I am not familiar with any such motion, though it would not surprise me in the least if in fact Chairman [Name Omitted] promoted that view. Most likely, she would have sponsored a resolution that would bind County Republican Central Committees to endorse only those candidates or initiatives already endorsed by the CRP and conversely to disallow County endorsements of statewide candidates or initiatives not endorsed by the CRP. The RINOS for whom she is a local front (namely, [Name Omitted], [Name Omitted], and the New Republican Majority) have no interest in controlling the day to day functioning of County Republican Central Committees. When it comes to putting together a Lincoln Day Dinner, or organizing old ladies to sit at registration booths in front of Safeway, they are quite fine with allowing the County Republican Central Committees to maintain their legal and actual autonomy. What they care about is maintaining a consistent message (that is making sure that no Republican Party organization endorses candidates or initiatives not in line with the wishes of the "smoke filled rooms" that run the CRP) and reducing that very message to no more than simple minded, inoffensive, politically correct platitudes. Thus, it would be very likely that, if indeed Chairman [Name Omitted] did introduce such a motion, then the motion would have centered on restricting the power of County Central Committees to make their own endorsements. It should be noted that, even if the CRP passed such a motion, it would have no legal effect on County Republican Central Committees. Of course, most County Chairmen would comply with it anyway, either because they do not know any better, or because they too are trying to curry favor with the "powers that be" within the CRP. Nevertheless, in fact, County Republican Central Committees are not branch offices of the CRP. They pre-exist the CRP; and if such CRP went on to remove the delegations of County Republican Central Committees that refused to go along with such a new rule, then indeed those County Republican Central Committees would continue to have legal standing within their own communities as the only official Republican Party organizations for their respective Counties.

The friend informs Michael Erickson that the aforementioned RINO Chairman has been fired by a nearly unanimous vote of her own County Central Committee. In response to the news, Michael Erickson writes the following note: I am happy to see [Name Omitted] be fired. Frankly, from the start of her tenure, I had observed from afar her elitist contempt for any person or group who actually desired for the Marin County Republican Central Committee to be relevant politically. Whether in her clear disdain for Ron Paul supporters, or condescending attitude toward the social conservatives, it was obvious that, so long as she remained at the helm, the Republicans in Marin County would not have a real leader or spokesman for their interests. For a minority party, there is no gain in a sycophantic affirmation of the "powers that be." I had warned her of that fact, when she first became Chairman; and I furthermore had urged her to find an issue or two at the local, non-partisan level where hers could be a compelling voice for change from the leftist, effete status quo that passes for "politics" in much of the County. In observing her reticent response at the time, I knew that she would not pursue a course of action in line with my advice, though I had no idea then that she would go out of her way cavalierly to defy her own Committee, as she did in her support for Proposition 14. In politics, one is either rocking the boat, in pursuit of a deeply held principle, or one is not relevant. The vast majority of political hacks are of the latter sort. They are impressed with their intra-party titles, or with the VIPs with whom they may commune at cocktail parties or in hospitality suites; and they confuse that apparent "influence" with real, political power. In fact, they have no influence at all, because they have never demonstrated any capacity to move large numbers of voters and to win elections. Rather than having real power, they are just the latest in a conveyor belt of forgettable apparatchiks - party men who fill some cogs in the wheel for awhile, until they are replaced by equally obscure do nothings. At most, by taking over the Chairmanship of a County Central Committee, or perhaps by holding some title in the California Republican Party, they are able to stifle the resolve of those who really want to pursue meaningful, political activism; but even then they are usually only temporary restraints (though some of these apparatchiks, like [Name Omitted], do indeed have enough stubborn tenacity to remain destructive for a long time). [Name Omitted] was simply a forgettable cog on a listless ship; now that she is gone, she will find that she has no friend in the California Republican Party and nothing but disdain as her legacy among her peers.