Over at the new Inside the Beltway newspaper Politico’s website, former House Majority Leader Tom "The Hammer" DeLay (pictured to the right) has a column in which is rightly draws a lot of concern about the big money that is being spread all around the left of America starting with hundreds of millions being lavished by billionaire George Soros. In his piece, DeLay blames this sizable and well financed liberal coalition of groups with the loss of Richard Pombo in California’s 11th District. In his column, DeLay says:

It would be the goal of any aspiring member of the State Legislature to have an unobstructed primary in a safe seat, right? Of course. FR friend Nathan Fletcher may be well on his way to this lofty goal in his super-charged candidacy for Assembly in San Diego County’s 75th District. Fletcher already had just about everything going his way already, but today he put the cherry on the sundae with his announcement that the popular termed-out incumbent, former Assembly Republican Leader George Plescia, has endorsed him.

Game… Set… And well on his way to match..… Read More

Los Angeles County has two GOP County Supervisors. One is moderate Don Knabe, the other is conservative, Mike Antonovich. They have both decided to go with the Rudy Giuliani for President campaign. They are both part of an upcoming fundraiser. This is a nice catch for the Rudy folks.… Read More

Brand New Trivia Question: Who is the only head coach to lead their team to the best regular season record of any NFL team in a particular year, only to be fired at season’s end?

Answer: Marty Schottenheimer (14-2 record last year with the San Diego Chargers), yesterday.

And, this has to do with politics why?

Simple. If a political consultant consistently won hard fought primaries for their candidates, but couldn’t get any of them a win in the run-off, they wouldn’t be political consultants very long.

Life does parallel sports.… Read More

This past weekend, 1500 Republican leaders from all around the Golden State gathered for the biennial organization convention of the California Republican Party. Despite the rainy weather outside of the Capitol Hyatt Hotel and the Convention Center, inside Republicans were excited to be able to elect new Party leaders, and they selected some great ones. Lots has been and will be written about the weekend, and frankly I am ready to take some time off after spending months on the campaign trail myself. But I will take a few minutes to pen some brief observations from the weekend. My first one — our Republican Party remains 100% committed to our core Republican values. It was clear our new Chairman, Ron Nehring, and our new Vice Chairman, Tom Del Becarro, are committed to seeing the GOP win in elected by pushing our winning issues with the voters, not capitulating and adopting the positions of the liberal Democrat Party. As a matter of fact, there was a strong, vibrant campaign for Vice Chairman waged all weekend long at the convention, and both of the candidates were equally as conservative, both emphasizing the need for our Party to strike a… Read More

This past weekend, 1500 Republican leaders from all around the Golden State gathered for the biennial organization convention of the California Republican Party. Despite the rainy weather outside of the Capitol Hyatt Hotel and the Convention Center, inside Republicans were excited to be able to elect new Party leaders, and they selected some great ones. Lots has been and will be written about the weekend, and frankly I am ready to take some time off after spending months on the campaign trail myself. But I will take a few minutes to pen some brief observations from the weekend. My first one — our Republican Party remains 100% committed to our core Republican values. It was clear our new Chairman, Ron Nehring, and our new Vice Chairman, Tom Del Becarro, are committed to seeing the GOP win in elected by pushing our winning issues with the voters, not capitulating and adopting the positions of the liberal Democrat Party. As a matter of fact, there was a strong, vibrant campaign for Vice Chairman waged all weekend long at the convention, and both of the candidates were equally as conservative, both emphasizing the need for our Party to strike a… Read More

Here’s the SDUT coverage this morning of the CRP convention:

S.D.’s GOP leader elected state chief

SACRAMENTO – Ron Nehring, a conservative from San Diego County, was elected chairman of the California Republican Party yesterday at the close of its state convention in Sacramento.

Nehring, who works with the national conservative activist Grover Norquist, succeeds chairman George Sundheim, a Silicon Valley attorney. Tom Del Beccaro, a conservative attorney from Contra Costa County, was elected vice chairman. That’s not an excerpt, that’s all of it. A guy searched out for quotes regularly in the local media as SD GOP chairman gets elevated to state chair, and it warrants a couple of sentences.

Exactly why we need to read the blogs.

Oh….and congratulations to Ron, and Tom!… Read More

On Saturday morning, Senator Tom McClintock spoke as a breakfast event for my campaign for Vice Chairman, South of the State GOP (I won!). You can read his remarks here (I was very humbled by them, needless to say). California State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner also spoke as well. Below is a photo of the contingent of Orange County Young Republicans who attended (I’m an OCYR member myself) — nestled into the photo are also Senator McClintock, and Orange County GOP Chairman Scott Baugh (h/t to Anahita for the photo). That HUGE banner in the background is courtesy of FR friend Vince Monaco. … Read More