a mid-tier member/donor program outside Sacramento. Regarding the latter, I have already advocated for a California 5,000 type-program modeled on my successes in AD66. With or without One Ask, the CRP’s revenue from Sacramento is likely to decline materially – building the party outside Sacramento will be critical for the CRP to succeed. Based on the February 24 treasurers’ report, the renewal (or not) of One Ask or a successor services agreement, the near-term revenue and expense trends and the ramping up of new fundraising programs, the second meeting of the new board will be even more important than the first. The board will need to make crucial decisions about its priorities and what programs to fund given the resources of the CRP, the services the caucuses will pay for and the priorities of the chair and the full board. I am talking mostly about money and staff not because the priorities and programs of the new chair and the full CRP board are not important – the new board will set our path going forward. But virtually everything the CRP does requires some staff action and money (even recruiting and equipping volunteers). The CRP is in a sufficiently precarious place that the new board must husband resources and make decisions about priorities and staff quickly. The new chair will have a lot of other things to do during this period too, it will be incredibly busy. The chair’s job comes with fires to put out and opportunities to pursue every day. But within 60 days of February 24, the new CRP chair and board should have established their strategic priorities, and a staffing plan and budget that are consistent with financial reality. David Hadley Vice Chair, California Republican Party (appointed July 2018) Former State Assemblyman (2014 - 2016) Former Chairman, 66th AD Central Committee (2012 - 2013)

I urge every delegate in the California Republican Party to support Steve Frank for Chairman.

He has substance, and he can build on the strengths for style for every candidate running for office. He has not just talked about the issues plaguing the Republican Party, but he is fully committed to doing something about these problems.

As I write this blog post, and as you are reading this post, rest assured that he is already working on doing something about these issues. Steve Frank is reaching out to different communities to get them involved in voter registration and candidate outreach. He has helped other candidates win elections, and he has even prepared manuals to help these candidates.

He has worked with grassroots leaders, and he has offered help and advice for other projects relating to accomplishing conservative ends.

We need Steve Frank to be the CAGOP next state party chairman. Please join me in supporting him!

The Significance of Hadley's Exit from CAGOP Race

I voted for David Hadley four times.

I vote for in both the primary and the general election in 2014 and 2016. He was the best choice for office in those contests. Even after he voted to permit illegal aliens to purchase health insurance on the Obamacare state insurance exchanges, even though he supported allowing illegal aliens to have drivers licenses, and even though he voted for assisted suicide, he was better than allowing Al Muratsuchi to continue representing the South Bay in Sacramento.

Me with then Assemblyman-elect David Hadley
in December 2014

When he launched his bid for governor, my immediate reaction was a resounding NO! He was too liberal, unwilling to fight for conservative principles, too invested in seeking "balance" rather than righting the ship of state.

We don't need balance, we don't need compromise when the other side wants to steal your property in the name of "social justice", or when the other side wants to silence you, to kill you because they don't agree with your political views. The Regressive Left is also the Aggressive Left, and there is no making nice, making compromise, or finding common ground with another side that has no interest in respecting the natural rights of fellow citizens.

David Hadley wanted to be the professional nice guy, the one who would be welcomed at any table, well, actually the so-called "Cool Kids' Table." The party brass, the big money establishment wanted him to be the next chairman. He was connected with the New Permanent Minority money, for example. Andy Gimme-Candy and Howard Fakes, along with the rest of the sluggish RINO-PLAC crowd were simply not interested in making a difference, just interested in making it seem like they were getting by.

On top of all these issues, Hadley was a NeverTrumper. He wrote the stunningly bad op-ed for the Daily Breeze in which he had announced that he was not voting for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. The thinking behind all of this was really bad. Rather than opening up Democrats and liberal independents to vote for him, the op-end turned off a whole lot of Republicans. The Palos Verdes Republican Women federated refused to help his 2016 re-election bid. No matter how much Hadley's ardent supporters condemned this investment for the Presidential Election (Donald Trump was not going to win California anyway, so who cares?), the conservative activists throughout the South Bay did not want to help Hadley.

The same corrupted liberal cohorts that have ruined RPLAC also undermined the Beach Cities Republicans. Many of them refused to do anything for Trump or for Republicans in general election in 2016. When the Beach Cities Republicans hosted Marco Gutierrez in 2016, the South Bay Central Committee undercut us and told me to cancel the meeting. It was pretty shocking what happened. I refused to be pushed around. I was re-elected to be President of the Beach Cities Republicans. Rather than accepting this victory, the RPLAC Executive Committee violated their own by-laws and revoked the club's charter. When I sought David Hadley's help, or at least his understanding on this matter, this was the answer I basically received from him:

For my part and to this day, I still have found him to be still so off-putting, arrogant, disrespectful. He is a snob, someone who picks and chooses the people he wants to "be seen with." Who wants to put up with this?! Do we really want someone like that running the state party?

