The Stanton RA was de-chartered unanimously. It is up there with David Reade’s Yolo CRA and the Camp Pendleton RA as a grotesque example of fraud.

It’s “President” Paul Dillon was removed from CRA for 5 years for his participation in the fraud and for causing the police to be called to our convention in April.

Former CRA Vice President Scott Voigts was suspended from CRA for one year for his role in creating and maintaining this unit – amongst a laundry list of what he did.

There is currently a serious effort to re-charter a real CRA unit in Stanton as I write this blog.

This unit has 38 members in the official CRA Membership Records, but only about one-third of the members are from Stanton; the rest of the addresses read like a road atlas of Orange County – Anaheim, Anaheim Hills, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Garden Grove, Irvine, Lake Forest, Orange and Santa Ana.  This suggests that an actual meeting of the Stanton Republican Assembly is improbable, indicating potential violations of Section 10.04 and Section 10.05.  In any event, no evidence of actual meetings has been presented.

When contacted by the Credentials Committee, this unit’s officers refused to provide records of membership or bylaws, in violation of Section 10.07.

Senate District Director Steve Sarkis repeatedly tried to contact this unit, but he says that he has received no response from this unit since the time they were chartered.

This unit sent Paul Hegyi from Elk Grove as a Delegate to the 2010 Buena Park Convention.  Hegyi quickly returned to the Consumnes Republican Assembly afterwards.

Stanton Republican Assembly attempted to send Joseph Constantino as a Delegate to the 2011 Annual Convention, but he is registered as a Decline to State Voter (according to PDI records and confirmed by the County of Orange).  This is a violation of Section 4.04 (membership requirements) and Sections 13.08 and 13.10 (concerning Convention representation).

Stanton Republican Assembly Vice President, Roreick Luepton, was submitted as a Delegate from both Stanton and from the San Diego Republican Assembly for the 2011 Convention.  Mr. Luepton shows a Garden Grove address on the Stanton roster and a San Diego address on the San Diego roster, in violation of Section 4.06 concerning duplicate membership.  This fact also suggests fraud and irregularity in Delegate selection, possibly in violation of Section 13.10.

This unit lists Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson and his wife as members.  When called, Supervisor Nelson said that he is a member of the Fullerton Republican Assembly only and that his wife is not a CRA member.  Aside from membership fraud, this also suggests violations of Section 4.01, Section 4.03, and Section 4.06.

The dues for all of the current members expire on 3/15/2012, which raises various questions.  There is no evidence that this unit collected the annual dues from its members ($25 per person, plus $10 for each additional person from the same household) and remitted those dues to CRA.

There has been a ton of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the California Republican Party Platform recently and the CRA’s recent upheaval.

There is a connection now – provided to us by Moderate Republican Assemblyman Jim Nielsen.

Nielsen was endorsed by CRA in 2008 and 2010. One of those times, Nielsen was endorsed over current Shasta RA President “Colonel Pete” Stiglich. Another time, it was over retired Marine Colonel and CRA member Charlie Schaupp.

There are many that argue about Nielsen’s contributions to the Republican Party and about his Conservative record. A quick look at the 2009 and 2010 CRA scorecard shows Nielsen checking in with some of the lowest CRA scores this side of Abel Maldonado. Nielsen finished with 72% in 2009 and 76% in 2010.

Nielsen also made the motion to adopt the completely gutted CRP platform as proposed by the drafting committee. Despite Jim Nielsen’s attempts at spin control – people were there, people observed his votes against re-inserting pro-life and pro-gun language in to the platform.

Click here to see an in-depth analysis of the Jim Nielsen CRP Platform. (Hat tip to CRA Senate Director Rohit Joy)

By comparison – Assemblymember Dan Logue who was not endorsed by CRA in 2008 scored 94% in both 2009 and 2010.

How would a moderate who presided over the destruction of the CRP Platform, who voted to expand Mello-Roos taxes, who voted to tax blueberries, voted to put Prop 14 on the ballot, etc. Get a CRA endorsement twice?

The Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, South Butte, Yolo, Yuba CRA – that’s how.

The Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba RA were chartered by former CRA members in 2007 and maintained by them to control CRA endorsements in the North State. Currently, the Sutter RA is run by real CRA members, the Tehama RA (which is run by Jim Nielsen’s district director) is under scrutiny and the Yuba and Yolo RA were de-chartered for gross fraud at the 7/23/2011 CRA board meeting.

