As in the past, the team is presently rocked with dissension, dismissals, and is dismayed and discouraged by current events.
The enthusiasm that resulted in three contested races for the unnecessarily obscure Santa Barbara County Republican Party Central Committee is driven by deep hunger for change at the top, not satisfaction with the current leadership.
I could continue with almost every aspect of the rest of the piece – including addressing the cheap insinuation that the Unite2Win805.org slate is not inclusive, but I have better things to do.
If you want to continue with the team that celebrates chaos over clarity, seat-of-the-pants over strategy, opacity over transparency, choose team Bobbi.
New GOP faces elected to the SBRCC District One - the reform slate took 3 places Let's reach out to independents. Time to tell a new story about the Santa Barbara GOP. They need to hear why voting for conservative candidates is the best investment for their own future.
Anyone who believes in rule of law, protection of private property, limited government, and fair and competitive markets needs to take a new look at the GOP. Because we are losing all four of those conservative fundamentals fast in this city, state and nation.
40,000 votes still need to be counted!!!! 24 hours after the polls closed. I withdraw all buoyant predictions that we saw a new era open up after last nights 100% precinct reporting "provisional count".
Now they tell us 40,000 more ballot box drop-off votes, mail in votes, provisional ballots. And they wonder why voters no longer trust election outcomes? Election night is now a farce - news stories coming from candidate "victory" parties on election night are a farce. Volunteer election observers are a waste of time, when they now officially claim it will be weeks before the votes are all tallied.
40,000 question marks remain. The infamous California long-counts that surprisingly all to often end up with a Democrat winning all of them. This is a 100% unacceptable way to run elections. Score one more Democrat "election reform" failure. Too much damage can sneak into the system, and there is no transparency or accountability, in a system that has been getting as sloppy as those of us who have volunteered to be poll workers have already observed.
Too little, too late Team. It’s time to VOTE in new leadership, to expand from 22 insiders in the loop to 2,200 or more committed locals to victories. The only persons I hear singing praises for SBRCC are its current Exec Committee Members, a closed, self- protective group. Never once have I heard a candidate thank SBRCC for any support, not have I seen needed strong, prepared Republicans recruited and prepared for candidacy. Most registered GOP in Santa Barbara County have never heard of SBRCC, asking ‘What’s That?’. Significant GOP local major donors have never been approached for the funding required to run the Committee, plus support the few electable candidates. Let’s start with a million. I’ve been often told “Republicans are independent, individualistic types preferring to be left alone rather than network and organize.” Well, we’ve lost South County to irreversible damage. The Dems have created and funded most local NPOs and NGOs — 900 of them —to ensure hundreds of millions in cash flow for their causes, and also to ensure any defeated candidate a high paying job. Defeated GOP are blacklisted left on their own. It’s time for networking and organizing of Republicans and NPPs determined to have a voice in Santa Barbara County. It’s time to attract youth: YAF is ignored as are its trained students. Young professional capitalists, Constitutionalists, and taxpayers are ignored. Outreach is desperately needed which will take ‘buy-in’ from many hundreds to support, not just 22 unknowns running the secret club called SBRCC.
On an upbeat note, Richard Grenell's Fix California is gaining more Republican voter registrations state wide - and cleaning up voter roles. That is practical action.
I honestly know nothing about any of this: I support local GOP candidates, but it has always been a losing proposition, except for the one brief year when "conservatives" got to be a short-lived majority on the SB city council.
90 successful GOP candidates -where and when?? I had no idea there was a local permanent GOP office. Glad we are having this discussion. Learning a lot.
From the article:
.........."In 2022 the Committee found 90 candidates to run for office. Of those, 67 won and one was appointed. An astonishing 74% win rate. At the state CAGOP, that accomplishment is known as the Santa Barbara Surprise!
We now have three offices in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and Lompoc. In those offices and online, classes are taught to hundreds about the Constitution, on how to become a Candidate, precinct walking, poll working and watching, phone banking, effective writing, and much more.........
Your post says it all. It never ceases to amaze me that EVEN the too few successfully elected GOP officials, including you Joan, are unaware that there is a SBRCC, that there’s a SBRCC Office (unknown, mostly locked & inaccessible) in South County, and that somewhere 90 GOP were elected (uncontested positions presumably). I’d like to YELL THANK YOU, for your two decades of volunteer services as a highly valued, respected, articulate informed SBCC Trustee admired for your stamina and courage against mounting monthly adversity. As I was told by Sam Wake, Gertrude Calderon and long time close friend Eli Luria: you are exemplary, exceptional, and more! Your strength beyond compare.
2 corrections if I may:
As in the past, the team is presently rocked with dissension, dismissals, and is dismayed and discouraged by current events.
