Tag "Tony Quinn"

Back to homepage

McClintock attacked by Republican political operative

The two-week federal government shutdown was an interesting public relations move by the White House. The media, predictably, blamed Republicans and the Tea Party. But it also was curious that veteran GOP operative, political analyst and former legislative aid Tony Quinn

Read More

Brulte: 2012 Assembly GOP lost because ‘We got lazy’

March 4, 2013 By John Hrabe Jim Brulte was elected chairman of the California Republican Party in a landslide vote on Sunday. But despite winning support from 90 percent of convention delegates, the former state senator kept campaigning until the

Read More

Is there any hope for CA Republicans?

Feb. 25, 2013 By John Seiler Last week I riffed on a column by Tony Quinn on Republicans, immigration and California, “Are Republicans Finally Learning to Count?” In turn, Quinn has responded to me: “He argues that even if they

Read More

Is the Tea Party finished?

Jan. 8, 2013 By John Seiler Tony Quinn just wrote happily of the demise of the Tea Party. Which never had much power in California anyway. He said that, without them, Republicans might have grabbed control of the U.S. Senate in

Read More

National microtargeting drove youth vote, not Prop. 30

Nov. 10, 2012 By Chris Reed I have interviewed Tony Quinn for my old radio shows several times and acknowledge he knows way more about California politics than I do. But he is flatly, simply wrong when he writes the

Read More

Did Gabino Aguirre Flout Code of Conduct?

JULY 21, 2011 By JOHN HRABE New evidence obtained by CalWatchDog.com raises new questions about whether Dr. Gabino Aguirre, a member of California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission, violated the commission’s code of conduct and possibly state law by failing to disclose

Read More