Proposition 14 was passed by angry voters looking to screw the political parties. Proposition 25 was passed by people looking to penalize the legislature for partisan gridlock.

Paradox – those same voters were too stupid to realize they’d been had.

Prop 14 will make it even easier for the rich to buy elections and for the smoke-filled rooms to pick nominees.

Prop 25 created a simple-majority budget – effectively handing complete control of the state’s finances to special interests.

And Republicans are hell-bent on fighting each 0ther.

In 2011, I learned what politics is all about – a large group on both sides of the aisle of narcissistic self-serving primadonnas that forget who brought them to the dance, or worse yet use and betray people to get what they want. Power.

The flip side of Prop 14? No incumbent is safe. The days of being able to “reign” while in office are over. Prop 34 (donation limits) and Term Limits started that process – now Prop 14 finished that process.

You can’t grandstand on issues you know nothing about anymore without consequences. You can’t claim to be a conservative while refusing to lead without consequences.

The world is turned on its’ ear – you no longer run for Congress / Senate / Assembly or State Senate as a member of a political party. Your strategy has to be different and your decisions have to be wise – everyone votes in the General Election Primary and in the top two runoff.

Wisdom means publicly owning up to your decisions.

Wisdom means making your own decisions in the first place – based on conviction not calculation.

Wisdom means honoring friendships and alliances.

As a member of a political party – you have to face down voters in the other parties in June and can no longer hide behind rigged lopsided registrations in many districts to avoid the tough choices.

California can be healed and repaired, but only with a generation of benevolent, wise leaders.

In 2012, the GOP has an opportunity to replace Dynasty with Accountability, the GOP has an opportunity to raise up a new crop of leaders that will help build the infrastructure.

That choice is yours voters – and stay tuned to this blog for more info as events unfold.

You and your spouse have a job that pays $35K a year? – Billionaire Charles Munger wants to rip you off.

Here is the article from Cal Political News:

The Munger kids have a multi-billionaire father, Charles Munger, Sr.  He works with Warren Buffett, who considers Munger his “partner” in the financial world.  Buffett is the man who believes we pay too little in property taxes and income taxes–yet OWES a billion dollars to the IRS.

Charles Munger, Jr., son of Sr., was the largest donor to the amateur Arnold and his political action committees – giving somewhere between $24-27 million -and that does not count the money his wife gave.

Charles Munger, Jr. believes the California Republican Party is too conservative.  He may have spent  as much as $100,000 to make the GOP Platform a moderate document.  At each Republican convention, he spends big money to collect proxies so as to control the votes  at the meetings.  Want to know why the June primary will not have GOP nominees?  Munger spent $14 million to assure Republicans will not get a nominee in many districts and some statewide races. To top that he bankrolled the ”Citizens” Commission Initiative to undertake the recent redistricting.  That commission was hijacked by the Democrat Party and its radical partners.  When over 700,000 signatures were gathered for a referendum on the skewed Senate lines, Munger cared more about his initiative than Republicans and asked that the signatures not be turned in.

Now, his sister, a former ACLU award winner, NAACP attorney, wants to spend some of her money to get you to transfer $10 billion to the government for its failed schools.  That is on top of Arnold, Gray, Willie and a couple of billionaires who want you to pay ANOTHER $10 billion to give to schools and bail the State out of its fiscal mess.  In total, the special interests and billionaires want an extra $25 billion from you – so far.

Molly Munger wants to get the money this way:  “The state’s 5 percent personal income tax raises about $50 billion; Munger’s plan would bring in an additional 20 percent by raising the rate an average of 1 percentage point. But it would keep the current system’s progressivity, so 92 percent of the extra money would be paid by families earning more than $70,000, with 50 percent, or $5 billion, coming from those earning more than $300,000, Munger said. For those couples with taxable income above $5 million, the marginal tax rate would rise 2.2 percentage points to 12.5 percent; they’d pay the most.”

To a billionaire earning $70,000 is rich–can she believe that?  This will assure productive people will flee the State–is that what she wants?

Of course, it will never result in that much revenue being collected because it will drag the California economy down even further as even more people leave this state to avoid our high taxes and high regulations.

It’s all about Charles Munger.

He paid consultants to lie to delegates to get their support for a moderate platform that was devoid of most everything people associate with the Republican Party.

Munger also financed Prop 11 and Prop 20 that created the re-districting commission that was corrupted by the labor unions and trial lawyers. Now, that the commission is being challenged for lines that may violate the Voting Rights Act (as well as common sense) with regard to the State Senate Districts and lines that were rigged to put the GOP below the 1/3 threshold to stop tax increases – Munger is trying to save himself at the expense of all Republicans.

