For me it was an action-packed evening. It started with a heated conversation between myself and John England – Karen’s Husband before the meeting even started.. The details are between us, but you could imagine the subject matter. Several By-Law...
The meeting was punctuated with multiple interruptions on a variety of issues by Karen England. She is running for State CRA President and based on her behavior, thinks attacking the Placer CRA led Central Committee is furthering her campaign. As a note –...
I was quoted in this article a couple times. Jason Probst, formerly of the Roseville Press-Tribune wrote this article. Basically, it highlighted some of the rifts in the local party that have manifest themselves after Doolittle was forced to retire. Interestingly,...
UPDATE: Karen England started backtracking from her “FBI Investigation” comments after being called out via email. She refused to provide any contact info or names of FBI agents despite her claims of having such info. She even went as far as to say she...
First of all – when the CRA/Conservatives win votes, the losers run to the local media in the person of Jim Ruffalo of the Auburn Journal (that calls himself a recovering Republican) and Ed Fletcher of the Sacramento Bee. The latest effort by Mr. Fletcher is...
During the contentious organizational meeting on Wed 1/12/2011 the commitee voted the postpose the matter of the lease renewal until February. The current lease on the HQ expires on 1/31. This means as of 2/1/2011, the Placer County Republican Party will no longer...
Blogger’s Note – the CRA endorsed Ted Gaines for State Senate in the SD-01 Special. Ted Gaines stayed true to his CRA roots and voted with the CRA 100% of the time last night. It is exceedingly rare for an elected to be present at a Central Committee...
This blogger recently was informed of an email written by two members of the local tea party. These two members are convinced, along with several liberal Republican critics of the Central Committee of “rampant corruption”. They were convinced they had...
In a recent Column – Ruffalo attacked Ted Gaines and the Placer County Republican Central Committee. In so many words, he attacked the Central Committee for Accomplishing Nothing. Problem – the Central Committee was instrumental and participatory in...
Apparently, Ken Campbell has a following? At least, if I use Ken Campbell’s logic on Red County, I could easily blame him for the attached letter that came to our office today. The letter was a photocopy – suggesting that more were sent out (most likely...
Roseville Measures – Our position prevailed on 6 of 7. We opposed all three tax measures – they all were defeated. The Lincoln Tax measure went down 2-1. Special note: Our friends in the I-Caucus endorsed in the Lincoln City Council Race – winning both seats in...
At the Placer County Republican Party BBQ – Doug LaMalfa was one of four speakers. The other three – Alby, Gaines and Niello are all combatants for the SD-01 race nomination. Doug LaMalfa’s overriding message was one of unity – have your...