The CAGOP is on fire all over the state. Unsurprisingly, those holding the incendiaries are the opposition. But in 2025, it is different than anything I remember. One such difference are that the targets in some cases are people that were once darlings of the right. I wrote about LA County (whose election has been delayed due to the LA County Fires) which is one such instance.
This time around, the opposition to the CAGOP establishment are more organized than I have ever seen them. That said, with a few exceptions, the candidates are more extreme and fringe than I ever recall. People I worked with four years ago when attempting to elect Steve Frank, including Frank himself, I struggle to recognize. It feels like the FBI visit that made me a hero of the opposition was in 1921, not 2021.
Some of what I have learned will find its’ way in to these blogs. Some won’t because it is too disturbing. But if you think Jerry Springer is dead, he lives on vicariously through the garbage I am witnessing.
Solano County has long been one of the bright shining stars of the opposition. In fact, their closed caucus system was the inspiration for a by-law change stripping counties of their delegates to the CAGOP unless they were on the ballot. At the time, this was done to help a major donor who was pouring millions in to the party and contested primaries to try and eliminate conservatives in the legislature and county parties. He is not around the scene anymore. There is no excuse not to go on the ballot, because outside of San Francisco, there were no organized efforts to spend big money in county party elections.
Former Solano GOP Chair Michelle Guerra has become so toxic that she had to do two things – keep Solano off of the ballot in order to keep control and get a sock puppet to run for chair to replace her. I thought this is what the establishment does to keep control? (Hint: I’ve written about establishment Central Committees for years)
Not to be outdone, the Chair of Yolo County Dan Brown (whose tenure more closely resembles a ham-fisted dictator) attempted to extend his influence into Sacramento County. While Sacramento has not organized as of the writing of this blog, look for Brown and his candidates to get trounced. Brown may well have been making his endorsements from another state – the lack of self-awareness from the rank-and-file opposition folks is staggering.
I received one first-hand account of bullying in a Bay Area County whose election went the way of the opposition. In this case elderly members who were swing voters were bullied into voting for particular candidates. I have seen the establishment do this, (In fact, in Placer County many years ago) and now I guess the opposition is ok with this too.
Mendocino, Humboldt and San Luis Obispo opted out of going onto the ballot – costing the opposition another 12 delegates and furthering the absurdity that has been unfolding. I thought voting and being able to vote was a fundamental right?
It appears that Siskiyou County’s refusal to notice an endorsement in April of 2024, and the defense of it by the opposition members of the CAGOP Board was the first shot in the coming CAGOP officer election cycle. Rules and by-laws don’t matter when there is an election to win apparently.
While the opposition took Ventura County by storm, a bunch of democrats called the Briones crowd took over the SFGOP. A group of people who do not understand campaign finance law and have launched a personal crusade (similar to the J6 committee against Trump supporters) based on lies and fabrications to destroy people they don’t like took over Marin County.
I guess lying, bullying and denying several counties an election is OK if that is what it takes to get the bad guys, right? I guess burning the CAGOP down to the ground is ok, if you can’t control it? I guess attacking Conservative and Moderate alike and calling them all RINOS is OK because the war is now tribal and does not follow ideological lines anymore.
I don’t relate to this. These are not the conservative values I grew up with and that I promoted as an officer in CRA for a decade and a half. What I have seen is the tactics I attacked David Stafford Reade and others for, yet they have been applied to a more severe degree by people I once helped!
While I have major issues with Jessica Patterson and Kevin McCarthy’s crew and how they wielded the power of CAGOP – the behavior I am seeing now is literally justifying all the things they did that I criticized.
Where is Mike Morrell in all of this? I can draw no other conclusion that the man I once knew is gone or has gone in to hiding. I could not imagine him associating with and condoning the tactics being used on his behalf., but here we are.
… and I am just scratching the surface.
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Did you say, “tactics on behalf of Mike morrell??
Sacramento is puffing him up….this good or bad?
NOOO one wants to cop to what Mr. More elk is about. No one. Just the Tank Jessica movement.
I get it, to a point.
Congrats, GOP. Newsome has directly called you out: professional failures doing what they Do best: Losing.
God help us for 2026. The golden chance to take Calif republican, is looking bleak if you have arrogant aholes who pretend to be conservatives, screwing conservatives over.
Dam shame.
We’ll, I always knew I’d be on my own, so… not surprised.
YOU WILL ACCEPT THE BOOK PEDLER STEVE HILTON as your Republican candidate, because WE said so!
Yea…..
Mike Morrell is traveling up and down the state doing 2 or 3 dinners or events a week… If your sources were good you would know this. And Dan Brown in not the king maker in Sac….others are behind that. Again…get better sources.
