Will wonders never cease :-)
there’s a republican party in California?
So what are these things?
I’m happy with their decision — but it was a no-brainer from day one.
Can they get back the $1 million bucks that the GOP gave Arnie for his YES campaign?
How much time and money willl they invest in the NO campaign?
It has been 52 days since the legislature put this on the ballot and there are only 37 days left until the election. Voter pamphlets have been delivered. Absentee voter ballots are in the mail.
I’ll be interested to see what kind of NO campaign the party actually launches.
Call me a skeptic, but I think they did this on purpose. Dilly-dally while the other team racks up a dozen touch-downs, then decide to play.
I just stepped out of the Sacramento Convention Center where the California Republican Party's Executive Committee met today to take positions on the propositions appearing on the May 19 Special Election Ballot.
The Executive Committee overwhelmingly voted to oppose Propositions 1A - 1F. The greatest attention of course has been directed at Proposition 1A, which if passed would impose a cap on state spending but also extends recently enacted tax increases for an additional two years. As always, Republicans remain opposed to the high taxes that make it more difficult for families to get by, increase incentives for people and employers to move out of state, and usually fail to produce anticipated revenue.
California's tax burden is higher than the national average and so is its unemployment rate. Texas, by contrast, enjoys lower taxes and an unemployment rate significantly lower than the national average. The lesson is clear (except to Democrats): high taxes and big, annoying government drives jobs and opportunities elsewhere.
Republicans have long understood that out of control spending generated by a Democrat-dominated legislature with the "power of the purse" directly contributes to the state's perpetual budget deficits. That's why Republicans have consistently pushed for caps on state spending and a bigger budget reserve to reduce the pressure for tax increases. Democrats, by contrast, have consistently opposed spending caps and instead offer only one tax increase after another.
Incredibly, the Democrats have now proposed even more taxes and spending beyond those recently enacted, including a plastic bag tax, a marijuana tax, a tax on markers and spray paint, and their usual tricks to make it easier to raise taxes in the future.
We've already moved to take action to promote the Republican Party's recommendations on the May 19 propositions. In just the last few minutes our website's main page has been replaced to emphasize our recommendations on these ballot measures. Visit cagop.org and you'll see what I mean. Downloadable voter guides and related information will be available beginning Tuesday.
Thank you for your leadership and work in putting Republican ideas into action.
All the best,
Ron Nehring
CHAIRMAN, California Republican Party
1F - Vote YES if you do NOT want legislator pay raises (during budget deficits)
Prop 1F is about NO PAY RAISES FOR LEGISLATORS in the year WHEN THERE IS NO BALANCED BUDGET - VOTE YES for NO.
Zip a dee doo dah!!
Well, I don’t need them to tell me to oppose these POS initiatives, but it is nice to see them taking a stand.
I am in total shock! Did someone hijack their site?
Those who see the CaGOP as the last hope for conservatism had better be prepared to role up their selves, attend the next local Central Committee meeting and call out those present as responsible for their current circumstances.
It will take courage to call out the local veterans but no Central Committee can claim innocence in the current turmoil. In Fresno the target is certainly the respected Mike DerManuel who has done little to expose the Wilsonegger Gang. Everybody's favorite blogger, Jon Fleishman also played a prominent role in allowing the New Majority to destroy the party's effectiveness.
Took then long enough to decide that. and AFTER they already donated somewhere between $650,000 to over a million dollars on ads FOR it. (According to John and Ken - their numbers were over a million, they got someone from the CA party to admit to $650,000). Either way - they’re a disgrace.
Clemenza opposes ALL mobocratic “ballot initiatives” (a gift of the “progressive” movement), especially in a world where half the sheeple have IQs under 100. If the morons in Cali can’t govern via a representative Republic, then maybe we should prevent them from breeding.
..I appears Sacramento figures they could play a little shell game and grab more power for themselves along with some stealth tax increases—I’m voting no across the board...
Anything? Anything at all?
These guys are a little late, already sent in my ballot with them all marked with a great big NO! Anyone that can read should be able to figure it out for themselves but I am glad the CAGOP came out against it. I just wish they would have done so before absentee ballots were sent out.