In spite of these problems, the California Republican Party executive board got behind him for Vice Chair, voting him in unanimously. They really believed that they were going to short-circuit the Convention election and force a hand-picked successor on the delegates.

But that did not happen.

I was surprised to receive his latest eblast that it would be his final eblast.

The public and the legacy media didn't even report on it until five days later as an afterthought. Hadley was such a non-entity in his bid for Chairman.

But the biggest victory is that the delegates, the base sent the message loud and clear: We will elected our representative chairman, not you!

This is huge! Let's keep building on this momentum!

BREAKING: David Hadley Drops Out of Bid for CAGOP Chairman

There is a populist revolt at work in the California Republican Party.

We are mad as hell, and we are not taking regressive, establishment New Permanent Minority leadership bullying anymore.

Andy Gharakani, aka Gimme-Candy, was putting all his eggs into David Hadley being the new CAGOP Chairman.

Well guess what?

He announced tonight -- yes, tonight -- that he is suspending his campaign for CAGOP Chairman:

To my fellow CRP delegates: Until about ten years ago, I wasn't politically active. I did what most Californians do: I built my business and helped raise our kids. I was a Little League coach, an AYSO referee, active in our church. As our kids got bigger and my professional obligations got more manageable, I had time to notice what had happened to California. I was horrified by what our political leaders had done to the state I loved - and I decided to do what I could to help California change direction. Since then, I have held several different political positions - chair of the Beach Cities Republicans, chair of the 66th Assembly District Central Committee, candidate for the State Assembly, member of the State Assembly, potential candidate for governor, legislator-in-residence at USC, vice chair of the CRP, and candidate for CRP chair. I turned out to be pretty damn good at it too. In 2012-13 we built a pioneering central committee in Los Angeles County. In 2014 I defeated an incumbent to break the super-majority and win a seat in the State Assembly (only Republican from my region to serve in partisan office in 20 years). In the Assembly I led the enactment of two significant conservative policy reforms (public school choice for military service families and civil asset forfeiture) despite being a minority legislator whom Democratic leadership had targeted for extinction. Even in defeat in 2016, I outpolled the top of the GOP ticket by 20,000 votes and 14 percentage points in my district. In each of these roles, my only goals were effectiveness and service. I have always thought first about what the situation required, and last about myself. I have done what I have done for one reason: because I am frightened for the future of our state if it continues to be governed by the leftist/special interest coalition that rules unchallenged. The CRP has been in a downward spiral for many years - declining voter registration, irrelevance in more and more California communities, unable and seemingly unwilling to adapt to the state's changing demographics. I accepted the board's unanimous appointment to be CRP vice chair this past summer, and I put myself forward as a candidate for CRP chair, because I believed I am the right candidate to unite the party and lead it to greater effectiveness and relevance in California. I still believe that. But I no longer believe that I can prevail on February 24 while still running a campaign to unify the delegates and walk forward together after the convention. As a result, I have decided to suspend my campaign for chair, and to release my many endorsers and supporters to evaluate other candidates. I have also decided that I will continue to communicate with delegates. To be blunt, I have seen zero sign to date that the other chair candidates understand the magnitude of our challenges or the steps needed to rebuild the GOP's fortunes in California. Perhaps my emails will have more impact on delegates when they are not part of a campaign for party office. A few final items: To my supporters, endorsers and volunteers - thank you! Some of you have been with me for years, some just for the past few weeks. I wish I could thank each of you in person, but word travels fast so I need to get this out. To those to whom I have committed to appear in a forum or event - I will reach out to you as soon as I am able, but you should assume I am not coming unless you want to hear from the lame duck CRP vice chair! (and even please confirm). To those who have been lying about my record for a paycheck - just remember that the money will run out when the CRP is bankrupt or completely irrelevent in California. Which is our future if we don't change. To those who have been reading bad stuff about my record on social media - not all of it is untrue, but most of it is! The California Republican Party is the last best hope of the greatest state in the greatest country in the world. I hope that between now and February 24, our party can unite and focus on the grave challenges we face.   David Hadley Vice Chair, California Republican Party (appointed July 2018) Former State Assemblyman (2014 - 2016) Former Chairman, 66th AD Central Committee (2012 - 2013)

I will be reporting in greater detail in another post that Janice Webb, the corrupt puppet who lied and had the Beach Cities Republicans charter revoked, did not run for re-election as RPLAC Secretary.

She did not want to run again because she did not like getting hammered and repeatedly criticized by ... ME! (As well as others)

There is a real change at work in the California Republican Party. In Los Angeles County, there is manifold, manifest outrage with the dead leadership in the largest county in the most populous state in the country.

