In the last 24 hours I got two emails:

The first shows a very young Gentlemen Jim Nielsen with Pete Wilson advertising a fundraiser. The Email was sent from a Vanessa McCarthy-Olmstead – McCarthy? I’d assume a relation to Kevin McCarthy, the godfather of the so-called “RINO-Munger” movement in the GOP.

The first E-Mail advertised “Jim Nielsen for Senate 2014“. Now, is Nielsen going to Carpet-Bag in to another district? Is he assuming that LaMalfa will retire in 2014? Or is he assuming, as is Doug LaMalfa that LaMalfa is going to trick the voters once again in to electing him to office in his run for congress – thereby vacating the Senate Seat he is in?

I lit up the Placer County Lincoln Club for basically being a David Stafford Reade jam-job to shill for Beth Gaines and Gentlemen Jim Nielsen. Now I have my confirmation.

The Second Email from McCarthy-Olmstead was just such a confirmation. It advertises an upcoming candidate seminar. Both have some connection to the Sacramento Lincoln Club – the Sac Lincoln Club lists David Stafford Reade as President.

The contact RSVP for the Jim Nielsen Fundraiser is Ryan Hatcher – an outspoken opponent of the conservative GOP platform, who, along with Jim Nielsen voted for the Munger platform in the drafting committee.

Duane Dichara is a capo, he is a hired gun to run political campaigns. He’ll admit that to anyone. Justin Matheson is the same. Donald Wilson is a school board member who also happens to make a living from politics as he works for the Republican Caucus in the capitol. Dichara and Wilson are members of the Sacramento GOP Central Committee. They are listed as presenters for the Candidate seminar – all are excellent at what they do and people that are political novices would indeed benefit from their expertise.

My issue and the point of the post is this:

The GOP sucks. The leadership Sucks. Many of our GOP electeds are terrible and represent nothing. The CAGOP is down to 30.4% statewide and is in a free-fall.

You’d think there would be some-sort of awakening and a search for dynamic leaders. But, there isn’t – those on the titanic are continuing to fight for their piece of the deck as the ship heads for the 25% icebeg.

The Placer Lincoln Club – set up to support incumbents regardless of merit.

The Sacramento Lincoln Club – the same.

I was told that Donald Wilson got up at the Sac GOP endorsing meeting and was red-faced yelling about something along the lines of “How Dare Anyone run against good Conservatives like Beth and Ted Gaines”. I’d argue that neither Beth nor Ted Gaines are good representatives (let alone Conservatives) at all for various reasons – start with the fact that neither of them are engaged in the community, the fact that Ted runs away from tough votes on the floor of the Senate or the fact that Beth is 100% dependent on staff for her daily survival.

Later – Wilson stood up and voted to endorse incumbent Bill Berryhill for State Senate – Berryhill voted against the Conservative Platform in favor of the Munger Platform.

Incumbent Protection means Ideological Suicide.

How could anyone expect Donald Wilson to make an unbiased decision about which candidates to endorse? His paycheck depends on it! Dichara is a consultant with connections in Sacramento. Neither of them are corrupt or wrong for their professions – they are simply conflicted.

David Stafford Reade is one step worse – he has had a pattern for years of manipulating organizations to serve whomever his current master is which is what appears to be happening with the Sac and Placer Lincoln Club.

At least Wilson and Dichara can say they were being “Party Guys” by supporting incumbents… David Reade is manipulating the party to serve his clients over all Republicans.

It is all a form of Cronyism.

This is the main reason why the Placer GOP Cent Com is targeted with Dave Gilliard planted hit pieces in the local media. This is the reason why we have a loud moderate minority that tries to make our Cent Com environment toxic to drive volunteers away. This is the reason why some local Tea Party members have been recruited to help under false pretenses by Doug LaMalfa and his allies.

Ted Gaines, Beth Gaines, Doug LaMalfa, Dave Gilliard, the CRP Leadership, David Stafford Reade – no one can control the Placer GOP Central Committee – so they try to attack and destroy it.

Meantime – thousands register DTS out of disgust.

The behavior of the Lincoln Clubs is simply the latest in the line of Suicidal Cronyism that the GOP simply does not have the luxury of tolerating.

Update: Dan Logue was endorsed. Apparently, David Stafford Reade’s attempt to rig a blocking endorsement in a county was exposed.

I am proud to be a Placer County Republican Central Committee Member.

Why? We sent two incumbents back to sender, refusing to endorse Beth Gaines or Ted Gaines. (Who could have avoided the embarrassment by simply trying to reach out after a variety of mistakes)

The California Republican Party Board of directors met and ignored party By-Laws requiring unanimity of Central Committees basically ignoring committees that did not reach endorsements in races and deferring to the others that did.

The CRP Board of directors has endorsed every incumbent except Dan Logue. I am sure Logue got messed over by David Stafford Reade… but the decisions of local Cent Coms and the CRP By-Laws did not matter here… 27 people are making kings for a party of 5 million.

… and it is the endorsement issue that is at the core of why Ted Gaines, (elements of) the Lincoln Tea Party and the RINO’s recruited people to run for Placer County Republican Central Committee against the CRA… they want to be able to endorse the incumbents again regardless of merit.

