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RNC alum Jim Brulte named head of near bankrupt California GOP "to move the party away from ideology" and focus on fundraising and other matters. "Brulte's first move was to secure Karl Rove..at the convention Saturday, a not-so-subtle message" to
conservatives.
10/14/13,
"Party for sale? California's Republicans bailed out by unions," Washington Times, Communities, Shirley Husar
"Brulte began his CAGOP debt removal strategy just this year. When he
took over the party, he called his job “more like a bankruptcy workout.”
At the time, he put the Party’s debt as high as $800,000....
On October 4-6, 2013, the California Republican Party (CRP or CAGOP)
held its Fall Convention at the Hilton Anaheim Hotel. This year’s theme,
under the direction of newly elected Chairman Jim Brulte, was “Building
from the ground up.”...
This
year, the CRP Fall Convention set the tone for big changes in the Party.
But do these changes include partnership with the SEIU? Has
California’s GOP sold itself by taking money from SEIU?
California Republicans continue to decline. The number of voter
registrations fell statewide to below 30 percent. People are not joining
the party; zero to slow growth makes all the party’s existing problems
worse....
In a story titled “Teachers union, SEIU open wallets to California
Republican Party,” the Sacramento Bee reported that in recent weeks the
California Teachers Association PAC donated $10,000 to the California
GOP, SEIU Local 1000 donated $15,000, and the California Correctional
Peace Officers Association donated another $3,000. Representatives of
all three of these powerful public sector unions attended CRP’s Fall
2013 Convention, and some members welcomed them with open arms.
Chairman Brulte has taken charge by raising money faster than the
last two chairmen, Tom Del Beccaro and Ron Nehring. The CRP has raised
over $3.0 million so far this year and is on a fast track to total
financial recovery....
The union strategy on political contributions will have an effect
on the CAGOP in time. Whether this is a strategy to influence both
parties or an attempt to be responsive to members, it puts the unions in
a more powerful positions with both their traditional friends — the
Democrats — and the Republicans."
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Among comments to above article:
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10/8/2013,
"Why Did the California State GOP Accept Donations from Public Sector Unions?" Ed Ring, UnionWatch.org
"None of this however addresses the intrinsic conflict of interests that
make the very existence of public sector unions a threat to democracy,
financial sustainability, public education, efficient government,
effective social programs, economic growth, and civil liberties. Unlike
the public they serve, public sector unions profit from more government
jobs, and more compensation for public sector workers – even if the
extra spending yields no benefit to society. While pursuing this agenda,
their membership operates the machinery of government, with all the
potential for abuse that entails. And, of course, public sector unions
are funded by taxes, rather than having to earn a profit in a
competitive market."...
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McClintock's remarks came after he gave a history-laced speech about
modern threats to the Constitution at a tea party meeting in Rocklin,
near Sacramento.
Moore, who said he was deployed overseas three times while in the
military, asserted that he and other Army officers did not vote because
they wanted to maintain neutrality if called to advise elected leaders.
"As soon as the officer corps and Army leadership is viewed as
political and biased, then it really hurts our credibility and can
negatively affect our national security," Moore said, wearing a gold West Point class ring, during a visit to a shelter for homeless veterans in the Sierra foothills community of Jackson.
Moore was a businessman and consultant in Washington, D.C., before
returning to Northern California, where he grew up and gave the
valedictory speech at Placer High School. He contrasts his deep ties to
the district with those of McClintock, who has never lived in it while
representing it.
Describing himself as fiscally conservative and socially libertarian,
Moore said McClintock has failed to put his district's needs ahead of
his rigid ideology. He pointed to McClintock's vote last year to shut down the federal government, which hurt a district that is home to several national forests and parks, including Yosemite.
A large portion of the district "needs the federal government being open for business," Moore said. McClintock, who earns the highest ratings from conservative groups
for his work in Congress, said he is proud of his unwavering principles."...
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After 10
years as a legislative aide and working for the Republican National
Committee, the Reagan administration and George H. W. Bush, Brulte won
an Assembly seat from Rancho Cucamonga in 1990. He served 14 years in
the Assembly and Senate and was the GOP leader in each house....
Last year, as Republicans lobbied
Brulte to run, Mike Spence, president of the Conservative Republicans of
California, said installing a chairman with Brulte’s credentials “shows
we’re not dead in California.” More recently, Aaron Park, a
conservative blogger and official with the conservative California
Republican Assembly, cited the high “energy level” at the CRP’s fall
convention, which he attributed to Brulte’s leadership....
Garry South, a
Democratic strategist who works with Brulte at the Sacramento public
affairs company California Strategies LLC, called Brulte a “really,
really good political strategist.”...
However, he added, “I don’t think it’s there...I don’t know how you resurrect the Republican Party.”"
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Brulte's website says he favors abolishing the Electoral College and going to a national popular vote:
"2011-Present: Promoter, National Popular Vote"
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"Late last week, FBI agents raided Jim Brulte’s home and lobbying office
in connection to a corruption probe regarding the $102 million legal
settlement between Rancho Cucamonga developer Colonies Partners LP and
San Bernardino County in 2006. Prosecutors have been investigating the
settlement, which they say was obtained through a conspiracy of bribery
and extortion. Brulte, one of the most influential
Republicans in Southern California and currently a lobbyist with the
firm California Strategies, is also a former assemblyman and state
senator who led both GOP caucuses while in office.
