California State GOP chief quits national post (Shawn Steel)

Sacramento Bee ^ | 13 June 2002 | Michael Doyle and David Whitney

[CounterCounterCulture]

WASHINGTON -- The conservative head of the California Republican Party has quietly stepped down from a national committee position, apparently under pressure from other party leaders.

Without fanfare, California Republican Party Chairman Shawn Steel resigned last week from the Republican National Committee's executive committee, which exercises the national committee's executive and administrative functions between RNC meetings. Steel held one of the three seats appointed by RNC Chairman Mark Racicot.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dear Lord ! When is the party going to realize who the REAL enemy is in CA ?!? Somebody needs to run that jacka$$ liberal Parsky out of CA on a rail !

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[browardchad]

It looks like Parsky has the support of the head of the RNC and therefore the White House. Conservatives are out, "inclusiveness" and toeing the centrist party line is in. Rebels and self-criticism will not be tolerated.

[elbucko]

Whether this resignation is for good or ill, I know not. However, I do know that the California Republican Party is the best ally the California Democratic Council (CDC) has in the Peoples Republic of the Golden State. (sigh)

The California Republicans play golf at the county clubs while the vicious extremes of Davis' administration, such as Phil Angelides, attend the democrats version of Al-Qaeda training camps. Republicans "Sleep at Dawn" and Sleep with the Enemy".

[fieldmarshaldj]

"It looks like Parsky has the support of the head of the RNC and therefore the White House. Conservatives are out, "inclusiveness" and toeing the centrist party line is in. Rebels and self-criticism will not be tolerated."

Damn straight. This has probably got to be one of my biggest criticisms of Dubya that he is allowing idiots like Parsky such a free-reign. Here in TN where I live, the WH utilized strong-arm tactics to try and muscle Ed Bryant out of the Senate race for has-been Lamar! Alexander. These establishment types are the bane of the party. We've got Gerry Parsky-types running my local party in Nashville, and guess what ? We have virtually no Republican officeholders. These types feel more comfortable with Democrats running the show, utterly sickening. :-(

[NormsRevenge]

The climate in which Steel's resignation took place, fraught with personal and political issues, has been apparent for some time. Steel's views have not prevailed with a White House that has turned to Parsky for California issues.

Last year, in a move said to be viewed sympathetically within the White House, Parsky and other members of the state party's board of directors revised party rules in ways that stripped Steel of some of the chairman's traditional responsibilities.

"I think they're trying to make some changes to make it a more inclusive statewide committee," said Rep. George Radanovich, R-Mariposa.

More recently, Steel's resignation from the national committee followed publication of a newspaper opinion piece he wrote blasting Parsky. Steel is sharply critical of Parsky for negotiating with Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., for a system of selecting judicial nominees in California.

"These two lionesses of the left have taken Parsky's naive creation and are using it to eat him, and the president's judicial appointment power, alive," Steel wrote last month.

Incredible ... This is so sick .. Just what the Cal GOP doesn't need... Parsky needs to get the hell out of the way. He is soooo yesterday
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

[caltrop]

Bush isn't allowing these guys to do things the way they do, he's appointing them to do exactly what they're doing. Bush is, and always has been, a Rockefeller Republican. He rejects the view that government isn't the solution but the problem and believes in its expansion.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Bush isn't allowing these guys to do things the way they do, he's appointing them to do exactly what they're doing. Bush is, and always has been, a Rockefeller Republican. He rejects the view that government isn't the solution but the problem and believes in its expansion."

Hey, don't blame me, I voted for Alan Keyes. :-)

[farmfriend]

Boy, everybody is beating me to the punch today. Guess I'll quit while I'm behind.

[goldstategop]

The RINO Gerald Parsky forced him out. It was political retaliation for Shawn Steel's exposing Parsky as the Trojan Horse in the state party here. And he gets replaced with a reliable RINO poodle who can be expected to do Parsky's bidding. Next time the national and state GOP wonder why I'm not contributing, its on account of attempts to force conservatives out of the party. That's the definition of the "Big Tent" philosophy to the RINOs.

[Republicus2001]

Brulte rules!

[Richard M. Nixon]

Looks like Shawn Steel now knows what it is to be stabbed in the back by his "allies".

Parsky and his jackasses got Steel to screw us last fall with those bylaws changes, now when he tries to show a bit of backbone over Parsky's idiotic judicial nominations procedure, the RNC boys force him out.

Friends, we got a SORRY state of affairs. It's a damn shame that the president himself can't see what a disaster he's sowing by having Parsky be his Golden State point man.

[Richard M. Nixon]

Ping.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm SO glad that the GOP united around the conservative governor candidate here.
If I was in California, I'd run for precinct delegate and show Gerry the door.

[NormsRevenge]

BUT would you open the door first? I would be inclined to ... NOT

[CounterCounterCulture]

Hey, don't blame me, I voted for Alan Keyes. :-)

DITTO

[Lancey Howard]

Scumbag liberals like this Parsky are allowed to hijack the GOP in California only with the complicity of other scumbags. We know what Parsky is - - but his enablers are worse. They are your basic, gutless surrender monkeys.
How utterly disgusting.

[goldstategop]

Yup.... I'm sure any day now Parsky will announce a merger of the California GOP with the Rats and we'll have the nation's first official one-party state.

[Lancey Howard]

Friends, we got a SORRY state of affairs. It's a damn shame that the president himself can't see what a disaster he's sowing by having Parsky be his Golden State point man.

I think this goes straight to the matter of George W. Bush's judgement. Clinton clearly had a character issue, but it looks like W may have a judgement issue if he looks to a scumbag like Parsky for advice in California. Really sickening.