I want to preface this by saying I know most of the people involved. They are not bad people at all. Most all of them are good people.

My issue is that the Stanislaus GOP was involved in the California Republican Leadership Fund as an aside to the day-to-day operations of the committee without the advice and consent of the committee. Worse, upon further examination, you can see clearly that the exclusion was willful and deliberate. This is the issue.

Embedded is an email from the current leadership of the Stanislaus GOP where they are considering a Censure brought forward by a Whistleblower Micah Rapier. Joseph Grcar made a public records request related to FPPC Proceedings against the California Republican Leadership Fund for documents and communications. The censure and the issues in Stanislaus County Revolve around hundreds of thousands of dollars that have been run through their political accounts without the rank and file members knowing a thing about it. This has happened in other counties as well. I am aware of another complaint in Alameda County.

The 35 page document related to the 2012 CRLF Complaints is full of arguments between the CAGOP Lawyers and the witch-hunters at the FPPC. The FPPC in the opinion of this blogger, is politically biased and looks for opportunities to fine Republicans. It is reputed they are currently on a rampage against anyone Dem or Rep that has ties to the Charter School People. (Retribution for the Charters spending huge on Antonio against the maniac governor)

The 10th page of the document is my focus and the reasons why I am interested in the whole thing may be different than those that sent them to me.

If you click the image and read it, you will see a reference to Tea Party Groups in 2011 trying to take over Central Committees. In 2011, I had first hand experience when Staffers of Doug LaMalfa, Jim Nielsen and others teamed up with Karen England and Tea Partiers to run the real conservatives out of the Placer GOP.

While I have no abiding love for the Tea Party in general – the issue here is that you can extrapolate this letter to mean CRA Group, CIR Group, Grassroots Group, not just the Tea Party. In writing the CAGOP’s Lawyer Charles Bell confirms what we all knew. The leadership of the State GOP has made and has contingency plans in case the real grassroots in whatever form take over a county party.

Now you have perspective for the all-out statewide drill to pick delegates to control an outcome for the CAGOP officer elections.

Now you have a perspective for the insider-driven drill to shred the CAGOP Platform.

These same people belittle us all for supporting President Trump.

Now we have perspective for the $100K spent in Placer and the $20K spent in Stanislaus County in 2012 to influence elections (Research shows money was spent in San Bernardino County in 2012 as well). These expenditures could well have been coordinated at the highest levels of CAGOP Leadership.

Was the $3MM spent on 44 Central Committee Elections in 2016 more of a play to maintain the circumstances for the California Republican Leadership Fund (which was still in operation in 2018 despite the $30,000 in fines the previous complaint generated)? Anyone with heritage in CAGOP operations remembers the “We Are the GOP” mailers and all of the slate mail cards bought with Charles Munger’s money in 2016 – directed by Luis Buhler and David Reade (amongst others). You will see those and other names time and time again in all of the insider machinations.

I’d encourage Joe Day, Jim De Martini and others to take a step back from their arguments with Micah Rapier and Mylinda Mason and look at the big picture. The Stanislaus GOP is and has been just a cog in a bigger wheel of control. The Oligarchy of Controlled Failure.

Were they made aware of what their role is? It is clear most of the Committee had no idea that their account was part of a statewide web. Weather or not someone deserves Censure is actually a subset of the bigger ethical issues uncovered by these documents and complaints.

I’d submit that 90-95% of the rank-and-file Central Committee Members have no idea of how small the group of control agents are or what they have been doing.

I will tie this all in better and in more detail, but this is my first hot-take from the Stanislaus GOP Drama. I do not think it is isolated at all. I think it relates to a lot of what I’ve been seeing for the last decade… if these people were winning elections I don’t think it would be as big of an issue.