California Republicans have elected a former state lawmaker as party chairman and charged him with leading a major turnaround effort. More than 1,000 delegates on Sunday elected Jim Brulte to
Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer from San Francisco, was elected to become the party’s statewide vice chairman. In a recent posting on Facebook, Dhillon was accused of sympathizing with terrorists by
SACRAMENTO — One of Jim Brulte’s first acts Sunday as the newly elected leader of the California Republican Party was to hand-deliver a $50,000 check from a friend, with the
California Republicans are at a crossroads. We need to take a good look in the mirror and be honest with ourselves. We have many values and traits as Republicans that
After the thrashing California Republicans took at the polls in November, we have our work cut out for us. We should start by being honest with ourselves. After every election,
It has been almost 4 years to the day when a small group of Americans came together to protest the explosion of our government. The lack of representation on both
I spoke with Harmeet last night and this morning. The ACLU comments in the CRA letter are a misrepresentation of who she is. She is a Sikh. She believes all
A lot of the readers of this blog remember the April 2011 CRA Convention. The fallout has been occurring since then – including the Placer GOP Cent Com election in
A lot of the readers of this blog remember the April 2011 CRA Convention. The fallout has been occurring since then – including the Placer GOP Cent Com election in
It’s not a surprise that the California Republican Party is, ahem, a bit out of step with the mainstream of the state (you see a lot of Repubs holding statewide
Given its dismal performance in the last elections, one would think that California’s GOP would be looking for any way possible to expand its base: Continue reading this article at
Ace political reporter Carla Marinucci of the San Francisco Chronicle lists 10 California politicians to watch in 2013, some of whom are well-known statewide or nationally, and a few who
During the 2011 election cycle, a mystery: A campaign sign uprooted from Chuck Bernstein’s front yard. A cellphone dropped nearby, reported to the Menlo Park police. A phone that, according
There were about a hundred people at the official San Francisco Republican Party election night event. Most of the men were dressed in suits and many women were wearing red
Harmeet Dhillon was born in Chandigarh, India, the daughter of a Sikh physician and the granddaughter of a four-star general in the Indian Air Force. Now she’s making her mark
Dhillon is a Republican running in San Francisco. If that doesn’t mean much to you, consider this: 9 percent of registered voters in San Francisco are Republican, and that number
President Barack Obama came to the Bay Area Wednesday evening for a series of campaign fundraisers. He went to Atherton, Redwood City, and then will spend the night in San
A Northern California man won his battle for a job: All it took was six years and $500,000 of taxpayer money. When Trilochan Oberoi applied for a job as a
California has settled a lawsuit filed by a man who was barred from becoming a prison guard because he refused to shave the beard required by his Sikh religion, officials
If you write a newspaper article in San Francisco that rankles a political leader, the government can step in and punish you. That sounds like red meat for right-leaning forces
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says Congress wants to know what’s working. She met with a group of small business owners Thursday morning to go over suggestions for how to
KPFA appears to have a Republican activist, and a high-profile one at that. She is Harmeet K. Dhillon, chair of the GOP in San Francisco and an innovative political strategist.
A few highlights: “If I were king for a day, I would eliminate the teachers’ union” “I think that there are a lot of Democrats that are anti-immigrant” Continue reading
Harmeet Dhillon has the loneliest job in politics: chairwoman of the Republican Party in San Francisco, a very liberal city that former California GOP leader Ron Nehring described as “just
President Barack Obama was in the Bay Area to meet with the nation’s high tech brain trust and perhaps shore-up their all-important support. He had dinner in Woodside at the
Dhillon and Smith founding partner Harmeet Dhillon is going to lead the Republican Party in San Francisco as she has been elected as chair of the San Francisco Republican party’s
