California Latinos aren’t registering Republican, at all!
I warned the Republicans, and they didn’t listen. Now GOP registration in California has dropped again – even as the Tea Party movement rages on. The Republicans are now down to 30.8% of voter registration in California, according to a new column by Allen Hoffenblum.
Even worse, they are the minority party in every single congressional, state senate or assembly district.
What is happening? Well, Latinos are registering to vote. And they are NOT going Republican. They are registering as Decline to State or Democratic voters.
I warned them. Now the GOP is headed for extinction in the Golden State. And we will all be worse off for it. Democrats left unfettered are very bad news for the economy, for businesses and for jobs and working people.
But I suppose the union hacks will be quite pleased.
The tragedy is that after President Ronald Reagan signed the Amnesty, the GOP was primed to take the Latino vote. Xenophobia stepped in and that was that, despite the fact that Latinos hold many values that are near and dear to Republicans.
Perhaps my fellow Libertarians might make a push for registration amongst Latino voters? I hope so!
Click here to read Hoffenblum’s excellent op-ed.
As long as Pete Wilson is still pulling the strings in the California GOP, good luck getting Latinos on board. And he is clearly still pulling the strings.
Art,
Perhaps the Republican’s are in trouble because you have to have at least one foot on the crazy train to buy the crap that they are selling.
A recent Research 2000 poll of more than 2,000 Republicans, conducted for the liberal blog Daily Kos, found:
63% of Republicans believe President Obama is a socialist
53% believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama
39% believe Obama should be impeached
36% believe he wasn’t born in the U.S.
31% believe the president hates white people
24% believe the president wants the terrorists to win
23% believe their own state should secede from the union
77% believe public school students should be taught the Bible’s version of creation
anonster,
Oy vey! No bueno. Republicans do a lot better when they stick to fiscal issues, but it seems like they just can’t help themselves…
Art, I looked at the article, it would have been nice to see some actual stats on “How Lations are Registered” Not just speculation,(Actual percentages would have been nice) Many people have left the party because there seems to be no real leadership or direction, and it is just the “Establishment” putting up their Moderate or progressive, lackeys and buddies. (Lets look here in the county… Linda Ackerman??? Harry Sidu???) At the State Level???? Meg Whitman??? Arnold??? Fiorina??? None of these people have come up in the traditional grass roots way, they have one day decided to jump in and be a “republican” That does not excite people, so they not only lose, but they then lose registration as well. I think right now in California it is going to be “Open Season” on RINO’s and there will be no limit!!!
It will be interesting to see what happens with the Sheriffs race this year, lets see if the Central Committee shoots itself in the foot…..again!
Anonster, I dont know where they found those people, but for the record
63% of Republicans believe President Obama is a socialist (HE IS A SOCIALIST, LOOK IT UP< TELL ME WHERE IM WRONG, MR LETS SPREAD AROUNG THE WEALTH A LITTLE BIT…. PUBLIC OPTION, TAX THOSE WHO MAKE OVER 300,000….ER 250,0000 ER 200,000….ER….175,000….UH WE MAY HAVE TO RAISE TAXES ON EVERYBODY…
53% believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama (GOVERNOR OF A STATE, EXECUTIVE BRANCH RUNNING THINGS VS STATE SENATOR, COMMUNITY ACTIVIST, AND SENATOR FOR A FEW WEEKS….POLITICS ASIDE….. SHE IS
39% believe Obama should be impeached (NAH, I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THEM)
36% believe he wasn’t born in the U.S. (DON'T KNOW THEM EITHER…ALTHOUGH I DID MEET THAT LADY WHO IS NUTS ABOUT IT, HERE IN MISSION VIEJO ONCE….)
31% believe the president hates white people (DON'T KNOW ANY OF THEM)
24% believe the president wants the terrorists to win (NOPE, NEVER MET THEM EITHER)
23% believe their own state should secede from the union (CA REALLY??? WHO WOULD BAIL US OUT???)
77% believe public school students should be taught the Bible’s version of creation (UH… REALLY 77%)
the daily kos haaaaaa one of the most far left hatefull sites on the net . well it came from anoster and we know where he stands . and pedroza if you keep pushing amnesty for illegals why should they come aboard . ITS ILLEGAL . the only reason the dems want there votes so we can have more welfare , more programs ,more spending =progressive issues . aka liberal ideas .
