Elton Gallelgy voted against Arnold? Check it out here= http://www.theirishlass.blogspot.com/2003_09_26_theirishlass_archive.html

Cathy Carlson from TO here: Brian, this Scott Harris just sunk his own ship with his column on Sunday. Of course Republicans will come to Arnold's defense! I sent in a comment immediately, and Leslie Cornejo, head of the county Republicans delivered the coup de grace last night. However, if you are looking for the "cannibalism" that occured in the Ventura Democratic Party, you will be disappointed. As one of your bloggers said last fall, Republicans don't eat their own. The squabbelling has now official ended in compromise, and the Party will be united by the end of the convention.

Brian, how come you didn't just cut and paste our comments? Here is the link:

http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,1375,VCS_125_4479457,00.html

Cathy Carlson From TO here: That post from Irish Lass refers to info from 2003. Those political statistics are only good for wrapping up garbage for the trash.

Here's the scoop you really want: The 2 Republican comments under Scott Harris's column from Sunday, a self-promoting platform for his expensive consulting group, Golden Again. County Republicans are distancing themselves from this selfish capitalist. Who in their right mind would now have him come to speak at their business lunch meetings, except DEMOCRATS?? The guy is now toast.

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Cathy Carlson from TO here: Mr. Harris, when your first column came out a couple of weeks ago, several Republican activists wrote to me, asking just who the heck you were. Since I'm an education advocate, a local watchdog for fiscal conservatism, and a life-long Republican with a reasonable view, a lot of people people look to me for my "take" on Ventura politics. So I started my background investigation on you.

My first reaction was that your column was going to be a self-serving platform for your organization "Golden Again". Your personal emails to my friends in education reform have proved this. Only one political friend of mine wrote to say you were considered a "well respected conservative". However, she stopped short of endorsing you, even though she is a member of the conservative Republican Central Assembly--folks you are trying to reach today.

Your article today has damaged the Republican Party in the State and certainly in Ventura County. Your comment about the french people is offensive and is simply "fashionable" rather than accurate. (I'm active in the francophone community here which is heavily Reppublican.)

I am dissapointed that you are choosing to attack the Governor. In the military you would be charged with aiding the enemy because you just handed over thousands of votes to the Democrats from the pool of voters who don't have a political party.

Mr Harris, you think you can fix California's problems with money from big business in our Republican circles. You seem to cultivate friendships with the rich Big Fish, and you think you understand their politics. But, since these CEOs are also in your social circle, they simply don't want to argue with you. You are on the wrong track. Stop this strategy of dividing the Party. And someone out there from Lake Sherwood, pull this guy aside and give him a reality check. Stop slamming the Governor right before the Convention!!

11:15:20 a.m. on February 19, 2006
CATHY CARLSON | Homepage | 02.19.06 - 8:26 am | #

Having just returned from Sacramento to meet with the Republican County Chairmen, CRP Chairman Duf Sundheim, Governor Scharzenegger and Senator McCLintock, I have to assure anyone paying attention that this movement to rescind the Governor's endorsement is a non-starter. All I saw and experienced was unity and determination to win the Governor's race and the down-ticket races in November.
Certainly there was discomfort in the party rank and file when the Governor appointed Susan Kennedy as his chief of staff. It was worthy of eyebrow raising. It was not worthy of a two month temper tantrum. Unfortunately this distraction caused the campaigns of the Governor, Tom McClintock and other Republican statewide candidates to be put on hold while a loud minority had a public "hissy fit." There are, as in any political party, short-sighted, single issue people,who forget they are dealing with politics, which by its nature demands compromise. Making an uncompromising crusade to demand party "purity" is political suicide, and those that advocate it should not be given leadership recognition in the party. Unfortunately, the press loves to see Republicans argue and will make a beeline to any disgruntled loud-mouth because it makes a good story. This is a story that does not represent the vast majority of Republicans.
It was heartening for me to see the Governor and Senator McCLintock coming before the Republican grass roots leaders delivering a message of unity. Remember, in Ventura County, 71% of the combined vote went to Schwarzenegger and McClintock in the Recall Election. This is truly a united, strong Republican County that is sophisticated enough to realize that you don't destroy your party in the pursuit of delivering your message.
Leslie Cornejo
Chairman, Ventura Co. Republican Party

5:40:09 p.m. on February 19, 2006
LESLIE CORNEJO | Homepage | 02.19.06 - 2:51 pm | #

Prediction for November. Phil Angelides 62% of the vote, Arnold Schwarzenegger 35% of the vote. California republican party looks to be in complete disaray these days and attacking each other. Very sad. They blew it with the special election. Their state convention should be interesting.

