This is another issue you aren’t up to speed on.
I’ve talked to old time Republican Party leaders from
California. They would bust their ass to get decent
Conservatives in the leadership at the top, and the
national leadership would swoop in and shake up the
leadership replacing the Conservatives at the top.
What could Reagan have done to stop that?
We were sold out here as much as 40+ years ago.
They did nothing at all to help our last gubernatorial
candidate in the early 2000s. And that is not
exaggeration. He didn’t lose by a real landslide
either. Help could very easily have made him quite
competitive. They just didn’t want a Conservative
in charge.
There’s no love lost between me and the party, and I’ve
been a member for 54+ years now.
“We were sold out here as much as 40+ years ago.”
Yes. That was when Reagan deserted California.
“They did nothing at all to help our last gubernatorial
candidate in the early 2000s.”
Arnold won two terms.