Let me start out by saying George Andrews is the biggest Rino Squish Moderate Establishment Hack I have ever met. He even tried to keep me out of James Gallagher’s hospitality suite. He was really begging to be mentioned in Right on Daily so I wanted everyone to know what a loser he is.

Once again, there is a California Republican Party Convention and once again there is drama.

ON the super-negative side, I ran into Matt Klemin twice, he works for the Senate Caucus as a strategist/consultant. He was terminated by Shannon Grove and then immediately re-hired by Scott Wilk when Grove was deposed as Senate Minority Leader. Mr. Klemin is by far one of the most foul people I have met in politics and the second time I crossed paths with him, he appeared to be wanting to instigate a physical altercation. Grow up Matt and stop being stupid as your actions only validate my criticisms of you.

Your intrepid blogger had several interactions that were of note.

Your intrepid blogger talking to Doug LaMalfa’s Chief Mark Spannagel

I met Mike Netter in person. He is a fascinating man. West Walker was in town from Florida.

I also met Bryan Watkins and Sarah Nelson in person for the first time. Watkins was clearly still angry with your intrepid blogger over the virtual altercation in 2021 when I was working for Steve Frank against Jessica Patterson. However, he went out of his way to be polite and I engaged both Nelson and Watkins in a conversation lasting 15 minutes. Watkins was defending his staff like a good boss would and Sarah was quite easy to interact with. The rest of the details of the conversation will remain with the three of us, but it was a good and worthwhile interaction. The significance of this conversation was the fact that the altercation I had with the CRP staff resulted in the FBI visiting my house in Feb of 2021. Nelson and Watkins are the most senior staff of the CAGOP at this time.

The Convention was replete with the control agents milling around it, all are names you’ve seen ad-nauseum on this blog.

One of the frustrations I have vented about the California Republican Party and its’ processes for years is that scripted and pre-planned conventions. This convention is no different. It appears that the Rules Committee met several days before the convention to pre-determine the outcomes of the by-law amendments. The Rules committee meeting at the convention was a drama filled disaster, featuring a lot of heated debate and outbursts.

The CAGOP Process is messed up.

There are several endorsements that the CAGOP will be considering for Statewide Candidates. They are not without controversy. It appears that Robert Howell, Racheal Hamm and Jenny Rae Le Roux all had their microphones cut off before they had completed speaking. My guess is the reason given will be about exceeding time or violating some Reagan’s 11th Commandment thing.

Le Roux lit off a bomb against Brian Dahle accusing him of buying the CAGOP endorsement. This is a practice your intrepid blogger has long believed has existed. The basis of the charge was a $40,500 check written to the CAGOP on Friday by Megan Dahle on 4-22-2022 to the CAGOP and tweeted out by Rob Pyres. When I asked Brian Dahle’s crew about the check, they said it was a max-out contribution to the Assembly Caucus via the “One-Ask” program where money is raised in to the CAGOP and split in thirds between the GOP, the Assembly and Senate Caucus. These checks are common, but the occurrence of this check and the timing is terrible and looks really bad.

It has been alleged by many beyond just the Le Roux Campaign that this was payment for the 300ish votes that the party establishment controls via proxies.

There are various opinions about the outcome of the CAGOP endorsement for Governor. It will be a mess.

Lt. Governor – Angela Underwood Jacobs will get the endorsement.

Controller – Lanhee Chen will get the endorsement

Treasurer: I am not sure why Jack Guerrero – once a darling of the establishment is now out of favor, but he is. Andrew Do has the full force of the establishment now. Is it enough? It should be noted that Jack gave one of the best candidate speeches there was in the session.

Attorney General – I believe Nathan Hochman will get the endorsement as it appears the establishment has rallied behind him. Eric Early has a full team present who have worked hard in the days leading up to the convention, but the proxy drill that has been run by the establishment has been effective and robust. My guess is they have more than double the number Early’s crew control.

Secretary of State – the establishment clearly recruited Rob Bernosky to run against Rachel Hamm both to lock Hamm out of the general election by splitting the vote – but also to deny her a CAGOP endorsement that she would have gotten as the only Republican running for SOS. Hamm’s egregious offense was talking about election fraud, etc. My guess is Bernosky will be endorsed by the CAGOP or the endorsement will get killed.

Insurance Commissioner – the 89 Year old Greg Conlon was recruited to run against Robert Howell. Similar to the SOS dynamic, this was about stopping a CAGOP endorsement of Howell and will also result in no Republican on the fall ballot for that office. The likely outcome is no endorsement as Greg Conlon is very old and acts very old.

Superintendent of Public Instruction – Lance Christiansen will crush George Yang. I like Yang, but he is outclassed by Christiansen and of course Christiansen has the full force of the establishment.

US Senate – Mark Meuser vs Cordie Williams. This will also be a barn burner. Does the Establishment choose a side or kill the endorsement? It should be noted that your intrepid blogger got several notations that Cordie was superior to Meuser in his presentation at the convention.

The CAGOP process is messed up.

These conventions are almost always scripted out and the results are sat on heavily by the establishment. This will be no exception and the drama was also consistent with past conventions.

Your intrepid blogger was silent for almost two weeks assessing the movements and actions of many. The silence is broken on many fronts.

This series on the CAGOP 2022 will continue…