This failure is inexcusable. The big money RINOs who have been more interested in losing gracefully than winning, even chaotically, are finally losing what little chokehold they had left on the state party.

It's time for the Republican (little) people such as myself and the thousands of delegates to take back their party--and take ba

David Hadley: "Bi-Partisan" Chairman for the California Republican Party? (Umm ... No!)

Dear fellow CRP Delegate:

Does the California Republican Party want a Chair that is “bi-partisan”?

For too long California conservative politics have been run by those that want “go along to get along”. California is at the cross roads. Now trailing those that declare themselves as independents for the first time, we need a change of direction, just as the country has done over this past 2 years. More of the same is not the answer! Here are just a few of the current Vice Chair of the CRP's public statements on President Trump:

• Daily Breeze of October 15, 2016, Hadley, a Manhattan Beach businessman and current Vice Chair of the CRP said: “I have never supported Trump, I have never voted for Trump, I’ve taken out everything but a billboard announcing I do not support the nominee of my party.”. He went on to say: “I’ve shown bipartisanship. I think I’m a vote for balance and common sense. And I think that beats machine politics.”
• From the same Daily Breeze article Hadley states “Trump owes the American public his tax returns before he asks us to consider him for the presidency, but I don’t believe we will ever see them.” Since President Trump has not yet released his tax returns the question must be asked “Will David Hadley continue to oppose Trump being on the ballot?”
• Los Angeles Times of July 5 2017 announced David Hadley’s’ bid to run for Governor (which ended two weeks later, “Arguing that California is at a crucial crossroads, Republican David Hadley is announcing a bid to be the state's next governor. The former assemblyman, who voted against Donald Trump in the fall, is a social moderate and fiscal conservative…”
• Manhattan Beach Patch, August 3, 2016, “"Here is the bottom line: I am not voting for either Secretary Clinton or Mr. Trump," he wrote. "Both have shown themselves unfit for the highest office in the land." Three weeks before the 2016 November election Assemblyman David Hadley made it clear where he stood on Donald Trump stating in a Mercury News article “I have never supported the GOP nominee.”
• San Jose Mercury News, October 17. 2016, “In a coastal Los Angeles County district represented by GOP Assemblyman David Hadley, the campaign of Democratic challenger Al Muratsuchi hung signs saying “Trump-Hadley” in big letters from street poles, as if the two are running mates. In tiny letters at the bottom, the signs include the required disclosure that they are paid for by Muratsuchi’s campaign. Hadley has been publicly critical of Trump and says he has never supported the GOP nominee. And three weeks before the Nov 16 election a spokesman for Hadley told the Los Angeles Times, Hadley hasn't made up his mind whether to back a third-party candidate or abstain from voting for president.

It is clear that David Hadley did not support the President. Statements like “…Donald Trump is unfit for the highest office in the land…” and “I have never supported the GOP nominee…” makes it clear what he thought of him, even going as far as to consider a ‘third’ party candidate. Given the extremely positive economic signs, lowest Black and Latino unemployment on record, lowest general unemployment in 50 years, strength shown again by an American President on the international stage and the massive benefits to American workers from renegotiated trade deals, has Hadley had a change of heart or does he still believe President Trump is unfit for the office of President? Does Hadley believe America is going in the wrong direction? Just google Hadley and Trump. You will not find any statement where he supports President Trump or thinks he is fit for office.

For the president’s re-election in 2020 we need a united Republican Party in California to work with GOP volunteers, Trump supporters, the White House and the National Republican Party. Would David Hadley be on board with this united approach? We need a leader that is unequivocal in his support for the president and we need that leader to ‘hit the ground running’ in 2019 after their election to the Chair of the CRP. Through his anti-Trump rhetoric, his open disdain for the President and his publicly stated willingness to vote for a ‘third’ party candidate, Hadley has isolated himself from Trumps massive supporter base here in California and indeed a National Republican Party that grows daily into the Trump Republican Party. During the election of 2016 it was the California base of 330 thousand ‘Trumpsters’ that, through their projection of strength into 5 battle ground states (AZ, FL, NC, PA and MI), won the election for Trump. That was the mission given to California; to win these states.
Now it is California’s turn to fight back and we do not need a ‘Never Trump’ person leading the way. David Hadley has a lot of explaining to do and we cannot afford to have a Chairman that will need to expend massive amounts of time and energy to gain the trust of ‘the Trump base’ here in California and the National Republican Party leadership.

Lee J. De Meo
CRP Delegate

Travis Allen for CAGOP Chairman? I Still Support Steve Frank: Here's Why

Here's the latest update about the race for California Republican Party Chairman race is heating up.

Assemblyman and former gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen is going to jump into the race!

Assemblyman Travis Allen weighing run for chairman of California Republican Party

Having fallen short in his recent campaign for governor, conservative state Assemblyman Travis Allen said Monday that he is weighing a run for chairman of the state GOP with the goal of “leading California Republicans back to statewide relevance.”

