While all too many on the left (and in the MSM) continue to ridicule the Tea Parties being held across the country this past year, they represent the largest grassroots phenomenon of 2009. If the GOP can tap into the energy of these parties, Republicans will repeat the results [...]
Sometimes there is good reason to run against the Republican establishment. When it taps candidates who favor big government initiatives and pro-union legislation, GOP leaders put their own interests ahead of the rank and file of their party. Yet, sometimes, some conservatives have come so much to scorn the GOP [...]
Hat tip to Matthew Cunningham and his facebook group - Never Elect Abel Maldonado to Anything, Ever Again.
Just hit the wire from the San Francisco Chronicle - another of the usual articles seeking to make it look like the GOP is missing the boat with Latinos. [...]
Hat tip to Matthew Cunningham and his facebook group - Never Elect Abel Maldonado to Anything, Ever Again.
Just hit the wire from the San Francisco Chronicle - another of the usual articles seeking to make it look like the GOP is missing the boat with Latinos. [...]
Hat tip to Matthew Cunningham and his facebook group - Never Elect Abel Maldonado to Anything, Ever Again.
Just hit the wire from the San Francisco Chronicle - another of the usual articles seeking to make it look like the GOP is missing the boat with Latinos. [...]
Carly Fiorina is getting some national exposure Saturday after Senate GOP czar Mitch McConnell tapped her to give the GOP weekly Republican address today.
Mitch's assignment was to address the...
Just in time for her swing out West, author and GOP icon Sarah Palin -- coming to the Reno Costco on Dec. 9 -- is again stirring up controversy in her "Going Rogue" book tour. This...
Two United States Senators, Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn cancelled their scheduled appearances in Orange County this weekend. DeMint was scheduled to hold a fundraiser while Coburn was planning to meet with local GOP activists and donors.
The events we cancelled because of a special session in the senate scheduled for [...]
A reader alerted me to a strange piece on David Frum’s site in which Jeb Golilnkin said that the GOP will thank conservative lawyer Ted Olson for, together with liberal attorney David Boies, appealing “the constitutionality of California’s ban on gay marriage“:
If they were to succeed in showing the [...]
Republican political rookie Damon Dunn's suprising run for Secretary of State appears to be catching on with some big party names: he's been endorsed by GOP State Assemblyman Nathan...FPPC clears Placer GOP, but Rocklin councilman quits party in disgust - Sac Bee
It was a win one, lose one kind of day for Placer County Republicans. Just as party officials were announcing they'd been cleared in a state campaign finance investigation, another officeholder was resigning from the' [...]
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Not so sure that’s true when it comes to the holiday card the National Republican Congressional Committee put out the day after Rep. Loretta Sanchez unveiled her own Christmas greeting.
Here’s what Joanna Burgos, NRCC”s western press secretary, [...]
Over the transom last night, the Placer County Republican Party issued the following press release after receiving the official "All Clear" from the FPPC:
Not Guilty! The FPPC Closes Its Investigation
No Rules Were Violated by the Contribution to
Joel Anderson’s Assembly Campaign
Yesterday evening, former Placer County Republican Party [...]
Here's the reaction from two Republicans running to be California's senator in 2010 to President Obama's Afghanistan plan:
From Orange County GOP Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. He said "the problem...
The effort to recall GOP Sen. Bob Huff, whose district includes parts of Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, was pronounced dead today by the Secretary of State’s Office, because of inadequate valid signatures on the petition seeking to place the measure on the ballot.
In fact, it appears that [...]
Fresno Co. GOP pays $29k fine - Fresno Bee
The Fresno County GOP, which engaged in similar transactions with Assemblyman Joel Anderson as the Placer County GOP, has been fined $29,000. The Placer County GOP is to receive a letter explaining proper complaince with campaign laws.
California [...]
The GOP is so unpopular in Santa Ana that a Latina candidate who is challenging Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is running as an independent, although her views appear to be somewhat Republican in nature. Her name is Cecilia “Ceci” Iglesias.
Iglesias has already found out that running for office can expose [...]
Cecilia "Ceci" Iglesias
The Latino community has been reporting for the past couple of weeks a woman who has been going around the community named Cecilia “Ceci” Iglesias touting herself as an Independent candidate [...]
Thanks Jeff for getting this article in the roundup.
The Sacramento Bee does it's usual job of reporting just enough to have deniability.
In Placer County, you have a unique problem - because it is so heavily Republican, Democrats re-register Republican to run for office. The Central [...]
Thanks Jeff for getting this article in the roundup.
The Sacramento Bee does it's usual job of reporting just enough to have deniability.
In Placer County, you have a unique problem - because it is so heavily Republican, Democrats re-register Republican to run for office. The Central [...]
Happy Black Friday Edition of the Red County Placer News Roundup. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends!
Placer committee targets fellow Republicans, roiling GOP - Sac Bee
The Placer County Republican Central Committee is making waves with accusations that some GOP officeholders in the party [...]
On George Eliot’s birthday, Glenn Reynolds linked a Maureen Dowd column which showed that while the New York Times columnist does have a jaundiced view of the GOP, she does at least understand part of Sarah Palin’s appeal, what she calls the “visceral,” her ability to connect with [...]
