Posted on 06/13/2011 5:34:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
With proposed new district boundaries, Republicans must recruit more moderate candidates and find common ground with more Californians, experts say.
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Labor unions, which are Democrats' biggest allies, say the combination of the "top-two" primary system and the new political maps creates unprecedented opportunities for them to influence Republican races. Last week, the Service Employees International Union launched a political action committee aimed at helping moderate Republicans be elected to the Legislature.
"The California Republican Party doesn't have enough money to buy a foreclosed home in Sacramento," said SEIU Executive Director David Kieffer.
Jim Brulte, a GOP operative and former legislative leader, said labor's new role in Republican races could be a "game changer." Armed with a PowerPoint presentation on California's changing demographics, he said, he's been "trying to ride around like Paul Revere to warn Republican groups, saying, 'Guys, you have no idea what's coming at you.' "
Indeed, party officials were reeling from the new maps last week.
The new districts "will be an enormous challenge for Republicans," said Tom Del Beccaro, chairman of the state GOP, "which I don't think voters had in mind — to make the hill towards balance in the Legislature even harder to climb."
Allan Hoffenblum, a former Republican consultant who publishes the nonpartisan California Target Book of state races, said GOP moderates should seize the moment. They could lead the way in a number of newly competitive districts that were formerly Democratic strongholds, he said.
"It will be interesting to see whether the Republican Party will be able to recruit the type of candidate that can win," he said.
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Reinvent itself?
Some would go much further than that...
““I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.”
–Thomas DiLorenzo”
Didnt the RNC try this with RINO Steele who now is working for MSNBC? I dont know of anyone that he or his RINO sister Megan 'Ms Piggy' McCain got to vote Republican.
How about RINO Arnold ??? What good did he do in CA?
The unions own the California Democrat party, if this story is true, then it tells me they (the union) can see the future, and it does not include Democrats.
I will not support or vote for any Republican that takes their money.
At this stage I would rather the state goes down with Democrats at the helm, because as sure as I am sitting here the media will portray the Republicans as the ones that caused it.
No one should be surprised by this. I’ve been sounding the alarm about it for the last 4 years or so here in Michigan. Unfortunately nobody wanted to hear about it because we were focused on defeating the democrats.
Our current state senate majority leader was a co sponsor of a bill that forced thousands of home child care workers into the union. The man who sponsored that bill in the first place was republican Jason Allen who narrowly lost the primary against Dan Benishek for the seat vacated by Bart Stupak.
Nothing gets better if we choose to look the other way when our own side is screwing us.
“I would rather the state goes down with Democrats at the helm,”
I believe that ship has sailed and there’s no hope for California’s future. We moved from So. Cal. to TN in March of 2010. DH went back last week on business and said that it is so incredibly more horrible than it was a year ago. The liberal leadership has turned it into a “cesspool” (his words). The “minority” population actually is the majority. He said it even has a bad human body smell permeating the air. Traffic is impossible. The carpool lanes are full of cars with only one person, which isn’t horrible but it does show the mentality of CA residents and their disrespect for the law.
Bottom line: The dems have ruined a formerly beautiful paradise.
California is the next Michigan.
This is what you get with liberals in complete, never-ending control of a government (city, state or federal).
It's the Left Coast District of Columbia.
Thank you for the link.
Bump!
Take the union help or money GOP and you are history.
Uh, no....I’d say that the GOP should get some backbone, stick to the principle of MUCH smaller, less oppressive government, and let the Democrats continue to run the CA statehouse until it implodes.
The Republicans should refuse the role of the Pooper-Scooper Party, destined to clean up the mess created by the Socialist Democrat Party. Then it is attacked by the msm for being mean and heartless for their efforts at cutting 1% of the budget, while the Democrats don’t even propose a budget, as we see in the federal budget fight. Even Republicans should catch on to how the game is played after 50 years.
Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly...
” How about RINO Arnold ??? What good did he do in CA? “
Didn’t you see the movie “ Humping Iron” ?
He must have been in LA.
California is a very large state. LA and San Francisco are just one small part. There are vast stretches of California that are open and clean with small towns and friendly people.
If California was split up you would end up with a liberal half along the coast and a conservative half in the Valley.
California is going to be like the drunk that hits rock bottom before it turns around. Some of the problems are not going to get addressed until other states realize that out of control immigration is part of the problem. That is already happening. I can see a day where our borders are secure, and illegal aliens will be treated like the criminals they are.
Of course immigration is not the only problem.
Environmentalist and do gooders have all but crippled our economy. Again, I think the pendulum has swung as far as it can go and is beginning to swing back.
Lastly, the public employee unions must be destroyed. We now see why until recent history public employee unions were illegal and why public employees were barred from political activities. Their greed is helping to destroy this state.
So I still live in California with the hope that it can once again return to it’s former glory.
Survive? California has been gone for a while and is never coming back.
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