{"id":14723,"date":"2012-11-29T20:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:14:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-29T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:14:40","slug":"tim-donnelly-brings-crisis-front-and-center-to-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/29\/tim-donnelly-brings-crisis-front-and-center-to-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Donnelly Brings Crisis Front and Center to the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gaTn2BuGfH0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Minuteman Assemblyman looks to challenge for 2014 Governor&#8217;s race<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Tim Donnelly isn&#8217;t one to shy from a fight, and clearly that&#8217;s what he has in mind by announcing a bid for the 2014 Governor&#8217;s gig. Now, Gov. Brown hasn&#8217;t yet announced his intentions, but the speculation is that he will likely be giving it another go. Challenging Gov. Brown, even with the state&#8217;s challenges, is a tall order that many prominent Republicans (read: wealthy outsiders) may not want to take on. <\/p>\n<p>So, this is what is facing the California GOP. Unless the exceedingly unlikely happenstance of a Democrat challenging Brown occurs, Republicans will likely be free to have a free for all primary and still get on the general election ballot. That being said if there were any &#8220;adults&#8221; in the room of the California Republican establishment, you would expect that they would shutter at the thought of a Donnelly candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just look at what the Republicans have here. Donnelly is a far right conservative, out of step with the California electorate, to be sure. But that is probably not a disqualifier with today&#8217;s California Republican Party. But he really came to the public spotlight through his work with the Minutemen, the anti-immigration group. While leadership in a vigilante organization is always a bit tough to spot, clearly he was in the forefront. And the organization never was all that shy about talking about race and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is where the CRP is headed. In a state that is a minority-majority state with a burgeoning Latino electorate, the first major Republican to announce an exploratory bid for the Governor&#8217;s spot is&#8230;a Minuteman leader. &nbsp;If Donnelly does get on the general election, it is difficult to see a path for the Republicans out of the wilderness. As Prop 187 brought Wilson to power, it also set the CRP on its course for long-term irrelevance. &nbsp;That culminated this year with a legislative supermajority.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is a place for the Republican Party in California, but if so, they&#8217;ll need to drastically review where they are headed. &nbsp;The strategy and course they are on is great for a regional party, or perhaps a Southern State. But, unless they can find some way to attract a broader base, they&#8217;ll keep walking the road to minor party status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gaTn2BuGfH0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Minuteman Assemblyman looks to challenge for 2014 Governor&#8217;s race<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Tim Donnelly isn&#8217;t one to shy from a fight, and clearly that&#8217;s what he has in mind by announcing a bid for the 2014 Governor&#8217;s gig. Now, Gov. Brown hasn&#8217;t yet announced his intentions, but the speculation is that he will likely be giving it another go. Challenging Gov. Brown, even with the state&#8217;s challenges, is a tall order that many prominent Republicans (read: wealthy outsiders) may not want to take on. <\/p>\n<p>So, this is what is facing the California GOP. Unless the exceedingly unlikely happenstance of a Democrat challenging Brown occurs, Republicans will likely be free to have a free for all primary and still get on the general election ballot. That being said if there were any &#8220;adults&#8221; in the room of the California Republican establishment, you would expect that they would shutter at the thought of a Donnelly candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just look at what the Republicans have here. Donnelly is a far right conservative, out of step with the California electorate, to be sure. But that is probably not a disqualifier with today&#8217;s California Republican Party. But he really came to the public spotlight through his work with the Minutemen, the anti-immigration group. While leadership in a vigilante organization is always a bit tough to spot, clearly he was in the forefront. And the organization never was all that shy about talking about race and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is where the CRP is headed. In a state that is a minority-majority state with a burgeoning Latino electorate, the first major Republican to announce an exploratory bid for the Governor&#8217;s spot is&#8230;a Minuteman leader. &nbsp;If Donnelly does get on the general election, it is difficult to see a path for the Republicans out of the wilderness. As Prop 187 brought Wilson to power, it also set the CRP on its course for long-term irrelevance. &nbsp;That culminated this year with a legislative supermajority.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is a place for the Republican Party in California, but if so, they&#8217;ll need to drastically review where they are headed. &nbsp;The strategy and course they are on is great for a regional party, or perhaps a Southern State. But, unless they can find some way to attract a broader base, they&#8217;ll keep walking the road to minor party status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1124,23,9588],"class_list":["post-14723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1124","tag-23","tag-9588"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Pt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}