@ #4
I’m certainly not an expert on the matter but I read an article in I believe the WSJ stating that CA’s budget problems are in large part due to the fact that because of the extreme amount of wealth, we put in far more in Federal taxes than we get in Federal services and we actually subsidize many smaller states. The main point of the article was that CA is painted with a far harsher brush than it deserves.
“I warned the Republicans, and they didn’t listen”
This is true. When Mr. Pedroza was on the GOP Central Committee he did try to tell them all what to do but no one would listen. He laid out a plan to get Latinos to register as Republicans and told them how to do it but it did no good. Art helped them build the Lincoln/Juarez center for troubled youth in Santa Ana but that was all they would do. If only Tom Fuentes had listened to Art we might see a majority GOP in Orange County and in California right now. I think Scot Baugh and Art should get together and smoke a peace pipe and see if we can’t bring Art back into the fold as an advisor if not an actual member of the Republican Part. I hope they will listen to him now. The Cherry Pie Flag Day meeting is coming up and Scot should perhaps make Art the guest speaker. This might sound strange, since Art is not a Republican but the OCGOP recently had a Non-Republican TEA party member address the Central Committee to give them advice on what the GOP should do. The GOP needs to invite more new blood from outside the party like Art and the TEA party guy to bring in fresh ideas.
gee, what a surprise. ethnocentric Latinos (la raZa), are not republicans! now if only the republicans would become more welcoming of illegals and making them citizens, to vote for democrats who will give them money for babies, the percentages of registered republicans would ……?
I think I should point out that Hoffenblum’s statement that there is not “not a single congressional, state senate or assembly district that had a majority Republican registration,” does not = Art’s statement that “they are the minority party in every single congressional, state senate or assembly district.” Those are two very different things.
Unfortunately, most SD’s, AD’s, and CD’s in The OC (Love the letters!) still show Dem’s (of which I am a proud one) as the minority party, even if Rep’s no longer have a majority (50% +1) registration in the district. Just saying is all.
Let’s see – 30.8% of Registered voters are Republicans, and people like Scott Baugh want to apply a RINO litmus test to them. So, according to Baugh’s standards, I wonder how many of this 30.8% are REAL Republicans? Sure seems the party is suffering under the watch of folks like him.
The reason why i would not vote register as republican is the fact the republicans here in California are not different than the awful dems.. I like to call the republicans here Demlicans..
Since i started looking into what the Orange County Supervisors (all republicans) i Realise they were not different from the liberals/dems.. They spend like made on programs/etitlements for mainly Non-citizes so that their friends can benifit by providing the services and they completely neglect the needs and wants of the Citizens and legal residents.. So I will not vote republican, even though i consider myself conservative.
I suppose This is why the tea party has arrived to show the republicans that we know what you up to and we don’t like it!
I believe Legal and citizen latinos feel the same way!
Wow, my writing today is worse than ever.. Sorry:(
The Republican party in CA is too far right. They’re almost as extreme as Republicans in the South. And with all the education cuts they have passed they will turn CA into the South.
And you know how they always claim that CA has the highest sales tax rate in the nation? Well, that’s a lie. That honor belongs to Tennessee.
http://www.fairtaxation.org/facts/sales_tax_rank.php
well sunny i dont know about you but ca is the worst state look at our sales tax , gas tax , we have taxes on everything out here and we are broke because its a so called progressive state aka liberal state . look at the calif legis. a big one sided dont you think . the reps who went ALONG WITH THE TAX HIKE are at fault too . just got my car registration today as my car gets older a 99 model my fee last year was 86$ today it was 165 . what a joke . people are fed up and the next election you will see what happens and that D. OR R next to their name better watch out .
Art – I am familiar with the story of why you left the GOP.
Your story is not unusual – the GOP parades around as the party of values and ethics. Look at the Meg County blog or Assemblyman Spanky for recent examples.
I speak Spanish and well – so it is not a language barrier, nor is it a desire to enforce our border laws that causes the problem… it is an arrogant failure to connect with voters on an emotional level that, coupled with famous examples of hypocricy that dooms GOP registration.
