CRA 2024 Annual Convention The CRA 2024 Annual Convention will be held on Saturday, April 20 at the Four Points by Sheraton Sacramento International Airport located at 4900 Duckhorn Drive, Sacramento, CA, 95834. The convention host is the Placer County Republican Assembly (PCRA). At this convention, we will: hold elections for state officers and district directors; consider amendments to the CRA Bylaws and resolutions; and hear from elected officials and subject matter experts. The early bird price for registration, including lunch, is $95 through March 31. The price rises to $125 after Marc ..read more

(NATIONAL REVIEW) – Two Christian school teachers in California were reinstated by a federal judge after being placed on administrative leave for opposing the district’s policy of not informing parents when a child opted to change their gender identity in class. The educators, Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, sued the California board of education on the grounds that “deceiving” a child’s guardian violated their religious beliefs. Judge Robert Benitez ruled in favor of the teachers, noting that the district’s policy of hiding gender-identity changes from parents violated the F ..read more

(BREITBART) – President Joe Biden’s deputies have let 6.2 million illegal migrants into the United States, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Biden’s southern inflow is more than one migrant for every two American births since January 2021. “More of those people are also being released into the United States than previously, generally through the use of parole authority or with a notice to appear before an immigration judge,” said the report, titled “The Demographic Outlook: 2014 to 2054.” The 2023 inflow included 900,000 migrants who were released after they walked ..read more

(OPINION) – California’s Proposition 47 has been a man-made disaster… cataclysmic… a catastrophe. Need more descriptors? How about, “Make crime illegal again” in California. There have been numerous attempts to repeal and/or reverse Proposition 47, which was passed by tragically misinformed voters in 2014, and flagrantly titled “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” by then Attorney General Kamala Harris, which reduced a host of serious felonies to misdemeanors, including drug crimes, date rape, and all thefts under $950, even for repeat offenders who steal eve ..read more

By David Marko, Assistant Chaplain, California Republican Assembly (OPINION) – As we enter into this season of Christmastime, we are reminded of the infinite mercy and grace that Almighty God has extended to us, not because of anything we have done to deserve it, but simply because God’s is good. And HE loves us. As Christians, we are thankful for the sacrifice on the cross and the mercy extended toward us, that while yet sinners unable to fulfill the Law, we have been offered the free gift of salvation through God’s grace. This is the season where that gift of grace from our Father begins w ..read more

OPINION (CALIFORNIA GLOBE) – Deciding that a person who has not been charged with, let alone convicted of, insurrection is guilty of insurrection and therefore cannot run for president…that is “protecting our democracy” in action, Whenever that term is used, one can be assured that the democracy they are referring to has no semblance to any actual democracy. In this case, “ours” does not mean “all of ours” – it means “theirs.” What they are protecting is their democracy; not a democracy of the people, but now merely a word used to fig leaf the ever-expanding slither of socialist soc ..read more

(CALIFORNIA GLOBE) – The California Secretary of State’s office ruled during the weekend that Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) cannot run for Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) 20th District House seat because of him already running for his Assembly seat again. For the last few weeks, Fong has jumped back and forth between running for McCarthy’s seat or sticking to running for reelection to the Assembly. On December 6th, McCarthy announced that he will be retiring at the end of the year, prompting the safe GOP district to suddenly be open. Numerous candidates quickly jumped i ..read more

When: January 13, 2024 9:00 AM, PST Where: Elks Lodge, 1910 M Street, Merced, CA 95340 REGISTER HERE EVENT DETAILS: Event:  CRA Board of Directors Meeting Date: Saturday, January 13, 2024 Time:  9:00 am – 4:00 pm (Registration Opens at 7:45 am / Breakfast begins at 8:00 am) Location: Elks Lodge, 1910 M Street, Merced, CA 95340 Parking: Elks Lodge Parking Lot, CitiBank Parking Lot (across the street), and West America Parking Garage (605 West 18th Street) Luncheon Speakers: TBA Registration: Early Bird Registration:  $65 (through Monday, January 1) Late Regis ..read more

OPINION (CALMATTERS) – When federal government and state governments passed laws governing wages, working hours and other workplace conditions prior to World War II, agricultural labor was exempted. Many years later, after the 40-hour work week became standard, California’s Industrial Welfare Commission decreed that farmworkers could work up to 10 hours a day or six days a week before overtime pay kicked in. In 2016, however, years of lobbying by unions and other groups finally paid off when the Legislature decreed that the eight-hour day and 40-hour work week for agricultural labor would be ..read more

OPINION (CA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS) – Thanks to a Judge we are safer today.  The Hollywood Slicky has tried to release tens of thousands of criminals onto our streets.  He wanted to violate State laws.  Thankfully he couldn’t. “A Sacramento Superior Court judge has held that the Newsom Administration’s effort to grant early releases to tens of thousands of prison inmates is invalid when it comes to offenders sentenced to indeterminate sentences, most of whom are sentenced for violent crimes. The December 13 decision came in a lawsuit brought by the Sacramento-based Criminal ..read more