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GoProud Does Not Speak For Me

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Republicans and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered community can coexist with each other, but one side does not have to be required to be the beard for the Republican Party to join in the party.

There are issues that LGBT Republicans and their straight allies support such as cutting federal spending, reducing our federal budget deficit, defending the second amendment and promoting a business climate conducive to economic growth. But the traditional values crowd does not want LGBT people in the party or the movement because they believe LGBT people do not deserve equal rights or protection under the law.

But inviting groups like GoProud will do damage to LGBT people because it gives cover to these individuals to say “I am not a bigot, I am not a hater, I have gay friends” is what I hear often as a retort when the people I know express their opposition to equality legislation. But how do you consider them friends if you are not going to treat them as equals?

Social conservatives like Ben Lopez who works for Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Collation would be out of a job if the Republican Party was more inclusive to the LGBT community and that is why they had their fangs out for GoProud even though they are more towards other issues and not much on gay equality issues. If society was more accepting towards LGBT people then Lou Sheldon and friends would not have any ammunition to use on gullible senior citizens like my late great aunt who used to donate to them. 

As a Republican, I find the Log Cabin Republicans a better organization because they mostly believe in civil rights and most Republican issues. Removing issues such as Employment Non Discrimination and Marriage equality from a gay Republican group just makes you not as different as other conservative lobbying groups. Repealing DADT was actually fiscally conservative because we will not have to waste money retraining the replaced fired military members. And employment non discrimination is a good thing because it would reduce the reliance on government aid for the transgendered and they would least likely to be sex workers or drug dealers where there would be an incentive to employ them.

My Response to Senator Dutton on Brown’s State of the State Address

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I am taking the time to write a reply to the California Senate Republican leader to offer a response to the response.

There is a reason why Republicans are not representing the majority in Sacramento, they are just too mean to the marginalized populations in our state. From Proposition 8 to 187, the Republican Party had to use the big wedge to help gain popular support.

Although California has its problems, we should not resort to using the boogey man of the day to become the party of the majority. From Proposition 14 in 1964 to Proposition 8 in 2008, we are telling Californians that the Republican Party is not their party.

Even though Democratic Party legislators think that money grows on trees and we can pay high end retirement benefits to the public employees, people still vote for Democrats because they do not attack their communities.

Even though there may be lesbian business owners, or socially conservative black people who share traits with the Republican Party they end up still supporting the Democratic Party.

Since we have the passage of Proposition 25, budgets must be passed with majority vote. And if Senator Dutton and friends do not have a party platform or a welcome mat to the communities that the Republican Party marginalized in the past it will be hard to win those votes back.

Yes, Senator Dutton I would love to see the two million plus Californians back to work, but the party needs to be more inviting so it could attain the majority support to get business back to our state.

A Letter to the NRCC about Art Censorship

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Dear Congressman Sessions,

I am a registered Republican and I previously ran for State Assembly in 2002 in the state of California. However I am not that enthused that instead of undoing the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda, a segment of your members are going on a moralist campaign in censoring artwork at our national institution the Smithsonian.

Art is not just for traditionalists or for the counterculture. Art is for all of us, the Smithsonian serves all the people of our nation. To censor art, we remove ourselves from reality. Maybe if we learned why artists made their particular art we could understand the life and the issues of the artist.

I understand people are livid about how religion and religious figures are portrayed in the art by these queer artists. But maybe if religious people did not persecute homosexuals maybe we would not have these “controversial” pieces created.

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Republican Party Bed Death

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Face it California Republicans, our party is dead in California. While the rest of the nation turned Republican, California and its coastal neighbors remained Democratic. California Republicans got shut out in the statewide offices from Governor to Superintendent of Public Instruction.

How do we go from last and dead to having at least a fighting chance so the party will no longer have to be the freaky uncle living in your basement?

Unfortunately the Republican brand name is the brand that turns off many voters. Liberal and far right wing Republicans got equally trampled by California voters on Election Day.