I will develop this point in future posts.

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.

2011 was a stormy year for me personally in politics. I got to live through the full force of an attempted political assassination.

2011 started with the Sacramento Bee/Auburn Journal, apparently being spurred by David Stafford Reade/Karen England etc into writing hit pieces against the Placer GOP Central Committee. There were allegations of bribery, extortion, money laundering, embezzlement and an FBI Investigation. Tea Parties were  brought in to the fray, consultants were brought in, emails were sent out en masse – but we are still here and they are not.

2011 closes with two of the primary accusers off of the Central Committee.
2011 closes with no evidence ever presented of the alleged wrongdoing.
2011 closes with dozens of phone calls to the FPPC and no response or action from them in 4+ months.
2011 closes with 14+ months passing since Karen England alleged an FBI visit to her house – no one else has been contacted since.
2011 closes with the CRA having fought a successful war to rid itself of corruption.
2011 closes with Ted Gaines drawing a formidable opponent and Beth Gaines staring down the barrel of her own challenge.

The following are the 5 top events of 2011 in the Political Life of Aaron F Park:

5. Broke the news about the David Stafford Reade led effort to use the good name of Doug LaMalfa to serve his liberal master’s desire to destroy the GOP Platform. The effort was thwarted, but not before David Stafford Reade scored a huge payday.

4. Mere months after attacking the Placer County Republican Party in concert with Doug LaMalfa – Ted Gaines draws a primary opponent. Les Baugh for State Senate, Baby!!!

3. October 27,2011 – celebrated the self-termination of Karen England, the primary accuser with no evidence of the Placer GOP. After not getting her way (aka control), she accumulated 4 absences off of the Central Committee and was removed for it. In addition, 10/27 will forever be known as “FBI DAY” in Placer CRA Circles as this is the day of the alleged visit by the FBI to Karen England’s house – as of the writing of this post… nope, no FBI visit.

2. Beth Gaines files for Assembly. Anyone who missed the point of Ted Gaines’ run against John Doolittle could not miss the ramifications of this move. Beth Gaines won after an apparently coordinated independent expenditure came in late in the race and creative financing from her consultant allowed her to basically spend double her opponent John Allard.

1. The April 2011 CRA Convention. Karen England took her local dispute with Tom, George and I statewide to the CRA convention – we were treated to a consultant-driven smear campaign, a drill that involved 4 members of the state legislature and Saul Alinsky-like tactics at the convention. We Won, they lost – so they took their ball and are trying to form a new organization of their own.

The moral of 2011 – it is a year that would have broken many an activist. I got to see the worst of the GOP – be it Ted Gaines betraying still more people or his creating a political family dynasty, Karen England’s moral corruption, exposing the corruption that had beset the CRA or putting up with the abuse for standing my ground and not allowing these people to go unchecked?

That’s why we ended up in the newspaper, in emails, etc etc etc. David Stafford Reade, Karen England and their crew attempted to take our integrity away. It didn’t work and it won’t work when they try it again.

2011 also reminded me of why I stay and fight for the soul of the GOP – seeing the actions of David Stafford Reade who actively works to undermine Conservatives for pay and the actions of Karen England who appears to be in on the deal… or the people including the previous two that were expelled from CRA for their gross fraud related to CRA.

But the biggest lesson of 2011 was this – I learned through the actions of the electeds that were involved in the attempted takeover of the CRA the most important lesson of all.

To many in elected office – the facts don’t matter, period. They are prima-donnas of the highest order and the only thing that does matter is what affects their next election campaign.

I got in to politics in 1997 to influence elections and I choose to stay and fight for the soul of the GOP against this sort of elected that infest so many offices around the country.

GOP Central Committee – the Committee voted Wednesday night to ask Jim McCauley to put 7 seats per Supervisor District on the ballot.

At January’s Central Committee meeting – the Placer GOP Cent Com will consider SD01, AD05, AD06 endorsements.

Left-Wing and recent “Republican” Pam Tobin has declared against Kirk Uhler. Tobin lost 70-29 against Ted Gaines several years ago for supervisor. Look for Tobin to be financed by Labor Unions.

No word on whether Jan Pinney, Garry Genzlinger or Paige Stauss are running for re-election on the Roseville Joint Union High School District.

Expect a union-funded challenge to two Republican Incumbents on the Eureka Joint Union School District.

Extreme Left-Wing Homosexual activist Gary Miller is up for re-election on the Roseville City School District.

Bonnie Gore has announced for the Roseville City Council seat John Allard is being forced to vacate by term limits. Bonnie currently works for Kaiser and used to work for Conservative State Senator Rico Oller.

No word on the status of Peter Hill or George Magnussen in Rocklin. There are three Rocklin City Council seats up for re-election – expect a free-for-all. Brett Storey is retiring for sure.

I am supporting Greg Janda in place of Brett Storey.

Rocklin Unified School District – Democrat Camille Maben looks like she is going to run for re-election after all. Look for a Republican challenger for sure. Republican Greg Dailey is also running for Re-Election.

Lincoln? I’d expect that the tea party up there is going to field some opponents for the people they just tried to recall.