
From Blue to Purple to Red
This being my first post as San Bernardino County correspondent for the FlashReport, I would like to thank our Publisher, Jon Fleishman, for the opportunity to report on matters pertaining to this growing Republican region. I would also like to acknowledge my predecessor, Brad Mitzelfelt, whose outstanding writing, thoughtful insight and well-researched analysis served this readership well for over a year.
Now to the point, which is that in San Bernardino County the local GOP is making significant inroads into traditional Democrat Party bastions. Consider the statewide results: San Bernardino County (which voted for Bill Clinton twice in the 1990s and was carried by Gray Davis in 1998) delivered 203,000 votes (61 %) for Arnold, while Tom McClintock, Tony Strickland, Steve Poizner and Bruce McPherson all won here.
Compared to a reliably Republican county like Orange, the new San Bernardino County clearly is demonstrating its conservative leanings with numbers like these. Much credit goes to my boss, San Bernardino County Republican Party Chairman Bill Postmus, along with his fantastic Headquarters staff, including Diane Fedele, who was regional director for… Read More