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Hard Right Tactics Are Bad for the California Electorate

I rarely agree with my state Republican Party chair, Jessica Patterson with the decisions she makes for the state party. However, for 2022 Mike Cargile, candidate for the 35th Congressional District is not ready for prime time. I helped create the monster in 2020 because my party failed to recruit a candidate. I signed his petition and defended him from the Media Matters for America led assault against his campaign.

Removals of endorsements was not a mainstream practice in the California Republican Party until Jessica became leader of the state Republicans and I thought the process was being abused because I thought Jessica wanted to depress the delegate totals our candidates get awarded. One of the state board of directors told me that he did not receive the exact information that made him unworthy of being endorsed. However, Mike Cargile wrote an email that showed off the fringe the candidate is, which did not help this former champion of him to defend him this time. He was saying because our party was being inclusive to people such as Gina Roberts, a transgender delegate from San Diego County that our party lost its way despite the individual being a strong advocate for a good amount of our party’s beliefs.

If Mike read information from the Log Cabin Republicans, a good number of us in the LGBT and straight ally community do not believe people who were born male have business in female sporting competitions and if you have full male parts, you have no business in a female locker room or be jailed with women. But Mike absurdly throws Gina Roberts into the pool thinking that Gina is insane like Rachel Levine, a transgender leftist that Biden recently promoted.

The establishment tried to primary Cargile out in the recent primaries we had in California, but the other leading choice Rafael Carcamo was very underwhelming where his enunciation was deeply lacking, and his social media presence was very disappointing. The main theme is Cargile says he is “the Family Man”, so he wants to articulate for traditional values that a good number in the Republican base values. However, one can be traditionalist while realizing we should not go on a jihad because a state party delegate may not be from a mainstream demographic group. I never saw politicians such as former Sen. Mike Morrell acting like how Cargile behaved despite Morrell having similar beliefs.

Gina Roberts belongs in the party just as much as Mike Cargile. We are a symphony in a very Democratic Party leaning state. We need all of us together to fight politicians such as Gavin Newsom, Norma Torres, and Scott Wiener. We have bigger issues to deal with, Democrats and pro-abortion activists are thinking abortion rights with no restrictions is their wild card, but bashing transgender people is far from the list on critical issues for families in Chino, Eastvale, Fontana and Pomona. Gasoline is still near five dollars; eggs are approaching five dollars a dozen and life is becoming more expensive no matter your demographic group.

We need to work on issues that unite people. The more we fight our own party, the more Norma Torres will succeed just as well as her past elections for US Congress. We are a team despite our differences despite our religious beliefs, ethnic groups or even as part of the LGBT community. The party is mine just as much as its Gina’s or Mike Cargile’s. Telling people to get lost is not going to help in winning elections. Elections are about addition to a coalition. There is common ground the values community such as Pastor Jack Hibbs and Mike Cargile can have with myself and Gina Roberts, but the Overton Window has changed for California, and we must work together for us to change the path California and the nation is in.