Rejection of and Resignation from the LAGOP Central Committee

Dear "Chairman" Janice and AD 66 GOP Central Committee members:

When I first put my name on the ballot to run for Central Committee, I was hoping to work with a new team of leaders and activists who wanted to make a difference, who wanted to turn the tide in Los Angeles County and the state, to improve the status of the Republican Party. 

I was initially disappointed to see that almost the entire slate of people who had served last time -- or rather, who had failed to serve -- was re-elected, aside from myself. I was hoping that things could have changed following my installation as a member.

Sadly, in the last three weeks, I have seen that the AD 66 GOP Central Committee and the LA County GOP leadership still as a whole represent a continuation of the same old failures, followed by corrupt actions and practices. It is astounding to me that Richard Sherman can pat himself on the back with a couple of his previous leaders to take credit for Mike Garcia's and Young Kim's victories, when it has become increasingly clear that these candidates won back losses which happened under Sherman's "leadership" two years prior, and only because of grassroots activism and candidate determination did those seats come back into the GOP fold.

The State of the LAGOP Central Committee Today

Mark Tsuneishi was rightly elected interim Chairman of the AD 66 GOP Central Committee in January 2019, I believe, because the organization meeting the previous month had violated the county by-laws and committee member Rick Marshall challenged those results, and correctly so. Then the county leaders violated more by-laws and pushed aside those lawfully obtained results, and reinstalled Janice without any consent of the governed in that particular central committee.

The AD 66 GOP Central Committee violated by-laws in the past, when they changed the location of the meeting at the last minute on ex-officio members Omar Navarro and Rick Marshall in last 2016. They violated by-laws again when they kept Rick Marshall out of the county central committee meeting a few years later, when he had the votes to oust the corrupt chairman. That is beyond inexcusable.

And who can forget the fact that in 2016 the current, unlawfully installed chair Janice Webb called my work, tried to pressure my boss to pressure me to cancel a meeting that hosted Latinos for Trump. Such practices are unethical and illegal. And the fact that the new crop of Central Committee members wanted to reward the same bad actor--bad actors--is just astounding.

The Central Committee also violated by-laws when they revoked the charter of the Beach Cities Republicans without cause, not having the courage to admit to their members or to the public that it was simply because they did not like my activism or the decision of the members to re-elect me President of that club in 2016. Leadership had pledged to other Republicans in the county that they would have restored the charter once I moved on from the club, but even then they did not keep their word.

And now, Janice has the perverse audacity to get upset with me because I am informing other Republicans in the district--her constituents--that her failed leadership continues on the AD66 Central Committee and throughout the county.

I am beyond disgusted with all of this. It is crystal clear to me what other Republicans in the district have already told me: "The AD 66 Central Committee is a waste of time."

It's with great reluctance and great anguish that I make this decision, but I hereby resign from the LA COUNTY GOP Central Committee. I am just beyond disgusted with the hypocrisy, with the lack of real effort, and with the fact that bad leadership by Janice Webb has actually been REWARDED with another term. I cannot serve with such hypocrisy, dysfunction, and corruption.

Sincerely,

Arthur Christopher Schaper

BREAKING: RPLAC Eminence Grise "Grabby Andy" Gharakani (GimmeKandy) Steps Down

I received two text messages earlier today.

They both indicated to me that the former power behind the throne, or the eminence grise of the Republican Party of Los Angeles, Andy Gharakani, announced at the June 2019 LA County GOP Central Committee meeting that he was stepping down.

He is going away.

Let's be frank: he is being asked to leave.

For the last two months, I have been receiving emails from an account labeled "Take Back RPLAC", and we have received more news about Grabby Andy using the LA County Central Committee to make money, while the county party makes no progress, and the candidates make no victories.

Andy is OUT!

I also suspect that Andy decided to get while the getting was good, because there is no more money to pocket while pretending to consult for candidates and causes which further the state of California.

