Posted on 11/26/2007 9:26:48 AM PST by NormsRevenge
The California Republican Party can’t fund some political activities just weeks before the Presidential Primary in February. It has no money.
Some months ago, the Party faithful were shocked when it was revealed that new State Chairman Ron Nehring had hired illegal aliens for top state Party positions.
Nehring diehards publicly decried my efforts and those of the San Francisco Chronicle that exposed the dry rot in the Party.
Many of the state’s newspapers ignored the story and printed nothing about it until Ron Nehring’s illegal alien Australian hire for Party Chief Operating Officer resigned in shame and was replaced by a well-known American.
Stories published world-wide mocked Ron Nehring and his illegal alien hires (one Australian and one Canadian) and some even quoted this writer, a veteran of almost 50 years of statewide California politics about the Party’s forthcoming money problems.
Funny thing, the tight circle of State Chairman Ron Nehring’s friends circled the wagons and defended him by challenging the MSM (Mainstream Media) and me. Nehring-San Diego ally Duane Dichiera, for example, posted comments on the Flash Report of a state Party leader Jon Fleishman that suggested I have no sources within the financial hierarchy that normally supports the Party. He implied that my views on immigration affected my relationship with people I have dealt with for over four decades. More about that later.
Now comes the announcement that the Party is cutting off county parties from funds they used to hire staff. Only $260,000is involved but that’s only the tip of the red ink statewide.
State records: California GOP was $1.7 million in debt at the end of October. In its separate federal committee account there is also a deficit of $430,000, records show.
The Orange County Register quotes state Party official Jon Fleishman: "I don't know how to sugarcoat this," Fleischman wrote in (an) e-mail. The party "is going through a very fiscally challenging period. I was forced to vote to end a program that I believe is a good one, simply because we are faced with a situation of limited resources," Fleischman wrote in an e-mail."
During and after the Nehring illegal alien disaster, Republican heavy-hitters cut-off the Party. In August two of them did agree to roll over a $3 million 2006 debt by February.
Radical conservative Nehring supporters blame President Bush's immigration plan for the financial shortfall. Bad news for them, most major California Republican donors also supported the Bush plan. These are called "Good Government" Republicans. Those who try to blame these guys for the financial aftermath of the Nehring disaster apparently aren’t aware that the blame lies firmly on Nehring’s shoulders and the man behind him, Washington D.C.’s Grover Norquist, an arch-conservative activist closely associated with criminal convict lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
So, no money in the bank, the February Primary just weeks ahead and the California primary in June and the Nehring troops are blaming President Bush’s immigration reform plan for their deficiencies.
Where, one must ask, is the Governor? He is busy raising money, tons of money, having just set a statewide historical record for raising money. He also supports comprehensive immigration reform.
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t raised a finger to help the state party run by Ron Nehring. The Governor could raise enough money in two evenings in Beverly Hills and Rancho Santa Fe to pay off the Party debt and to bring in enough new money to fund all its normal activities. But, he hasn’t.
Asked about the Ron Nehring problems, the Governor sent word through a staffer’s e-mail, "The governor has a good working relationship with Ron," signed Julie Soderlund. His top fundraiser Marty Wilson is absent from the scene and isn’t commenting.
Neither is President Bush who sets fundraising records for responsible state parties.
The political drought that started with Hispanic voters abandoning the California Republican Party over the Republican-sponsored illegal Proposition 187 in 1994 that only three Republicans (Schwarzenneger, Bill Jones and Steve Poizner) have overcome since 1998 -- will continue.
Ron Nehring, Grover Norquist and their gang have wrung the California Republican Party dry of every dollar and of every ounce of responsible support from major donor Good Government Republicans. The California GOP is limping into a political year stripped of money, power, attractiveness and, for all practical purposes, is politically impotent, perhaps fatally so.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
California truly still has a way to go before the Republican Party there is exactly just like the Republican Party in most of the northeastern states!
” The state went Dem with Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992 and that was BEFORE 187 and it has stayed that way since. “
Bingo.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The above paragraph has me totally confused. Is he saying the Bush plan is the OBL/Amnesty/Comp Immig Reform? And that supporters of Amnesty are the "good government" folks? And that Nehring/Norquist oppose the Bush plan?
The CA GOP is a woefully inept organization and, given the people they’ve put up fr the major elections in recent years, they are only marginally different from the Democrats.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Norquist is probably the most influential advocate for open borders in the country.
Maybe if one flowcharts it, it’ll be more easily determined ‘what the heck?’ , only way to keep track of who is the blamer and who is the blamees.., lol
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Radical conservative Nehring supporters blame President Bush’s immigration plan for the financial shortfall.
Bad news for them, most major California Republican donors also supported the Bush plan.
These are called “Good Government” Republicans.
Those who try to blame these guys for the financial aftermath of the Nehring disaster apparently aren’t aware that the blame lies firmly on Nehring’s shoulders and the man behind him, Washington D.C.’s Grover Norquist, an arch-conservative activist closely associated with criminal convict lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The old saying is, “As California goes, so goes the country.” Personally, I think there’s some truth in that.
And so, if the people themselves don’t do something soon to change things radically in the party nationally, it’s not an encouraging picture.
As you suggest, it’s certainly true that the California Republican party is in deep trouble. But this article seems confused about the reasons.
No mention whatever of Gerald Parsky, I notice.
To this outsider, the basic problem with the California Republican Party is that it is split down the middle between the voters, who are mostly conservative, and the party pros and big donors, who are mostly Country Clubbers and Big Tent people. The party cannot regain its health unless these two factions agree to make up their differences and work together again. But that seems unlikely at the moment.
Bush, Rove, and Parsky came in and put the Country Clubbers in charge of the party. We have seen what the results of that have been. As head of the party, Parsky refused to help Bill Simon, and never did any money raising for him. Bush and Rove were in a snit because the party voters had voted 2-1 in the primary for Simon over ueberleftist Richard Riordan, their chosen candidate.
Arnold has betrayed both the fiscal conservatives and the social conservatives. So the base is disgusted. He won the reelection, but only by refusing to help any of his fellow Republican candidates, who all lost. When he leaves office because of term limits, he leaves a party divided worse than ever.
Unless the money people agree to accept some basic conservative principles, the Democrats will take over the whole state government and the Republicans will be out of it until the Democrats have become so corrupt, and made such a mess, that the people may finally vote them out. But it doesn’t look good for the conservative cause if the Country Clubbers continue to refuse to give up their pet agenda, which involves abortion, perversion, and uncontrolled state spending.
# Isaiah 52:11
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Nice place to visit, no way I’d ever live there again.
That is true. I did a comparison of contributions pre and post-Arnold. The big money came in and pushed Schwarzenegger and the small individual contributions dried up. It seems only the big-money donors who feed at the California government trough like Sundheim's vision of a "purple party."
That's what I thought--that is why that particular paragraph totally confused me.
Oh, yeah... that helps! LOL.
(still confused as ever!)
Agreed! Good post.
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