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The Thompson team has decided to not pursue sponsorship of the CRA convention after CRA President and Mitt Romney supporter Mike Spence pulled the Thompson campaign’s confirmed Saturday evening dinner sponsorship and gave it to Mitt Romney’s campaign. The CRA membership continues to exhibit the conservative values we need in California and we are greatly indebted to the hard work that so many in the CRA continue to strive towards. However, we are greatly disappointed that President Mike Spence has chosen to put his personal politics above the integrity of the CRA. The Thompson team looks forward to talking with...

Will the governor be an oak or a willow? Remember 'live within our means'? Schwarzenegger should find a frugal way to rebuild California. By Mike Spence MIKE SPENCE is president of the California Republican Assembly, the state's oldest volunteer Republican organization. February 14, 2006 ONE YEAR AGO, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared at his State of the State address: "We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem." But what has he done about it? Within two months of failing to persuade voters to "live within our means" in last year's special election, the governor has now raised the...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A conservative faction of the California Republican Party is asking party leaders to reconsider their endorsement of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election bid next year, a reaction to his hiring of a Democratic activist as chief of staff. The appeal was made Thursday by the California Republican Assembly, one of the oldest and most conservative member organizations of the state GOP. It cited continued unrest among volunteers that Susan Kennedy, a former aide to Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, could have such an important position in the Schwarzenegger administration. "This should send a very strong message to the governor...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's selection of archliberal Susan Kennedy, a former Cabinet secretary to Gray Davis, as his new chief of staff "is the last straw for a lot of grassroots California Republicans," says California Republican Assembly president Mike Spence to TAS. Spence describes the appointment as the equivalent of "George Bush appointing Howard Dean to be his chief of staff." Even the jaw of George Skelton (the Los Angeles Times columnist who has spent much of his career telling the California GOP to move left) dropped after the appointment of Kennedy, who is one of the state's leading abortion proponents, a...

The Prince has No Clothes Ron Prince and Andy Ramirez of the Save our State Initiative (not to be confused with saveoursate.org) started attacking Mike Spence, CCIR and the Save Our License Committee. To be Sure Save Our License screwed up big time by not filing the campaign documents as required by the state. But I was more shocked at the nerve of Ramirez and Prince in claiming they never supported Save Our license. I called their office and they told me no of the problems with initiative. Now after the liberal media started attacking Spence and Save Our License...

PLACE: Women's Club - 9501 Chapman Avenue at Gilbert, Garden Grove, California MEETING DATE: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 TIME: 7:30 P.M. ADMISSION: Free (Members) -- Non-members: $5.00 spearheading the effort to Save Our State, Save Our License and Save Our Lives. Mark your calendar! Bring family & friends! Learn how YOU can support the SOL initiative! http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=291