Glen's latest obsession: ME!

To those of you who attended either the Palos Verdes Peninsula RWF Membership Party last week or the Southeast Los Angeles Lincoln Club breakfast yesterday morning, you had the chance to meet the current chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, Glen Forsch. I hope you were able to ask him questions about the future of the county party, and that Glen actually gave you a solid answer. Goodness knows most of us in the county leadership and executive committee have been trying to get Glen to take some position - any position - on many of the issues that face us as Californians. Key among those are the six ballot propositions that most of you are fighting hard to defeat - for which I sincerely thank you so much!

Some of you heard about the strong performances by key county Republicans like Gary Aminoff, Drew Mercy, Jane Barnett, Kathy Howard, Lorenzo Lanzi, Ed Williams and Samantha Allen-Newman at the April Executive Committee meeting. Not all of them were in agreement with each other or myself, but all did a great job of representing their positions with solid analysis and strong presentation. My primary desire for our county party is to evaluate and then quickly take positions on candidates and measures, regardless of what the debate results are, and not simply sit on the sidelines with a neutral position because one hasn't researched an issue enough or, worse, doesn't want to upset anyone. If legislators in Sacramento are proposing measures that continue to hurt the California economy, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines because I "may upset them".

When talking to those that attended these events (I had a 5th birthday party to host with none other than Cinderella!), a few specifically stated that Glen spent a great deal of time talking about your humble blogger himself. Glen was concerned about my lack of ability to look at ALL of the positions of an issue and see the merits of them. To me, this means that I need to stop making decisions to stand up for any side of an issue because I may "upset" those on the other side of the issue. Glen has established himself throughout your county Republican leadership as one who wants to "include everyone" by not taking a solid position on any issue. A few on his executive board have tried to get Glen to take more decisive action, but most of them have simply sat on the sideline as well, allowing the county party to turn into a social club rather than an activism group worth one's donations.

This is the primary reason why I have always advocated for donating to either the local Republican clubs, like the RWF, PHRC or BCRC, or directly to candidates running for office. You know they have solid plans to use your donations to further the causes you care about. Speaking of candidates running for office.....