Perhaps it is because our nominees were spineless in their convictions where people avoided Abel Maldonado and Mike Villines like the plague due to them violating their no on new taxes pledges. If you added half the vote Pamela Brown from the Libertarian Party won to Abel Maldonado you would get the vote percentage that Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina won.

Maybe we need to flush both the mushy middle and the reactionary right so we can start over as a political party in California. Meg and Arnold tried to be everything to everyone and that failed miserably. Andrew Pugno in Assembly District 5 made his name and career on bashing the lesbian and gay community and he lost in a Republican district.

Arnold was right that the Republican Party is failing where “we are dying at the box office, we are not filling the seats”. We are just a party of the heartland of California, but in the big cities where the majority of the constituencies that make up seats and help get Republicans elected to statewide office we will never get a majority or get people elected for US Senate or Governor.

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A New Name

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It seems maybe the Republican Party needs to change its name in California. KABC commentator and host Doug Macintyre stated that we need to do this to make the Republican Party relevant in this state.

The Republican Party of Minnesota did this after Watergate, maybe we need to do this perhaps in time for 2014. California did the opposite of the rest of the nation and decided to reject Republicans because they simply have a pungent brand name today.

Demographic changes have made the Republican Party irrelevant in the portion of the state that has the population. Namely the costal and inner city communities in our state.

Perhaps my suggested name is the One California Party. Our new name could stand for making California whole again because the Democratic Party has destabilized the state by removing the productive class out that pays the tax monies to fund the vital government programs people value.

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I Guess That’s Why They Call California Blue

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California likes Democrats. The rest of the nation went Republican, but California decided to be blue as an icicle where even Republican favorite Steve Cooley might even be defeated as well.

Here is what we learned:

For Secretary of State, we should get someone who has a long term history of voting. I do appreciate Damon Dunn running, but he should of ran for school board or State Assembly instead first. Damon would have been great in administering business documents, but we also wanted someone who was involved in the electoral process more.

For Insurance Commissioner and Lt.Governor

Do not violate pledges you sign.  If you sign a pledge to advocate for clean energy, do not end up taking money from Exxon. If you advocate for lower taxes in your campaign pledge from Americans for Tax Reform, follow thru with it.

That is why many of us voted for Pamela Brown. She won over 5% of the vote so far.

Also Abel, Prop 14 pissed many voters against you. Shame on you.

For Governor

Meg may be a good business executive, but she flunked in the school of politics. All Meg was to the political class was a sugar mama to their consultant firms. Meg had no consistent viewpoints and her campaign went off message often.

And 150 million does not buy salvation from the California voters.

Then, California voters elected a dead woman to be State Senator even though it will result in a costly special election that will mean money Los Angeles County does not have will be drained in order to run the special election this spring. If you are in the South Bay and you are crying that your libraries are being cut or parks are not being maintained as much as you voted for Zombie Senator, it is your own fault.

I still have more to discuss, when local election results get posted for City of Ontario and the school boards.

England Fragments Republican Party Vote

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It seems the holy war between two individuals has escalated where Karen England is willing to sacrifice her goodwill within the California Republican Party by challenging the appointed Lt.Governor and dilute his vote so Mayor Gavin Newsom would have an easier chance at being elected.

Even though as an independent minded Republican, I did support State Senator Sam Aanestad because I thought Abel had no substance on fiscal issues and he forced Proposition 14 to be on the ballot to take away my choice to vote Libertarian Party when the Republican nominees are too anti-gay. Unfortunately Abel won because he won the rest of California that did not listen to the John and Ken show.

Even before this controversy which escalated with Karen running as a write-in candidate, Abel decided to back Harvey Milk Day when he was a State Senator and grilled her hard during a hearing about her opposition to Harvey Milk Day by asking her if Harvey Milk Day would really harm students. Karen and her friends expect 100% compliance with Republican leaders that their legislators will not support anything positive to the LGBT community in California and the United States.