The enthusiasm that resulted in three contested races for the unnecessarily obscure Santa Barbara County Republican Party Central Committee is driven by deep hunger for change at the top, not satisfaction with the current leadership.
I could continue with almost every aspect of the rest of the piece – including addressing the cheap insinuation that the Unite2Win805.org slate is not inclusive, but I have better things to do.
If you want to continue with the team that celebrates chaos over clarity, seat-of-the-pants over strategy, opacity over transparency, choose team Bobbi.
Otherwise, go with the Unite2Win805 candidates. https://unite2win805.org
New GOP faces elected to the SBRCC District One - the reform slate took 3 places Let's reach out to independents. Time to tell a new story about the Santa Barbara GOP. They need to hear why voting for conservative candidates is the best investment for their own future.
Anyone who believes in rule of law, protection of private property, limited government, and fair and competitive markets needs to take a new look at the GOP. Because we are losing all four of those conservative fundamentals fast in this city, state and nation.
40,000 votes still need to be counted!!!! 24 hours after the polls closed. I withdraw all buoyant predictions that we saw a new era open up after last nights 100% precinct reporting "provisional count".
Now they tell us 40,000 more ballot box drop-off votes, mail in votes, provisional ballots. And they wonder why voters no longer trust election outcomes? Election night is now a farce - news stories coming from candidate "victory" parties on election night are a farce. Volunteer election observers are a waste of time, when they now officially claim it will be weeks before the votes are all tallied.
40,000 question marks remain. The infamous California long-counts that surprisingly all to often end up with a Democrat winning all of them. This is a 100% unacceptable way to run elections. Score one more Democrat "election reform" failure. Too much damage can sneak into the system, and there is no transparency or accountability, in a system that has been getting as sloppy as those of us who have volunteered to be poll workers have already observed.
Kamala could write an article about how great their team has done.
Too little, too late Team. It’s time to VOTE in new leadership, to expand from 22 insiders in the loop to 2,200 or more committed locals to victories. The only persons I hear singing praises for SBRCC are its current Exec Committee Members, a closed, self- protective group. Never once have I heard a candidate thank SBRCC for any support, not have I seen needed strong, prepared Republicans recruited and prepared for candidacy. Most registered GOP in Santa Barbara County have never heard of SBRCC, asking ‘What’s That?’. Significant GOP local major donors have never been approached for the funding required to run the Committee, plus support the few electable candidates. Let’s start with a million. I’ve been often told “Republicans are independent, individualistic types preferring to be left alone rather than network and organize.” Well, we’ve lost South County to irreversible damage. The Dems have created and funded most local NPOs and NGOs — 900 of them —to ensure hundreds of millions in cash flow for their causes, and also to ensure any defeated candidate a high paying job. Defeated GOP are blacklisted left on their own. It’s time for networking and organizing of Republicans and NPPs determined to have a voice in Santa Barbara County. It’s time to attract youth: YAF is ignored as are its trained students. Young professional capitalists, Constitutionalists, and taxpayers are ignored. Outreach is desperately needed which will take ‘buy-in’ from many hundreds to support, not just 22 unknowns running the secret club called SBRCC.
On an upbeat note, Richard Grenell's Fix California is gaining more Republican voter registrations state wide - and cleaning up voter roles. That is practical action.
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/california-republicans-are-gaining-traction-in-voter-registrations/
I honestly know nothing about any of this: I support local GOP candidates, but it has always been a losing proposition, except for the one brief year when "conservatives" got to be a short-lived majority on the SB city council.
90 successful GOP candidates -where and when?? I had no idea there was a local permanent GOP office. Glad we are having this discussion. Learning a lot.
From the article:
.........."In 2022 the Committee found 90 candidates to run for office. Of those, 67 won and one was appointed. An astonishing 74% win rate. At the state CAGOP, that accomplishment is known as the Santa Barbara Surprise!
We now have three offices in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and Lompoc. In those offices and online, classes are taught to hundreds about the Constitution, on how to become a Candidate, precinct walking, poll working and watching, phone banking, effective writing, and much more.........
Your post says it all. It never ceases to amaze me that EVEN the too few successfully elected GOP officials, including you Joan, are unaware that there is a SBRCC, that there’s a SBRCC Office (unknown, mostly locked & inaccessible) in South County, and that somewhere 90 GOP were elected (uncontested positions presumably). I’d like to YELL THANK YOU, for your two decades of volunteer services as a highly valued, respected, articulate informed SBCC Trustee admired for your stamina and courage against mounting monthly adversity. As I was told by Sam Wake, Gertrude Calderon and long time close friend Eli Luria: you are exemplary, exceptional, and more! Your strength beyond compare.