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Playful Walrus on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:49:08 PM
Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times staff writer, reports that there is a new group trying to get Republicans elected to statewide office in California. I thought we already had a group that was supposed to do that: The California Republican Party?
Led in part by former Gov. Pete Wilson and two major political donors from Orange County, a group of moderate Republicans will announce Wednesday a new organization focused on recruiting the "next generation" of GOP candidates for statewide office, including governor and the U.S. Senate.
The organization, called California Republicans Aligned for Tomorrow, was created to turn around the GOP's dismal record in those contests since 1994.
Good thing they went with “Tomorrow” in the name instead of something starting with a “P”.
Underlying the campaign effort is the feeling among some influential Republicans that the state party has bent too far to the right, helping Democrats gain a firm grasp on the Legislature, the state's congressional delegation and statewide offices.
Too far to the right? You mean like, oh, saying we should spend less and we should deport illegal aliens who murder people, and that public schools should maintain boys restrooms for boys, and girls restrooms girls?
The state party's fundraising efforts also have languished in the last year…
Yeah, we don’t want to support shamnesty efforts. Show us you are true to conservatism, and we’ll support you. It’s that simple.
Let’s face it. Los Angeles County and San Francisco are what make California a blue state instead of red, and it is really hard to change that. State and local government payrolls get bigger and bigger, and thus public employee unions, through compulsory dues, get more and more money to back their political causes – namely, expanding the government to create more dues-payers for their unions. Employers and property owners largely have their hands tied as employees and renters call the shots.
California has millions of illegal aliens, most, if not all receiving some form of government assistance. Their children born here are citizens, who can legally vote. It is easy to get them to vote Democrat, because Democrats promise to welcome and take care of people like their law-breaking parents.
The only hope for conservatives in California is secession of some sort, something that separates Los Angeles and San Francisco from everyone else. It could mean one or more new states, or it could mean a smaller California as the other counties get annexed to other states. Either way, that just isn’t going to happen.