We have two elections before us and the Cerritos Republican Club has endorsed for ABC Unified School Board David Shaffer and for Cerritos Community College Board of Trustees former Cerritos Mayor Bob Hughlett.  Please contact either of our endorsed candidates and help them both to victory this November.  To contact David Shaffer call 562-467-0891 and for Bob Hughlett's campaign call 562-926-5003; and ask them how you can help their campaign in these last weeks before the November 3rd election.

 

There is also 2 other opportunities for volunteering:

On October 24th, a group of us will be heading north to help out David Harmer in the CD-10 in Walnut Creek against John Garamendi.  This seat was vacated when President Obama appointed Ellen Tauscher to an ambassadorship.  If you will remember, Ms. Tauscher originally took this seat from the Republican Party in the late 1990's and due to mistakes made by John Garamendi the polling has Hamer leading Garamendi by a slim margin, so we have a chance to take this seat in the special election.  There will be phone banking, precinct walking, and maybe even need for mailhouse operations.   To reserve a seat on the bus, or to indicate that you don't want to go on the bus trip but are willing to make phone calls for David Harmer from home, email Gay Aminoff at gary.aminoff@lagop.org by Thursday, October 22nd.  Some of us will meet at 4:30 AM to carpool to the El Segundo location by the 6:00 AM departure time to take one of the two buses leaving from LA County, I will get a list from Gary of volunteers in the Southeast LA County region and relay the location where we will meet. We will be getting back around midnight, after about 5 hours of volunteer work. 

 

CRP National Committeeman and former CRP Chairman, Shawn Steel is also organizing Republicans, Democrats and Declined to States for the purpose of getting qualified individuals to apply for the State Redistricting Commission. Move-On.org and other Democrat friendly groups are already doing this as well and estimates have their numbers at around 1,000 total persons.  If you or someone you know and trust are interested please send a note of interest to our club P.O. Box 4193 Cerritos, CA 90703 and I will get your contact information to Shawn, so he and his team can help you through the process.  Under Proposition 11, certain folks like myself are not permitted to apply, but we can help guide folks who are. Here are the qualifications that must be met if interested:

-Each commission member shall be a voter who has been continuously registered in California with the same political party or unaffiliated with a political party and who has not changed political party affiliation for five or more years immediately preceding the date of his or her appointment.

-Each commission member shall have voted in two of the last three statewide general elections immediately preceding his or her application. 

-Within the 10 years immediately preceding the date of application, neither the applicant, nor a member of his or her immediate family, may have done any of the following:

a. Been appointed to, elected to, or have been a candidate for federal or state office.
b. Served as an officer, employee, or paid consultant of a political party or of the campaign committee of a candidate for elective federal or state office.

c. Served as an elected or appointed member of a political party central committee.
d. Been a registered federal, state, or local lobbyist
e. Served as paid congressional, legislative, or Board of Equalization staff
f. Contributed two thousand dollars ($2,000) or more to any congressional, state, or local candidate for elective public office in any year, which shall be adjusted every 10 years by the cumulative change in the California Consumer Price Index, or its successor
-Staff and consultants to, persons under a contract with, and any person with an immediate family relationship with the Governor, a Member of the Legislature, a member of Congress, or a member of the State Board of Equalization, are not eligible to serve as commission members.

As used in this list, a member of a person's "immediate family" is one with whom the person has a bona fide relationship established through blood or legal relation, including parents, children, siblings, and in-laws.

 

So there's 4 opportunities to get actively involved to bring about the type of change that is needed, go forth and conquer. 

Yours truly,

Matt Kauble,

President of the Cerritos Republican Club

 

P.S.  If you are reading this and are not a member of the Cerritos Republican Club you can join by contacting Barbara Lockwood, our membership chair by email at barbie562@aol.com or calling her at 562-926-7069.  To join you must be a Registered Republican in good standing.

 

The Cerritos Republican Club Board has decided that we will have a canned food and dry non-perishable box food drive for the Long Beach Mission at the November Meeting.  At the December Dinner we plan to collect new unwrapped toys for a charity that we will determine probably in October or early November. Both of these actions are not just for public relations, but are one way where we can put our policy of private charity and our smaller government values to work in our local community.

Last announcement the 56th AD Republican Central Committee is in the process of putting together our precinct operations.  If interested in participating please contact either myself (email: mskauble@hotmail.com; phone 562-743-1855) or Roger Garrett (email: mrupac@aol.com; phone: 562-843-1251).