HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS

Heard on the Tom/Toms

Stephen Frank, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views,  6/2/25        www.capoliticalnewsandviews.com

California Republican Party Works With Obama supporters/BLM/ACLU to Register Voters?—They Get the Info!

When I was first alerted to the alliance between the California Republican Party and Rock the Vote, I laughed.  That could not be true.  Rock the Vote was started years ago by the Progressives to register young people as Democrats.  I thought it had died—but, it is alive, well and Totalitarian as ever.

From the CAGOP Bounty Program PDF:

“How to Submit Voter Registrations”

Participants  of  the  CAGOP’s  Bounty  Program  must  submit  their  newly  collected

Republican voter registration forms to www.cagop.org/s/surveybountysubmission.

The CAGOP’s Bounty Program participants can also use their county-specific voter

registration website to receive compensation for the Bounty Program. Using your

County  specific  voter  registration  website,  the  CAGOP  can  track  online  voter

registrations through a tool called “Rock the Vote.”

When anyone goes to register on the CAGOP website

https://cagop.org/register-to-vote/  The first window you get is add your

email address and zip code. Plus this note: “By continuing, you accept

Rock the Vote’s �Privacy Policy <https://www.rockthevote.org/about-rock-the-vote/privacy-policy/>  �and agree to receive occasional election reminder emails from Rock the Vote. You

can opt out from emails at any time”.

Rock the Vote Privacy Policy link: https://www.rockthevote.org/about-rock-the-vote/privacy-policy/

When you go to the CAGOP voter registration page, this is what you get:

Register To Vote

Top of Form

• Email Address*

• ZIP Code*

• Next Step

By continuing, you accept Rock the Vote’s Privacy Policy and agree to receive occasional election reminder emails from Rock the Vote. You can opt out from emails at any time.

Bottom of Form

What is Rock the Voter “Privacy Policy”?

“Personal Information We Collect

“Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, or is capable of being associated with you. Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following information:

• Identifiers, such as your name, email address, physical address, phone number, Social Security Number, and other government issued ID numbers.
• Demographic information, such as your date of birth, gender, race, marital status.
• Professional information, such as your employer or the organization you are affiliated with.
• Internet activity information, such as your IP address, device ID, browser type and version, pages you visited on the Services, search terms and results on the Services, date and time you viewed pages on the Services, your language preferences, and other information about how you interact with the Services.
• Non-precise geolocation information, such as geolocation derived from your IP address.

We collect this Personal Information from the following sources:

• Directly from you, such as when you purchase and use the Services, sign-up for emails, or contact us with an inquiry.
• Cookies and other tracking technologies, such as when you interact with our Services, as further described in the “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” section below.
• Third parties, such as third parties that we partner with to provide products and services to you, social media networks, and, where permitted by law, commercially available sources such as public databases and data aggregators.

In other words the California Republican Party is helping Progressives create a database on Republican registrants.

Then the question is, who is Rock the Vote and what do they represent?  There are six members of the Board of Directors—this will show you the California Republican Party is working with the far Left of the Democrat Party.

Rock the Vote Board Members, political affiliations, activities—from the online Rock the Vote bio’s”

1.   Muthoni Kraal

Mũthoni has worked in progressive politics for over two decades and she’s played a pivotal role in historic campaigns. She most recently served as the National Political & Organizing Director for the Democratic National Committee, helping Democrats to win the White House in 2020 and critical races across the country with a record-breaking voter coalition.

Prior, she spent almost a decade at EMILY’s List, the largest political resource for women in the U.S., shaping women leaders at every level of the ballot. Mũthoni got her start in campaigns working 2 election cycles at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raising money for U.S. House candidates and Congressional incumbents in tough races. That’s when she saw up close that some of the most underrepresented groups in Congress weren’t keeping up with the growing budgets of campaigns.

This led Mũthoni to co-open and run a woman-owned fundraising firm servicing diverse clients, including Barack Obama’s winning U.S. Senate race. She’s worked for the labor movement and held senior level campaign roles.

•  Lara Bergthold

Ms. Bergthold currently serves on the Board of Directors of Rock the Vote, as well as the Campaign for America’s Future and People for the American Way. She works as a Principal Partner at RALLY, offering valuable political campaign, pop culture, and communications experience for companies like GAP, Inc., Sandy Hook Promise, and the Lear Family Foundation, the latter of which she has been the Executive Director of since 1997. In this capacity, she works to provide grants to progressive organizations that push civil rights, the arts, and the like.

She also served as National Deputy Political Director for current Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid, as well as General Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign.

•  Jessica Reeves
• Before starting her consulting business early in 2019, Jessica was the Chief Operating Officer at Voto Latino, a pioneering civic media organization shaking up the political establishment to bring underserved youth voices into the democratic process. A millennial herself, she is a thought leader in civic engagement and youth electoral politics.
• She has spoken at various national conferences and convenings on the intersection of youth, politics, media, and technology including the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva, the Aspen Institute’s Convening on Latino Civic Engagement, SXSW (South by Southwest), AFL-CIO’s Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Conference, and many more. Her interviews have appeared in Univision, Telemundo, CNN, NBC, American Prospect, Washington Post, USA Today, and others. Jessica has served on the distinguished boards of Priorities USA, NonProfit Votes, and Indivisible Austin.

4.  Wayne Jordan

Mr. Jordan is a real estate investor and developer, working primarily in Northern California. He is very active in local, state and national politics. He has been involved in many high-profile campaigns and is an active volunteer in the community, serving on the Board of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, on the Investment Committee of the ACLU, Akonadi Foundation, and in the past on the Board of the Bentley School.

• DeRay McKesson

As a national leader in the Black Lives Matter Movement and the co-founder of Campaign Zero and OurStates.org, DeRay has worked to connect individuals with knowledge and tools, and provide citizens and policy makers with commonsense policies to ensure equity. Spurred by the death of Mike Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, DeRay has become a key voice in the effort to confront the systems and structures that have led to the mass incarceration and police killings of black and other minority populations. He is also the host of Pod Save The People, a weekly podcast focused on activism and social justice. DeRay was named as one of the World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine in 2015 and as one of the 30 Most Important People On The Internet by Time Magazine in 2016.

•  Jeff Ayeroff

Mr. Ayeroff founded Rock the Vote in 1990 in response to a censorship campaign crusading against artists’ use of explicit language. Mr. Ayeroff’s 35-year career in the music industry provided a strong foundation for Rock the Vote’s signature fusion of politics and pop culture. As Senior VP of Marketing and Creative Services at A&M, he spearheaded campaigns for The Police, Quincy Jones, Janet Jackson, Supertramp, the Carpenters , Peter Frampton and many others” 

Now we have the question—who used the CAGOP to be an arm of a radical group?  What are they doing now?  Is there a financial relationship between the CAGOP and rock the Vote?  Are there other data sharing efforts between the two groups?  How soon will the Republican National Committee find out about this?

How soon will the Board of Directors end this relationship? Does anyone believe this is a good thing and should be continued?

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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.)