Thanks to all that attended the meeting last Thursday the 31st of January. Despite the fact that promotion for this event was late going out, we had 24 attendees that night making this the most successful meeting since our September 2009 meeting in Redondo Beach where we had over 35 people in attendants. We attribute that success to the fact that our activities have increased over the months and people are noticing. In fact, every new face we spoke to last night had told us that the primary reason they had gotten interested in our club was because of the activity they saw on our www.lacyr.org website. They all said the same thing, “The website looks great!”

In the past year, there was some controversy in the Young Republican world regarding our club’s charter with the California Young Republicans. It was nice to see both sides of that battle join us and contribute to our meeting last night. It was a productive meeting.

The location where we held the meeting was a new one for us; It was a wonderful venue for future meetings. It had a gorgeous view of the city (since it was up in the 54th floor of the Wells Fargo Building); it had a bar on the same floor and the meeting room was very elegant. The meeting room was also private and very quiet; it was perfect for question and answer sessions with a speaker.

Ashley Ingram, a Tea Party organizer, and Nathan Mintz, also a Tea Party organizer and candidate for CA Assembly, 53rd, gave us a lot of valuable information regarding the Tea Party movement and how to continue growing our membership. They also explained how big government has proven detrimental to the growth of our economy and will again do damage to our lively hood unless we band together to stop the Democrats and the Obama administration’s plans to play a more dominant role in our lives. More on this issue in future blogs.