Assembly Permanent Superminority Leader Connie Conway was re-elected today.

She was on watch when the GOP lost another three seats in the Assembly to go below the 1/3 threshold to stop tax increases.

Conway directed liberal Billionaire Charles Munger to spend on Beth Gaines apparently because she needed to keep Beth Gaines’ leadership vote. $750,000 that could have been used on Peter Tateishi or Pedro Rios for example.

The Republican leadership have proven time and again that it is all about control. Control is an illusion – while the Democrats are racking up 75% of the hispanic vote – the Republican establishment is picking candidates like lilly-white 40 something Congressional Staffer Phil “Pabst” Paule over Melissa Melendez. (Melendez appears to have won anyway)

Paule is a client of Dave Gilliard.

Dave Gilliard and control – both go in the same sentence. I have written about Dave Gilliard many times and Dave Gilliard has responded like people of his ilk do – to slither in the shadows trying to exact revenge.

Dave Gilliard is a poster child for the demise of the GOP – he is a political consultant par-excellence whose clients are all over the state. They include a lot of my favorites – Ted Gaines, Beth Gaines, Jim Nielsen, Doug LaMalfa. Gilliard has had his office raided in corruption scandal investigations and in a separate issue, one of his former clients landed in federal prison.

Dave Gilliard fancied himself as a power broker as he was amassing a stable of clients in the North State. Now – he inherits a bag of garbage. None of the above mentioned (except Congressman LaMalfa) will be able to raise a dime nor will they have influence because they are now irrelevant. Even before the GOP dropped to less than 1/3 both Gaines were irrelevant because of their lack of qualification, effort or engagement in anything other than their own paycheck.

But, Dave Gilliard sent out an email celebrating the “new blood” on the Placer GOP Cent Com after he consulted on a revenge mission against the conservatives that refused to endorse his clients.

The so-called Conservatives that are Dave Gilliard’s clients supported a group of Liberals, plus some ‘Tea Party’ recruits in an attempt to take over Control of the Placer GOP Cent Com.

The Placer GOP Cent Com was one of the few GOP Cent Coms that did not endorse all incumbent Republicans like lemmings.

It also appears that Dave Gilliard was involved in a similar mission in Orange County where the Ron-Paul RLC-Type Republicans were almost all ousted from that Cent Com (along with almost all the CRA members as well). The heinous crime? Refusing to endorse Congressman John Campbell and for nearly torpedoing an endorsement of Congressman Ed Royce – both of whom are, you guessed it, Dave Gilliard Clients.

But, Dave Gilliard got his revenge.

Dave Gilliard got his client Beth Gaines re-elected courtesy of a RINO Billionaire who is out $41million in this election cycle alone. And Dave Gilliard is not alone – but he is the poster child for what is wrong with the CRP.

Gilliard also took the CRP for $200,000 in consulting fees before abandoning Prop 40 – a $4 million debaucle.  Wouldn’t those idiots in leadership have liked to have had that money for a few target districts???