Mike Spence

Mike serves on his local school board, and is President of the CA Republican Assembly.
Recent Posts
- AG to CalPERS: Divest from Iran Now
- NTLC's Lew Uhler Urges Rejection Of Maldonado As Lt. Governor
- CRA Statement on Maldonado Confirmation Vote
- Slate mailer racks up $84,000 fines
- Projections Moving Faster than the Trains
- Statewide proposition lineup
- Sunday San Diego: Napping in AD 77, Waking in AD 78, CalPERS says Pound Sand on Divestments, and More
- Carly Fiorina On President Reagan's Birthday
- CRP Chairman Nehring's Statement In Response To SacBee Story
- CTA Wants To Divert The "Payoff Benefits" That Got BigBiz Onboard With Higher Taxes, And Divert Them To Thier Own Purposes
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The Lite Guv Intrigue Continues (Source: KQED's Capitol Notes)
February 8 Open Thread (Source: Calitics)
As Some Hesitate, Laird Says He Can Win Maldonado's Seat (Source: Calitics)
The Lite Guv Intrigue Continues (Source: KQED's Capitol Notes)
Recount of Mission Viejo recall announced (Source: OC Register Total Buzz)
If GOP Doesn't Want Maldo as LG, Have a Primary (Source: Dem Majority Report)
Local activist behind impeach Obama site (Source: OC Register Total Buzz)
AG to CalPERS: Divest from Iran Now [By Barry Jantz - San Diego County - Flash Report] (Source: FlashReport)
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The Lite Guv Intrigue Continues (Source: KQED's Capitol Notes)
February 8 Open Thread (Source: Calitics)
As Some Hesitate, Laird Says He Can Win Maldonado's Seat (Source: Calitics)
The Lite Guv Intrigue Continues (Source: KQED's Capitol Notes)
Recount of Mission Viejo recall announced (Source: OC Register Total Buzz)
If GOP Doesn't Want Maldo as LG, Have a Primary (Source: Dem Majority Report)
Local activist behind impeach Obama site (Source: OC Register Total Buzz)
AG to CalPERS: Divest from Iran Now [By Barry Jantz - San Diego County - Flash Report] (Source: FlashReport)
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Robert Bosich on NTLC's Lew Uhler Urges Rejection Of Maldonado As Lt. Governor
Robert Bosich on CRA Statement on Maldonado Confirmation Vote
JIm Lacy on Statewide proposition lineup
Tom Kaptain on Statewide proposition lineup
Larry Urdahl on Money "Trail" in Open Joel Anderson AD 77 Seat
Matt Munson on Statewide proposition lineup
JIm Lacy on Ballot Designation Junkies Get Excited
Cliff Unruh on Rest In Peace Ethie Radanovich
Chris Lauer on Chief of Staff for Senate Republicans Off To PG&E
JIm Lacy on Ballot Designation Junkies Get Excited
Ken Hunter on An Open Letter to Senate Republicans
Howard Epstein on Today's Commentary: South Lake Tahoe Transit Chief Embroiled In Controversy
Sean Loranger on Sheriff's union biggest loser in Mission Viejo recall election
Allan Bartlett on An Open Letter to Senate Republicans
Bob Evans on Today's Commentary: For Conservatives, Voting No On Confirming Maldonado Should Be An Easy Vote
FlashReport Weblog on California Politics
Why CRAVictoryTeam.com? The Governor Made Us Do it.
by Mike Spence - Los Angeles County (bio) (email)(print)
CRAVictoryTeam.com is place that activists can go to to get materials and data to communicate with GOP voters. They can download ten names in their area and call or walk them. The site has one page flyers on issues and candidates that can be downloaded for use.
After launching the site, we have received great feedback from activists. We've also got negative feedback from people that work for or with the Governor's campaign. They all ask. Why are you doing this?
The answer is the Governor made us do it!
We have to be honest about this. The Governor's camapign while emphasizing no new taxes is built around billions of bond debt and signing bills that appeal to tree huggers, crossdressers and the nanny staters.
This isn't exactly a great way to recruit GOP volunteers. The State GOP fired their church outreach person and appears to reassigned others involved. Their church outreach can only be described as pray only.
Add to that the Governor's lack of committment to the entire GOP ticket. First the Governor refused to support Dick Mountjoy, the US Senate candidate. And according to my sources Dick Mountjoy will NOT be on any of the statewide door hangers. The party says it is because of McCain-Feingold---although they managed to do it two years ago.
Again being honest. How many photo ops of you seen of the Governor with McClintock or any one else compared to Nunez, Perata etc...? Did everyone see the nice picture of Jerry Brown and Maria Shriver in the Sacramento Bee?Read Jennifer Nelson's plea here.
On top of that there is a debate about whether the CRP Propositions positions will be on the door hangers. This really hurts Prop 85. An initiative that motivates church people.
So if you want McClintock, Strickland, Mountjoy or Poochigian to win and Prop. 85 to pass where do you go? If you oppose many of the things the Governor is signing. (add cell-phone bill to the list today) do you want to volunteer at an HQ that is really Arnold only? Of Course not. That's why CRAVictoryTeam.com was created. We need to keep these volunteers engaged and working.
What I don't understand is why anybody would be upset that we were getting people to contact Republicans and encouraging them to vote. What's the problem with that?











































Comments
No problem at all, Mike. Not from where I stand.
Posted by Alex Burrola at September 15, 2006 1:29pmHow dare the CRA put out literature that the governor's people don't like. The nerve of us to try to get our base motivated to come out and vote for the great down ticket candidates. Let's just take our ball and go home Mike. Arnold's people know what's best to motivate Republican volunteers.
Posted by Allan Bartlett at September 15, 2006 2:20pmPost a Comment
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