Comments on: Calif. GOP Deflects At Convention https://calwatchdog.com/2011/03/21/calif-gop-deflects-at-convention/ Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:19:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Don Schweitzer https://calwatchdog.com/2011/03/21/calif-gop-deflects-at-convention/#comment-4373 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:19:28 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=15121#comment-4373 1) You did not attend the meetings I was at. Your overall reporting is a bit less than enlightened journalism. One of your own phrases “lacking in substance” would be appropriate.

2)” No substance”…again where were you….not sitting next to me, not present at the dinner table, no bowed head at the prayer breakfast, nor checkd into the hotel. Perhaps not in the same universe.

3) I will talk to Mark; however, the way you penned it only 250 people attended, not so. I came from Siskiyou with seven delegates. We are one of the smallest Counties. L.A. alone had about 100. There is no way only 250 people attended. It took over 40 minutes to get the vote done on one ballot. Thats not 250 people. Either back up what you pen or pen it clearly. The way it was written we have only 1400 delegates in California and only 250 attended.

4) Getting your “facts” from a source and not cross checking is not ” news reporting ” it is news guessing. Perhaps news confuse is a better way to describe this piece.

5) O.K. “long time journalist” Whom did you interview that expressed they were returning home “dirty” or was that just opinion. You and I saw a very different convention. If you were actually there in mind and body, you didn’t talk to the same people that I spoke with.

6) “and tell the truth”….seems like you and you alone get what the truth might be. What truth, which truth, I guess it is Your truth. You are welcome to “Your Truth”. Don’t expect people to buy into something you cant articulate.

I suspect your journalism program included peer review. This kind of half-formed blogger journalism does no one any service. It would not have make my High School paper. My university peers would have eaten me alive if I had given them this piece for review. Your pink slip is showing.

Don L. Schweitzer
Republican Central Committee, First Vice-Chair, Siskiyou County.
CRA, President, Siskiyou County

]]> By: Gail E. Neira https://calwatchdog.com/2011/03/21/calif-gop-deflects-at-convention/#comment-4372 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:46:34 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=15121#comment-4372 I read your perspective twice and provided common sense wisdom in contrast to other online comments, reviews and news articles I read today, Monday. I am president of San Francisco Republican Alliance, Bay Area, a truly culturally and socially diverse conservative volunteer club since 1999. Actually, it used to be a think tank club exclusively for very affluent, politically and business influential Republican men since 1952 and then faded as most of them were appointed to many national and state roles to keep the club going. But one of the survivors (as in not dead) sanctioned me to revive the name but with updated format and membership.
If I can facilitate more links of communication and resources for you, let me know. In fact there may still be directors of your parent legislative watchdog and think tank institute(s) who know of me from past political interactions.
I wish to add to your assessments that the core of the blame for a fractured public image, loss of Republican voter confidence in the Party leaderships, and lack of civil, intellectually useful two-way communications between the presumed GOP leadership elite or elitists and the rest of us lies with those with administrative and leadership authorities and functions. There is an archaic tradition which mistakes arrogance and condescending behavior and style for public relations. Even grassroots Republican active, long term contributing volunteers, regardless if conservative or moderate, are treated like mindless drones whose participation is restricted to chanting pre-scripted stale sound bites and mentally menial volunteer labor. There is an increasing erosion of leadership by inspiration. Intimidation is the rule nowadays. I have been an insider far too long to know less than any news reporter looking from the outside and relying on titular officials for insights.
As San Francisco’s only active Hispanic Republican woman with decades of leadership credentials, I think I know who, what, where, why and how in the Party.

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