The California Republican Party envisions a vibrant, prosperous and safe California defined by a robust and growing world-class economy, strong and healthy families, and reformed and responsive state and local governments that serve all people while protecting individual liberty. We are boldly confident about California’s future and hold dearly all that is good about California’s people.

After more than 50 years of Democratic Party control of the state government, California has regressed from the “Golden State” to having the worst quality of life in the nation. This has motivated many Californians to seek new opportunities in other states. In the last decade, a net of over one million people exited the state. Unless serious changes occur this exodus is expected to accelerate.

Republicans, as Americans, support our Constitution which is grounded in the assured protection of all law abiding citizens. We condemn anyone or organization that hates and seeks to harm members of any race, color, religious creed, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, age, or genetic information.

President Trump’s accomplishments this year have been many. Highlights include a soaring economy, a stock market that has hit record highs more than 60 times during the year, and the lowest unemployment rate in seventeen years. He signed into law a tax bill providing the most sweeping tax changes in three decades, lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent with the aim of stimulating long-term growth and the creation of jobs.

Oh the things you can learn by volunteering at the county fair for hours on end....

The Yolo GOP had quite the eye-catching setup, with the U.S. Capitol building used last year having a new Washington Monument to join it this year. We additionally had an informal straw poll we offered to people as they passed by. "Voters" (some of them were underage, not registered, etc.) would simply put five almonds in a jar for one presidential candidate, or spread them out however they chose. Give or take, we had about 1200 people vote in the poll, and I can proudly note there were plenty of occasions when there was a backlog of folks in and around our booth.

One of my favorite commentators, the Stanford Hoover Institution's Thomas Sowell, on occasion writes what he calls a "Random Thoughts" column, gathering an intriguing mix of short analyses on a wide range of mostly political topics. In homage to Mr. Sowell, I offer the following. 

On the eve of the first Republican presidential debate, Governor Jerry Brown laid down a gauntlet of a challenge to the field of Republican candidates running for President of the United States: “My message is real clear: California’s burning. What the hell are you going to do about it?”

The worker bees of the American political process can be divided into two categories.

Woman: “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a Republic or a Monarchy?”

Benjamin Franklin: “A Republic, if you can keep it."

Historians aren't certain whether Benjamin Franklin ever had the above exchange after the Constitutional convention in 1787, but whether or not he did, the sentiment behind it is all too correct.

“He’s not a war hero,” billionaire Donald Trump said of John McCain at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”