CA: GOP state convention tries to bar reporters

GOP state convention tries to bar reporters
Carla Marinucci,Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Political Writers
Saturday, March 19, 2011

(03-19) 04:00 PDT Sacramento - --

Crippled by declining registration and frozen by intraparty battles, California Republicans are in such disarray - and so apparently nervous about their prospects - that they attempted to ban the media from a luncheon keynote speech of a nationally known pollster laying out the party's future challenges.

The move to eject the media from the speech delivered by Fox News contributor Frank Luntz didn't please many Republicans - and embarrassed a state party that, for the second time in its three-day convention, had attempted to bar media from reporting on the ordinarily mundane gathering of 1,000 party faithful.

"I am really appalled. Here we stand as Republicans, we stand for the First Amendment, freedom of the press," said Celeste Greig, chairwoman of the conservative California Republican Assembly. "This happens in Iraq, Iran, or the old KGB when they were in control."

Eric Hogue, a conservative Sacramento talk show host, also was disgusted.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/19/MN1Q1IF9PR.DTL#ixzz1H6hbTYiv

Well, that can't be right. It's Democrats who are in disarray. No wonder the Republicans don't want reporters there if they can't get such an elementary fact right.

take a bow, you didn't vote for these morons but voters in other states voted for their morons.


Over the last 20 years Republicans have subconsciously adapted Rush Limbaugh's "I'm always right about everything, and I won't bend an inch" shtick. Listen to most Republicans today, and they all sound like Rush- know it alls, that don't give a damn about their fellow citizens and who view the opposition as "The Enemy".

It's an attitude that turns everyone but the hardcores off, and has pushed the GOP to extinction in this state.

we were just getting over 7 years of moron with GAS and weren't about to have that mess again. with JB, at least we'll have 4 years of a dem governor who knows what the hell he's doing as he's done it before.