The Chad Mayes rampage will have far-reaching effects for the GOP. He has been blathering to every media outlet that will listen about "New Republicans", "New Approaches" and the other 20+ year old buzzwords often used by the platform destroyers. These public...
I gotta be real with you, I feel some twinges of pity on CAGOP Chairman Jim Brulte. I know he is not an innocent bystander, I mean you don't get to be CAGOP Chair and Minority Leader in both houses from playing paddycakes. However, I don't think he or anyone had a...
I spend an hour or more a day collecting all sorts of news articles, some of which I aggregate in to posts on this blog. I look at what the Trump Administration is accomplishing and it is astounding. In the backdrop of this is the attempted assassination of a...
The readers of this blog have become accustomed to the "what the heck is he going to write next" feelings that come. GOP registration is at 25.6% in California and falling despite Republican gains in most other areas in the USA. It seems that our leaders here are...
I had to buy more bandwidth because of the record levels of visitors It appears that new Assembly GOP leader Brian Dahle has appointed several folks from Chad Mayes leadership team to his own team. (Including the tyrant himself) I have reached out to Dahle's staff...
Disclaimer: The accounts of this post are based on a variety of sources that include Capitol Staff, District Staff, Actual Assembly Members, Lobbyists, Political Consultants, Donors and "Third House" employees. While some were on the record, most were not and...
What is known is that Chad Mayes has been taken down. He has endorsed Brian Dahle to succeed him. What will Jay Obernolte Do? He is the swing vote here, literally. I will not be choosing between Dahle and Fong until I hear from Jay. I do not abandon friends on the...
I had written a few things previously about this, apparently the following are true: I had diagnosed that David Stafford Reade wanted a larger paycheck in order to spike his government pension and to get more power and control. I had incorrectly stated that Reade...
Anyone who has been in politics for any length of time knows politics is an ego game. When you add buckets of big donor money, you get a frustratingly bizarre metric that people outside struggle to understand. I've also watched a simultaneous social media driven...
This is from Harmeet Dhillon, CAGOP National Committeewoman Assembly Leadership Update: there are plenty of votes for a new leader if Chad resigns (he's announced he "won't capitulate"), but a good contingent of members will not vote to vacate the chair, don't ask...
There has been a lot of talk about who is the more conservative. Is Jay Obernolte a moderate? Is Melissa Melendez the Conservative? There is no doubt that Melissa Melendez is a rockstar. There is also no doubt that Jay Obernolte seems to be the candidate of the...
This evening's 13-7-1 California Republican Party Board Meeting where they voted to call on Chad Mayes to resign as Assembly GOP Minority leader was a microcosm for every problem I have ever seen with the Republican Party in California. Chad Mayes was attempting to...