Fuentes was voice of GOP grass roots

OC Register ^ | 3/21/04 | Steven Greenhut

[NormsRevenge]

"Free at last, free at last, thank God, I'm free at last." Fuentes, who ably guided the party's membership drives, voting efforts and fund-raising activities since 1984, has plenty to do now that this volunteer job is over. He serves on numerous organization boards and will remain deeply involved in Republican politics.

[NormsRevenge]

fyi

[Amerigomag]

There's another school of thought out there, epitomized by the New Majority and others who are among this county's most affluent elite. In this view, the problem is that the GOP is too conservative and not sufficiently accommodationist. Those in the party's wealthy elite tend to think this way.

Bingo.

Guess I'll have hit up FairOpinion and South40 for a loan.

[Ham Hock]

Darn, I had hopes that you were talking about Daisy Fuentes!

[KantianBurke]

[Holden Magroin]

Country club Republicans - the ones who call themselves "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" - are always the first ones to cave in on taxes!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Out here in the real world I find (at least on Live Journal for instance) that most young Repubs are for gays, and waffling on the illegal immigration issue.

So I wonder how Republican they are?

[NormsRevenge]

clinton took his party so far left, most of the republicans got sucked to the middle, I reckun.. and they don't even know it, or act like they care, at least.

[Amerigomag]

that most young Repubs are for gays, and waffling on the illegal immigration issue.

When I told my two sons that I had endeavored to disrupt an antiwar rally in Fresno yesterday, they both suggested that I should return home to Morro Bay and spend more time sailing our boat.

[South40]

Guess I'll have hit up FairOpinion and South40 for a loan.

Your chances of obtaining money from me are about the same as you eventually making sense in a post; slim and none.

[Amerigomag]

Then I take it you're not among the "wealthy elite".

[South40]

I fail to see how my financial and/or social status is your business.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Most of all, "Republicans" in the New Majority are about power and influence. They want to wield it, or at least fund those who do.

Yeah, forgot our civil rights and morality and other archaic ideas like that.

They hate the social issues, and are embarrassed by the pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-property rights GOP activists who dominate the party.

Oh horror of horrors! Right to self defense, right to private property and privacy, right to life. How darrrrre us support those fringe ideas.

Why doesn't the New Moronity just come out and say they're embarrassed by the Constitution and be done with it?

[Amerigomag]

I fail to see how my financial and/or social status is your business.

Understanding an adversary, his history and his motivations, oft times mean the difference between victory and defeat.

Round one went to the moderates because many conservatives simply underestimated their adversaries, trusted old familiar faces and little appreciated the dynamics of the battle field.

Round two is coming in November. You'll be back and we'll be better prepared.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Well, on another (funnier :) note: My husband and I own a brand new Audi, have every mod. convenience for our kitchen, shop from Williams-Sonoma, Sur La Table, Viking Gourmet and go grocery shopping at Whole Foods all the time. Subscribe to Architectural Digest.

Yet we live in one of the worst neighborhoods, if not the worst neighborhood and street in SF. In a small studio apartment. You already know how expensive it is to live here (in SF). We both kind of chuckle at our predicament.

[calcowgirl]

Baugh has quite a history, and from reading old news reports, I would conclude he is indebted to Lockyer as well.

LA Times July 28, 1999

Assembly Republican leader Scott Baugh agreed Tuesday to pay a civil fine of $47,900 for nine violations of the state Political Reform Act, ending a political misconduct case that began with Baugh's election in 1995.

The fine, imposed by the Fair Political Practices Commission, concludes a long-standing controversy in which Baugh (R-Huntington Beach) once faced felony [indicted on 22 counts] and misdemeanor charges stemming from an accusation that Republicans schemed to split the Democratic vote in a special election. But Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer sought the dismissal of perjury and campaign finance reporting charges in March and the case became a civil matter.

(snip)

In a 1995 special election, Baugh replaced former Assembly Speaker Doris Allen (R-Cypress), who was recalled by voters after she joined forces with Assembly Democrats and was named speaker of the Legislature's lower house.

Baugh was accused of helping high-ranking Republicans place a decoy Democratic candidate on the ballot as a way of splitting Democrats' share of the winner-take-all vote, a tactic critics called unethical. The candidate, Laurie Campbell, was removed from the ballot before the election by a Sacramento judge for falsifying candidacy paperwork.

Four campaign aides--including Rhonda Carmony, the former campaign manager and now wife of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach)--eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for other election law violations and received probationary sentences and fines.

[South40]

Understanding an adversary, his history and his motivations, oft times mean the difference between victory and defeat.

What, pray tell, makes you think I am your adversary?

Round one went to the moderates because many conservatives simply underestimated their adversaries, trusted old familiar faces and little appreciated the dynamics of the battle field.

More drivel. Nothing more, nothing less.

Round two is coming in November. You'll be back and we'll be better prepared.

See response above.

[tubebender]

There goes Orange County as we knew it.

[Clemenza]

Yet we live in one of the worst neighborhoods, if not the worst neighborhood and street in SF

If its Hunt's Point, I would suggest not growing anything, as the entire nabe could be a Superfund site.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Not Hunters Point :)