Gharakani, the "New Majority", and the other leadership PACs have not been about getting good conservative people elected. They have been all about getting their bank accounts fattened.

Now, Gharakani is on the way out.

But what about Richard Sherman? What's going to happen to him?

Word has it that Richard Sherman, the current RPLAC Chairman, is going to step down, too, since he has no idea how to lead, and has only been doing whatever Andy tells him to.

Is there new hope for a real, robust political opposition in Los Angeles County? The Democratic Party throughout the state of California is collapsing in on itself. The California Democratic Party had to throw out their previously-elected chairman, openly gay nurse Eric Bauman, for sexual harassment, and even then he had only gotten elected by a 72 vote margin.

The Democratic hegemony in California is beyond corrupt. There is room, there is opportunity for real leadership to pay attention to the needs of everyday Californians who want safe communities, freedom, and a desire to live their lives in peace.

With the RPLAC eminence grise gone, there's an opportunity for different leadership to Make LA County Great Again.

Personal Note

Normally, I would not add these remarks, but I think it's worth while to do so. One of the individuals whom I spoke with about the above news had known about all the bad things that RPLAC had attempted against me and others.

The more that I have learned more about Christ's love for me. The more that I realize how rich and ravishing His grace is, the less concerned I had become about outcomes. I no longer put undue pressure on God to vanquish my enemies, so to speak, but to take solace, love, and strength in His caring for me. He is in the restoration business, and therefore I no longer have to waste my time trying to make other people pay back whatever they may have told me.

More importantly, however, I needed to understand fully that God's love for me is real, eternal, and has been showering on me since the beginning, even before I believed on His Son! It would he contemptible for me to base God's love on me based on whether things worked out, in that he removed bad people from power on my timetable.

But God is not moved by even that. God wants me to love Him on the must trustworthy, perfected foundation: His Son's death, resurrection, and never-ending ministry at the right hand of God the Father. That is the basis for our love, that is the basis for our faith in Him. His love alone, His grace alone supplies us perfectly--and I learned to recognize how unmovable His love is for me.

When I rested in that, no matter what bad things may have happened, then all the prayers that I have prayed began getting answered in much shorter time than previously realized. It's quite something!

So, when I received the two text messages from friends of mine regarding what happened to "Grabby Andy" Gimmekandy, and what is likely in store for Richard Sherman, I had a simple peace about it. My joy is no longer based so narrowly on seeing the downfall of my enemies, since God has already blessed me with so much more--and is blessing me all the more!

Will there be a new future for the Republican Party of Los Angeles County? Who knows?

RINO Shake-Down Artists Run RPLAC (Into the Ground)

The Party of Weasels, that’s what, has happened to the CRP and RPLAC.
 
We’ve become a party of self-serving weasels throughout the Golden State.  How did it happen? Who launched the coup that resulted in Republican’s becoming a “Super Minority”?
 
The answer is simple!
 
There was no coup, there was no revolution, and there was no victory at the ballot box.  We didn’t lose, we gave the Party away.
 
For far too long, too many in RPLAC have treated it like it was a sandbox to cavort around in not a machine to wage war with the Democrats.  Sadly, many of you are finding yourselves on that “Enemies List” created and kept by Weasel #1 and Weasel #2.
 
Who are these two weasels you ask? Weasel #1 is Andy Gharakhani, a “Never Trumper” and a puppet of Charles Munger and Luis Buhler. Weasel #2 is his sidekick Richard Sherman, the near comatose “Chair” of RPLAC.

 
RPLAC wasn’t stolen it was given away. Many of you reading this bear some of the shame for frittering away RPLAC to the likes of Gharakhani.  
 
RPLAC meetings when held are now patrolled by armed guards. If you’re on the Gharakhani Enemies List, those guards bar you from admission.
 
RPLAC under Gharakhani has become a pay for play operation. Many members complain about only being able to participate in RPLAC after they succumb to the shake down of coughing up $150 or more to join what’s called “The Chairman’s Circle”? 
 
