Letter From the Chairman

An Update from Your San Francisco Republican Party

During our May Central Committee Meeting, we were pleased to certify new ex officio delegates & welcome them to the party along with the filling of a vacancy in AD-17. Their experience and dedication will be instrumental in advancing our goals and strengthening Republican presence in San Francisco. We are confident that these appointments will further our efforts to promote conservative principles and offer meaningful leadership to our local community.

To conclude the meeting, we took a moment to honor and remember those who have tragically lost their lives under Communism. Their stories serve as a stark reminder of the importance of our freedoms and the principles that we uphold. The SFGOP remains steadfast in its mission to protect and preserve these values, and we will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that our voices are heard and our rights are defended.

Volunteer Appreciation Dinner

The event was a powerful reminder of the incredible impact that volunteers have on the SFGOP. Their tireless efforts help us promote conservative values and support candidates who fight for what we believe in. We are immensely grateful for their commitment, and this dinner was just a small token of that appreciation. We look forward to continuing this tradition in the years to come.

If you would like to become a Volunteer please sign up at www.sfgop.org/volunteer. Additionally if you would like to become a Precinct Captain, please reach out to vicechair@sfgop.org to inquire.

City Commissions & Mayoral Authority

HELP reduce Unaccountable Governance in San Francisco!

During our April endorsement meeting, the San Francisco Republican Party unanimously voted to endorse the proposed initiative on city commissions and mayoral authority. As this measure is still only a proposed initiative, we agreed to gather signatures to help place this initiative on the November 2024 ballot.

This proposed measure will reduce the city's current 130 commissions to a number between 22 and 65, with all the extraneous commissions dissolved within 16 months. Furthermore, any commissions that the Board of Supervisors reauthorizes or restructures - will have only advisory powers, and no decision-making powers, unless state or federal laws require otherwise. Finally, this measure will transfer decision making authority from each former commission to the head of the department that the commission used to oversee.

If you would like to help gather signatures for this measure, please contact Lisa Remmer at PoliticalAffairs@sfgop.org.

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ABAG and BAHFA: Did you Know?

The Association of Bay Area Governments has approved the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority's plan to put a $10-20 Billion regional bond measure on the November ballot. To watch this plan unfold, attend some of the upcoming BAHFA meetings. 

BAHFA will be presenting their plans to the public in several locations on May 7: Contra Costa. On the same page are links for meetings in Martinez and Concord during the following week:  RSVP or learn more here.

Also, March 14, El Cerrito.

May 22, possibly during working hours, BAHFA's Executive Board will discuss the bond. They will announce the location and the virtual link several days before.

June 26, possibly during working hours, BAHFA's Executive Board will vote to put the bond on our November ballots. They will announce the location and the virtual link several days before.


Thanks to lobbying by the same folks, our ballots will also have a measure asking us to lower the threshold of voter approval from the current two-thirds (66.67%) to 55% for special local taxes to fund housing projects and public infrastructure. 

Check these websites closer to May 22 and June 26:

https://abag.ca.gov/meetings

https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/authorities/bay-area-housing-finance-authority/bahfa-governance-meetings

An Exclusive Invite to Elect Tech in San Francisco This Month

Remembering the Victims of Communism

On May 1, we remember the millions of victims of communism the world over.

Dividing human beings into “classes” and setting them against each other, the Marxist International Socialist Congress declared May 1 to be a day of general strikes, demonstrations, or other activities for the purpose of promoting communism, sometimes in the guise of promoting the concerns of the “proletariat.”

They are devoted to opposing economic freedom and the prosperity that a capitalistic system delivers to all people. With the loss of economic freedom comes the loss of all freedoms - speech, self defense, press, association, self determination, and religion.

““Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs at any consideration of "good" and "evil" as indisputable categories. Communism considers morality to be relative, to be a class matter. Depending on circumstances and the political situation, any act, including murder, even the killing of hundreds of thousands, could be good or could be bad. It all depends on class ideology. And who defines this ideology? The whole class cannot get together to pass judgment. A handful of people determine what is good and what is bad. But I must say that in this respect Communism has been most successful. It has infected the whole world with the belief in the relativity of good and evil. Today, many people apart from the Communists are carried away by this idea.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West

May Day is one of the most important holidays in communist countries such as China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and former Soviet Union countries. Our hearts are with the people there.  We grieve the loss of life, health, freedom and opportunity caused by the embrace of Communism in the world.

“Victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the gulags, labor colonies and special settlements.

To this list should be added nearly a million gulag prisoners released during World War II into Red Army penal battalions, where they faced almost certain death; the partisans and civilians killed in the postwar revolts against Soviet rule in Ukraine and the Baltics; and dying gulag inmates freed so that their deaths would not count in official statistics.

If we add to this list the deaths caused by communist regimes that the Soviet Union created and supported—including those in Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia—the total number of victims is closer to 100 million. That makes communism the greatest catastrophe in human history.” – Thomas Hudson
 

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” – Patrick Henry

An Evening With Tulsi Gabbard

Upcoming CAGOP Spring '24 Convention

The CAGOP Spring '24 Convention is here!. This highly anticipated event, a cornerstone of California Republican politics, will bring together party members, leaders, and activists from across California to discuss our future and strategize for the upcoming election cycle- returning to the Bay Area for the first time in eight years!

The convention will feature an array of influential speakers, (notably including Keynote Speaker RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump!) informative workshops, and invaluable networking opportunities. Attendees will hear from prominent leaders in our party who will share insights and strategies to strengthen our efforts. Even if you're not a State Delegate or Associate Delegate, we still encourage you to attend and be part of this convention. 

The CAGOP Convention will be held just south of San Francisco in Burlingame at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport from May 17-19. Join us to unite as a party and ensure that our voices resonate powerfully throughout California politics.

Find out more information & register here.

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