Ellen and I went to the Grand Opening of Nevada County Republican HQ tonight in the Fowler Center. The place was packed when we arrived, it is a good thing the Fire Marshall was not present. The Nevada County Republican Women provided the excellent food and wine. Loved the brownies!
I do not want to be too critical, but let’s hope these three representatives were the interns from the Meg Whitman campaign, and she has some real pros some where in her closet. This team seem to be bent on angering the audience. Their answers to questions about Whitman’s position on Prop 23 and Immigration did not sit well with the audience.
The Whitman team promoted her as a strong business leaders, a leader with a real spine. Then waffled the answers to questions on Prop 23 and Immigration, demonstrating that she is not the leader the audience was looking for, if not demanding.
E-mail us your concerns they said, and some one will get back to you. But, as one person pointed out they held similar meetings in Mendocino County three weeks ago and the people in Mendocino are still waiting for answers, especially what Whitman is going to do about the armed Mexican Nationals that have taken over the National Forest to plant marijuana, preventing the ranchers from using the range for their cow herds.
The meeting went down hill from there, with questions about Arizona’s immigration law and need to close the border. They said, Whitman saw it as a federal issue, not a state issue. At that point they lost the audience and decided they needed to get to their airplane real fast before it got dark.
We cannot depend on Whitman to fulfill her promise to suspend AB32. We the people must take charge when our leaders fail to lead. Suspending AB32 for a year is a gutless answer, and it would be a useless solution. “If Whitman is the strong business leader as you claim, what is it she does not understand about the impact of AB32 and the need for Prop 23,” was my question.
We need to support and pass Prop 23, we cannot trust Whitman or Brown.
As for the immigration problem, we must take back the House and Senate and get a true leader in the White House. The Federal Government is failing the people of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.
Overall there was support for Whitman, but Nevada County Republicans would like a stronger conservative leader who was listening to Nevada County voter’s concerns.
Update #1 (08-19-10, 15:45) Rich Ulery makes and excellent point there was a lot of support for Meg Whitman at the Grand Opening, even though some people had differences with her position on Prop 23 and Immigration. I am only a single individual, I do not speak for the Republican Party. I left the meeting after the out reach team left and cannot comment on what happened after that. As Rich reports in the comments, the group rallied and are strongly committed to supporting Meg Whitman's campaign for Governor. That is great news! I will certainly put a sign in my yard, and bumper sticker on my car for Meg Whitman.
Update #2 (08-20-10,20:20) I guess it is OK for the "big boys" at the CRP Meeting to ask the question and give a very similar answer to mine: <i>Members of the California Republican Assembly, many of whom backed Whitman's GOP rival Steve Poizner in the primary, took aim at Whitman's stances on illegal immigration, taxes and Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative that would suspend the state's landmark greenhouse gas emissions reduction law until the economy rebounds.They warned her current positions could cost the entire GOP ticket votes in November.</i>
