Posted on 06/14/2009 4:28:12 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
FR EXCLUSIVE: RON NEHRING, CALIF GOP CHAIRMAN TO FREEP YOUR QUESTIONS! -- ASK AWAY!
I was invited to participate in a strategic GOP meeting on June 5, during which many topics including the Internet, voter registration and fundraising were discussed from a tech/strategy standpoint.
Durind the event I had the chance to speak with Ron Nehring, California GOP Chairman. I mentioned to him that GOP leadership is perceived as RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) by much of the grassroots.
When I noted that an enormous GOP opportunity exists among both Republicans and Democrats on the issue of our borders, fighting blatant amnesty for criminal aliens, he replied--much to my surprise--that in his eight years in leadership not a single candidate has sought his counsel on this topic.
We discussed GOP party involvement in the primary process. If I understood correctly what he said, candidates are not assisted by party leadership until after they win a primary--Republican candidates must slug it out with their own local efforts and resources. This is a marked difference from the 'central casting' done effectively by the DNC.
As we spoke, I suggested to Ron that he participate in an online discussion at FreeRepublic, and mentioned that Duncan Hunter has done so. He agreed.
I then spoke with Jim Robinson and mentioned how I'd like this to serve as a template for not just California but for the leadership of all 50 state GOPs and for the RNC to do likewise, as a means of being sure the voting, contributing grassroots and the state and national leadership are all committed to winning the same platform. If merely "a failure to communicate" is the problem, FR can be the solution.
Here's how Ron and I agreed it would go: I would solicit worthwhile questions (QUESTIONS THAT GENERATE MORE LIGHT THAN HEAT), and then Ron would then respond online.
This thread is the one that is soliciting your questions, publicly or by FREEPMAIL ("Private Reply"). I will screen the public and private questions and arrange a follow-up thread where the questions and answers will be published in a few days, hopefully interactively.
While this is the California GOP, those of you in other states please feel welcome to clone this effort so as to give your state leadership the best possible chance to show strong commitment to all issues that relate to Conservatism and the GOP. I also welcome privately-submitted suggestions and background information. Whether public or private, be sure your issue is specific and verifiable.
Please be certain that the questions are framed in a neutral, non-hostile manner, without false premises or profanity or they will be pulled. However, DON'T shy away from asking tough questions. Remember, "Loose Lips Sink Ships" so use discretion in what you post publicly. I can ask Ron Nehring private questions. Freepmail and spellcheck are your friend.
Please accept my thanks in advance for your participation.
TSOA
cc: Jim Robinson
REFERENCE: (There was a 2007/2008 Duncan Hunter interactive thread also, to the best of my memory)
Exclusive Freeper Interview with Duncan Hunter - Part 1
Exclusive Freeper Interview with Duncan Hunter - Part 2
(Disclosure): RANT I just read the (Tea Party) Riot Act to a RNC telephone fund solicitor....
I told her I'm the last person who would hope to see the GOP divided but I am not satisfied that the RNC's agenda is satisfactory...
FR articles keyworded CALIFORNIA GOP
FR articles keyworded RINOPURGE
FR articles keyworded PRIMARIES
FR articles keyworded Moral Absolutes
FR articles keyworded Conservatism
Wise Up
I have some suggestions on a variety of issues. I lived 20 years in CA and I’m a former party official at the county level in CO. I’m also a scientist with a good deal of background in modeling and Earth and Environmental sciences. So the first issue I’d like to talk about is Global Warming.
1. The democrats are vulnerable on this issue. In recent polling, a majority of the public either does not believe CO2 causes global warming or thinks it has been exaggerated.
2. The real world empirical support of the AGW (”Anthropogenic Global Warming”) theory is VERY weak. I’m not going into detail here on that but it is very weak.
3. Government action to fix it will be very expensive.
4. Even if we spend a bunch of money to fix it and even if the AGW models are correct, the most we can do is a tiny change in the predicted increased temperatures.
The problem with all this is that Republicans (from our former president and the current Gov of CA) really have no confidence that they can speak to the issue. So they have tended to agree that AGW is a problem but that we shouldn’t spend too much money. That is a losing political position.
I would strongly suggest seminars and position papers for Republican candidates and office holders to educate them about the very strong scientific case against accepting the AGW theory. In addition, the party needs to devote some money to focus groups to determine HOW to present that evidence to the public and help its members in addressing the subject.
The public is moving in our direction on this issue. Rather than trying to take a squishy middle position on it, we need to educate the public about why the middle position and the left position are wrong and dangerous. Our candidates and office holders are the tip of the spear for that education process.
Reagan won by taking strong stands and moving the public to the conservative position. Gerald Ford lost by splitting the difference.
If you are interested in further information about this, I would be happy to assist. I can be contacted thru FREEP Mail.
I take offense to that - not speaking for x, but having known him for many years here on FR...(I was a free methodist pastor).