We (speaking for Myself and other Republican insiders) have to accept that the Media is going to cover Democrats for filandering and corruption and they are going to expose ours – this means we have to have a rigorous standard.
Second – instead of being intellectually superior – bring it back to what Reagan did. So many pseudo-Republicans envoke the name of Reagan, but they are remiss to understand what Reagan really did – he was one of us, we thought he was talking to us when he spoke.
I am a Republican because it is the party closest to my core values – that when challenged, I am capable of relating to anyone who asks. When Principles once again trump personalities – people will buy in to the movement in droves.
That is my .02
We are people in search of a Party!
MugWumps? Half of our Pirate staff belong to the Virtual Sarah Party of Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck and Limpbough! The other half belong to Moderate wing of the Democratic Party! Bren, Smith and Argyous!
So, what to do? We can just self regulate and close down the entire Republican Party or we could all join “the Teabaggers without a nation!” Either choice seems ultimately stupid.
Hey, as long as nationally people like Mike Pence call the shots instead of being reliable back benchers”….engine room…more steam!
We miss Senator George Allen. We miss Senator Bill Frist. We miss iron spined fiscal conservatives. We miss those that do not rely on Social Conservatism to lead them. Today, is the future! We need medical answers….we need answers to Social Security and Medicare! We need answers to Democratic Spending Measures.
Once we sold out to the TARP Program and the Dems went along laughingly…..we were had – bad!
Carly, Meg and Steve don’t have the juevos to take our party back. We need a mega-star and until we do…….we will just be going to meetings without leaders!
“A recent Research 2000 poll of more than 2,000 Republicans
77% believe public school students should be taught the Bible’s version of creation”
I can’t hardly believe this, 77% (not today) in the 21st century.??
The claim alone that the entire universe was born from the burst of pure energy and that we evolved from simpler organisms are pretty extraordinary claims, just as is the claim that everything is due to the hand of a cosmic magician. I agree that the claims alone are extraordinary, but at Carl Sagan once said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. And that’s what separates science from religion.
http://www.meetup.com/The-Seal-Beach-Atheists-Meetup-Group/
Bigmarkod,
Are you saying that YOUR personal interactions with other Repugs (maybe 20 TOPS!) is more reliable that a poll of 2,000? If that’s your “reasoning” then it is no wonder that you think that the “QUITTER” Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama:
“53% believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama (GOVERNOR OF A STATE, EXECUTIVE BRANCH RUNNING THINGS VS STATE SENATOR, COMMUNITY ACTIVIST, AND SENATOR FOR A FEW WEEKS….POLITICS ASIDE… SHE IS
VS. REALITY ;Palin, Gov. for 2 1/2 years vs. Obama State Senator for7 years, Community Activist for 3 years, Senator for 4 years, oh, and Constitutional Law Professor 8 years (Sarah has NEVER READ the Constitution, otherwise she would’ve known what the VP did!).
Did you know that during the “QUITTER’S” half-term, that legislators wore buttons that said; “Where’s Sarah”? Go ahead, hang your hat on that crazy hook, Dems look forward to it.
Aaron F Park,
“Second – instead of being intellectually superior – bring it back to what Reagan did. So many pseudo-Republicans envoke the name of Reagan, but they are remiss to understand what Reagan really did – he was one of us, we thought he was talking to us when he spoke.”
Are you referring to the REAL Reagan or the FANTASY Reagan created by the likes of the Heritage Foundation?
Here’s a bit of history on the REAL Reagan legacy, some excerpts from Joshua Green’s 2003 article, Reagan’s Liberal Legacy from the Washington Monthly:
But after his initial victories on tax cuts and defense, the revolution effectively stalled. Deficits started to balloon, the recession soon deepened, his party lost ground in the 1982 midterms, and thereafter Reagan never seriously tried to enact the radical domestic agenda he’d campaigned on. Rather than abolish the departments of Energy and Education, as he had promised to do if elected president, Reagan added a new cabinet-level department–one of the largest federal agencies–the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Though his budgets requested some cuts in some areas of discretionary spending, Reagan rapidly retreated and never seriously pushed them.