Recently, Gharakhani decided that RPLAC would start selling endorsements.  Now, under Gharakhani’s edict, candidates desiring an RPLAC endorsement are required to cough up money to “The Chairman’s Circle”. Then and only then will they be allowed to speak before RPLAC?  
 
Is this not a “Kleptocracy” at its finest?
 
Unless and until RPLAC members decide they’re tired of submitting to Gharakhani’s whims and subsidizing his life style. Nothing will change.
 
Will the last RPLAC member standing, please turn off the lights?

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Rise Up Take Back RPLAC Are you fed up? Are you tired of losing? Have you noticed the lack of leadership coming from RPLAC? Are you a loyal supporter of our Republican President, and yet RPLAC is controlled by "Never Trumpers"? Recently, the Republican Party in California and LA County got shellacked. Where was RPLAC to help Steve Knight? Where was RPLAC to Help Dante Acosta? Where were they? Missing In Action

The "Low Energy" Executive Board has turned RPLAC into a select social gathering, not a political action juggernaut. Who is responsible? In coming weeks, we'll introduce you to Andy Gherakani the Never Trumper operative who controls the Executive Board and who dictates and imposes his own leftist will on RPLAC. We've all seen "The Wizard of Oz"? Gherakani is the munchkin behind the curtain, pulling the levers and pushing the buttons on the Executive Board. Soon you'll be hearing howls from him; "Pay no attention to that little munchkinbehind the curtain". The time has come, if you're as tired of losing as we are; JOIN US. We respect your privacy, if you no longer wish to receive these informative emails, unsubscribe.  If you want to join the fight, forward them to your friends. THANK YOU

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. 

Robert L. “Bob” Burchett

Certified Communications Engineer

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22826 Mariposa Ave.

Torrance CA 90502

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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

48th Assembly District RINOs Caught Cavorting with the Enemy

The Republican Party of Los Angeles County has fallen to another low ebb. It's bad enough that the executive committee for the county purges conservative groups, trying to remove their charters and their influence (it doesn't work).

The conservatives, the men and women of conviction and conscience, refuse to be quiet. We refuse to settle for failure. We want chaotic victory, not controlled failure,

But look what the 48th Assembly District Republican Central Committee settled for:

Central Committees exist to do three things:

1. Raise money
2. Register voters
3. Get candidates to run for office in the district.

The 48th GOP Central Committee failed so badly, that they didn't get any Republican, not even a write-in, to challenge illegal alien Blanca Rubio.

The Republicans wanted to sit down and dine with the enemy rather than fight her evil policies.

What has become of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County?

In fact, that is precisely what I wrote to the Chairwoman!

Mrs. Shade:

Have you lost your minds?

Making nice is not the answer.

Confronting corruption and doubling down on the truth -- that is the answer.

I cannot believe how low LA County GOP has sunk.

Voters and residents in that region are going to hear about this.

This is a full on betrayal and a violation of By-Laws, rules of decorum, just about any sense of dignity or wisdom!

I received this from one of Rubio's constituents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3aL-2bBiHI

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Yes, it was a secret meeting. Can you believe this?! The Central Committee decided to make nice and do nothing rather than double down and demand real leadership to fight this corrupt illegal alien communist!

When I shared this information with the Republican Party leadership in the state of California, and a few others in blind carbon copy, I received a heated, hateful call and then an email from Judi Neal of the Mountain View Republican Club.

She was faulting me for simply revealing something that had been shared publicly with other members of We the People Rising.

I couldn't believe this!

Here's the email:

If you had something to say Lois you should have confronted her first. How dare you jeopardize their standing in RPLAC. You over stepped your authority Arthur. 

If they are censored because of your going off deep end once again, I will never forgive you. That will be the last time I include you anything our groups are doing.

You should have discussed with her privately. 

I’m done with you and your craziness. Please remove me from anything you are doing in the future and delete my phone and email. 

Judi Neal

UGH. So this is what it comes down to. The Old Guard wants to stand by their friends instead of stepping up the fight and denouncing this corruption.

