California GOP awash in red ink; laying off staff & vacating headquarters
San Francisco Chronicle / 7-27-12
Three months before the November election, the California Republican Party is so awash in red ink that its board has approved laying off staff and vacating the party's main headquarters in Sacramento, The Chronicle has learned.
The crisis emerged after state party officials, facing an $850,000 shortfall in late June, fell behind in rent, phone bills, payments to Internet vendors and printers, and worried they would have to cut employees' health care insurance payments, according to several Republican sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Since then, party officials have reportedly negotiated down the debt, but campaign finance reports to be released Tuesday are expected to show the California GOP to be at least $450,000 in the red, multiple sources said.
After the state party's board of directors on July 10 approved a plan to close the office, sources said party leaders have made frantic efforts to maintain a Sacramento presence - trying to negotiate a downsized office with four staff members paid by state legislative leaders.
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California is being written off 
But nationally, this could be a huge problem - this browning up of America.
California Republicans say the GOP's troubles, including its failure to woo Latino voters, have major political implications.
"Demographics are going to continue to make it difficult for the Republican Party," said former state Senate Republican leader Jim Brulte. "The California Republican Party's inability to raise money, to fund a statewide voter-registration program, to hire a statewide field staff and pay to do the nuts-and-bolts organizing necessary for victory does nothing but accelerate and exacerbate the problem that demographics are causing."
GOTV our Latino brothers and sisters!!!!!