So to the GOP Moderates that aligned with Munger – the joke’s on you. You were used – unless of course, you agree that the GOP is a bigger problem than the Democrats.

The referendum got to critical mass and Charles Munger called days before the signatures were due in a last-ditch attempt to convince the proponents NOT to file. After $2.5 million was spent to gather the signatures – Munger tried to stop them from filing?

You can’t draw any other conclusion that in Charles Munger’s mind that Prop 11 and Prop 20 were about him and not about fair districts, the GOP or anything else. It appears he is out to screw all Republicans- Moderate and Conservative alike. What other motive could he have for wanting to allow us to go below 13 in the State Senate? Pride.

But now, Munger’s sister is in the act. She started a group that sued successfully to screw over rural school districts regarding school building funds – she got a court to agree to re-direct about $1billion in construction funds to corrupt, urban school districts like the LA Unified School District at the expense of rural school districts.

So – if you live in Roseville or Granite Bay and are wondering why all the new school buildings have to be built with Bond Money – it is because a court decided at the behest of the Mungers that “School Funding Equality” should be the order of the day. AKA – your property taxes are being diverted to East LA to build their schools while you have to further tax yourself to build schools here.

Molly Munger is proposing a tax increase initiative for the November 2012 ballot. No wonder why Charles Munger had a GOP platform created that had no mention of lower taxes in it???

Fox and Hounds was first out of the gate on this story.

I guess we should refer to Charles and Molly Munger as the Obama/Biden wing of the Republican Party.

Here is a great quote from the article:

Molly Munger is a civil rights attorney. Following a career as a federal prosecutor and business litigator, she centered her practice on equality issues often dealing with education. Through the organization she co-founded, The Advancement Project, Munger won a major lawsuit against the state to secure a more equitable share of state school building funds for urban school districts.

Together with Co-Directors Steve English and Connie Rice, Munger filed a lawsuit, Godinez v. Davis, that won approximately $1 billion for new school construction in Los Angeles and other urban areas – money previously slated for less crowded, more affluent suburban school districts.

Nice, Huh – now you know why I lit up David Stafford Reade, Doug LaMalfa and others for playing footsies with this guy…

There are 207 members of the committee – 87 did not show.

Please also note that Charles Munger is reputed to have spent $75K to as much as $150K on this effort – to lost by 16 votes. Four years ago, the margin was only 5 votes.

1. Susan Abato - N
2. Adam Abrams – Y
3. Linda Ackerman – NV
4. Walter Allen – N
5. Ivan Altamura – N
6. Christian Amsberry – N
7. Joel Anderson – Y
8. Martin Avila – Y
9. Darlene Ayers-Hohnson – N
10. Hector Barajas – N
11. Steve Baric – Y
12. Jane Barnett – Y
13. Claudia Bermudez – N
14. Rob Bernosky – N
15. Sam Blakeslee – N
16. Matthew Braman – N
17. Cuong Cao – Y
18. Gene Champagne – Y
19. Eric Chan – Y
20. Jo Ellen Chatham – Y
21. Shane Patrick Connolly – N
22. Michelle Connor – N
23. Terri Cousins – Y
24. Paul Cummings, Jr. – N
25. Arie Dana – Y
26. Alvaro Day – Y
27. Tom Del Beccaro – Y
28. Earl DeVries – Y
29. Dennis DeYoung – N
30. Jim DiSanto – N
31. Margaret Dominici – N
32. Tim Donnelly – Y
33. Don Donnelly – N
34. Prudence Eiland – Y
35. Jeane Ensley – Y
36. Kathleen “Suzy” Evans – Y
37. Jim Fiason – N
38. John Fer – Y
39. Jon Fleischman – Y
40. Gregory Gandrud – N
41. Doris Gentry – N
42. Dillon Gibbons – N
43. Brian Gutierrez – NV
44. Lydia Gutierrez – Y
45. Adele Harrison – Y
46. Ryan Hatcher - N
47. Michael Havig – N
48. Darin Henry – Y
49. Eric Hickok – N
50. Randall Hough – NV
51. Martha House – N
52. Ashley Ingram – Y
53. Beatric Jett – N
54. Brian Johsz – Y
55. Brian Jones – Y
56. Marvin Jones – N
57. Morgan Kelley – N
58. Virginia Chang Kiraly – N
59. Janet Kirtlink – Y
60. Jared Kopp – Y
61. Kevin Krick – N
62. Tony Krvaric – Y
63. Leonard Lanzi – N
64. Darcy Linn – Y
65. Dan Logue – Y
66. Benjamin Lopez – Y
67. Allan Mansoor – Y
68. Mark McCurdy – Y
69. Chuck McDougald – N
70. Sashi McEntee – N
71. Michael McSweeney – Y
72. Nathan Mintz – NV
73. Mike Morrell – Y
74. Lisa Moulton – Y
75. Richard Mountjoy – Y
76. Mike Munzing – Y
77. Jim Nielsen – Y
78. Mary Osborn – N
79. Mike Osborn – N
80. Tommy Owens – N
81. Mary Park – Y
82. John Peschong – N
83. Laura Peter – N
84. Sergio Picchio – Y
85. Kimberly Pruett – Y
86. Mark Pruner – Y
87. Stephen Puetz – Y
88. Dana Reed – N
89. Derrick Roach – Y
90. Elizabeth Roach – Y
91. Michael Rossiter – Y
92. George Runner – Y
93. Sharon Runner – Y
94. Atul Saini – N
95. Pat Shuff – Y
96. Stephen Smith – Y
97. Clinton Soffer – N
98. Mike Spence – Y
99. Michelle Steel – Y
100. Shawn Steel – Y
101. Jay Stern – Y
102. Justin Stoner – Y
103. Bradley Taylor – N
104. Tim Thiesen – Y
105. Mary Toman-Miller – N
106. Brad Torgan – N
107. Ryan Trabuco – N
108. Dan Trimble – N
109. Lynn Vakay-Haueter - Y
110. Robert VanCleef – N
111. Fred Vanderhoof – Y
112. Christine Vinquist – N
113. Don Wagner – Y
114. Patricia Welch – Y
115. Kirby Wells – N
116. Richard Westfall – Y
117. Lawrence Wiesner – Y
118. Warren Willis – Y
119. Abram Wilson – N
120. Allen Wood – Y

