When Jim Brulte ran for California Republican Party chairman, he campaigned on three things: Help maintain the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, eliminate the Democrats’ supermajority in the Assembly and rebuild the party from the ground up.
This was after the California GOP suffered a devastating loss in 2012, earning superminority status in both chambers of the Legislature and thereby losing its ability to block tax increases, slipping further into irrelevance.
Brulte, a former state legislator who served as Republican leader in both chambers, and other party leaders, knew that something needed to happen.
And then, finally, something went right.
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