[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

This is delicious.
 
Straight-talking former California GOP and Schwarzenegger spokesperson Karen Hanretty today said "Our Republican Party is doomed."
 
Well, couldn't have said it better myself. The implosion at the California GOP made it to page A3 of The Washington Post today, and the calls for the resignation of Grover Norquist sidekick Ron Nehring from the chairmanship post at the CRP are moving faster than the Tahoe fire. 
 
Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are mulling over whether to have hearings on how the CRP hired immigrants to fill jobs that dozens of California Republican activists would have killed for.

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

DEMOCRATS SEEK METHOD IN THIS MADNESS

By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento

So let me get this straight. The GOP Chair, Ron Nehring, has hired an “alien” to be the party’s chief campaign operative earlier this year.

Now this “alien’s” legal status has been questioned by the Bush Administration’s Department of Home Security. Evidently they busted this operative on an immigration issue. Held him in jail for 30 days.

The guy running the operation for the California Republican Party is suing the Bush Administration’s Department of Home Security for millions of dollars.

Not very patriotic. But then, he is an Aussie.

But give him credit. He did try and become a citizen. Why he married not one, but two American women who tried to legalize his status.

Former GOP spokesperson, Karen Hanretty was critical of the hire – not because of his immigration status, but on the issue of his competency (given his newness to the arena) and the fact that there are out-of-work American GOP operatives.

by juls [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Break out the popcorn folks.  The Republicans are writing each other nasty letters and using the Chronicle to lob shots at one another over the CRP's hiring of a Canadian to become their director of research and political technology.  On one side you have mouthpieces of the CRP and on the other, former CRP official spokeswoman Karen Hanretty.  She has become a reliable quote against her party, in much the way that Gary South has become from the other direction.  I really have to side with Hanretty on this one.  There are plenty of qualified people to take that job already in the country and the move is embarrassing to the party.

Michael Kamburowski, the Australian who was recently hired as the CRP's COO, shot off a letter to the party's executive board, from which John Wildermuth is quoting over at the Chron Blog.

Kamburowski generally suggested that Hanretty will never be able to eat lunch in Washington again.

Much more below the fold...

by atdleft [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

(Cross-posted at Trash Dirty Gary)

"When your seat is so safe that you're not concerned about perception, you become too wedded to Washington and you lose touch with your constituency, and you lose touch with your real purpose."

Want to guess who said that? Believe it or not, that was Karen Hanretty, a Republican strategist and former California Republican Party spokeswoman. And she was talking to the AP (via
The Guardian [UK]) about the lovely Republican Congresscritters like John Doolittle and Gary Miller who
have been caught up in some naughty behavior lately. So what's happening? Are even Republicans starting to desert these crooked cons?

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