The CAGOP Grassroots are fighting back and WINNING across the state of California.
For the last three months, I have been working with grassroots activists throughout the state of California to stop a Faulconer Jam-Down endorsement from the California Republican Party establishment.
The Consultant Class that runs the leadership in the CAGOP was committed at all costs to getting a Faulconer endorsement. Lots of rich donors were going to put big money behind the Democrat in RINO clothing Kevin Faulconer.
It would be yet another powerplay to sell what is left of the CAGOP down river and further turn the state of California into an unsalvageable third-world one-party dystopia.
Thankfully, I got busy with my delegates, as did others throughout the state and we pushed back. In every committee, in every meeting, we lambasted the leadership demanding that there be no move, no vote on any endorsement for any one candidate.
AND WE DID IT!
Here's Queen Jessica's press release on the Endorsement convention today:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 7, 2021 213/804-0818 Contact: press@cagop.org
CAGOP Statement on Virtual Endorsement Meeting Results
SACRAMENTO – Today, California Republican Party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson released the following statement on the CAGOP delegates’ decision not to endorse a candidate in the recall election of Gavin Newsom:
“Today’s overwhelming decision by our delegates to offer no endorsement speaks to the strength of our field of candidates and the outstanding position our party is in going into the recall election. We are squarely focused on putting California back on track by recalling the worst governor in California history. Gavin Newsom is arrogant, incompetent and a desperate politician who has failed Californians in every way possible. The state is burning, crime is spiking, homelessness is rampant, students have fallen behind, and taxes are suffocating working people. On September 14th, voters will end the Newsom nightmare once and for all and finally restore good governing to California.”
The CAGOP delegates’ decision occurred at a virtual endorsement meeting this morning. The four candidates who had qualified to be considered for the CAGOP’s endorsement were: Larry Elder, Kevin Faulconer, Kevin Kiley and Doug Ose. At the meeting, RNC National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon and RNC National Committeeman Shawn Steel put forward a motion to table the agenda item to vote on an endorsement so no endorsement would be issued in the recall race. The delegates passed this motion with nearly 90 percent support. The meeting was then adjourned.
Finally, the Rebel Alliance of grassroots conservatives fought back and won against the Empire! I can't wait to see what happens next!
I thought the Republican Party was the party of law and order? I guess the CAGOP is the party of consultants and paychecks. That is the only conclusion you could draw from the underhanded tactics that were exposed by your intrepid blogger and Stephen Frank. While the legislators closed ranks to re-elect the scandal-marred and corrupt puppet of the establishment Jessica Patterson, one of the expected payoffs of rigging the convention and the process was to be the Kevin Faulconer Payday. I can draw no other conclusion based on what I’ve seen and learned.
San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott filed suit Tuesday to void the city’s lease-to-own agreements for both the 101 Ash Street and Civic Center Plaza properties. The action came hours after the Union-Tribune reported that real estate broker Jason Hughes was paid almost $10 million by a middleman company while advising former Mayor Kevin Faulconer on the two transactions.
Jason Hughes was purported to be a volunteer by Kevin Faulconer. Whoops.
Since 2016, the city has paid tens of millions of dollars to lease and renovate the former Sempra Energy building on Ash Street, which has been vacant for all but a few weeks since the Fortune 500 company moved out in 2015.
The building is full of asbestos and has other issues preventing the city from using it.
Debris covers a patio area at the former Sempra Energy building at 101 Ash Street in downtown San Diego on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.
(K.C. Alfred/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Union-Tribune reported late Monday that Hughes, who advised the city on the deal, was paid $4.4 million for securing the Ash Street deal in early 2017 and just over $5 million for his work on a similar deal for the city’s lease of the nearby Civic Center Plaza in 2015.
The nearly $10 million collected by Hughes came from Cisterra Development, a San Diego company that acted as a middleman in both the Civic Center Plaza and Ash Street leases.
What a visual. The Democrats are going to (literally) burn Kevin Faulconer down with this. Meantime, the CAGOP is on a suicide mission to anoint this guy.
The City Council agreed to the 20-year lease-to-own arrangement in 2016 on Faulconer’s recommendation. The former mayor said the deal would save the city more than $40 million in future office space expenses.
