Chad Mayes was right about the leadership vacuum. He led in the wrong direction but he led in a direction. He continues to rail on the vacuum as justification for going off the left end of the cliff and for ceaseless attacks against the right to assuage his ego....
Get to know David Stafford Reade he is the man behind the curtain. Based on 6 leaks of information from 6 sources inside the leadership of the CAGOP we can give you some updates. The California Republican Party has $1,000,000 in its' State Account. Before...
Blogger's Note - some people ask me why I think Arthur Schaper is a righteous dude. Here is why, he is a true believer and is one of the few you can count on to show up repeatedly and be counted. He is the kind of guy that makes a difference regardless what you...
IF you are a CAGOP Insider, you get the delegate only emails. The most recent one contained a fascinating sentence: While fundraising numbers are preliminary, I am proud and excited to share that Senator Shannon Grove, Assemblywoman Marie Waldron and I have...
I've waited a while to write a follow up blog to what I believe is an impending gutting of the CAGOP Platform. The reason is that several other issues have manifest (Bill Brough being among them). First - your intrepid blogger has learned that there is a...
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...
The AD-73 Race has a personal angle. I went after Anna Bryson and to a lesser extent Jesse Petrilla in that primary. The beneficiary was the beleaguered and now scandal-riddled Bill Brough. Contrary to popular belief I did not work for anyone when I ran that drill....
Typical of when your intrepid blogger writes and incendiary post related to internal CAGOP Politics, there are multiple responses. People whose opinion I trust and who I consider friends posited a lot of information confirming most all facts as presented, however...
Update: Since the original posting of this blog, other insiders with knowledge of the finances have been candid with your intrepid blogger about the financial situation. There will be a follow up blog posted tomorrow. They also confirmed that our accounts of the...
Sometimes, people will call me to tell me I am reading the tea leaves wrong. However, I am rarely challenged on the facts I lay out. I find that interesting. I fully well expect to field more calls after this post is seen by my usual regular readers. I've had the...
About a month ago, I wrote a sobering expose' on the electoral prospects of the CAGOP. It is the opinion of this blogger that barring a miracle, that at least 5 legislative seats are gone in 2020. It is likely we hold all 7 Congressional seats even as Duncan Hunter...
In the North State, the results were as mixed as they were all over the state. The drama, however is just starting. At least in the North State the pitch to people was "We need to keep the platform the same", we can't have people stirring up drama... etc etc etc. I...