For the record, I supported Travis Allen for Governor. He is young, energetic, charismatic.

He worked very hard, travelling all over the state. He stood his ground on all the major issues, including his vocal opposition to the corrupt Sanctuary State Law.

Allen, a resident of Huntington Beach, said he talked Monday with party Chairman Jim Brulte about the operations and priorities of the state party in preparation for making a decision on whether to vie for the leadership job.

There is another candidate whom other people are not talking about.

His name is Steve Frank, and I am supporting his bid for Chairman of the state party.

Brulte has said he will not seek another two years as leader when his term ends in February, and a candidacy by Allen would set up another contest with former Assemblyman David Hadley, a social moderate who also ran for governor before dropping out of the race after two weeks in 2017.

David Hadley is also a puppet of the New Majority, or better termed "The New Permanent Minority". Jim Brulte is the longest-serving chairman of the California Republican Party in the state's history. There were wins and there were massive losses. The party did well in 2014, but mostly because of gaining seats which Republicans had lost in 2012.

We have so much work ahead of us, and we need to make sure that our candidates win. We just can't sit back and let the state slide into the abyss. Even if the state party does poorly this term, with Steve Frank as chairman, we have a fighting chance of winning again.

Frank is a realistic optimist. He fights where it matters, and he wants to do whatever it takes to make a difference in the state of California.

“I’ve been asked by a number of supporters and I am seriously considering it,” Allen said of running for state chairman. He complained that Republicans in California "are dramatically underrepresented at the state and congressional level.”

Travis Allen could run, but Steve Frank knows the inner workings of the state party. He also knows how candidates need to compete in different regions of the state, including the cultural differences among the counties and even in the cities.

Allen, who has received support from tea party conservatives, finished fourth in the June primary for governor with a campaign promising lower taxes, tighter security at the U.S.-Mexico border and tougher law enforcement. His campaign fell short after the state Republican Party decided not to endorse in the primary for the governor’s race.

Let's not forget that President Trump endorsed John Cox for Governor. That sealed the deal enough so that Cox made it into the Top Two.

Allen, who leaves the Assembly later this year, has endorsed Republican John Cox against Democrat Gavin Newsom in the November election. He said he plans to talk to more party activists before finalizing his decision on whether to seek the chairmanship.

Travis Allen has endorsed John Cox. So let's move on. Thank you.

“If it’s the consensus of California Republicans to have me run to be the next chairman, I would be honored,” Allen said.

No thank you.

Former Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a conservative who is running for Congress against Rep. Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley), said the possibility of an Allen candidacy is “exciting” and he noted Allen has been helping GOP candidates in the November election.

I could not agree more with Tim Donnelly's assessment. We need an exciting conservative, but we also need a conservative who knows how to raise money, to organize the grassroots, how to work with candidates, and who above all wants to return power back to the delegates and the Republican voters in the state of California.

“He has a lot of support from the Trump movement,” Donnelly said, adding hat Allen is “much more of a populist and a conservative” than Hadley.

Very much so. I do not want David Hadley to be the next chairman. He may be a nice guy to many people, but he is not my choice for chairman.

The possibility of Allen becoming the party chairman raised some concerns with Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant based in Sacramento who has been highly critical of Trump. He noted a key job of the party chairman is to raise money for Republican candidates.

Rob Stutzman can kiss my butt.

“Travis certainly created enthusiasm with grassroots Republicans, but he did not create enthusiasm with donors,” Stutzman said. “The future of the party would be better in the hands of someone who has the confidence of donors.”

This kind of calculus is precisely the problem. We have party leaders who are more worried about raising money than winning votes. This is a big problem, and it explains why our leadership continues to fail us.

Having someone closely allied with Trump policies would also be a concern, he said. 

“The party has receded in the era of Trump,” Stutzman said. “That’s not good for the party’s future in California.”

The party has been receding for the last twenty years.

Republican voter registration in California has fallen from 35% in 2002 to 25% this year.

Donnelly said he is concerned Hadley wants to move the party closer to the ideology of Democrats.

He does. David Hadley voted for assisted suicide, he voted to allow illegal aliens to get onto the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. In his 2014 debate for state assembly, he supported allowing illegal aliens to get drivers' licenses. He also supports same-sex marriage.

“As long as the party moderates, it keeps shrinking,” Donnelly said.

We need a popular revolt that pays attention to the individual liberties of California's citizenry and will work to stop the abuses against faith, family, and freedom.

Travis Allen is a great guy, sure, and I proudly voted for him in the primary.

But when it comes to the next Chairman of the State Party, I am going with Steve Frank.

