If you have Curt Hagman as your county supervisor in San Bernardino County and you are registered Republican, you can vote for Matthew Munson and the others on this image March 5th. You can share this post to friends and family as well.

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Those who studied Political Science or have been involved in elections should realize that unlike a parliamentary system, American elections are candidate centered. Your state or county Republican Party does not in fact recruit candidates, but they might give them a donation or some coaching to be a better candidate. If you see no candidate filing report for a district you are looking to run for, go ahead and make the decision to run. Consult your family, friends and loved ones before running, but Republican votes should be fought for instead of surrendered where some county parties such as Los Angeles would rather see seats uncontested so the chairman could appoint their friends to those vacant state party appointments.

Assembly District 41 and 50 need candidates at the time of publication and they are open seats with no incumbents. Assembly District 41 covers the San Gabriel Mountain communities in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties from Pasadena, Claremont, Wrightwood, North Upland and North Rancho Cucamonga. Assembly District 50 includes south Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Colton, Loma Linda and half of Redlands.

If you plan ahead now you can get your nomination signatures without having to stress about meeting the filing deadline and losing your fee and not getting on the ballot. Each signature received in the early signatures in lieu of filing fee period also provides a discount off the filing fee which is 1% of the current wage of the office ran for. State legislature is around 1200 dollars and congress is around 1700, US Senate is around 3400.

Dates to Consider

November 8 deadline to turn in signatures in lieu of filing fee for candidacy.

November 13 is the day people can start their candidacy paperwork and pay their filing fees.

December 8th is the day people need to get their paperwork turned in so they do not lose their filing fee and remain on the ballot for the primary.

As someone involved in the San Bernardino and Los Angeles County Republican Parties by virtue of being the party’s nominee in three previous elections (2002, 2014 and 2018) I have a major complaint about county political parties such as the Los Angeles County Republican Party not taking the state elections code seriously and merely treating it as President Biden initially dealing with Vladimir Putin.

The elections code has no legal teeth when it comes to county party political organizations. County parties can systematically discard ex-officio nominees and its leaders can endorse non-Republicans in contested elections with Republicans running in them when we are supposed to be the Republican Party not the Lincoln Club (a group of Republican leaning business owners and allies). There needs to be an enforcement provision where if the county chairman endorses a Democratic Party member for county supervisor instead of a Republican or being neutral, the offender would have to donate 100 dollars to one of the California State Tax Contribution Funds.  If a county party illegally denies membership to their party, then the county party would be liable for each offense with a cost of 100 dollars to start and add up another 100 until it hits 1000 dollars, and the county party would have to also pay money to charity as a punishment.

First offense is section 7404, Los Angeles County Republican Party decided to discard this part of the elections code and put Democratic Party of Los Angeles County language only limiting ex-officio membership to Los Angeles County nominees, throwing out both myself and Kathleen Hazelton illegally. They were fed up with people asking critical questions about party operations and wanted the meetings to be more like a pep rally. Traditionally if Tom Lackey is the nominee, he gets a seat in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties, and it should also be the same for Kathleen Hazelton as well. Reciprocity should be given to all our ex-officio candidates and winners.

Elections code 7413 is also a big problem as well, even though county supervisor races are not partisan races, these races are just as partisan as state legislative and congressional races. We have had former San Bernardino County chairman Curt Hagman endorse James Ramos, a registered Democrat for County Supervisor in 2012 and 2016 when we had Republicans running. In Los Angeles County Richard Sherman the current chairman decided to endorse Bob Hertzberg over two qualified Republicans running for Board of Supervisors in the third district. I thought we are there to elect Republicans. However, county leadership rarely takes offense when general members violate 7413. We had Republicans such as Mayor Warren in Fontana endorse Cheryl Brown over a Republican running in the primary. If county parties fail to remove a member off a committee for a severe lapse of judgement, there should be ways that party members could get some recompense so the elections code would have teeth and not merely suggestions in how to operate a county party. At this time there are no actual members violating this rule right now in San Bernardino County, but this has happened big time in the past.

There also needs to be a provision for transparency of operations when it comes to member discipline. If people are booted off a committee there should be a certified letter mailed to the member being booted. There should be due process as usual when it comes to running membership of an organization to make sure people are not being railroaded out.

When we as Republicans treat our members fairly and work to elect Republicans instead of the least toxic Democratic Party politicians, perhaps the small donors of our party will come back to the party and work towards our shared goals together.

The newspaper industry may have created self-inflicted wounds due to their editorial decisions where the letters pages and features articles are leaning one sided, but we also deserve a place to express our viewpoint.

Here are some issues that I want to cover on my website:

The state of the San Bernardino County Republican Party

What needs to be done with public education locally and within the state.

Protesting should not require an ideological militia to defend you.

What books should not be bought or showcased in a grade 7-12 school library or teenager section in a public library?

Our municipal governments are they actually working for us?