California Republicans meet in Burlingame to ponder their relevance
By Steven Harmon
Bay Area News Group
Posted: 02/23/2012 08:34:29 PM PST
Updated: 02/24/2012 07:42:53 AM PST
SACRAMENTO -- Less than two months into the new year, California Republicans are already reeling from a series of setbacks that reflects their sagging prospects.
As activists descend on the Bay Area this weekend for the state GOP's spring convention, the California Republican Party has been struck with a few hard realities:
The Republicans' registration numbers are down to an all-time low: 30.4 percent. They're almost broke. And Gov. Jerry Brown began the year announcing he would pursue a tax-hike initiative and dismissed Republicans as politically irrelevant, after pursuing them like a desperate suitor in 2010.
"Since they're out of power, the sole purpose of the Republican Party is to fight power," said Bill Whalen, a fellow at Stanford University's conservative Hoover Institution. "Their only rally cry has been to fight tax increases. But they can't just be the party that exists merely to fight the other side."
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