Here's why:

1. We need people who have not been legislators. A political party needs to be returned to the people, to the voters. I remember talking with another Republican activist in San Diego. He had written this great article "Republicans, it's time to be audacious!" I could not agree more, since we really have nothing left to lose. Legislators are keen on making deals and connecting with every side of the aisle. They have to. That's their job. That's what they have to do.

As for heading a partisan organization, however, we need someone who understands how the inner workings of the party work, and who has worked with everyday people in the state of California to make a difference. Steve Frank has worked with candidates of all backgrounds to win elections. He has no problem working from behind the scenes to make a difference.

A good chairman is not the center of attention. A good chairman operates behind the scenes to ensure that winning candidates make it into the primary and through the general election.

Travis Allen is a full-on celebrity. He is a legislator with other forms of experience. But the inner workings of the party and the necessary connection with the delegates and the inner levers of power are aspects of the political machinery which he is unfamiliar with. He is not a team player, but he is a leader, no doubt about that. He should lead the fight for elected office in the state capitol.

He is not chairman material.

As for David Hadley, he is too liberal. He is not for the best interests of the state party. We need a plenary conservative who will stand up for what is right concerning all issues.

That man is Steve Frank.

Outrage with RPLAC and "Infighting": Don't Blame the Messenger, Don't Ignore the Message

When I slammed the Republican (RINO) Party of Los Angeles County, and then when I exposed David Hadley as an arrogant Never-Trumper not willing to take charge and do something to help the county party, my friend Claude Todoroff of the Torrance-Lomita Republican Assembly shared my letters with other members of his club.

Some of the people who read my letter were thrilled.

Some people, like Bob Burchett, blew a gasket.

 Burchett just issued this crazy rant rebuttal:

Name calling, yelling in the closet, sending endless badly-written, insulting emails to each other and the like (even if 100% accurate) only insure this place we know & love remains a dark blue state forever. As is already well known, us lonely remaining few Republicans lag behind “Decline To State” people fed up with us AND the Blue Boneheads. You guys are simply playing right into their game.

What came would that be? Bob Burchett wouldn't tell me.

Want to know how insignificant the LAGOP is now? Just look at the EMAIL names in the “TO” header above.  There are so few of you guys that you can actually get your first name in each of the addresses!  Richard, Howard, Cary, Jacqueline, Alex. Yeah YOU.  Want to know where the problem is? Here is a MIRROR.

What has happened to the Republican Party of
Los Angeles County?

Time to either put up or shut the HELL up as political infighting is a complete waste of electrons to carry ones and zeroes (mostly zeroes from what I can read) so what to do?

Infighting is sometimes necessary. The 2016 Election was nothing but infighting, and yet President Trump stomped on 16 other candidates, and then he took on Crooked Hillary, Goofy Gary, and Evasive Evan, and Joking Jill to become the next President of the United States.

I get so tired of people saying "stop with the infighting." When there is nothing but bad leadership, it is essential to confront the terrible leadership and demand that they shape up or ship out!

Arthur: if you have so much time on your hands to spend yelling at others to do something about it rather than just talk (loudly) then why not run for office vs. run away from it?

This Bob guy has not been paying attention. Pretty sad. No wonder some conservatives aren't accomplishing anything.

David Hadley, whom I find to be way too under-powered to be in charge of much, who may have only 10% of Arthur’s energy,  but DOES have the best statement I have seen from any of you people in weeks did say it rather pointedly;

DO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT IT.

Once again, where has Bob been?

The act of stating repeatedly ‘you do your job’ no, YOU do your job, blah, blah is enough to cause most of us to just hit the unsubscribe key. Blindly and mindlessly forwarding this trash ranks lower on my scale of timewasters than driving up to Sacramento and taking videos of scream-sessions. Nobody is DOING anything, they are just SCREAMING about it.

WRONG AGAIN. Because I blasted the RPLAC leadership, they had to run to the radio and cover for their fecklessness, then get on board and start handing out Yes on Prop 6 signs.

Trump; against ALL odds and most of YOUR BUMBLING NOT voting for him still landed the closest thing to a real Republican in the White House in 30-odd years with CAGOP missing-in-action.

It's important for me to recognize when Bob isn't talking to me. I voted for our President in the general election, and it was one of the best votes I had ever cast!

TODAY John Cox is following the exact same pathway and did you SEE what he is doing by taking the fight to the DMV handing out bottles of water to folks sweating 2+ hour waits in that line?

What a vote getter! Who thought of THAT campaign technique??

It's a good idea. I am glad that John Cox is doing something. He just needs to do a whole lot more of it, and he needs to fight harder against the Fake News peddled by the lame-stream media.

That person should be the leader of the CAGOP just for coming up with the best idea I have ever seen.

Call Kellyanne Conway or Sean Spicer to get some REAL advice on how to ELECT a Reagan replica….they DID IT and you don’t even talk about it without tripping over your keyboards.