Via their alternates on the Placer County Republican Central Committee – the above three abstained on a resolution in support of the Current Republican Party Platform vs the new gutted platform put forth by liberal Billionaire Charles Munger…

Those of you the read this blog know that the Placer County Republican Central Committee is a mess.

The mess was created by a self-styled “Conservative” activist with a personal axe to grind who used her media savvy to spread her vitriol. This same activist has deep ties to Gaines/Gaines/LaMalfa and has aligned herself with the small moderate minority on the Central Committee.

Therein lies the rub – at the time of my writing this post, I do not have a copy of the roll call on the resolution the Placer GOP adopted in support of the Conservative California Republican Party platform – but I do have several eye-witness accounts of the behavior of the alternates of the three electeds.

Doug LaMalfa appointed a known moderate activist Murriel Oles – who I endorsed for a leadership position in the California Federation of Republican Women. Murriel is a great activist for the GOP – but is not a CRA type Conservative. Her appointment by LaMalfa is consistent for two reasons:

1. LaMalfa’s allies in the North State are Moderates
2. LaMalfa is 100% opposed to the current conservative leadership of the Placer GOP Central Committee.

I have been able to ascertain through anecdotal evidence that Karen England was responsible for getting Ted Gaines to appoint a known moderate, Carole Valliancourt as his alternate.

Again – this is an extension of Karen England’s alliance with the Moderates in her personal war against the CRA and the CRA – backed leadership of the Placer GOP Cent Com.

Beth Gaines? She is still trying to settle in to office and has given her alternate direction to abstain on everything unless directed to do otherwise.

For as much as I’d like to claim that this is Doug LaMalfa showing his true moderate convictions – this vote is not an indication of that. I believe that LaMalfa at his core is a conservative – but he has thrown in with the liberals because the Conservatives support other candidates and LaMalfa was/is a product of the Bernie Ricther camp.

LaMalfa is also motivated by revenge as much as Karen England is.

Ted Gaines and Beth Gaines are still embroiled in the middle of the ongoing war in the Placer GOP Central Committee.

The Conclusion?

Ted Gaines and Doug LaMalfa appointed Moderates and gave them no direction as to the platform issue – there was no other logical thing for those alternates to do other than abstain.

This is a sad, sad by-product of the war they have decided to get involved in at the Placer County GOP Central Committee level – they have allowed themselves to get painted in to a corner.

Beth Gaines will abstain until the cows come home.

And so continues the leadership vacuum in the Republican Party at the state elected level.

Meantime – the Placer GOP Central Committee will accomplish its’ mission with or without those that seek to dismantle it to serve their own ends.