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No additional comment needed from your intrepid blogger. I have now received this a dozen times from concerned delegates.
Intrepid Blogger, We are authors of the bylaw change that allowed for tomorrow’s endorsement vote in the recall election. This bylaw was proposed months before we knew how many strong Republicans would qualify for the ballot.
We write to let you know that we have heard the compelling arguments of both those in favor of the California Republican Party endorsing, and those not endorsing a candidate for Governor in this recall election.
We have arrived at the conclusion that the CAGOP should not endorse.
To be clear, any of our GOP candidates would be superior to Gavin Newsom. We believe that the voters should decide his replacement, which will not only ensure a higher turn-out of recall proponents, but give Newsom’s successor the best chance of reelection in 2022.
With this in mind, we suggest that the first vote tomorrow should be to issue no endorsement and conclude the proceedings.
The polls are showing that the recall is in a statistical tie, and we cannot afford to discourage voters who are passionate about a particular candidate, yet may not vote because their favored candidate didn’t receive the endorsement.
The recall of Gavin Newsom will only succeed if we can sustain the motivation of every Californian to mail in their ballot, and the CAGOP tipping the scale may deter some voters.
We are sure you have a favorite candidate that you would like to see endorsed, but if we can’t get voters to turn out for question one, question two won’t matter. As we all know, any of our candidates is better than Gavin Newsom.
We hope you can support our motion to not endorse tomorrow. Let’s unite to defeat Gavin Newsom!
Sincerely,
Harmeet K. Dhillon, RNC Committeewoman
Shawn Steel, RNC Committeeman
There is no ‘No Endorsement’ on the ballot the first ballot….you can only do a No Endorsement on the last ballot. They need to do their homework better! (You have to vote for someone ‘lagging’ in the first ballots to keep anyone from hitting 60% in the first/second/third rounds—even if you want NO one—Its a damn stupid bylaw change and this whole meeting is pointless and stupid)
I know it does cost money for votes like this to happen, but due to me being unemployed I am sacrificing going to the September dog and pony show for this.
I now understand there will be a motion from the floor to not endorse. It will take 2/3s of the delegates to stop this meeting. But along with Steel and Dhillion now Faulconer, via email, is asking for NO endorsement. Either they realize they don’t have to votes to get the endorsement, or they came to their senses. (I bet it the prior)
It would be a huge mistake if the CAGOP endorses.
After all Dhillion and Steel did to screw the rank and files Delegates, they rallied around Steve Frank, Laurie Wallace, Rick Marshall and countless other grassroots delegates to preserve and protect their party from the rapacious locusts, like Patterson, David Stafford Reade, Gary Aminoff …Oh, I forgot Andy GimmeKandy who’ve spent their career’s wrecking the CAGOP.
Talk about pulling your own teeth with a rusty hammer….what a waste of time and LACK of leadership we have in the CRP!
I said this was stupid a month ago….and today they proved it!!!
Semper Fi