Cathy C here: No, the Republican Party is not in disarray. Reps have very formal meetings, and follow Rules of Order. He dreams up scandalous scenes of scream fests at our formal $35 lunch meetings. It's hilarious. I figure he is really reporting what he saw at the local Dem meetings that are run a lot looser, according to reports in this very Blog.

Whatever Arleigh says, he exagerates. He says the schools are excellent, they are not. Many in TO and Simi fail to meet the 75% minimum target of 800 on the API. He says Angelides will get 62%--no, the polls say, Phil Who??

This blog has posted many comments from DEMS remarking on how strong the REPs are in Ventura County, and how organized we are, and how formidable, since we are in the majority. The Democratic Club of the Conejo always writes so apologetically, like losers, when they try to whip up enthusiasm for putting up candidates against the Reps. How dumb to tell your troops that your leadership is weak. I love to read their newsletter--it's a great example of how NOT to run a political group.

Arleigh loves to write "Very Sad" all the time. What a depressed individual. Someone hand him a hanky. The Reps had a small hiccup this winter, but nothing like the prolonged bloodfest that the Ventura DEMs went through tearing apart their own democratic candidates who want to oppose Gallegly. Psychiatrists terms what Arleigh does as "projection". He is hypersensitive to the weaknesses of his party/union, and because those problems are on the top of his thoughts, he pretends to find those same weaknesses on his enemies. Now I can say it--how very sad.

Cathy, You raise some good points. I do think the local Republican party is well organized. But, why won't more people that are Republicans leave a post saying they support the governor? Why won't a Scott Blough or a Tim Keaney or a Mike Dunn say they support the governor? Are they not good party members?

Cathy,
You're a legend in your own mind and a self appointed expert who knows nothing. Perhaps the people on this blog can raise some money to get you some professional help. I have heard about your personal life and I understand the real reason why you hate Conejo schools and children. Fact is, 99% of the School Districts in California wish they had Conejo's test scores. Also, I noticed you attacked fellow republican Peggy Buckles on another blog, how hypocritical of you.
Brian,
Maybe you should do a blog to see if Ventura County Republicans like Cathy, support President Bush giving control of 6 U.S. Ports to the United Arab Emirates. I must say the President is very loyal to his Arab oil friends, after 9/11 while all planes were grounded, he allowed all members of the Bin Laden family to be flown out out the U.S., even though the FBI wanted to question them.

I support Arnold and our troops.

Big Sky. Have the guts to post your name or don't post at all. Arnold is pro-choice, glad to hear you support him on that. I was a Marine, thanks for your support.

Brian,
You should post a link to the story today in the Star about how Steve Frank and other conservative republicans want to slap down Arnold and how the California republican party is coming apart at the seems.

Brian:

I think it's clear if we elect another democrat to be our governor, it'll be a recipe for disaster.

Our current governor had to pick up a state in shambles because of the democratic party. I think we can ill afford giving the party that created this mess the power back.

Rememeber, the last democrat was so bad, our state recalled him. That's pretty pathetic, but the party should wear that albatross with pride and say, "big government is who we are."

Your whole blog favors a European big government viewpoint.

Here's a campaign message.

Leave me alone and let me make money for my family.

Area activist has governor in his sights
By Timm Herdt, therdt@VenturaCountyStar.com
February 24, 2006

When you're sending out an e-mail newsletter every day to nearly a quarter-million conservative activists, there are so many things to track.

Sitting in his home office in Simi Valley, Steve Frank — editor, writer, production manager, circulation director and computer technician all rolled into a staff of one — is asked what he wrote about that day.

He pursed his lips and paused. "Is it about union goons? Oh, it's about illegal immigration."

Whatever it's about on any given day, readers know where Frank stands. Monday's entry began: "Liberals love taxes like dogs love to smell their rear ends."

