In fact, for the first time in a long time, Republicans, mostly conservative ones, actually achieved a majority in CA's lower house just as we finally got Willie Brown term limited out of the Speakership!!!
But like a bunch of untrained and unprepared dogs that had so much fun chasing cars(liberals) that they simply din't have a clue what to do when they caught them and got elected. They didn't know how to govern and the liberals had a hay-day pointing that out to the MSM!!!
Some won election to local offices like you suggested. They came on so radical and so overeager that several in northern CA got immediately Recalled by shocked voters who liberals had a ball working up into an emotional high!!!
Many ploughed ahead, doing things right, yet the leftist EnvironMentalists and NIMBY/BANANA activists spent the next three years in league with a very supportive MSM (Sacramento BEE in my area) to quickly change local Californian's perceptions toward traditional land use and conservatives supporting normal American traditional land use policies to as intensely negative as possible.
Using buzzwords like "old boy network" and "property rights fanatics," they turned nearly all of it around in four short years!!! We went from "dancing in the streets" to "same song, second verse... a little bit louder and a little bit worse," to where we are now heading into their "Preferred Growth Scenario!" (Agenda 21/Sustainable Development/Smart Growth/Commonistic Socialism REBORN!)
Yes, hedgetrimmer, the controversial Schwartzenegger Sierra-Nevada CONservancy alone covers over 1/5th of CA with another unneeded layer of land use government with a minority of it's board being actual elected members!!! It's a SIN against America's constitutional traditional founding fight against "Taxation Without (proper) Representation!"
I’d recommend you do a head count and find out which media outlets - radio, TV, print - are on your side. Then organize a meeting and plan a counter-offensive.
I’m sure there are hundreds of businesses fed up with the bureaucrat fascists who would be willing to buy ads. You need to get a foothold in friendly territory, then spread your influence outward.
Look around and find someone with a computer and layout skills. Get some writers on board. You’ll also need someone to call on businesses to buy ads.
Find a printer with a web press. For about $1,000 you can print up a magazine-size publication - 32 pages, 5,000 copies - to get the information out. Businesses buying ads will pay for production costs, writers and an advertising person, plus give you a small profit. For an extra $150 or so you can print up 10,000 copies.
Give away copies of the magazine to businesses and let them sell the magazines for $1 to public. If a business buys an ad for $75, give it 150 copies. That will pay for the ad plus give a small profit. This strategy will encourage businesses to buy ads.
The magazine can be used to explain what individual rights are, how the bureaucrats are robbing people of their birthright and investigative pieces can be done.
This will get your message out and start putting the fascists on the defensive, as they’ll need to justify their Marxist policies to readers and constituents.