Open Letter to the Board of the California Republican Party

ChronWatch ^ | Thursday, January 09, 2003 | Shannon Reeves

[dwills]

anyone know some quick ways (polls, petitions, etc.) by which grassroots republicans can make their views known regarding the CA GOP chairman race?

we don't need no yuba yokels smearing our good name with his racist literature

[farmfriend]

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[Lancey Howard]

I really wish that the outgoing guy, Shawn Steel, would stay on as chairman. Once the scumbag "moderates" take over, that will be the end of the GOP in California.

[dwills]

i'll take the 'moderates' if they're the only alternative to the racist, bill back, that shannon reeves is outing in his letter

[TLBSHOW]

Shannon F. Reeves is a rino!

[TLBSHOW]

bill back is no racist!

[TLBSHOW]

Shannon is attacking Bush and Reagan and Bob Dole and Allan Keyes with his idiot letter. I wouldn't want Shannon Reeves anywhere near the GOP. He is a moderate and that needs to go.

[SFConservative]

Shawn Steel is one of the most underhanded, nasty characters that's ever led the California Republican Party - I have seen his bullying behavior at the CRP conventions and his little band of young thugs that steal his opponents' campaign materials and spread outragious lies about them.

Steel's handpicked successor, Duf Sondheim, is a moderate. Bill Back is much more conservative, but has the backing of Gerry Parsky which makes him an automatic enemy of Steel.

The problem with the CRP is that the leadership seems to thrive on personal power trips and personal power battles, with total disregard for the interest of the stalwart but frustrated republican voters in the state. Steel is largely responsible for the atrocious republican performance in the 2002 elections in California, due to his continued fostering of division in the party rather than trying to unify it to battle the democrats effectively.

[Carry_Okie]

Shannon Reeves is the real deal. He's a guy who clawed his way off the streets of Oakland, even as I did (and with far more going for me, it was tough enough). IIRC, he runs a small business that owns and operates a half dozen gas stations. The man provides jobs and lives daily with the destruction socialism has wrought in Oakland.

The Republican Party ought to be beating the Democrats over the head on a daily basis for the disaster that the Great Society has been to the black family and its rich culture. The welfare state has done more to enslave both taxpayers and their "beneficiaries" than anything else. It's high time conservatives grabbed those chickens and stuffed them sideways up the pompous liberals and blood sucking bureaucrats who would puff their egoes and their bank accounts at the expense of ruined lives suffering from the effects of ignorance, crime, poverty, and drugs.

[Optimist]

PING

[Jean S]

It's too bad that CronWatch has turned into a racist site. It had potential.

[dwills]

it's not chronwatch that's racist, but i appreciate it as a forum to call attention to this problem within the CA GOP leadership

TLBSHOW'S reaction and endorsement of bill back proves he's a racist--birds of a feather

[Bella_Bru]

Regardless of the fact that I was obviously a delegate prominently displaying my credentials, no less than six times did white delegates dismissively tell me to fetch them a taxi or carry their luggage.

He isn't a RINO. The way he has been treated is ridiculous. To assume every non-white face is the hired help will never help the GOP.

[TLBSHOW]

He is attacking Bush and Reagan and he is a Rino!

[mhking]

Shannon F. Reeves is a rino!

What makes you say that - because he has a problem with having to justify his blackness to blacks and his conservative-ness to right wingers? Or is it because he feels that a solid way to permeate the black community with a conservative message is from within (which lead him to the chair of the Oakland NAACP?).

So does this mean that any Republican who doesn't agree with you 100% on each and every issue is a RINO? Who made you final arbitor of who is or is not a conservative?

I happen to agree with him. While Back may not be a racist, his statements could lead individuals to believe that he is. And when a black man like Reeves, or myself for that matter, discusses the GOP or conservatism with a black audience, we have to deal with that obstacle. That's simply a statement of fact.

Just as it was wrong for Trent Lott to insert his Johnston & Murphy's into his throat, Back was just as wrong to indulge in shoe leather.

Is there any wonder as to why conservatives find it difficult to encourage minorities to even look at the GOP when there are people like this running around? Back's letter reenforces the lies and innuendo that left-wingers spout all day long, day in and day out. When they accuse us on the right as being hate-mongers, they have but to point to crap like that. And then any credibility that I have been able to gain goes straight down the drain. I'm left in a perpetual state of rebuilding credibility and trust.

[mhking]

Shannon is attacking Bush and Reagan and Bob Dole and Allan Keyes with his idiot letter. I wouldn't want Shannon Reeves anywhere near the GOP. He is a moderate and that needs to go.

So by your definition, anyone who dissents with Bush or Reagan or Dole or Keyes is a "moderate" and "needs to go?"

Is there no room for dissent and debate and conversation? From those comes growth. Are you against growth?

[TLBSHOW]

Jesse Lee Peterson needs to talk with him as to why he is playing the race card against whites. Fact!

Great show last night Jesse said no more giving into this BS!

[Howlin]

Thanks for clearing that up. It's good to see somebody whose opinion I can count on setting this straight. Lots of conflicting information on these threads.

[Howlin]

He is attacking Bush and Reagan

So do you. So you're a RINO?