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Hypocrisy in action.

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It is sad when Republicans have to move to the anti-equality side in order to get elected. However if you are replacing a Democratic candidate who leans liberal for the last forty years, equality should not have to be sacrificed. I could respect Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization of Marriage since she has more consistent policy views.

For Wisconsin’s 7th district, if I ever lived there I would be happy to support the Democratic Party candidate because Sean Duffy is an opportunistic fool who turns on a dime because he only wanted political support. When I ran for State Assembly 8 years ago, people told me to move to the direction the base wanted, but if that is incompatible with your principles you should stand with your principles.

It is ironic that someone stars in a movie supporting equality in marriage, ends up standing against the issue. However maybe Sean and his wife were doing it just to pay the law school bills.

H/T: Good As You

Caught In Another Budget Bind

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Crossposted from iepolitics.com

Senator Dutton has written yet another eloquent column about why we should pass Republican Party budget solutions, but Democratic Party legislators want to do it their way no matter how many more Californians will become unemployed or how massive the state’s budget problems will become in future years.

Even though Republicans may have the winning issues on the state budget and law and order, our state is so gerrymandered where the Democratic Party will likely be able to pass their state budgets in a veto-resistant manner after the next two elections. The Democratic Party has State Senate District 12 and 15 in the cross hairs so they can be ready to pass budgets without Republican Party influence.

Unfortunately we will have to see California collapse before voters ever do consider the Republican Party as a viable choice, but even so there are many demographic groups who would rather vote for a dog instead of a Republican. Republicans are going to have to build a relationship with these demographic groups that Republicans used as wedge issues in order to adapt to the demographics of our state today.

Yes, it would be nice for California to live within its means. However we already maxed out our credit cards for us to do a Keynesian economic solution so we have to rely on the economic theories of Hayek. Maybe with a majority vote budget and Proposition 14 that already passed, Republicans would have to learn to develop mainstream candidates that could get elected in places such as Santa Clara, Glendale, Torrance and Ontario instead of having to rely on the fringe for popular support where they can comfortably sustain being in the perpetual minority.

I do not want California to end up like Illinois where they have gave up on paying their schools, medical providers and other agencies that rely upon state assistance. Unfortunately political power blinds both political parties where it is impossible for our legislators to come up with a solution because Republicans are zealots for no taxes at any cost and Democrats must feed the labor union beast. It is going to take sacrifice shared equally from both sides for a solution to happen.

Riverside County Republican Party Needs a Reality Check

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Originally at iepolitics.com

Recently the Riverside County Republican Party decided to play to their fringe by slamming one of the candidates with a very tasteless accusation which helped get a liberal Democratic Party member Scott Hines elected.

Yes, Rancho Mirage may be conservative in nature, but the Coachella Valley has a sizable lesbian and gay population. Upsetting the gay and lesbian population and their straight allies can be very dangerous in an age where each vote counts. Assembly District 80 could have been won for example if the Republican Party nominated a socially inclusive candidate as an example.  Perhaps the individual who was only 71 votes ahead of Scott Hines on Election Day would have still won if the party’s tasteless advertising campaign was never done.

Yes, the Riverside County Republican Party and its affiliates were right to call him a fiscal liberal, but there was a key word that led to the Republicans losing this election with the slogan “Don’t let Palm Springs politics infect Rancho Mirage.” Where the word infects was in red letters and italicized where it alluded to HIV. Gay baiting has no place in a political campaign, in particular in a constituency with a sizable gay population.

Even though gay baiting Riverside Community College Trustee Mark Takano may have won an election for Congressman Calvert in 1994, it will no longer win elections for the Riverside County Republican Party.

Republicans are going through a period of declining voter registration, and if we alienate more demographic groups who might be receptive to the party message then this will lead towards a longer dominance by the Democratic Party.