Republican National Committee member Shawn Steel paints bleak picture of his party in California
Republican National Committee member Shawn Steel addresses the South Bay Republican Club. Photos Midway through Shawn Steel’s dark depiction of California politics, an impatient sounding listener shouted out from a table near the front of the Manhattan Country Club dining room, “How do we get the state back from the Democrats?” The question reflected the fact that Democrats hold all six statewide offices, a supermajority (61 of 80 seats) in the State Assembly and 29 of 40 State Senate seats. Democrats also hold 46 of the state’s 53 Congressional seats. Steel is a member of the California and National Republican committees. He was the keynote speaker at the annual South Bay Republican Party Awards Dinner at the country club last Saturday. Steel’s response to the question shouted out to him was blunt. “We’re not going to,” he said. “We have a chance to win five California Congressional seats in 2020. My guess is we’ll win two. Four million Californians have fled the state since 1995. Two-thirds of them were Republicans,” he said. Republican National Committee member Shawn Steel addresses the South Bay Republican Club. Photos California, under Democratic leadership, is not only dark…
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