I suspect that many leaders in RPLAC are not interested in advice, they are not interested even in winning.

Anyone AWAKE out there? This guy COX may (or may NOT) be your first choice for Governor but it had better DAMNED WELL be your only choice when you pull that curtain back & yank that lever. If he loses it will be YOUR FAULT for doing nothing while saying lots.

EYEOPENER: Anyone else notice that for the first time in 16+ years there is an R next to the name opposing nearly every D in the upcoming mid-term races? This is historic you MORONS and none of you reading this is actually DOING anything while all of you are TYPING behind your firewalls instead of making it actually happen for us.  

I noticed.

Anyone else recall this is how we got crazy Arnold elected guv pushing out Gray Davis based solely on his TAX VOTE?  Arnold sat in there for a few years unable to get anything meaningful done in a sea of blue resistance….it is true but that wasn’t his fault; it was OURS for not voting-in a sea of RED to get him some support. Yes I am talking to YOU out there.

So Arthur IMHO it is finally your calling and time to put up or shut up. Get off the bus headed for Canada, Sacramento or the next Antifa yell-session, get your FACE out of the BOOK and show them you actually DO mean business by running for some faction of the GOP leadership and rallying the troops to get MONEY and SUPPORT and actual VOTES for this election in the next few weeks or simply get a real job and unplug that useless computer that can’t spell each time you get angry in the safety of your bedroom.  Hadley may not be your best friend but call his bluff….I DARE you.

Someone else has called his bluff. His name is Steve Frank. I have been writing about him for the last two weeks, every since he announced that he was running for CAGOP Chairman.

Hadley was dead WRONG to not support Trump or man-up when the going got rough , couldn’t even beat useless AL but he is at least WORKING on the GOP leadership with maybe some new blood and plans….you DO have some real plan this time right Dave?  For God’s sake I sure as hell hope so….you ran a deadpan campaign and didn’t support much of anything the rest of us did but I do take my hat off to you for wanting to be the LEADER of this ragtag bunch….is it too late to get something done for this one election that matters or are you going to wind down a lackluster show and BLOG with a bottle of wine next to the PC as we burn in blue hell with Newsom at the helm of the Titanic. 

Bob, I don't drink wine. Perhaps you do ... and too much. 

Actions always speak louder than words; so children stop the infighting and ELECT SOME REPUBLICANS YOU HATE BUT AT LEAST AREN’T DEMOCRATS!

One has to wonder were Bob Burchett has been all these years.

Now hit that key, unsubscribe me from all of this blathering crap and don’t even ASK me for a dollar to support you until you stop the childish public display of stupidity.

I didn't send this to you, Bob. 

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Claude Todoroff, President of the Torrance-Lomita Republican Assembly, wrote in my defense (he was the one who had forwarded the letter I had written to the RPLAC "leadership" and David Hadley:

Bob,

Arthur was the president of the Beach Cities Republicans for two years. He is out in the trenches fighting the battles (oppose sanctuary state, oppose illegals being city commissioners etc.). Someone has to do the dirty work because the leadership is AWOL. The leadership isn't even leading from behind. I suspect like 50 years ago they have fled to Canada or Sweden but I'm sure they will be first in line when the commendations for doing a great job are handed out. In Jan. 2019 you have the opportunity to run for TLRA president or some other board position. I'm termed out and can't run again until at least 2020. I doubt if anyone else will run so you'd be a lock. We need new blood and work on the base that Todd Blair (2012-2013), Sarah Wiltfong (2014), Rick Marshall (2015-2016) and I have built. New ideas will improve the club and you have the experience that we are looking for.

Claude

David Hadley: "There is No CRP, There is No RPLAC." So Why Be Chairman?

Shortly after Election 2016, I had faced a number of crushing, frustrating challenges within the California Republican Party leadership, specifically within Los Angeles County, and directly with the 66th Assembly District Central Committee.

The Chairwoman of the district, who was responsible for getting Hadley re-elected as well as helping Republican clubs work together and grow, had spent more time badgering me to cancel a meeting with Latinos for Trump.

Her name is Janice Webb.

She spent more time plotting to get rid of me and sideline other activists.

 She violated labor laws and called my work, called my boss to pressure me to cancel the meeting hosted by the Beach Cities Republicans, the club for which I was President.

Hadley made Janice Webb (above) a delegate, a horrific person
who violated labor laws and tried to stop a
Latinos for Trump event in the South Bay

She and the rest of the corrupt RPLAC leadership threatened me and the rest of the club, telling them that they had to reject electing me again as the President, or they would revoke the club's charter. The members called their bluff.

They ended up lying, breaking a number of rules, and ultimately revoking our charter because ... we were a successful, active club that was registering new members, voters, and participating in the community.