But after Elliott signed off on the lease, city officials learned that the property could not be safely occupied.
The lease was $535,000 a month for a building loaded with Asbestos. The main consultant on the project raked in $10 Million and then there is this:
The $535,000 monthly lease payments that were to be paid over 20 years translate to the city spending approximately $128 million for the Ash Street building. Combined with operational costs, maintenance and renovations, the city committed some $200 million for the 19-story high rise.
The building appraised for $67 million before the council approved the deal at Faulconer’s recommendation. The year before, former majority owner Shapery sold 49 percent of the property to financier Douglas Manchester.
It’s not yet clear how the city’s amended complaint might affect the spate of lawsuits already pending over the Ash Street transaction — or whether or how either Ash Street or the Civic Center Plaza deals may be unwound.
The city could always renegotiate the deal for the Civic Center Plaza, which has housed the City Attorney’s Office and other city departments for years.
But the Ash Street building needs wholesale repairs, remediation and upgrades estimated by one consultant to cost $115 million.
Either Kevin Faulconer is a blithering idiot (see also incompetent) or he is completely corrupt. You can’t explain this scandal any other way and now you have a key cog in the deal who was on the take (allegedly) who is now named in the lawsuit by the city.
In 2016, the city agreed to borrow just under $92 million to acquire the Ash Street high rise. Faulconer recommended the deal to the City Council even though the building had been appraised for $67 million.
Wait — the savior of the California Republican Party got the City of San Diego to pay $92 Million for a building worth $67 Million??? (That’s before the asbestos and the busted fire suppression system were discovered)
So, when Faulconer was mayor, he led the effort to get the City to Overpay for an Asbestos-Riddled Building with a broken Fire Suppression System. Then we find out one of the main players in the deal raked in a cool $9.4 Million from a middleman while attempting to avoid disclosure?
The Ash Street property has been uninhabitable for all but a few weeks since Sempra moved out in 2015 due to asbestos contamination, a broken fire-suppression system and other issues. A consultant hired by the city issued a report last year estimating that repairs would cost approximately $115 million.
Gavin Newsom has the best that the democrat party has to offer advising him and helping his campaign. I’d bet he is drooling over facing Kevin Faulconer…
… and Faulconer?
Pro-Choice Anti-Family Open Borders Tax Raiser Gun Grabber
Last I checked, we already had one of those in the Governor’s Office. #EPICFAIL
P.S. AS detailed on this blog, there are over 50 delegates to the CAGOP that we appointed in violation of the CAGOP’s By-Laws. If a candidate for the recall does not sue over this issue alone, they deserve to watch them rig the endorsement of Faulconer.
Another reason for
seeking the resignation of current chairwoman Patterson is that for the second
time in as many months, she is seeking to push a rash, rapid endorsement for
governor via a small committee of delegates instead of respect the will of the
entire CAGOP state party delegation.
This is outrageous. This
is monstrous. This is also illegal, a flagrant violation of state party
by-laws. Of course, the state party leadership has been violating by-laws in
considerable fashion, including the sudden appointment of 20+ delegates via
Central Committee spots in the Los Angeles County GOP Central Committee.
SHAME on you, Jessica
Patterson. SHAME!
There must be NO
ENDORSEMENT for any candidate until every delegate in the California Republican
Party state delegation has a chance to vote. And that includes ME.
I do not endorse Kevin
Faulconer, and I never will. We need a real candidate who will pick the right
fights but not kick the Republican Party base in the face. We need someone who
respects what Trump accomplished and embrace his populist reforms, but
establish his own name and play his own game; a canndidate who is not riding on
easy consultant cash money, or the ready greed of a number of consultants who
have become delegates to the state party.
Without any reservation,
I am instructing the five delegates whom I appointed not to support Faulconer
either, in part because of these endorsement shenanigans, in larger part
because he is just another Democrat in RINO clothing.
I am so tired of this. I
have been a Republican since I registered to vote at the tender age of 18. I
refuse to stand by and let the state party be led into such a shameful shambles
of irrelevance and ill-advised illegitimacy. John C. Fremont did not launch the
Bear Flag Revolt to see such idiocy reign supreme.