Gary Gileno had different ideas, and I am glad for that:

Here's the full statement in the Facebook post:

The 48th Assembly District Republican Central Committee had an event where they hosted a Democrat politician who admittedly snuck into our country and was even deported. To some Republicans this is fine, my behavior learning about the revelations is the problem for them. This video illustrates why the Republican party in California is dead and has even been surpassed by no party preference in registration numbers. People are sick of these phony Republicans who live to make compromises with the Democrats. It's time to sack up and say NO!

NO! Banning the Bible
NO! Teaching kids how to have anal sex in school
NO! 55 gallon water rationing
NO! Sanctuary State
NO! Putting people in jail for having a straw
NO! Turning Violent Felonies into Non-Violent Misdemeanors
NO! Mandatory Vaccinations (SB277)
NO! Legalizing the transmission of HIV
NO! Allowing Illegal aliens to work in the government
NO! Putting foreign nationals ahead of Americans
NO! Single payer healthcare that will bankrupt the state
NO! Healthcare for illegal aliens
NO! Free College Tuition for illegal aliens while Americans go into massive debt.
NO! Cutting gasoline sales and production by 50%
NO! Forcing me on a bicycle/bus/train
NO! Putting a box in my car to tax/track me by the mile.
NO! Stripping local control from cities so the state can mandate high density wherever it pleases.
NO! Allowing centers where people can shoot up.
NO! Cap and Trade
NO! Gas Tax Increases
NO! Highest State Taxes in the Nation

Do you get the point yet phony Republicans? These people are destroying our state and yet you want to work with them. These people are the enemy and they would have us all killed the first chance they got.

More people would join our party/not leave if they saw people actually saying NO to this crap instead of looking for ways to make it not suck as much.

I get how Gary feels. I am so tired of being shamed for opposing all this perverse corruption. Yet it seems that so many people have just rolled over and expected this crap. That is wrong, and we are not going to have it!

RINO Central Committee Tries to Scuttle Omar Navarro's Congressional Bid

The RINO Republican Party of Los Angeles Central Committee is corrupt and useless.

They have no manners, not values, and no commitment to winning.

They have turned into a hollow group of irrelevant frauds who only want to be on TV once in a while and fill up their social calendar. They would rather shut down strong candidates than ensure that someone wins an election, even if Central Committee leaders do not like the candidates.

It's a real shame what has become of the once powerful Republican Party of Los Angeles County.

They could be contenders, if they really wanted to fight.

But they would rather lose "gracefully", making themselves look good compared to everyone else.

Omar was not able to win the endorsement of the RPLAC Central Committee.

But guess what?

Neither did any other GOP candidate running for Maxine Waters' seat. In the end, it looks as though Republican candidates of different backgrounds are going to fall into an abyss of uselessness.

Omar Navarro has been raising the money, establishing his recognition and stronger community connections than all the other candidates.

Everyone else who is running in this race must realize that they don't have anything close to a chance of winning. It's as simple as that.

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Hi Everyone, Leaders of LAGOP tried to throw me under the bus today, by telling members not to endorse me. Members revolted. They abstained from voting, preventing LAGOP from endorsing any congressional candidate in the 43rd. They said “if we can’t vote for Omar, we won’t vote!” Let's send them a message by helping us pay for mailers to reach out to voters in the district. I'm going to make history with you in November.  We already spent $1740 for the filling fee and $7300 for the candidate statement. This brings us down by $9040. We need help to get us back up by helping cover the cost of mailers which cost $3600 per 10,000 people we mail to. Donations received by today are especially appreciated because it's going to help us with the cost of  three mailers which cost $10,800. REACH 1000 VOTERS - $360 REACH 2000 VOTERS - $720 REACH 3000 VOTERS - $1080 REACH 5000 VOTERS - $1800 Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support. I keep you all in my prayers as I know this campaign is in yours. God Bless, Thank you, REACH 7000 VOTERS - $2520

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