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What? You mean I can’t come to the party?

Did you know that CAGOP Party Elections are coming up? The best way to tell is when 35 of the 58 County Parties spontaneously combust. (Note that roughly 5 counties don’t even have a committee so note the dumpster fire ratio).

Obviously, I am interested in the 2025 CAGOP Leadership Elections as we are guaranteed a Party Chair that is not a shivering denizen of Kevin McCarthy. That said, in defense of her Majesty the Chairwoman and the former Speaker – I can see clearly what kind of adult supervision they were providing for the party. The opposition to the Patterson-McCarthy axis is unrecognizable from the crew I worked with when I tried to elect Steve Frank Chair of the CAGOP. (As it turns out, I am glad I failed in that effort as Steve’s behavior since has gotten progressively worse as has that of those around him)

I don’t know why I keep sticking my nose in CAGOP politics. You’d think that with this being year 28(!) in that scene that I’d go Peace-Out. Can’t do it. I care about too many people too much not to. Many of those people keep stepping on landmines repeatedly. The latest batch of opposition candidates are lower quality and seem to be deteriorating with each cycle.

Witness Joe Isuzu and Mitch Clemmons. Apparently, their qualification for LAGOP Chair and Vice Chair is that David Hernandez helps pay their filing fees, they create a DIY website and then get shellacked time and time again running for D+1000 legislative seats. I am old enough to remember when the LAGOP tried the “Hire-a-Perennial-Loser” candidate. His name was Glen Forsch and he was a squish that kept running for BOE and losing. Forsch was not effective in the least – you’d think the Conservatives like Hernandez who have been around longer than me would remember that just because you put a different label on failure, it is still failure.

Which is why I am baffled at the tactics these people are using against Roxanne Beckford Hoge. Hoge was at one time a Tea-Party darling with a media presence. She is attractive, well-spoken, vivacious and presents herself very well wherever she goes. You’d think that Hoge would be the ideal candidate for LAGOP Chair, she will make the calls, can communicate and lead. She is also a social conservative!

This is where your intrepid blogger comes in. As a man who checks all the “Right-Wing” boxes myself, I have zero tolerance when my fellow conservatives in some sort of vainglorious rampage for truth resort to the same tactics that the far left use that they decry. It is immoral and even worse when coming from the allegedly moral part of the GOP.

Entre Joe Isuzu. Joe was one of those that talked to the outgoing Chair of the LAGOP like he wanted to help the party in 2024. Clemons did as well. All along it was a setup for their own ambitions to take over the LAGOP, screw ideology or effectiveness for the party – one’s own ambition is king. Both of these men are presenting a platform that may well have been drawn up in Steve Frank’s basement in the 1980’s (When I was in High School and Steve was in his prime)

When looking at photos of Joe Isuzu, I was taken by this photo of him doing community outreach:

Yeah buddy – candidates like this guy are why the Opposition to the CAGOP establishment can’t have nice things.

Just a couple notes – This Guy barged in to a planning meeting of the LAGOP Ex-Com based in part on false information disseminated by Steve Frank. The LAGOP ex-com was planning the election meeting and Mr. Isuzu accused them of election fraud, cheating and the like. (Sound Familiar) You can also expect him to bang the fraud gong if he loses his bid for LAGOP Chair.

He, Clemons and others are acting like they have the election won already:

The people that disseminated this email have been behind chaos in several other county parties in the lead in to the March 2025 CAGOP Elections.

Lastly, the “Event” I Lampooned at the beginning of this blog has a fascinating backstory. IN LAGOP Tradition, they set up a candidate forum for all interested to participate in. Mr. Isuzu indicated he was not available that night on more than one occasion. Guess which night this “Event” is scheduled? The same night.

The tactics of the left, lying, backstabbing, division. This is why the Conservative opposition can’t have nice things.

(Note for Context: County Party elections matter in the scope of the CAGOP as each county makes delegate appointments. After the Alameda and Shasta GOP debacle of two years ago, when both outgoing chairs appointed delegates before losing their chairmanship, the credentials committee (controlled by the establishment) recognized the illegitimate delegates appointed by the two establishment aligned chairs that lost. This caused a by-law change as the actions of the committee were egregious. The incoming chair gets to make the appointments.

The thinking in LA is if Joe Isuzu gets elected chair, the 17(!) or so delegates that the LAGOP gets will be Mike Morrell loyalists. As such, the opposition have been after several county parties – which may be the subject of future posts as I lay out the tactics being used by so called conservatives in the name of being anti-establishment.

Wanna know why people hate internal party politics? Buckle up.