Members of the central committee were also working with liberal groups that promoted illegal immigration. I exposed a lot of this corruption and abuse of power, but that's another story.

After the 2016 election, which Hadley lost, I had agreed to sit down and meet with him to discuss what he wanted to do going forward. He had responded that he had no interest in talking about what other people had done wrong--even though they were engaging in some very corrupt, unethical practices, which included moving meetings and not telling members of the local Central Committee.

Finally, I wrote this letter of protest:

David:

I respect your interest not to allow petty, internecine fights drag down the already weakened RPLAC and CAGOP.

But it's time to ask harder questions, like why LA County did take on a deeper hue of blue?

Why? It all DOES connect to the "he said--she said" fights.

In the mean time ...

Where is the registration? Nowhere.

Where is the outreach? Not to be seen (unless you see people like me who go to Huntington Park and Cudahy, or visit with other Trump-Republicans in Long Beach).

Why all the RPLAC anti-volunteer mismanagement (which points to why I have made a big to-do about Janice Webb's abusive behavior as well as the threats against the Beach Cities Republicans).

The same leadership doing the same things ...

RPLAC raised $500,000. That's IT?!

Where are the connections with other policy-based activist groups like " Pro-Life Generation"? How about "Students First" or "The Right To Work Foundation"?

Let's Face it -- Big Labor flooded AD-66, and washed us out!

Why are we not connecting with hard-hitting journalists like Phelim McLeer, who is exposing that the anti-fracking agenda is corrupt and anti-worker?

We need to start shaping the culture of Los Angeles County, not just thinking about influencing the next election.

Why ARE there so many factions fighting in this county?

I will tell you -- grassroots activists like myself are given the finger or brushed aside so that a few moneyed interests can dictate what happens.

THAT IS WRONG!

RPLAC has to have consensus leadership.

The paradigm of center-right is not working, because the extremes define the center, and many in both camps embrace clashing views.

Let's focus on consensus reforms.

Yes, that was a lot - but it feels good to outline all of this.

Still up for a cup? (Coffee, that is) -- if it has to be at a shop during my lunch hour -- fine.

For the record, I am not interested in play-time, and I am not sure that "center-right" as a paradigm is enough.

And this is the arrogant, tone-deaf, RPLAC-enabling response I received from Hadley:

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From: David Hadley
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 10:10:08 AM
To: Arthur Christopher Schaper
Subject: Re: Regarding RPLAC and CAGOP Future

Arthur,

I have read your email to me, and I have read your email to RPLAC/ADCC, and I am going to give you some tough love.

It is a waste of time for you to spend a lot of time popping off and asking questions: why RPLAC raises so little money, or why there is no voter registration, or why we are not building certain kinds of coalitions.

Excuse my slight overstatement to make a point, but there is basically no CRP. There is practically no RPLAC. As far as I know, RPLAC has one paid staffer (Jason Maruca) and a lot of volunteers. They are up against the mightiest political machine in the country. The chair of the ADCC is a volunteer, doing what he/she can. Reading long emails from a person who (as far as I know) has never run for RPLAC, who wants to ask a bunch of rhetorical questions and offer a bunch of opinions about how to MakeCaliforniaGreatAgain, is not a good use of their time or my time.

Six years ago I was frustrated and horrified by many of the same weaknesses that you identified in your email. I didn't write long emails berating then-current RPLAC or ADCC members to do their jobs better. I agreed to become the chair of BCR, and I did the best job at that that I could. It was the only political job I did. Then I was asked to run for the ADCC, and I agreed, and I agreed to become chair in the fall of 2012. You know the rest of the story from there. But I never once asked people why they weren't doing their jobs. I picked a job and I did it - whether it was BCR, or ADCC, or candidate, or legislator. And as I gained knowledge and credibility and experience, I tried to help people be more effective, but I tried not to opine on things that I didn't have the time to do myself.

I appreciate your effort to mend fences and your offer "how can I help?" in your RPLAC/ADCC email. IMHO, the right approach is to go pick a job and do it well, figure out how to do it. If RPLAC knew how to raise money, they would. They don't know how. If they knew how to register voters, they would. They either don't know how or don't have the resources to execute. Go do something that isn't being done, and do it well. Don't write emails about how others should spend their time or do their jobs.

BTW, there is virtually no significance to being a chartered organization. There is virtually no significance that comes from being on the ADCC or RPLAC. You could do what you wanted to do to help with a position, or without one. Go do a job well - whether it is BCR, or blogging, or something else - and develop relationships with people along the way.

That is my advice. Take it for what it is worth, DFH

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Arthur Christopher Schaper <ArthurSchaper@hotmail.com> wrote:

Here are the statements that I want you to see:

It is a waste of time for you to spend a lot of time popping off and asking questions: why RPLAC raises so little money, or why there is no voter registration, or why we are not building certain kinds of coalitions.

