County GOP Committee Tried to Revoke Charter of the LA County GOP Club–Why?

What happened from some members of the current County Committee was particularly offensive.

HUH?

What?!

This message disconcerting and poorly written, even unprofessional.

Notice that my name is misspelled, for starters.

Then the email was calling for a response by December 11, 2016. That's a Sunday. HUH?

Then the Executive Director and I spoke for about half and hour.

I asked for specific information about complaints against me. He had no information to supply me.

The issue about inviting a Libertarian candidate to speak to the club followed from the fact that there was no Republican running in state senate district 33 against the hateful, detestable Ricardo Lara.

David Hadley allowed independent Bill Bloomfield to speak to the Beach Cities Republicans in August, 2012.

Here's a link announcing the event.

Here's a picture:

I do not recall my Assemblyman (who was President at the time) receiving any complaints about having this non-Republican speaking at the Beach Cities Republicans. Frankly, even today I would not have been upset, since he was the best chance for taking down Henry Waxman, the Democrat who was running to replace Janice Hahn in that region.

By the way …

The next President, Evan Chase, invited Election 2014 Independent state senate candidate Seth Stodder to speak to the Beach Cities Republicans, too.

Why do I bring all of this up?

Because this recent attack on the Beach Cities Republicans smacks of selective enforcement. They are going after me, but they never raised any alarms about Bloomfield or Stodder speaking to the members of the Beach Cities Republicans.

What is going on?

I still received no answers from Maruca. He then all of a sudden changed the deadline for a response to NOVEMBER 11. Did he really expect me to assemble the BCR board at the drop of a hat? No time, no notice, no explanation about what was going on.

All of this was deeply unprofessional and immoral.

Later that day, I contacted the RPLAC By-Laws committee chairman Gary Aminoff for more information.

He told me that there were members of the AD-66th Central Committee unhappy with my activism. There were complaints that I was "harming the party."

WHAT?! That's not a reason. They said there were other complaints, I asked for documentation of these complaints, and I asked for the minutes of this supposed By-Laws meeting that had discussed revocation of the BCR charter.

He added that he served as chairman, and had no control over the initial set of complaints being filed against me. Then he told me that it was a unanimous vote to move ahead with a recommendation for suspension of the BCR charter.


[Addendum: Gary Aminoff corrected this account: I said that there was a unanimous vote of the committee in agreement that the Bylaws had been violated.  I approved the motion because there was a violation.]

What is going on? Why all of these complaints?

Were people unhappy with the growth of our club's membership?

Were they unhappy with the concerted efforts of our members to help David Hadley and other local Republicans get elected?

What was particularly disconcerting about this effort is that the Beach Cities Republicans are the most active members in the South Bay, if not the entire county.

Why would they try to stop a good thing?

Let's state the facts plainly. The RPLAC By-Laws committee–whoever they are currently–was putting a gun to the head of every member of Beach Cities Republicans.

They were trying to intervene and prevent a basic election from taking place which would allow the members of a chartered club to decide who would be the next BCR President, whether me or someone else.

This is wrong.

This is America, not a third-world country where individual voters are not permitted to exercise their franchise to vote for their representatives!

Don't Revoke ME, PLEASE!

They were dictating to them a forced outcome for the November 17th BCR elections. If they re-elected me as President, they would revoke our charter.

I began sharing this information with the Beach Cities Republicans board and other members.

One member demanded a copy of the RPLAC By-Laws. At least ten people were ready to come with me to the next RPLAC Executive Committee meeting on November 12th.

Then I received another email from Aminoff, informing me that this matter would not end up on the November 12th agenda.

THEY BACKED OFF! SUCCESS!

The power belongs to We the People!

Aminoff then told me that I would receive a letter outlining the violation (still nothing about a supposed "pattern of behavior").

Here's the thing:

Jason Maruca had already sent me a letter!

Check it out below:

And guess what?

I complied with this request.

Call to Action:

I encourage everyone who is reading this post …

1.Demand answers from the current RPLAC leadership on this matter:

Why did some members of the local Central Committee or the By-Laws committee try to have the Beach Cities Republicans charter revoked?

Why?

Gary Aminoff: By-Laws Committee Chairman
gary@lagop.org
(310) 387-6900


Jason Maruca: 
jason@lagop.org