AD01 - Has no incumbent and basically starts east and north of Auburn and goes to the Nevada border in Placer. The population center is Shasta County. So, look for someone from that area - Shasta is known as a home to a lot of more "Moderate" Republicans, so there...
The latest is claiming if you sign a petition for a referendum or ballot measure, you could be at risk for identity theft. The Sacramento Bee Capitol Alert just posted a story on a new radio ad being aired by a shadowy group claiming as such. Now these are the...
The following is the text of an email I sent to hundreds of people. (Speaking of why I am skeptical that the Good Senators can negotiate any sort of peace on the Placer GOP) In a recent article in the Marysville Appeal-Democrat, Mark Spannagel was quoted as saying...
On the exact same day - 9/8/2007 - the Yolo CRA was chartered along with the Sutter, Tehama and Yuba CRA by Karen England (who was a then-CRA Vice President). Like Yuba - Yolo has existed as a Zombie club for service to its' master, David Stafford Reade, listed as...
UPDATE: Bruce Ross of the Redding Paper jumped in to the fray: http://blogs.redding.com/bross/archives/2011/07/gop-group-boots.html Title of article: GOP group boots Chiefs of Staff The article is linked here. Please also note that the only responses from Spannagel...
Mark Spannagel was designated for discipline by the CRA board of directors for being a central figure in the consultant manipulation and endorsement fraud that beset the CRA in addition to his gross misbehavior at the 2011 April CRA Convention. The Yuba CRA was...
Part of the nexus for the Doug LaMalfa / Jim Nielsen revenge mission against the Placer County Republican Party is in the fact that not only did CRA Officers submit Mark Spannagel, David Reade and Karen England for expulsion from the CRA for defrauding the...
Many political insiders in the California GOP were watching closely today to see what was going to transpire at the CRA Board Meeting. There were numerous emailed attacks sent from the Capitol Resource Institute Email list server accusing us of perpetrating all...
The CRA convention was insane to say the least. Mark Spannagel and David Reade started the pleasantries at 3pm by harrassing Karen Atteberry and my sister in law Christy at the registration table. At one point, Christy was practically in tears. Mark Spannagel...
For those of you uninitiated to the CRA drama that unfolded in April, let me summarize quickly what happened: 1. Celeste Greig declared for re-election in January. 2. Karen England declared to run against Celeste in January. 3. Both candidates formed slates -...
I will ask a series of questions. 1. Can Doug LaMalfa and his staff let go of the underlying issues to make for honest negotiations based on trust? 2. Will Ted Gaines break with his past pattern of conflict avoidance and detachment to engage in a significant role?...
The Placer CRA has maintained a majority on the Placer County Republican Central Committee since the attempted moderate coup in 2002. The current batch of CRA members involve from D5: Mark Wright the former treasurer, his wife Beth and Fred Eichenhofer, a realtor...