HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS

Heard on the Tom/Toms

Stephen Frank, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views,  5/8/25        www.capoliticalnewsandviews.com

CAGOP PROUD?:  One Million New Registered Republicans (actually 900,00) AND 1.8 Million NEW Registered Democrats

The numbers speak for themselves.   Past Chair Jessica Patterson and new Chair Corrin Rankin have been crowing about the close to one million new registered Republicans in the past six years.  Not noted is that the Democrats registered 1.8 million in the same time.  In other words, we are even deeper in the hole with the Democrats.  In the past six years under Patterson and two years under Rankin as Vice Chair, we have 800,000 MORE Democrats than Republican.  We are going backwards.  I guess that they thought if they yelled about the one million loud enough, no one would notice the 1.8 million new Democrats.  We need answers as to what the CRP Board is going to do about this?  Ask them, especially when they tell you about the one million new GOP’ers.  We can win in 2026—but we need the voters registered.

On March 14, 2025, CRP Chair had the following Facebook posting:

Jessica Millan Patterson

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It’s official! In just six years, California Republicans have registered ONE MILLION new voters across the state!

This is GREAT—in her six years as Chair, the CRP registered almost one million new voters.  Sounds good, right.  NOT mentioned is that in the SAME time the Democrats registered

1, 800,000 voters.  In others words, during her six years as Chair, the GOP went over 800,000 MORE in the whole.  So when you see CRP bragging it registered a million voters you need to know that the major organization that registered GOP voters was the DMV.

In her six years, as best as can be told via the CRP Bounty payments, the CRP registered no more than 500 Republican in any given years.  Imagine if we had implemented the voter registration program, not just had it on paper.

From the Secretary of State website:  https://admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2024-general/sov/04-historical-voter-reg-general.pdf

Nov. 6, 2018

Democrat 8,557,427

Republican 4,735,054

Nov. 5, 2024

Democrat  10,355,081

Republican  5,638,209

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(Periodically the California Political News and Views will publish tidbits of political news, to keep you in the loop of what the pooh bahs know.  The phrase “tom/tom’s” comes from my mentor, Lorelei Kinder who never passed a rumor, just called to tell me what she heard on the “TomTom’s”.  This column is named in her honor.)