Though in speeches Reagan continued to repeat his bold pledge to “get government out of the way of the people,” government stayed pretty much where it was.
This hasn’t stopped recent contemporary conservative biographers from claiming otherwise. “He said he would cut the budget, and he did,” declares Peggy Noonan in When Character Was King. In fact, the budget grew significantly under Reagan. All he managed to do was moderately slow its rate of growth. What’s more, the number of workers on the federal payroll rose by 61,000 under Reagan. (By comparison, under Clinton, the number fell by 373,000.)
Reagan also vastly expanded one of the largest federal domestic programs, Social Security. Before becoming president, he had often openly mused, much to the alarm of his politically sensitive staff, about restructuring Social Security to allow individuals to opt out of the system–an antecedent of today’s privatization plans. At the start of his administration, with Social Security teetering on the brink of insolvency, Reagan attempted to push through immediate draconian cuts to the program. But the Senate unanimously rebuked his plan, and the GOP lost 26 House seats in the 1982 midterm elections, largely as a result of this overreach.
The following year, Reagan made one of the greatest ideological about-faces in the history of the presidency, agreeing to a $165 billion bailout of Social Security. In almost every way, the bailout flew in the face of conservative ideology. It dramatically increased payroll taxes on employees and employers, brought a whole new class of recipients–new federal workers–into the system, and, for the first time, taxed Social Security benefits, and did so in the most liberal way: only those of upper-income recipients. (As an added affront to conservatives, the tax wasn’t indexed to inflation, meaning that more and more people have gradually had to pay it over time.)
It’s conservative lore that Reagan the icon cut taxes, while George H.W. Bush the renegade raised them. As Stockman recalls, “No one was authorized to talk about tax increases on Ronald Reagan’s watch, no matter what kind of tax, no matter how justified it was.” Yet raising taxes is exactly what Reagan did. He did not always instigate those hikes or agree to them willingly–but he signed off on them. One year after his massive tax cut, Reagan agreed to a tax increase to reduce the deficit that restored fully one-third of the previous year’s reduction. (In a bizarre bit of self-deception, Reagan, who never came to terms with this episode of ideological apostasy, persuaded himself that the three-year, $100 billion tax hike–the largest since World War II–was actually “tax reform” that closed loopholes in his earlier cut and therefore didn’t count as raising taxes.)
Faced with looming deficits, Reagan raised taxes again in 1983 with a gasoline tax and once more in 1984, this time by $50 billion over three years, mainly through closing tax loopholes for business. Despite the fact that such increases were anathema to conservatives–and probably cost Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush, reelection–Reagan raised taxes a grand total of four times just between 1982-84.
This record flummoxes the best efforts of today’s Reagan hagiographers to explain away. Peter Wallison, for instance, after proclaiming that Reagan “stayed the course against changes in his economic plan,” later dismisses the president’s tax increases as “a modest rollback” that “seems to have been the result” of his accepting a Democratic promise to cut spending by twice that amount. (Whatever happened to “Trust, but verify”?)
Reagan continued these “modest rollbacks” in his second term. The historic Tax Reform Act of 1986, though it achieved the supply side goal of lowering individual income tax rates, was a startlingly progressive reform. The plan imposed the largest corporate tax increase in history–an act utterly unimaginable for any conservative to support today. Just two years after declaring, “there is no justification” for taxing corporate income, Reagan raised corporate taxes by $120 billion over five years and closed corporate tax loopholes worth about $300 billion over that same period. In addition to broadening the tax base, the plan increased standard deductions and personal exemptions to the point that no family with an income below the poverty line would have to pay federal income tax. Even at the time, conservatives within Reagan’s administration were aghast. According to Wall Street Journal reporters Jeffrey Birnbaum and Alan Murray, whose book Showdown at Gucci Gulch chronicles the 1986 measure, “the conservative president’s support for an effort once considered the bastion of liberals carried tremendous symbolic significance.” When Reagan’s conservative acting chief economic adviser, William Niskanen, was apprised of the plan he replied, “Walter Mondale would have been proud.”
For the entire article go to;
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0301.green.html
Poor Republicans. So close to the JBL and KKK and so far from reality. You are senile relics of a dark, ugly and dysfunctional page of history that should have long since closed.