I’m here on the floor of the state GOP convention. The good news is that the many hundreds of Republicans are clearly excited about our opportunities for victory in November!
I can report to you that the committee report of the Initiatives Committee was adopted, which means that the GOP has firmly planted both feet on the ground – one foot representing a firm opposition to tax increases, the other an embrace of massive borrowing and debt.
I am proud that Governor Schwarzegger, Tom McClintock, the entire GOP ticket and the State GOP are unified against all of the myriad of tax measures on the ballot.
I am equally disappointed that delegates, in their desire to stay unified behind the Governor and not give him black eye, agreed to support massive infrastructure borrowing. More on the specifics to follow!
It is hard as a GOP activist to figure out the line between support of a candidate (I am a stong supporter of Governor Schwarzenegger’s reelection) and frustration when my candidate, and now my party, embrace spending measures which materially and philosophically contradict the limited government philosophy that brought me into the GOP.
I am reminded on a constant basis how sick-to-my-stomach I get when I imagine Phil Angelides as Governor. BLECH!!
Anyways, I am sure that I will join every GOP delegate here is leaving this convention motivated to do everything I can to elect our entire GOP ticket!
If everything goes “Jon’s way” – we’ll re-elect the Governor and an entire GOP ticket, vote down all of the tax increases and bond measures, and set the tone for a new legislative session that the California electorate wants Sacramento politicians to more prudently spend the $100,000,000,000.00++ we already send up there!
————– A fascinating fact!
Yesterday, convention delegates made 12000 phone calls in three hours for the GOP team!