The Siskiyou RA and the South Butte RA were chartered in 2009 by the same former CRA members in order to make sure no endorsement would occur in a hotly contested primary. The South Butte RA is currently in jeopardy and the Siskiyou RA has since been taken over by real CRA members.

The Siskiyou, Tehama, South Butte, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba RA’s also sent college students as CRA delegates to the 2010 Buena Park CRA Convention to support Meg Whitman.

This is how a moderate like Jim Nielsen got a CRA endorsement – a string of dubious CRA units, including several that are proven frauds.

Jim Nielsen’s CRA endorsement is the most prominent case for CRA reform today. I am hopeful that real CRA members will lock arms in a common effort to reform CRA so that this kind of fraud and manipulation will not happen again.

(Note: Yuba did not have jurisdiction in AD02 – but the other 5 units provided the necessary delegates to override the other legitimate units in the district. In addition, The Glenn and Colusa RA abstained at the 2010 local CRA endorsing convention)

The San Diego RA – like the Camp Pendleton Unit existed as a zombie unit used by political consultants to engineer endorsement outcomes. The San Diego RA was de-chartered unanimously by the CRA’s board of directors at the 7/23 board meeting.

The purpose of this expose’ is to reveal the fraud that many of us on the Contract with the CRA team knew existed. By exposing this fraud for all to see – it lays out a clear and compelling case for the reforms being enacted by the team that wants to see the CRA return to its’ role of pre-eminence in the California Republican Party.

When contacted by the Credentials Committee, this unit’s officers refused to provide records of membership or bylaws, in violation of Section 10.07.

The unit submitted Misty Tienken (a Legislative staff member) as a Delegate to the 2011 CRA Convention.  When asked, she was not able to answer simple questions about when her unit met, how she was elected as a Delegate, or who was the leader of the unit.  There is no evidence that this unit met and elected Delegates in accordance with Section 10.04.

Three members on the unit roster with expired dues were Convention Delegates on the “Romney List” from the 2007 Presidential Endorsing Convention: Paul and Peri Ann Allen from Sacramento and Robert Statham from Orangevale.  The delegate registration fees were paid by the Romney for President campaign.

This unit’s Delegate List for the 2011 Annual Convention was faxed from John Bovee’s Sacramento office, suggesting that they did not meet and elect their Delegates in accordance with Section 10.04.

Strangely, the annual membership dues for all 15 members listed expire on the same day: 4/30/2012.  This suggests that dues were paid after the CRA Convention in April, but there is no evidence of such payments.  There is no evidence that this unit collected the mandated annual dues from its members ($25 per person, plus $10 for each additional person from the same household) and remitted those dues to CRA.

The CRA Membership Records indicate that the unit fell below the minimum threshold of eleven members at some point in 2008 or 2009, which is a violation of Section 6.03.

The unit lists Rorick (or Rory) Luepton as a member, but Mr. Luepton is also listed as the Vice President of the Stanton Republican Assembly, with a different address on the Stanton roster.  This appears to be a violation of Section 4.06 concerning duplicate membership.

Furthermore, there is no record that this unit participated in any of the CRA Conventions between 2007 and 2011, in violation of Section 6.02.

The Camp Pendleton RA is part two of the San Diego Fraudres.

Next to the Yolo RA – the Camp Pendleton unit was the most egregious unit dealt with at the 7/23 Board meeting. It was de-chartered by a 36-2 vote of the CRA’s board.

You have to ask yourself as you are reading this series of posts the obvious questions about those who have launched hysterical attacks against those of us cleaning up CRA. What commentary on their character does the below laundry list of issues elicit?

The Camp Pendleton Republican Assembly had not sent delegates to any CRA Convention since 2007, in violation of Section 6.02.  In 2007, they sent Markham Tuttle and Glen Richardson from El Dorado Hills and John Cooley from Granite Bay as delegates.  El Dorado Hills is 509 miles away from Fallbrook and Granite Bay is 508 miles away from Fallbrook.  Those three purported delegates were on the “Romney List” of 75 paid in delegates to the 2007 CRA Convention.

