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LINCOLN LETTER
Newsletter of the Ventura County Lincoln Club
Volume 3, No. 1, June 1, 2001
Save the date! “August 26th” Assemblyman Keith Richman
Addresses April Meeting
Lincoln Club Meeting & BBQ
The Honorable Dr. Keith Richman, newly elected
The Ventura County Lincoln Club will hold its Assemblyman for the 38th Assembly District
annual General Membership Meeting and election of representing Simi Valley, Fillmore, Piru and the West
members of the Board of Directors on August 26, 2001 San Fernando Valley, was the guest of honor at the April
at the beachfront home of Paul and Carolyn Leavens. meeting of the Ventura County Lincoln Club.
The Lincoln Club will be celebrating its first Richman thanked the Ventura County Lincoln Club
anniversary since reforming and restarting in August, for its support for his campaign and for supporting other
2000 and will be reaching for Membership Chairman, Mainstream Republicans. He pointed out that his
Paul Leaven’s, goal of 100 members in 2001. margin in Ventura County enabled him to win the 38th
Invitations and directions as well as a program will be Assembly seat and that he was most appreciative of the
forthcoming. Save the date! support of the Lincoln Club.
Richman talked at length about the background and
Lincoln Club Supports Mainstream current problems in the electrical energy crisis in
Republicans in 2000 election California. He was appointed to the joint Assembly and
Senate Committee on energy and admitted that he was
Although the Ventura County Lincoln Club was only on a rapid learning curve on the states electrical system.
reorganized and restarted in September, 2000, it made In the final analysis, he said that the original
some sizeable contributions to Republicans running for deregulation law was flawed but that Governor Davis
both partisan and non-partisan offices. and the PUC had dozens of opportunities to fix it, but
In the very first meeting, the club committed $1000 failed to do so, for which we are all paying dearly.
each to County Supervisor Candidates, Jim Monahan
and Mike Morgan. In the general election, a total of Ventura County Central Committee
$3000 in contributions were authorized for Dr. Keith
Richman and Robin Sullivan, with Dr. Richman
Honors Frank McDonald
ultimately winning his Assembly seat by virtue of the Long time Ventura County Republican volunteer
strong showing he made in Ventura County. and contributor, Frank McDonald of Thousand Oaks,
was inducted into the Ventura County Republican Hall
Holiday Party Supports “Casa Pacifica”. of Fame at the annual dinner of the Ventura County
Republican Party on May 31, 2001 at the Wood Ranch
About 75 Ventura County Republicans joined the
Country Club in Simi Valley.
Lincoln Club to celebrate the holidays at the Tower Club
The Honorable Bob Lagomarsino, Congressman
in Oxnard in December, 2000. Members celebrated the
Elton Gallegly, Assemblyman Tony Strickland,
victory of President Bush in November and looked
District Attorney Mike Bradbury and a host of
forward to winning elections in California.
Republican elected officials, party members and
Each guest brought a present for the youngsters at
volunteers turned out to honor McDonald. He worked
Casa Pacifica, the county’s facility for children from
on nearly every Republican campaign in the county from
dysfunctional families and homes.
before Ronald Reagan's campaigns for Governor in
Firestone Keynotes Lincoln Day Dinner 1966 and President in 1980, until the present.
The Honorable Brooks Firestone, former Ventura County Lincoln Club
Assemblyman and candidate for Congress, was the guest Web Page
speaker at the Lincoln Club, Lincoln Day Dinner held in
February at the Wedgewood Banquet Center in Ventura. The Ventura County Lincoln Club authorized the
Firestone, at the time a candidate for Chairman of the expense of creating its own web page at the May
California Republican Party, thrilled the guests with a meeting of the Board of Directors. Interested parties
background of events leading up to Lincoln’s Gettysburg will soon be able to access the web page by looking up:
address and then delivering as good a rendition of the www.VenturaCountyLincolnclub.org
speech as most of the guests had ever heard. (Todey Lincoln-Mercury of Oxnard, Corporate Sponsor)
Firestone then addressed the plight of the California
Republican Party which had just suffered its third, Ventura County Republican Central
devastating defeat in a row. He pointed out that the Committee Struggles
party had gone from near parity in partisan offices in
California in 1994 to almost two thirds Democrat in For the first time in over 25 years, the Ventura
2000. He blamed the demise of the party on the County Republican Party has no paid office help, no one
leadership that had worked to exclude, rather than updating the party roster, the mailing list or other routine
include, all Republicans. reports. Recent fund raising projects have broken even
Brooks said he was running for Chairman of the CRP or lost money. Had it not been for the generous support
to try to mainstream the party and win back the millions of the state party in the 2000 election, the county party
of women and minorities that had left and registered as would have long since been bankrupt.
Democrats or Decline to State. Although he lost by 84 Lincoln Club members who serve on the Central
votes, he caused the party, its members, and its Committee are concerned and hope to help elect
contributors to rethink the direction of the CRP. (The members in 2002 that will unite and support the party in
V.C. Lincoln Club donated $1000 to Brook's campaign.) the future.