Really? But wait a minute ... isn't the purpose of a Central Committee, whether at the county or even the assembly district level to:

1. Raise money

2. Register votes

3. Run candidates?

Those are not "waste of time" questions. Those questions must be asked and answered so that Republicans can start fighting and winning again

How about this?

Yes, those are Hadley's own words to me.

Excuse my slight overstatement to make a point, but there is basically no CRP. There is practically no RPLAC. As far as I know, RPLAC has one paid staffer (Jason Maruca) and a lot of volunteers. 

"Hookt on Foniks werkt 4 mee!"
Jason Maruca: Yes, this overpaid hack
misspelled my own name when he wrote an email
telling me to resign as President of BCR because ... I was a Republican
And yes, RPLAC paid him $5000 a month.

If there is no CRP, aka California Republican Party, if there is no RPLAC, Republican Party of Los Angeles County, then why run for Chairman of the Party?

Why serve as Vice-Chair? What is Hadley hoping to get out of all of this, then?

By the way, the paid staffer Jason Maruca was a functionally illiterate glorified secretary getting paid $5000 a month! That's right. All that money that Charles "The Bow-Tied One" Munger was pouring into the Los Angeles County Central Committee was ... paying for one overpaid staffer and little else.

As for "a lot of volunteers", most of the volunteers felt snubbed and pushed away. Most volunteers worked with candidates only, and they rejected the notion of helping the county party. The corrupt central committee revoked the charter for two active clubs, the Beach Cities Republicans and the Mountain View Republicans. RPLAC didn't raise money. They didn't register voters. They violated numerous by-laws.

Here's one story: Andy Gharakani, the power behind the throne (toilet bowl, more accurately) wasted a bunch of money to register voters one year, and nothing came of it except ... a lot of wasted money. Period. 

How about this? Carl De Maio had to call out RPLAC this past week because they didn't want to help with the Yes on Prop 6 gas tax repeal! Unreal.

Then Hadley gives me a history lesson:

Six years ago I was frustrated and horrified by many of the same weaknesses that you identified in your email. I didn't write long emails berating then-current RPLAC or ADCC members to do their jobs better. 

Six years later, and RPLAC still sucks. Those weaknesses have not been fixed, and they have ruined Republican chances of winning. You can't fix problems if you won't call them out. I called them out, and they kicked out the Beach Cities Republicans. Strange.

If RPLAC knew how to raise money, they would. They don't know how. If they knew how to register voters, they would. They either don't know how or don't have the resources to execute.

Huh? If leaders in a county central committee don't know how to do their jobs, then why are they still there? People like Gary Aminoff and Maureen Johnson have been barnacles on the ship for decades, and things have gotten steadily worse. Richard Sherman? Who is this guy? Howard Hakes? Would someone please tell me why this New Majority add-on has only helped make Republicans a New Permanent Minority in Los Angeles County? Janice Webb? The only reason she was appointed to anything is because of her skin color. Guess what? That is racist.

Oh, and she's an arrogant bully whom no one wants to work with, and she should no longer have any position of power or authority in local or county central committee leadership.

Sorry if this is a shock to some, but part of a party is that the members must select leaders who are willing to ... lead. If the leaders fail, then new ones need to take over. Why is it that such routine and repeated confidence continues to take over RPLAC? The members aren't allowed to have a say, because the executive committee will move meetings without telling members, violate by-laws, revoke the charters of clubs, or change the by-laws in order to get rid of inconvenient members.

In short: corruption. They also lied to the press repeatedly about me, covering up for why the Beach Cities Republican charter was revoked, then cited my "inappropriate activities" at city councils and town halls. There's just one problem: RPLAC revoked the charter BEFORE I engaged in any of those so-called "inappropriate" activities.

What is the cause of all this?

Two words: Andy Gharakani. Three Words: The New Majority. One Word: RINOs

And who is Gharakani backing for CAGOP Chair? Wait for it ... David Hadley.

And last of all, Hadley writes:

BTW, there is virtually no significance to being a chartered organization. There is virtually no significance that comes from being on the ADCC or RPLAC. You could do what you wanted to do to help with a position, or without one. 

Hadley says that Central Committees don't matter ... RPLAC doesn't matter ... There is no significance to being a chartered organization ...

Again ... why is David Hadley running for Republican Party of California Chairman if he holds the organization and institutions in such low esteem? I will go one further: why does he want to run an entire statewide organization when he holds its individual members (like me) and its volunteer clubs (like the Beach Cities Republicans) in such low esteem?

Why not ask David Hadley ...

Here is his email: davidfhadley@gmail.com

Here is his phone number: (310) 600-6937

"There is no CRP"
But I want to be its CHAIRMAN!
ME! ME! ME!