The foundation of the Camp Pendleton Republican Assembly appears to have been fraudulent.  Records show that four chartering members lived at the same address: 3223 Brushwood Lane in Fallbrook.  Their dues all expired on 9/17/2006.  In addition, the unit lists two members (Blake Dorman and Blake Donners) from the exact same address of a condominium condo complex in Irvine, with no apartment number.  Both were founding members of the unit and it appears likely that they are the same person.  In addition, two other people from the same neighborhood in Irvine were founding members as well.  While the facts are still unclear, after several years, it appears that there may have been membership fraud.

This unit was also engineered to take up one-third of the surface area of San Diego County.  The CRA Board of Directors may wish to consider whether or not this unit was created for the nefarious purpose of preventing other Republican activists from participating in this extraordinarily large and populous territory.

Twelve unit members’ annual dues expired on 9/17/2006 and the dues for the three “Romney Delegates” expired on 10/1/2008.  It appears that there were fewer than eleven remaining members on the unit roster after that, in violation of Section 6.03.

This unit’s Delegate List was faxed from John Bovee’s office in Sacramento, suggesting that they did not meet and elect their delegates in accordance with Section 10.04.  In 2007, the Convention fees for the three “Romney Delegates” were paid by Romney for President, Inc.  Their distance from Camp Pendleton gives reason to believe that the unit did not comply with Section 10.04 in 2007, either.

There is no evidence that the Camp Pendleton Republican Assembly has held quarterly meetings in accordance with Section 10.05.

The dues of the current members all expire 5/1/2012, which suggests that their dues were paid after the April Convention in Sacramento, but there is no evidence of such payment.  There is no evidence that the unit had fifteen dues-paying members, as they claimed, during the April Convention.  There appear to be violations of Sections 4.01, 4.03, and 13.10.  There is no evidence that this unit collected or remitted the annual membership dues required under Section 4.03 and 4.08.  The Board should also consider the odd timing of the reported expiration of members’ dues (which all expire on 5/1/2012) and the lack of a unit checking account (which raises questions about how dues were collected and paid).

When contacted by the Credentials Committee, the leaders of this unit refused to provide records of membership or bylaws, in violation of Section 10.07.

At the 7/23 CRA Board meeting – it was revealed that a mathematical analysis of listed members versus dues money collected yielded a severe disparity between what was collected in dues versus what should have been owed based on what the records indicate the CRA’ s membership to be.

This means that many of the units that the “other side” is complaining about the removal of may well have never paid a dime in CRA dues while being used for years to manipulate CRA endorsements. It just does not stop.

Alpine Heights was de-chartered unanimously by the CRA Board – meaning that several on the “other side” supported the action.

Records suggest that the Alpine Heights Republican Assembly had not sent delegates to a CRA Convention before the 2011 Convention.  This is a violation of Section 6.02 (Convention Participation).

Evidence suggests Alpine Heights Republican Assembly did not elect their delegates in accordance with their own bylaws.  Their delegate roster was hand-written in the same handwriting as three other units and faxed in from John Bovee’s office in Sacramento.  This suggests possible violation of Section 10.04 (concerning the election of delegates by the club).

It appears that Alpine Heights Republican Assembly has not met since they were chartered and has no meeting minutes.  At the convention, their Designated Representative (Collin McGlashan, who lives 527 miles away in Sacramento) was twice asked directly if the unit met and he refused to answer.  It appears that this unit is not meeting, which is a violation of Section 10.05 (concerning quarterly meetings for chartered Republican Assemblies).

When contacted by the Credentials Committee, the unit’s officers refused to provide records of membership or bylaws, in violation of Section 10.07 (concerning the availability of records).

The Alpine Heights membership roster contains exactly 15 members, all with dues that expire on 5/1/2012.  This is the only unit for whom the CRA Membership Records do not contain any individuals whose dues have expired.  This uniform date implies that their dues were paid after the April 2011 Convention, but there is no evidence of such payment.  It appears that there has been a violation of Section 4.08 concerning the remittance of dues to CRA.  This discrepancy over dues also calls into question the eligibility of the unit to send any delegates to the CRA Convention.

There is no evidence that this unit complied with the requirement for each member to complete a membership form in accordance with Section 4.01, one of the oldest provisions of the Bylaws.

There is no evidence that this unit collected the mandated dues from its members ($25 per person, plus $10 for each additional person from the same household).  There is no evidence that the unit paid dues to CRA (in violation of Section 4.03).

What does it say about the character of someone who sought to rely on a string of fraud similar to the above in order to gain political power?