The June 17th speakers are Assemblywoman Audra Strickland and Tony Strickland, a candidate for the California State Assembly. July 15 will feature political pundits including: Dan Schnur, Steve Frank, and Jon Fleischman. Admission is $25 per event or $125 for the entire series that runs through July.

Republican bad boy, Tom Del Becarro, longstanding chairman and now behind the curtain finance director of the erstwhile county Republican Central Committee, has done it again. Like squashing bugs, Del Beccaro taught both the California Secretary of State and the Fair Political Practices Committee (FPPC) a thing or two by committing the #1 campaign fundraising no-no two-years running by: accepting, nay practically requesting (wink-wink-nudge-nudge) cash campaign contributions above the $99 legal limit.

At least that’s what’s implied in the recent flyer for the upcoming Chairman’s Golf Tournament to be held April 28th. The flyer states that although checks are preferred for Single Golfers ($185) and Foursomes ($740), cash and credit cards can be accepted! Nor does the form request the usual FPPC requirements for employer info, etc., etc., etc.

Maybe this is the spunk and streetwise can-do savvy that the California Republican Party saw in Del Beccaro to make it snap up Il Duce as a frontline fundraiser who laughs at rules whether or not he produces results. Cause when you can’t win elections it’s all about style points, right?

Full Disclosure: Bill Gram-Reefer, publisher of this blog, is a candidate for the Contra Costa County Republican Party Central Committee, District-4.

The April 22th speaker is author/columnist Dan Weintraub, of the Sacramento Bee. May 12 will feature a special panel discussion on the War on Terrorism and Islamo-Facism.

Admission is $25 per event or $125 for the entire series that runs through July.

This is disappointing news since all that rank-and-file Republicans have heard was how wonderful a fundraiser His Majesty is. Why, even the California Republican Party has asked the Brilliant Shining Leader, to head a key fundraising effort for the State Party! But according to PUBLIC RECORDS AVAILABLE ONLINE, Federal and State financial reports beg the question:

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

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So this is why the Del Beccaristas don’t want anyone to be so bold as to look behind the curtain. Because, there’s nothing there! By comparison, in January 2007, there was over $21,000 and steady income to start out the year.

Now there’s only a chalk outline on the sidewalk. And these are the people telling Republicans the CCRP’s Central Committee doesn’t need better financial management or oversight.

Fundraising Wizardry, indeed—Poof!—it’s gone.

Good luck to the California Republican Party once it discovers Il Duce has no clothes.

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Full Disclosure: Bill Gram-Reefer, publisher of this blog, is a candidate for the Republican Central Committee representing District 4 (Concord, Pleasant Hill, Clayton, Pacheco, and a teensy-tiny gerrymandered strip of Walnut Creek).

In connection with those added duties, the State Vice Chair will be relinquishing his role as the Contra Costa County Chairman effective in April of 2008. The Contra Costa Party will hold elections for their new Chairman at that time.

Some fuss has been made recently concerning the appearance of “The New Conservative Paradigm,” by Thomas G Del Beccaro. Del Beccaro is the Vice Chair of the California Republican Party, and Chairman of the Contra Costa County Republican Central Committee.

Tempting fate, just like the current batch of Republican presidential candidates, Del Beccaro claims to be the new delphic oracle of Reaganism. In fact, New Paradigm does nothing more than repackage the “three legs of the stool” analogy commonly used to describe the erstwhile Reagan Coalition: fiscal conservatives; pro-defense/military; and social conservatives.

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California Party Chair, Ron Nehring, is accused by influential Republicans at the state level of organizational incompetence, and poor electoral performance.

We have been reporting the exact same symptoms here in Contra Costa County, where County Party Chairman and Vice Chair of the Republican State Party Committee, Tom G. Del Beccaro, in an apparent microcosm of the State party’s woes, has also managed to turn the Republican Central Committee into a Mickey Mouse Club.

Is it too late for the Terminator to step in and save the party’s chestnut (yes, just one) from the fire? Continuing with this group of Keystone Kops would certainly damage McCain in November, as well as Ahhnold’s Senatorial ambition, don’t ya’ think? As the line from T2 says: “Sarah Connor, if you want to live, come with me now.”