had been promised the she would be allowed to speak, but was not even allowed onto the floor.) In fact, the entire chapter was forced to stand behind a cordon in the back of the room.
In addition, it appears that a THIRD university fell victim to the State Committee's penchant for de-chartering dissenting clubs. The UCLA College Republicans, key supporters of rechartering UCSD, were denied a charter themselves after showing up a little late - despite the fact that they had been told that they had until Sunday morning to get there and that the chartering deadline was extended three times for chapters who happened to support the state board's agenda. Even more appalling is the fact that the UCLA decision was made on a close voice vote, described by my source as a "screaming match", but that calls for a roll call vote were rejected and victory was declared for the "nays". I'm also told that several chapters actually walked out after the UCLA incident, and more after the UCSD vote.
I will be posting a lot more info on this situation later - including video and documentation of numerous wrongdoings - which I had previously been denied access to in hopes that the state convention would see the light. I'll be posting a lot of other stuff as soon as I get it, but I will start with a copy of the check for $500 which had to be written to the UC-San Diego chapter by the state committee after that same amount was stolen from their bank account by the start-up chapter which then stole their charter. The crazy part of this story is that the final check had to come from the state board rather than the new group of people who took the money - as the funds were apparently donated to the state committee as soon as they were withdrawn (and before the vote to de-charter the club from which they were stolen). I'd love to hear the explanation for that.
I'll be getting a better scan of this check soon (along with other materials), and the CCR State Committee can thank me later for being nice enough to blot out their account and routing numbers.
...and since I'm sure the hateful comments from state committee supporters will start flowing in soon - I'm going to make a rule that will delete anyone who uses profanity, makes absurd personal accusations against other commenters, or attempts to masquerade as me in order to make me look stupid. Though, I will leave most of the vitriol up, as you people seem intent on digging your own hole - which makes it even more fun to antagonize you,
The manner, in which the charter situation was handled, for better lack of words, was ridiculous. The board demonstrated a lack of discipline, respect, and composure. The board, essentially, demonstrated no attempt to silence or maintain the college republicans’ outbursts. However, despite the board’s incompetence, the denial to charter UCLA and UCSD was the proper course of action. The subsequent clubs missed three deadlines-obviously they were unable to get their act together. In theory, they should have followed the prerequisite procedures required for chartering their clubs prior to the convention. Furthermore, in conclusion, it is harmful and vindictive for clubs to take any course of action that will harm CCR as a whole. The right course of action is create dialogue between both factions and attempt to address grievances. Although one particular faction momentarily feels disenfranchise, they clearly had fewer votes heading their way, and their walk out only damaged and hurt their chances of electing their candidates.
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UCLA did not miss the deadline. The call to convention states that chartering is due by 10:30 AM Sunday morning at Convention which is supposed the start time for the last ex-com meeting. The only other deadline is supposed to be an email deadline. So if you want to email your charter in you need to do so by a different time. In this case they pushed the email deadline back so they could take care of their schools as well as try to steel some of RSRs schools. In addition they moved up the chartering deadline and the last ex-com meeting to 9 PM Friday night. This violation was announced at 8 PM on friday night. This was intended to hurt CR clubs who did not support the establishment. At the last ex-com meeting it was decided that there would not be an audit. That means that the ex-com thought it was okay to accept whatever numbers they wanted. In other words they were going to lie by inflating the number of CRs they have in their clubs. This is not fair to those playing by the rules. This is just a small fraction of what's wrong with CCRs leadership.
ReplyDeleteHowever, despite the board’s incompetence, the denial to charter UCLA and UCSD was the proper course of action... Although one particular faction momentarily feels disenfranchise, they clearly had fewer votes heading their way, and their walk out only damaged and hurt their chances of electing their candidates.UCSD, to my knowledge, missed no deadlines. The CCR Executive Committee, with Revolutionize CCR's support, simply ignored the College Republicans at UCSD constitution and ruled to charter to a club haphazardly run by one of Revolutionize CCR's members over a club that both followed all the rules and had the support of a supermajority of UCSD's conservative students. The ExComm was given multiple weeks to present a case that their action did not violate the College Republicans at UCSD constitution. They did not even attempt this; instead, they simply asserted they had the authority to make whatever wrong decision they wanted to and force us to live by it. Furthermore, because Revolutionize CCR refused to do the right thing even though it didn't endanger their election chances (and even though it would have won them my support!), they have proven themselves to be a group incapable of taking any meaningful political risk. That may be tolerable (though sad) in a state with a large Republican majority. But there's no way in hell that will work in California in 2009.
ReplyDeleteOops, sorry about the missing paragraph break after the initial quote. Adam, feel free to insert it and then delete this comment.
