Candidate for
Republican Party County Central Committee; County of San Francisco; Assembly District 13

As a life-long Republican in the tradition of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Hiram Johnson, I am socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

I believe in an inclusive Republican Party which is large enough to embrace Republicans of all stripes: progressives, moderates, and conservatives, pro-choice and pro-life voters, gay/lesbian, minorities, new citizens, seniors, and youth, homeowners, and renters.

To succeed as a majority party, I believe that the Republican Party must eschew socially divisive issues, and agree to disagree on such issues, and to unite around core Republican issues of fiscal responsibility, less government, public safety, quality of life issues, and quality education for every child and adult.

In the context of San Francisco politics, I am a pragmatist. Republicans are 13.4% of the registered voters of the City, and alone, they cannot get elected to public office (with the exception of James Fang to the BART Board, and a handful of Republican Judges). We must continue to recruit, develop, and support qualified Republican candidates for non-partisan office in San Francisco, recognizing that they may be eliminated in the first round of voting, and that we may have to choose among the "lesser of two evils" who make it into the run-offs. That clearly was the case when the SFGOP endorsed Mayor Brown for re-election over Supervisor Ammiano.

Republicans need to have a seat at the table of local government, but we must not sell our souls to get there. We must earn our seat by our hard work and ability to deliver the Republican vote and financial and volunteer help for those candidates and issues which best define us as a party, such as full-force staffing of the Police, the Muni management audit, and homeownership for tenants.