Pictured: 6th st. in Downtown Corona Over the years, your intrepid blogger has done exposes on local governments. There are common threads amongst the worst-run local governments. Typically, the leadership is inbred, and the elected board is a rubber stamp group of...
If only… I got some emails today that set off alarm bells. In California, Governor Hairgel has put a deceptive ballot measure called Prop 50 on the November Ballot. He is calling it the anti-Election rigging measure, when it will do just that. It disbands the...
Click the photo to hear about the Duarte family’s important decision It is Republican Primary season. This means you have career union hacks trying to say they are conservative, but our focus is not on the dude with a massive pension and thousands of our tax...
Blogger’s Note: There is a glossary of terms at the end of this post, so that those not 100% up to speed can get a refresher on the terms and players involved. I have been silent on the drama surrounding the upcoming CAGOP convention / inner workings of the...
You will notice, I have not written anything in a while. Here is the bottom line, a lot of things are happening with a lot of people. No one has full context. No one knows what each thing means. I have read a lot of information in print that is false. There are a...
Well, here we go. From: Ashlee N. Titus <XXX> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2025 8:56:28 AM To: Ashlee N. Titus <XXX> Cc: Scott Winn <swinn@cagop.org> Subject: Legal Risks of Earmarking and Best Practices for County Committees Dear County Chairmen: As...
For those of you interested in things California Republican Party – there have been a lot of emails passed around containing a letter signed by legislative leaders indicating that they are starting a new fundraising program that is outside of the CAGOP...
There are many people that I meet in politics that are professional whiners. Sadly, most of those people to I know in that descriptor comprised the “down the escalator” base of Donald Trump’s original campaign for President. They don’t get...
I think a story that symbolizes the CAGOP political landscape and the current circumstances has its’ genesis over a decade ago. Do note, since many that read this blog completely miss the point of my posts I am disclaiming that this is my story related to...
Leaders Lead. You’ve read this axiom a bazillion times in my political lifetime in critiques of the CAGOP Leadership. It appears that Politico and Newsweek may well have been attempting to sound the alarm to their fellow democrats with articles they wrote in...
Apparently, in order to be a member of the opposition to the CAGOP’s Leadership (Be it Brulte, Patterson or Rankin) you must believe that all CAGOP elections are rigged (including the two times I worked on behalf of their side for Steve Frank and Travis...
Please retire for your own good, sir. A workplace misconduct investigation found a top Orange County elected official violated gender discrimination and retaliation policies and harassed a subordinate over her medical disability, according to a confidential...