ReplyDeleteWhile its plain to see that CCR has not indicated their williness to be inclusive as the republican party has been as well. CCR has lost the support of 4 good clubs that have over 2000 supporters at their respective clubs. UCLA has approximately 1000 members. UCSD has over 400 members, UCI has over 400 members. Saddleback has over 200. and various other clubs have vowed to never join CCR again. CCR effectively killed alot of their support. I hope the southern region of ccr can recover since they have two effective clubs, UC Riverside and CSU San Marcos. UCSD has no legitimate club in CCR. The true club at UCSD will probably be stronger due to their distance from CCR. If you take UCLA and Pepperdine CRs for example, they are the most successful clubs on a college campus due to their distance from CCR. I imagine UCSD CRs will be amongst that list of powerhouses. So long CCR
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ReplyDeleteSo you claim to have seen UCLA's Chartering list...I have as well not all of them have phone numbers but the number totals around 1000, UCLA has avoided involvement in previous years because of things like what happened, but my question is if Rev was so secure why did they commit this "conflict of Interest" as the Pasadena Chair pointed out...on the USC front they don't even have 25 dues paying members yet how many members did steve claim to have
ReplyDelete"The call to convention states that chartering is due by 10:30 AM Sunday morning at Convention which is supposed the start time for the last ex-com meeting."
ReplyDelete10:30AM is the start of the general board meeting, that is like registering to vote and voting all at once at 7:59PM on election day...
...and I don't think you have to be a dues paying member to be on the chartering. That all comes down to individual club rules, clubs can charter with however many members are willing to. For example, my school has about 10-15 active members who come to all the meetings and are able to vote (we don't have dues, but it is the same thing), but we have about another 75 people who come to one or two events, protests, or parties, so while they aren't dues-paying/voting members they still consider them part of the club
ReplyDelete"they still consider them part of the club" should have been "they still consider themselves part of the club", sorry.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAH, 2000 supporters? That's unbelievably laughable. I saw UCLA's chartering list, it has just over 100 names on it, not 1,000. Don't worry, as soon as these people are gone, their clubs will re-join CCR. Pepperdine the most successful? HA! Is this ryan mcnicholas? It has to be. This is just more of the whining and excuses from a team that got destroyed because of their own incompetence.How DARE you suggest this about Ryan. I'm sorry that he's not morally bankrupt, unlike most of the other people in this organization, and was one of the FEW honorable people on the previous ExecComm. CCR is an organization meant to BRING YOUNG CONSERVATIVES TOGETHER, not DIVIDE THEM. When will you start doing what you're supposed to do as a College Republican, which is to spread conservatism around the state and stop attacking members of your own party? It's no wonder that the Republican party is in a decline, if THIS is what we have to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me Southern ccr,
ReplyDeleteThere are 2 effective clubs in southern region?
How can you ignore my chapter at San Diego State? We have grown from 118 members to over 630 since August, we turned out 28 members to convention, turned out 47 volunteers at GOTV, hired 19 people to local campaigns, have held 2 meetings this year with over 100 members and were called "THE model College Republican Club by CRP Chairman Ron Nehring"
Do some research before you make such a baseless statement next time.
Thanks,
Jeff Leieritz
Berkeley missed the deadline as well, they attempted to charter on the spot, however, were also denied. Thus demonstrating that clubs affiliation or alignment with a faction does not impede their chartering request.
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The way your college clubs mimic the larger "democratic" institution which you seek to perpetuate, well, it would be funny if it weren't so sad. And the UCSD pubbies were so timid that they just stood behind the cordon? Sad. If this is what's supposed to bring on the red state future, young conservatives in California have a long way to go. At least the pathetic fair-trade "activists" are DOING something on campus instead of masturbating furiously over minor ideological squabbles that probably have no significance outside of your incestuous little circle, yet impede you all from actually working together and finding solutions to problems. It's so typical of capitalist systems: some small handful of assholes at the top (not a personal insult, since I don't know them) make an arbitrary decision, then they run a mock election to legitimize the action as popular or somehow democratic. Then everyone gets all steamed and the losers get to stand cordoned off from the "democratic" process and watch everyone else play.
ReplyDeleteWhere the current College Pubbie practice diverges from typical C-SPAN humdrum, and therefore becomes interesting and relevant to the outside world, is where other chapters start realizing their power and withdraw from the process, both to stand in solidarity with the slighted clubs, and to draw attention to the process's lack of legitimacy overall. Of course, what you find is that you start a discussion on the important shit, which is intentional exclusivity at the Big Meeting. Those of us who wear black have known these tactics for a long time, so it's nice to see fellow students realizing their autonomy. Of course, it's just pathetic when they continue to cling on to their diseased institutions, hoping and praying (like those of us who actually work for a living have to) that somebody above them will take notice of their plight and do something for them. Of course, if California College Republicans is like the rest of the world of senseless hierarchy, there will be no respite within the system, and the slighted groups will discover that they'll have to develop their own structures for getting important work done. Don't say we didn't see it coming....for a few hundred years or so...
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