Already, former Board of Supervisors chairman Bill Postmus admitted
accepting a $100,000 bribe from Colonies executive Jeff Burum.
Prosecutors allege
that the Colonies Partners’ lobbying strategy manipulated the San
Bernardino County Taxpayers Association, the San Bernardino Young
Republicans, and other bribes were made in connection to the settlement.
Although he has not been charged with a crime, the FBI raid on Brulte r
aises questions about his role as lobbyist working for Colonies
Partners. The Contra Costa Times reports:"...
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"Having
sunk to its lowest depths in its 159-year history, the California
Republican Party's first order of business at this weekend's convention
will be to lick its wounds.
...It's $500,000 in debt and
doesn't even have offices for its staff, which has dwindled to a handful
of employees who work from home. The GOP's only gubernatorial prospect
for 2014 is a conservative assemblyman who was once a border vigilante.
And Republican voter registration in the state is at an all-time low of
29.3 percent.
Into all that gloom rides Jim Brulte, a former
Republican leader in the Assembly and state Senate, as the presumptive
new party chairman. Brulte has vowed to rebuild the party the
old-fashioned way: through voter registration, candidate recruitment and
fundraising....
Brulte's first move was to
secure Karl Rove, the Republican uber-strategist, as the lunchtime
speaker at the convention Saturday, a not-so-subtle message to
conservative activists that he's seeking a pragmatic way out of the
GOP's political morass.
It was controversial pick. Rove didn't
endear himself to conservatives when he recently formed a new political
group that he said would drum extremist candidates out of GOP primaries
-- including those from the tea party -- as a way to appeal to the
center.
Rove was himself at the center of GOP failures in the
fall: His American Crossroads super PAC spent $300 million on mostly
losing candidates.
In a nod to party activists, GOP officials
hastily added conservative blogger Ben Shapiro as the convention's
keynote speaker Saturday night, while moving Rove to the Saturday
afternoon slot. But the strain between the activists and pragmatists
remains.
"Going after the tea party and conservatives will be a
huge mistake because it's the conservatives who deliver the votes, who
have the passion and commitment," said Celeste Greig, president of the
California Republican Assembly, a conservative faction of the state
party. "I want to win elections, but compromising on principle is not
going to work very well."
Greig argues that California Republicans
can revive their party simply by improving their message and making
more personal contact with communities of color....
Brulte said he
understands the depths of the GOP's problems...."I don't think you rebuild everything you lose in one election cycle," he said. "It's going to take some time.""
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Establishment GOP "care more about controlling the party than winning elections," AEI member Ken Green:
7/13/12, "George Shultz Endorses Carbon Tax – You Were Surprised?" GlobalWarming.org, Marlo Lewis
"This pattern is becoming boringly familiar....There has always been a wing
of the GOP — the “establishment,” “Country Club,” or “Rockefeller”
Republicans — who care more about controlling the party than about
advancing liberty or even about winning elections.
AEI’s Ken Green (a colleague of Hassett’s) hits the nail on the head."...
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June 9, 2011,
"SEIU California launches Republican PAC to back moderates," blogs.sacbee.com
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3/25/14,
"California Republican Party Partners With SEIU," watchdogwire.com, Stephen Frank
"
You are known by the company you keep. Recently the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) gave a total of $25,000 to the
California Republican Party. I was told by a party official there were
absolutely no conditions on the money.
The SEIU was also a “sponsor” of
the California Republican Party convention a week ago in Burlingame!...It should also be noted that the
SEIU 1000 (part of the State and
national SEIU) was a sponsor for the recent California Republican Party
convention in Burlingame!...They also put
a “poster” in the information
bag given everyone that registered for the convention. This is what the
poster said:
“’A strong, free labor movement is an invigorating and necessary part
of our industrial society’ a quote
from Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
Yet the labor movement and
the SEIU in particular are not FREE. Want
to work for government, you must pay....
Then you have the SEIU supporting illegal aliens as a significant
part of its efforts. How bad?
In the state of Washington the SEIU took over the headquarters of the Washington State Republican Party!
I guess the SEIU in Washington decided against a donation to the GOP—just take over the headquarters, completely.
Is this the type of partner the California Republican Party wants? Remember, the SEIU chair at the time a while back, Andy Stern, was on
the Board of Directors of ACORN—and SEIU offices were also ACORN offices
around the county. Political corruption is the legacy of the SEIU
sponsored ACORN....We need a Party that represents
Constitutional values—
no one, with a
straight face would say the SEIU believes in that. We need a real
discussion on the values, principles and direction of the Republican
Party in California. It needs to stand for something. What do you
think about all of this?
View the original post at California Political News & Views."
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3/23/14,
"Editorial by Stephen Frank: California Republican Party Partners With SEIU (NOT a Typo)," capoliticalnews.com, by Stephen Frank
"The California Republican Party, not one person, but the Party, has
allowed this radical, vicious organization to be a sponsor of its recent
convention. Imagine the storm of controversy if Planned Parenthood or
Brady Gun Control were a sponsor. At a time when less than 28% of
Californians register Republican, it is difficult to explain
why a
radical, violent, anti-freedom, Left of Obama organization has any role
in the California Republican Party. The SEIU recently
OCCUPIED the
headquarters of the Washington State GOP, forced caretakers to spend
money on dues and Andy (Stern) and his union had a
subsidiary—ACORN. Enough
said."...
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Comment: GOP "strategy" of having no ideology means its not a political party. It's something else. The Democrat Party has strong ideologies and is passionate about advancing them.
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