LOL Aaron .. you’re beating a DEAD horse. I have been SHUT OFF from X.com, Disqus, and others for voicing a simple truth, the Reps and Dems are DEAD and today it is MAGA (we the people) vs UNI-PARTY (Bush/Clinton Criminals) and we’ve watched good people like Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard join MAGA to take on the Kevin Owen McCarthy RINOs (so called Republicans) who are UNI-PARTY (Bush/Clinton Criminals). Sadly, that goes to the HEART of the Placer County (so called) Republican party, now UNI-PARTY.
From “Intrepid Blogger” to “Boogie Man”, how lowly the mighty have fallen.
Alas, you are living rent free in many a head.
By the looks of the response to this latest edition, the orderlies at the State Nut House haven’t fully passed it around, as only a limited number of nut’s have responded.
Pat,
It is time you leave behind the esoteric jokes and personal attacks and focus on making California great again. I know that you have intelligent opinions just waiting to flow from your fingertips. Please, pass on the wisdom you have so that others may prosper.
Greg Alkema,
Where you been? We’ve been waiting for you to show up. Your comment is spot on. Some will lose friends in Placer over the very point you make. I know this firsthand. But fear not, MAGA is MUCH MUCH larger in Placer County than the media and bloggers want you to know. There is only MAGA or Uniparty now. You got it right.
Rest assured, the elected and unelected know this better than most folks, as their behind is about to be waxed. We’re watching. We’re listening. We aren’t gonna stay silent, and we are coming for all of them. Put on the armor folks. Put on the entire suit of armor.
Chuck,
So what is your source that Dan is NOT the king maker in Sacto? Who are the ones that really are? We’re waiting for that fact-checked source….
Aaron Park….FYI….Been calling around trying to determine who is feeding you all the miss-information. Best guess of everyone so far is it is ‘Mr PonyTail’ over in Sonoma County. And if that is so, you have been dupped. In my not so humble opinion
Huh.
Shasta GOP had a very tightly split leadership vote, but was basically civil about it.
It can be done!
Meeting with del Norte …. Today 6m.
First? Ok Stevo Hilton, is “exploring” a run for gov, as he stated to del Norte gop. He was also going to charge them for speaking to that group, but instead asked them to make the speaking charge to a charity of his choice. Fox News rules prevented him from taking speaker fees. So much, for running FOR the people here.
Newsome? Opened up a fund for fire victims…but, a Newsom affiliated super pac is running the cash, and charging 4% to manage it.
Wtf?!
Hilton seems more interested in book sales as opposed to running for gov. Go figure.
Ooooo, I can’t wait to be turned loose.
Thanks for the free rent Charlie!
You are welcome ‘Mr Liberian’. You fool no one. I see you are trying to make another NW VP with zero experience and never attended a convention. You fail again and I will help the delegates dig the hole to bury you. Zero experience and never attended a convention…. It is ‘so you’ Mr Pony Tail.
BTW Mr. Ponytail…I have chatted with folks that old me you claimed to be a Liberation way back in the 2006-08 time frame when you were working with College Republicans instead of Liberians because ‘I can’t get elected as a Liberian’ (or words to that effect). I have also had people forward me internet posts back when you were NW Vice Chair (or shortly thereafter) where you claimed to be a Liberian online…Not a Republican. I have also seen and watched you get paid, pre-primary from candidates as their ‘Consultant’ in your NW Region while you were Vice Chair (Like I recently told Eddie, ‘Can’t you see the conflict of interest?’)…. And you have had the gall to call me a Democrat (to my face) when I have been nothing but a Republican all my life going back before to Students for Reagan in 76—you were likely still in diapers (if even born).
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with this section of the bylaws of the CRP:
Section 2.01.06 Discipline of Delegates
(A) A majority of the Committee or the Executive Committee may remove, censure or
reprove any regular or appointive delegate who, during his term as a delegate,
affiliates with or registers as a member of a party other than the Republican Party,
publicly advocates that the voters should not vote for the nominee of the Party for
any office, or who gives support to or avows a preference for any publicly
announced candidate of a party other than the Republican Party or for a candidate
for partisan office who is opposed to a candidate nominated by the Republican
Party, or who fails to pay dues in accordance with section 2.01.09 or who pays any
obligation to the Committee with a check drawn on a closed account or returned for
non-sufficient funds (“bad check”)
San Bernardino County is so disappointing they did not do any GOTV in 2024, they made majority of their meetings private and when confused voters called the headquarters the phones were incommunicado during the last election. My county party deserves better. They would rather spend money attacking Republicans for local office (Mark Gibboney/Luis Cetina) than to get people like Carlos Garcia elected for SD 29.
Leo of Sacramento ..Who from Del Norte did you meet with?