X has been and continues to be a conservative influence upon the United Methodist Church, so the assertion that it is completely apostate is poorly stated, if not flatly wrong. Like repubs, there are internal factions opposed to the liberal aspects of the denomination - they work from within to bring change
with the economy in taters over there, how in good conscience does the legislature figure the business world to comply and still remain solvent
e.g. as the port of L.A. enacted the CAAP rules they subsidized the replacement of equipment that agreeably DID need to be taken off the road but then the state can't afford to keep corrections and general LEO’s because of budget short falls, yet have hired CARB enforcement officers, while those of us non residents have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars for APU’s to comply with anti idling laws, and motor upgrades as well as the upcoming TRU emission rule enforcement. I know there's a question in here some where, do you really have any idea how mad your local business owners are at these new laws
I have foodservice owners that I deliver to weekly from Roseville, Sac. Stockton, Tracy, San Leandro, S.F., Daily City, San Mateo, San Jose, and on down to Fresno and Visalia they're all scared to death for their financial lives and mad that they are being forced to spend the same kind of dollars as I to be able to continue in what can only be called shaky at best economy.
and none of this even factors that fuel and oil are on another upward race, let alone that the farmers in the SJ valley can't get to the water they need to even grow the products for me to carry!
and on and on and on...
/rant
...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Why do we give in-state tuition to illegal aliens when they can not legally work here?
Why do we give in-state tuition only to Hispanic illegal aliens?
How about paying Mexico to house our Mexican prisoners for the duration of their sentence.
Why are we building out in the desert when we have no water?
Why do we have college professors advocating the overthrow of our country? People like Ron Gochez.
Why are we paying illegal aliens to retire on our dime with Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI)?
http://www.cdss.ca.gov/agedblinddisabled/PG1420.htm
Ron, my question is why don't Republican (state party and candidates) publicly say more about the media ("news" and entertainment) activism, attacking GOPers; while actively promoting left wing issues and candidates?
As a party, the GOP should insist (loudly and often) on equitable treatment in:
- - Selection of which stories to present (and which to spike)
- - Balanced treatment of both parties
- - And, for gosh sake, stop the out-and-out promotion of Mr. Obama. They should be embarrassed.
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The Dems continually whine and blame the GOP, perhaps it's time we challenged their megaphone, as well as their premises.
Thanks again for contacting the peeps!
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You can even ping the party chairman on FR. :-)
Is California to this very minute still giving welfare, medical and educational benefits to all of the illegal immigrants in their state, and if so why, considering the state is basically broke. Are there any attempts by anyone, Pub or Dem, in the state legislature to curtail these expenses caused by a large immigrant population sopping up what little money there is to go around in the state of California?
The unfunded federal mandate requiring hospitals to treat illegals, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
14th Amendment making anyone born in the U.S. an ameican Citizen.
Some of the problems costing California Tax Payers plenty.
The Mexicans cross the border when they are ready to have
their kids and head to an ER and bingo, a new American who can have the welfare benifits on the backs of California
Tax Payers. This goes on by the tens of thousands.
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is an international panel of nongovernment scientists and scholars who have come together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. Because it is not a government agency, and because its members are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, NIPCC is able to offer an independent “second opinion” of the evidence reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This report is backed by nearly 31,500 scientists, over 9,000 of whom hold Doctoral degrees. [Stick THAT in yer pipe and smoke it, Mr. Gore!!]
Mr RON NEHRING, CALIF GOP CHAIRMAN
Please give me one good verifiable reason why not a single elected California Republican stood up to ask Mr. Obama for his Certificate of Live Birth and the other commonly rendered documents that every other candidate for President has layed out for the voters to examine before voting.
Also, please tell me that you will order that all elected California Republican legislators and bureacrats will join hands in a unified demand to certify that the current Resident of the White House is an American citizen.
The Spirit Of Allegiance, Jim Robinson, Jeff Head, Peterbilt, Glock Rocks, Squantos, hiredhand, NVDave, DaveLoneRanger, Noumenon; joanie-f, Dukie, JohnHuang2, RobFromGa, k.trujillo, Travis McGee, and all other Americans, please join me in asking Mr RON NEHRING, CALIF GOP CHAIRMAN this SINGLE question.
As we spoke, I suggested to Ron that he participate in an online discussion at FreeRepublic, and mentioned that Duncan Hunter has done so. He agreed.
***See what we started?
I think it is the other way around with your type.
I am a Reagan - Palin Republican and that is not
a pure enough Conservative for those who use that as an excuse to push the views of Third Party loons knowing
they will not win.
Sam Hunter: Duncan Hunter’s Ambassador to Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800187/posts
Welcome Congressman Duncan Hunter - LIVE Thread (virtual Free Republic press Conference)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880600/posts
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You support and give credence to a "church" that invites Jeremiah Wright to speak. When it was announced here that the Methodists were bringing Jeremiah Wright to speak, I called the number listed for tickets and asked the "gentleman" if he agreed with Jeremiah Wright that God should damnn American. He said that "yes" he did agree with it.
If the Republican party did that you would not stop screaming about it.
In our state, the Methodist Bishop also served as lobbyist and he lobbied for abortion, homosexuality, illegal immigration, and wealth redistribution. I am no longer as involved as I once was so I'm not familiar with who is lobbying for the Methodists but if a conservative church would send a lobbyist, we'd be hearing about "separation of church and state".
The truth is you're far more willing to accept liberalism in your church than your political party. You turn a blind eye in your church.
The Republican party is far more conservative than the modern day "Methodist" church.
People sit in the pews of these liberal churches like frogs in a pan of warm water slowly being heated up to boiling. Yet they demand perfection from a political party. It makes no sense.
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