Chris Christie to keynote California GOP convention

◼ Christie, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, will address Republican activists at a luncheon during the Sacramento convention on the last weekend in February. - David Siders/Sacramento Bee

California Republican Party Endorsements -

◼ Are you ready? Check out the list of CRP endorsements with links to candidate and initiative pages. - CAGOP.ORG

Party Endorsements - California Republican Party

◼ Vote by mail ballots started arriving in homes this week! Are you ready? Check out the list of CRP endorsements with links to candidate and initiative pages. - CAGOP.ORG

Statewide Office
Governor – Neel Kashkari**
Lieutenant Governor – Ron Nehring**
Secretary of State – Pete Peterson**
Controller – Ashley Swearengin**
Treasurer – Greg Conlon*
Attorney General – Ronald Gold**
Insurance Commissioner – Ted Gaines*
Board of Equalization District 1 – George Runner*
Board of Equalization District 2 – James E. Theis*
Board of Equalization District 3 – G. Rick Marshall**
Board of Equalization District 4 – Diane L. Harkey**
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House of Representatives
CD 1 – Doug LaMalfa**
CD 2 – Dale K. Mensing*
CD 3 – Dan Logue*
CD 4 – Tom McClintock
...more at the link
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State Senate
SD 2 – Lawrence R. Wiesner*
SD 4 – Jim Nielsen*
...more at the link
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State Assembly
AD 1 – Brian Dahle*
AD 2 – Matt Heath*
AD 3 – James Gallagher**
AD 4 – Charlie Schaupp**
...more at the link
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Propositions

Proposition 1 – Yes
Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014

Proposition 2 – Yes
State Budget. Budget Stabilization Account. Legislative Constitutional Amendment

Proposition 45 – No
Healthcare Insurance. Rate Changes. Initiative Statute

Proposition 46 – No
Drug and Alcohol Testing of Doctors. Medical Negligence Lawsuits. Initiative Statute

Proposition 47 – No
Criminal Sentences. Misdemeanor Penalties. Initiative Statute
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*deemed endorsed pursuant to CRP Bylaw Section 3.02.02 on 3/27/14
**deemed endorsed pursuant to CRP Bylaw Section 3.02.02 on 7/11/14

Our complete bylaws, including those governing our endorsement policy, can be found ◼ HERE.
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Neel Kashkari addresses college Republicans

◼ The Sacramento Bee covered Neel Kashkari's visit to CCR's smash hit meeting during the CRP Convention this weekend.

What war on women? Honoring the Women of the GOP at #cagop14

60 days left until Election Day,

Only 60 days left until Election Day, but still plenty of time to get involved! This Saturday, September 6 volunteer with fellow Republicans across California. Visit www.cagop.org/volunteer ◼ California Republican Party

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OR - tai advantage of a rare opportunity to meet your candidates (including Neel Kashkari) for State and Federal office, all at one event! hear what they have to say, and ask them questions... TOMORROW! September 6th at Baywood. 11:30-1:30

◼ Meet The REPUBLICAN Candidates RIGHT HERE in Humboldt County!

To purchase tickets through our secure Piryx server ◼ CLICK HERE.

Congratulations to California's own Congressman Kevin McCarthy on his election today as House Majority Leader.

California Republican Party (CRP)

Tim Donnelly CRP Convention Speech

◼ Due to Popular Demand... - Tim Donnelly

...In California, our dreams are measured by how hard we are willing to work. Hard work is my plan to ensure 2014 is the year we take our state back.

As you know, I am running a campaign on conservative principles. Our campaign is the front-runner in the Republican primary.

Due to popular demand, I have posted my full speech on the floor of the CRP convention. Please take a look and share it with more Californians. Our message of less government is the resonating with the hearts and minds of Californians....

Tim Donnelly Widens Front-Runner Lead At CRP Convention

Thanks to your hard work and energy, the media concluded that we walked away the winner in every way.

The LA Times headline read, ◼ “Tim Donnelly gets unofficial endorsement at GOP convention”, and the article called it a “resounding” decision.

Together, we rocked the entire California Republican Party convention over weekend, leaving zero doubt who the clear front-runner in the primary for Governor is.

Thanks to your hard work and energy, the media concluded that we walked away the winner in every way:

The Sacramento Bee said, "This is Tim Donnelly's crowd."

We even made the Drudge Report on Sunday!
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CRP Convention

Great reaction to RNC committeeman Shawn Steel's convention report that no longer will the likes of George Stephanopoulos moderate our Republican presidential debates. ◼ Republican Party of San Diego County

National Republican Chairman Reince Priebus gets it. Back to basics. Blocking and tackling. 2014 is going to be a good year!

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer addressing the California Republican Party delegates at the Friday dinner.

Save The Date: 2014 Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday, April 25!

◼ Republican Party of San Diego County

Today is the CRP Northwest Training Seminar in Santa Rosa.

CRP Chairman Named To SacBee's "Californians To Watch In 2014" List

◼ The Sacramento Bee features a handful of newsmakers at the end of each year as being worthy of their readers attention – and for 2014, CRP Chairman Jim Brulte made the list. - CRP

Meet & Greet with CRP Chairman Jim Brulte

MEET AND GREET, with a Town Hall format
JIM BRULTE, retired California Senator, and current Chairman of the California Republican Party; Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, who is running for Governor in 2014;
Elissa Wadleigh, Vice-Chairman, California Republicans Northwest Region.
Saturday, September 14th
At the Fortuna Veteran's Memorial Building
1426 Main Street, Fortuna

Doors open at 11:30 AM, Lunch at 12:30 PM -- $15 each, $25/couple
It's a catered lunch, so, please RSVP by September 8th
Reservations: (707) 498-3101 Gwen Morris, or (707) 442-2788 Annette de Modena

California GOP chair rebuilding the party from scratch

◼ This is the second time Brulte, 57, a former minority leader in the state senate, helped rebuild California's Republican Party. But this time it will be even harder, he said, because it's been three long election cycles since a Republican won a statewide office. Brulte's six-year rebuilding plan is modest and the task daunting: making the party relevant again. - David M. Drucker/Washington Examiner

Rick Perry to headline California GOP convention

◼ "He's speaking Saturday night," California Republican Party spokesman Mark Standriff tells The Hill.

