Blogger’s Note: I was Steve Frank’s campaign manager in 2021 when he ran for Chair of the CAGOP.
I’ve stopped asking why. I am convinced that what I am seeing was foretold in the classic book “Lord of the Flies”. This is the only explanation I can muster for what I am seeing.
The battle lines are pretty clear for CAGOP office. Corrin Rankin, John Park (no Relation), Sayrs Morris and Robert Rego on the side of Sanity, versus Mike Morrell and crew. Further, I can only draw the conclusion that Mike Morrell (he, a former State Senator) approves of the psychosis being carried out on his behalf.
You will see the comment from a former State Senate candidate calling Corrin Rankin – who was a down-the-escalator, day ONE Trump supporter – a communist. You will also observe that Bill Essayli, a Conservative firebrand that the lobbyists in Sacramento can’t stand is now relegated to scum status by the anti-CAGOP crowd. Either you are with them or you are against them – nothing else matters.
These same luminaries have lied repeatedly against Rankin, calling her a DEI candidate. Would they hurl this at a non-black candidate? Would they hurl the above attack against Essayli if he was white as a sheet and not Lebanese?
This is what you have to look forward to if Mike Morrell and his crew get elected.
Leave us not forget, the attacks against Bill and Corrin are not the only racist tropes that have come out of this crew:
I wonder if the person who posted that vile message—and the other who liked it—are still happy about it now that the savagery and atrocities of Hamas are being exposed. John Paul White is a sitting CAGOP board member and should be expelled from the CAGOP Board, and the others pushing such garbage should get the Grcar treatment as well.
There is one thing – these people aren’t prejudiced, they hate everyone equally – Blacks, Jews and Arabs. I can’t wait to see what’s next for them…
Speaking of Joseph Grcar – he and Allison Hayden broke in to the Alameda GOP HQ while the Alameda GOP was organizing VIA zoom due to people’s concerns regarding threats on their safety. While Hayden had a key to the HQ, they were not authorized to be there and the stunt resulted in police activity.
Undaunted, these knuckleheads staged their own shadow party meeting and then protested to the CAGOP to recognize their meeting, not the actual party meeting. They were rejected and now the opposition is claiming “We Wuz Robbed”.
Again, re-read the above two paragraphs to understand the utter lack of self-awareness in this crew.
In Marin County where they won an outright majority, they could not organize and were stripped of their four appointed delegates because they allowed their organizational meeting to devolve in to a Tom Hudson rage-fest. Even when they win, they can’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
Steve Frank has sent out several of his Heard on the Tom-Tom’s emails that are named after a deceased (for about 15 years) former officer of the CAGOP. I would bet she’d tell Steve to stop using her name given the outright lies and the 90% untruths that it has been replete with the last 60 days. About the only thing correct are the names, even though Frank likes to misspell a lot of words.
As the election is going worse for the opposition, the hysteria is growing worse and the spiral is easy to discern.
Beyond the Alameda GOP stunt, I have been told of at least two other counties where physical threats occurred. One person indicated that opponents of their chair had called employers and/or business associates of central committee members not aligned with them. I am waiting for on-the-record confirmations with specifics and I will name names. Given the verifiable threats, what I am seeing on line, the above is plausible. The opposition is completely out of control and would decimate the CAGOP should they prevail in the election.
Lastly, it is laughable that Steve Frank is invoking the MAGA movement and Donald Trump in his posts. Knowing Mr. Frank as I do, and having had conversations with him about the subject of Trump, he is a skeptic of Trump at best.
This is embarrassing. These are not conservative values. This needs to stop.
