California is a solid red political state – if you leave out the Bay Area and Los Angeles County. These two “black holes” have dragged us as a state into the liberal Democrat quagmire regularly during the 21st century. Election returns make it clear that Republicans must address one of these black holes to win statewide in California on more than an occasional basis. We don’t have to win the targeted black...

A new report released by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) presents a strong case that manufacturing has declined more during the last decade than it did during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  It’s gratifying to finally see a well-respected non-partisan “think tank” release a report based on empirical data that corroborates what those of working in the manufacturing industry have...

A record crowd of close to ninety Lincoln Clubs members and friends filled the main dining room of the Long Beach Yacht Club on Thursday, January 26, 2012 to hear local hero Governor George Deukmejian discuss his career and what’s in store for us in the future. He also revealed the reason he has been skeptical of a Lincoln Club in the Long Beach area. It turns out that when Deukmejian was a young legislator in the late...

Chapter Chairman George Thomas and his dynamic Co-Chairman wife Bonnie The Los Angeles County Lincoln Clubs has had hundreds of outstanding chapter meetings over our thirty years of independent existence. As part of the United Republican Finance Committee (URFC) in the 1960s and 70s, we had many more. But in the four years plus since George and Bonnie Thomas assumed the mantle of leadership of the Foothills Lincoln Club, records have...