Lately, he's added another target to a list of usual suspects that includes immoral Hollywood movie producers, gun-control zealots and public schools that indoctrinate children in liberal politics. Frank has been aiming his ire at Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Thanks in large part to Frank's daily missives assailing Schwarzenegger's hiring of former Democratic Party Executive Director Susan Kennedy, chastising his budget and borrowing plans and attacking his pattern of appointing Democratic judges, there should be some political excitement in store this weekend in San Jose.

The state Republican Party Convention opens this afternoon, and Frank's activism has assured some lively debate. Thanks to a last-minute deal brokered by Chairman Duf Sundheim, a resolution seeking to rescind the party's endorsement of Schwarzenegger's re-election has been taken off the table. Still, delegates are likely to debate four resolutions that repudiate the governor's budget plan, his bond proposals, his support for the minimum wage and his penchant for choosing Democratic judges.

"The No. 1 topic will be the governor, his policies and his staff," Frank said. "I don't think anything else will be a close second. Those four resolutions have to pass. If they don't, then Republicans are going to have a hard time in November just getting people to vote."

As the convention unfolds, Frank will be in his element — battling for conservative ideas, standing up to the establishment and enjoying every moment.

Frank, 59, has been doing this stuff since the '60s, when Barry Goldwater was running for president and Ronald Reagan for governor here in California. There have been occasional forays into local government as well.

Former state Sen. Cathie Wright — who later would appoint Frank as one of her delegates to past state conventions — remembers first meeting Frank at Simi Valley City Hall in the late 1960s, when both were being "thorns in the side" of the city's original City Council.

"I was a nicer thorn," Wright said. "He's got a good heart, but sometimes he goes a little too far."

In recent years, Frank has graduated from being something close to a gadfly to something closer to a guru. The big break came four years ago, when Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon hired Frank to be his liaison with conservative activists across the state.

"Steve was part of the inner circle from the very beginning. He was our first hire," said Sal Russo, the consultant who directed the Simon campaign. "He is valuable to have on your side. If you are trying to network with conservative activists statewide, there's nobody better to do that than Steve Frank. You can name any city in California, large or small, and Steve will name the person to contact to find out what's going on."

Democratic campaign adviser Bob Mulholland said he admires Frank's single-minded devotion to his cause. "He'll drive all day to attend some meeting in a small town one night and drive back the next day," he said.

Mulholland has been a regular at state Republican conventions, standing outside to make himself available to reporters looking for a quote to balance what they've been told inside. This weekend, however, Mulholland will not attend — in part, he said, because some Republicans have already done a pretty good job of criticizing Schwarzenegger.

"I'll send my surrogate, Steve Frank," he said.

Schwarzenegger's political team is well aware of Frank's influence among conservative activists — in fact, Frank was brought in to be part of that team last year when Schwarzenegger was promoting a package of ballot initiatives for the special election. Frank split sharply from Team Schwarzenegger over the Kennedy appointment and has been a thorn in the governor's side since.

Leslie Cornejo, who, as president of the Ventura County Republican Central Committee, will lead the county delegation this weekend, said she would prefer the resolutions never make it to the floor.

"My personal thought is to steer clear of the resolutions," she said. "It's very cool to be a loudmouth, but if it hurts the party, it's a bad idea. Let's pass on the posturing and the bullying. Some people enjoy doing that just for sport."

To Frank, politics is more passion than sport. These days, he said, he is enjoying the fruits of four decades of passionate political activism. "In my emotional life," he said, "this is the happiest I've ever been because I feel like I'm making a difference."

Look the bottom line is you get a little less government with republicans than you do democrats.

You get to keep a little more of your money from taxes under republicans than democrats.

You need to put the comparison into your decision-making.

Do I want a government that punishes people for making money to feed their family?

Seriously, if it were up to democrats, they'd put weights on track stars legs just to make sure everyone ran the same speed.

They love equality until you look where they send their kids to school, the lavish dinners they attend, and the homes they live in.

As the saying goes, "Some pigs are more equal than others."

Gina, that was a long winded way of avoiding the question.

Do you, without reservation, support the reelection of Arnold? Yes or no?