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California Globe Interview with CAGOP Chairwoman Jessica Patterson

October 17, 2019 2:41 pmOctober 17, 2019 5:30 pm

In February, the California Republican Party elected Jessica Millan Patterson as Party Chairwoman. Patterson won 55 percent of the vote after a contentious campaign in a Party afflicted with disunity. “There’s no doubt that newly-elected CAGOP Chairwoman Jessica Patterson deserves...

California’s Dying GOP Needs a New, Living Political Platform

June 21, 2019 2:15 amJune 20, 2019 9:46 pm

As a statewide political force, California’s Republican Party is dead. Sure, there are isolated pockets of GOP power; the State-of-Jefferson gang up north, a handful of reliable holdouts in the southeastern counties. And yes, Orange and San Diego counties remain...

Democrats’ Budget is Making Poverty in California More Tolerable

June 18, 2019 6:55 amJune 18, 2019 6:58 am

You can’t be irrelevant and responsible at the same time “Republicans need to change their product. Californians aren’t buying it,” says the headline on the George Skelton column Monday in the Los Angeles Times. “California voters have not been...

How ‘New Way California’ Can Find Its Way

March 22, 2019 7:43 amMarch 25, 2019 12:46 pm

In November 2018, former Assembly Republican leader Kristin Olsen wrote a guest commentary for CalMatters entitled “GOP is dead in California. A new way must rise.” She’s right on both counts. California’s GOP is dead. And a new way must rise. Unfortunately, the New Way...

CA GOP Convention Rich With Irony

March 4, 2019 6:32 amMarch 4, 2019 2:41 pm

With the California Republican Party’s 2019 organizing convention and election of a new Chairwoman in the rear-view mirror, much has been written regarding the potential impact on the direction of the party’s flagging influence. There’s no doubt that newly-elected CA...