Below are the results of the CRA Officer Elections at the 2022 Annual Convention in Buena Park: Executive Vice President (Two-year Term) Carl Brickey – 114 votes – Elected George Grachen – 37 votes Vice President (5 two-year term positions and 1 one-year term position) Molly Analla – 115 votes – Elected to Two-year Term […]
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TSA finds firearm in anti-gun California lawmaker’s luggage
(NRA-ILA) – According to several media reports, on March 3 California Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-09) was traveling through a security checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport when the Transportation Security Administration found a loaded gun in his baggage. The Sacramento Bee reported that the firearm was detected by an X-ray screening machine in what was described by Cooper’s […]
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California Republican Assembly 2022 Annual Convention
The CRA 2022 Annual Convention will be held from Friday, March 18 to Sunday, March 20 at the Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel in Buena Park. The convention will meet in the Irvine/O’Neill Rooms on the third floor (Ballroom Level). The banquets will be held in the Knott Room also located on the third floor. At this […]
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Fact-checking Gavin Newsom’s State of the State speech 2022
(SACRAMENTO OBSERVER) – Here’s what California’s governor had to say in his 2022 State of the State address — alongside corrections, clarification and context from the CalMatters reporting team. Good evening everybody. Good evening everybody. good evening. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Well, Madam Lieutenant Governor, it’s nice to be able to say this on International […]
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California Republicans skeptical of Gov. Newsom State of the State address
As California’s Democratic governor faces an ongoing housing crisis, renewed attention on crime and rising gas prices, many are wondering what he will tout.
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California’s sanctuary state policies allowed deadly church shooting to occur
(ABC10) – Nearly a week following the deadly church shooting in Sacramento that saw a father kill his three daughters and a man chaperoning a supervised visiting before turning the gun on himself, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones is pointing to U.S. immigration policies and California’s Sanctuary State Laws to blame. “They’ll call me racist and evil,” Jones wrote […]
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CRA President’s March 2022 Message
We are now moving firmly into spring, and just as the flowers will be blossoming, so will CRA. Our organization is breaking records on several fronts. Currently, we have 47 locally charted Republican Assemblies throughout California, including twelve new and four reactivated chapters. Additionally, three prospective chapters recently started the chartering process. Thanks to our […]
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Let States Make Medicaid Better
(NATIONAL REVIEW) – I don’t appreciate being told that I’m not nice. I’m a very nice person. I’m just pissed.” Those were the exasperated words of Aurora, Colo., psychologist Lisa Griffiths directed at “mediators” hired by the Colorado state government to ease tensions over Medicaid reimbursements. The mental-health providers who attended the forum — designed to enable the […]
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The Expanding Housing Crisis: Affordable, Attainable, or Impossible?
(CALIFORNIA GLOBE) – It has been said that everything starts in California. Politics, storms, vast amounts of (currently) sequestered, (always) predatory wealth, that “up at the end” accent no one can actually tolerate, etc. – all that is true. Add to that list of housing cost spikes. There has been a significant debate around the idea […]
