Once upon a time, I was told, in the 70s, most Orange County elected officials

[question everything]

were Democrats. But then it became a solid Republican. And the ATM of every national R candidate.

I think that the first cracks happened in 1992 when a couple of famous R voted for Clinton.

I once heard the story from one of the, a woman developer who was invited to the "100 event." I think that it was a donation of $100K - in those days this was a large sum.

And Barbour, a Southern gentleman who was the head of the RNC came to her and asked: and who are you with, little lady? And she coldly replied: I am with the 100.

Congratulations! California. You did it again! Showing the rest of us the way.



And I know it is hard to celebrate with the disasters of the fire, but you will rebuild. You will.

[wasupaloopa]

1. What started the fall of repubs in CA was Pete Wilson and prop 137. The repubs wanted teachers and

local government officials to check the legal status of immigrants and deny service to those without legal status. Teachers would have to not teach to kids who were not here legally for example.

The backlash has resulted in repubs becoming more and more irrelevant.