Larry Wilson: Where are GOP candidates like Pete McCloskey?

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The kind of politician the moribund current CGOP can only dream of.

Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a luncheon at the California GOP Convention in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Everyone’s always saying, and they are not wrong, that the California Republican Party is dead in the water, sinking like a boulder would.

Born in Southern California — Loma Linda — he represented the Palo Alto area in Congress from 1967 to 1982. After graduating from South Pasadena High, he attended Oxy, then Caltech, then graduated from Stanford and Stanford Law School. From Wikipedia: “He served in the Korean War as a member of the United States Marine Corps. For his service, he was awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star.

It’s well to remember that what we consider a liberal part of California, the San Francisco Peninsula, wasn’t so progressive in an earlier era. He later said that he thought he “was the first Republican elected opposing the war” despite the fact that his “constituency, two to one, favored the war in 1967.” In early 1975, he went to see for himself the effects of the U.S.

But where is the otherwise principled, iconoclastic, independent-thinking California Republican — liberal on social issues, conservative fiscally — who could get elected to statewide office in our state today? It’s not Steve Garvey.

 

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