With only five months remaining before the primaries, the increasingly moribund California Republican Party finds itself without any viable candidates for many of the top statewide contests, The Sacramento Bee reported.
The California Republican Party is throwing the full weight of its political muscle behind an effort to repeal the state's ban on discrimination against transgender kids. According to BuzzFeed's Tony Merevik, far-right conservatives and tea party operatives have made overturning the recent protections enacted for transgender teens in public schools the center of the party platform.
The fall convention of the California Republican party promised to "rebuild the party from the ground up," and includes many panels and roundtables that do indicate a break from the national party's increasing fealty to its Tea Party elements.
Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the Orange County Republican Party central committee, said she doesn't think a photoshopped image she sent of President Barack Obama's superimposed on a chimpanzee's body is racist.
