Posts Tagged ‘GOP’
If Isaac Cancels GOP Convention, Republicans have a backup plan
My experience as an American Red Cross disaster responder for the last 20 years has taught me to expect anything and to prepare for the worst. So when I see hurricane experts discussing whether or not Isaac (now a tropical storm but predicted to become a hurricane this weekend) will hit Tampa, Florida during next week’s Republican National Convention, I start assuming it will happen and back it up from there.
It made me wonder: if the convention gets cancelled, what happens to the nomination of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as the Republican candidates for President and Vice President? Does the convention have to be rescheduled? What are the alternatives? Could the hurricane derail the whole process?
Wrong, SD GOP . . . Sigh
This is not how Republicans should be making the news . . .
From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Twitter accounts of county GOP, chairman yanked
A good (old fashioned?) cyber-spat between San Diego County’s Republican and Democratic parties has broken out on — where else? — Twitter.
On Wednesday, local Democratic Party Chairman Jess Durfee issued a press release about the social network suspending the accounts of the Republican Party of San Diego County (@SDRepublicans) and that of its chairman, Tony Krvaric (@TonyKrvaric).
Fletcher Speaking to Log Cabin GOP
The Log Cabin Republicans San Diego welcomes former Marine and California state Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher Thursday for a celebration for the defeat of” Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The group asks attendants to bring travel-size toiletries for donation to homeless veterans.
Bamboo Lounge
1475 University Avenue
San Diego, CA
7 p.m., Thursday, April 7
$25 at the door
Hors d’oeuvres and Drink with ticket
Door Prizes and Raffles
- Follow me @erica_holloway.
Tea Parties outraged with measly $4 billion in GOP budget cuts
In the world according to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the $4 billion in federal spending cuts that accompanied the two-week Continuing Resolution (CR) allowing the government to stay in business was a good start.
In fact his office released the following statement; “Yesterday, the House passed a temporary budget stopgap that cuts $4 billion in spending and keeps the government running for two weeks. With the March 4th budget deadline looming, we passed these meaningful cuts because Washington’s ongoing spending binge is destroying jobs, and we refuse to pile on trillions more in debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids.”
GOP the “anti-minority” party?
I was on the Chris Reed KOGO show last night discussing (among other things) the failure of the GOP to make inroads in CA. Be it real or be it perception, the GOP’s perceived anti-immigrant (and especially anti-Hispanic) stance is losing (has lost) the minority vote in this state. The vociferous conservative element that puts essentially all blame for our problems on illegal immigrants projects itself as the GOP.
Some of the most popular right wing talk show hosts build their loyal (essentially all white) following with their Jihad against illegal Hispanics (mainly Mexicans).
Cox Disappointment of the Decade
Any way you slice it Cheryl Cox’s mayorship has been a disaster. She lost the billion dollar Bayfront project by being a bystander when the unions tried to Greenmail Gaylord. She scared away the Chargers Stadium deal culminating with her very public war with Mark Fabiani that aired on TV for all of us to see (good for repeat viewing). She ran on being a fiscal conservative, then proposed and voted for every tax and fee increase, including taxing cell phone service and her failed 1% sales tax increase measure.
Recent Comments