The Texas governor has had an interesting past relationship with California — earlier this year he ran ads encouraging businesses in the state to move to Texas....

Others who will attend: Republican National Committee co-chairwoman Sharon Day and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.). A number of this election's most competitive House seats are expected to be in California.

What is holding California Republicans back?

◼ We are now heading into the fourth consecutive “change” election in 2014. In California, Republicans are hoping for more success than we experienced in 2010. - Ron Nehring

...It’s time for every Republican elected official to step up, recognize that they help to define the GOP brand, and start defining themselves and the Republican Party not in terms of what we are against, but rather what we are for.

GOP on rise in CA?

◼ A Farmers' Rebellion Lifts the California GOP - Alyssia Finley/Wall St. Journal ◼ Via Drudge

An election upset could send a pro-business Republican to Sacramento and give hope to the moribund state party.

Democrats were writing obituaries for California's GOP after winning a supermajority in the state legislature last November, thus gaining veto-proof power to raise taxes. But their legislative lock may have slipped after this week's special election in which Republican farmer Andy Vidak appears to have defeated a Democrat—in a heavily Democratic senate district—who had championed high-speed rail and a higher minimum wage.

If Mr. Vidak wins an outright majority—late Friday, he led with 49.8% of the vote and provisional ballots were still being counted—his victory would put Republicans two senate seats short of reclaiming their veto on tax hikes. But more important, the election has exposed the Democrats' soft underbelly in California's Central Valley—a no man's land in state politics—and given Republicans a rallying point.

Up From the Grave

◼ The California Republican Party sees an opportunity. - Peter Hannaford/The American Spectator Online (www.spectator.org) 3.6.13

California’s Republican Party met in Sacramento last weekend for what the news media assured us would be a wake. One newspaper wrote, “A punch-drunk GOP arrives for its convention and our writer jumps down the Grand Old rabbit hole to see if ‘Reagan Nation’ can rise from the ashes.”

Rather than hanging crepe, the 1,000 delegates were fired with energy despite losses in November of Congressional and State Legislature seats. In fact, for the first time in many decades, the Democrats have super majorities in both houses of the legislature.

Never mind, the delegates were constantly reminded by candidates for the party’s statewide leadership. From now on the emphasis is on rebuilding from the grassroots up. It wasn’t said in so many words, but the idea was to ditch the moniker Grand Old Party and replace it with “Grand Opportunity Party,” meaning opportunities to help members win elective office and opportunities to replace the state’s stifling tax and regulatory systems with ones aimed at economic growth.

To underscore one of these points, the convention schedule showcased a number of elected minority officials. Harmeet Dhillon, a dynamic woman lawyer born in India, campaigned successfully for party vice chairman on her background of heading a reborn Republican Party in, of all places, San Francisco and running twice for office there.

In the first session, Ruben Barrales, president of a new Hispanic Republican organization, Grow Elect, emphasized the group’s slogan, “Electing Republican Latinos one office at a time.” To prove the point, its website lists 21 such elected officials in local offices up and down the state. The next afternoon, dedicated to break-out sessions, had a Standing Room Only crowd at Grow Elect’s event which featured a panel of elected Republican Latinos telling how they won office.

Michelle Park Steel, wife of Republican National Committeeman Shawn Steel, and herself an elected member of the state Board of Equalization, spoke to the convention about the importance of electing Asian Americans to public office (she was born in South Korea).

The changing demographics of the population of California was not lost on any delegates. The convention came shortly after new reports that Hispanics had become the largest single ethnic segment of the state’s population.

Jim Brulte, a veteran of the state legislature, now in private business, led both the Assembly and Senate Republican caucuses during his Sacramento years, won the state chairmanship in a landslide. He is a straight-forward speaker, clear in his resolve to make the state apparatus work for local and regional committees and candidates, and has a reputation for getting done what he sets out to do.

Will all this result in Republican gains in what has become a predictably blue state? Time will tell, but there is plenty of it before the November 2014 election.
__________________About the Author: Peter Hannaford was closely associated for a number of years with the late President Reagan, beginning in the California Governor’s office. His latest book is Presidential Retreats.

Jim Brulte elected California Republican Party chairman

Newly elected CRP Chairman Jim Brulte  Credit: sanluisobispo.com via ivn.com

◼ California Republicans elected former GOP legislative leader Jim Brulte as the party's new leader this morning. - Sacramento Bee

Brulte, who served in the Legislature until 2004, faced no serious opposition in his bid to become California Republican Party chairman. He replaces Tom Del Beccaro, who decided not to run for a second term after a rocky run as chair.

Brulte is taking over at a low point for Republicans in California. Republicans currently hold no statewide office and account for less than 30 percent of the state's registered voters. They lost key congressional races and ceded supermajority control of the state Legislature to Democrats in the 2012 election.

Brulte says he wants to focus on "blocking and tackling" - seeking to revive the party's fundraising, voter registration and turnout programs. Supporters passed out buttons with a picture of nuts and bolts before the vote at the general session of the party's spring convention....