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State Party Bylaw Submissions 2025

#1

Incentive for County Parties to Run Candidates in ALL Districts

By: Matthew Munson, San Bernardino County

2.01.01

Section B

Under number 9)

H) 1 delegate is awarded to county parties that contain at least five electoral districts, have all their state legislative and congressional districts run with candidates in all the elective districts that are in their county during the Top 2 primary election as a ballot qualified candidate not as a write-in.

It used to be four in my other version, but the state party leadership is squeamish about adding an increased number of delegates. The main factor is to make sure counties such as Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Orange have candidates running in all their districts.

#2

Section 2.01.01
Delegates

(C) Amending of delegate eligibility rules
(1) Any changes to delegate membership eligibility in the bylaws shall be for the following even year election where retroactive changes shall be prohibited. Policy changes to eligibility must be made during the convention before or after the even year election to be in effect. 

#3

An amendment to fix the oversight due to the proposal to strip write-in candidates from getting delegate appointments if they lose the Top 2 primary.

By Matthew Munson, San Bernardino County.

If the county party refuses to find a candidate or encourages someone to run, they do not deserve the spoils.

2.01.05.C

(2)

For a vacancy in the office of a nominee for the Member of the State Senate,

Member of the State Assembly or Member of the United States House of

Representatives, the vacancy shall be filled by the election of the

Republican County Central Committee that has the largest number of

registered Republicans within the respective Senate, Assembly or

Congressional District of any county that contains a portion of the district.

An election to fill the vacancy shall be held not later than 60 days after

notice of the vacancy is sent by the Committee to the appropriate

Republican County Central Committee or Committees. A vacancy in such

office shall be filled only by a person who is a registered Republican voter

within the Senate, Assembly or Congressional district to be represented.

Any district that did not have a ballot qualified Republican as Top Republican nominee after the general election, which leads to a vacancy for the appointment. This appointment is declared null for the rest of the term unless there is a special election.

Bylaws are NOT Suggestions

When the county party is re-organized in 2025, new bylaws are proposed, or the previous bylaws are kept. Right now, we have a structural problem in the San Bernardino County Republican Party since Curt Hagman took it over back in 2013. We need to follow our bylaws, or we need to scrap the language so we can be consistent.

Our mission is to do things properly if we want to be an organization with integrity and stability. If we have rules about attendance, then the rules need to be followed. If we have rules against endorsing Democrats in contested elections, then that should be followed as well. If we have rules about paying our dues before voting on endorsements and policies, then that should be followed too.

Members even back in 2015 knew stuff was fishy no matter if Curt, Jan, or Phil Sr. led our party. Policies should not be selectively enforced where individuals from the minority faction get targeted when the majority faction may have violated rules as well. The rules need to be followed or they are just toilet paper.

I would like to see issues about our bylaws addressed before our organizational meeting in public where all alternates, members and ex-officio members would have an opportunity to have their say. The carpet indeed must match the drapes. We want an organization that we can be proud of. We should run with higher standards so we can avoid legal issues and people can have confidence in what we stand for.

I don’t want to return to the days when law enforcement wanted to investigate our county party.