Los Angeles County Young Republicans is proud to announce their new elected board members for 2010!

Congratulations to President Matthew Fleishmann, Vice President Karen Elizes, Secretary David Bozin and Treasurer Robert Jones!

Ballots were counted on Wednesday and the new board is excited to move foward to help LA County elect conservative candidates, support local conservative movements and increase the power and influence of the Republican Party for LA County. Board positions are still open to be appointed and will be assigned to available and eager members in the following months. If you are interested in becoming involved on a board level, please contact our communications director angelique@lacyr.org.

Special Guest: Author & Political Contributor Lenny McAllister
Lenny McAllister is “…a socially-conscious conservative with a mission to make positive changes to the status quo within politics, social issues and other issues that hamper our American way of life…”

Currently, Lenny appears as a political commentator featured regularly on Fox Television in Charlotte, NC. He is a syndicated writer nationally for online magazines.
Learn more about Lenny here:
www.facebook.com/pages/Lenny-McAllister/88663326849

There will be $5 wine and free food! Great discussions, meet Lenny and share a fun Friday night with fellow conservatives! We are YR’s but ALL are of course welcome!

See you at 8pm, parking on street:
Boutique Diva’s
1035 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91106
626-739-3222

RSVP or questions: angelique@lacyr.org

After becoming a member of the Los Angeles County Young Republicans in 2009 I felt at home. True belief in limited government, open communication, and dedication are rare traits in political clubs today. Not only does the LACYR have these traits, but the club is filled with amazing people who care for one another like family. This family is tough and remains true to the values of its members. After being active for a few months I was appointed as the Social Director. As Social Director I hosted several events and was part of a focused board that accomplished timely and specific goals. I am impressed with all that the LACYR has accomplished in its first year and I see a 2010 as a year for growth and innovation. I am privileged to be a part of this family and will work as hard as I can to improve it as President.

“I would like to publicly endorse David Bozin, of Santa Moncia for LACYR Secretary. LACYR needs intelligent, conservative leaders dedicated to the discussion of Republican principles and election of conservative people,  for the benefit of LA County as a whole. David has proven to be such a leader in both the Santa Monica and Malibu areas. I look forward to the possibilty of working with him in 2010.”

Catherine Casady, current LACYR President and co-founder of LACYR

We are excited to announce the following candidates for the 2010 Board Member positions! Voting of board officials is available to all current paid members of LACYR.  Please submit all votes via email to cathcasady@hotmail.com

President: Matthew Fleischmann, current LACYR Social Director

                      Angel Ortega, current Legislative Director 

Vice President: Karen Elizes, current LACYR Media Director

Secretary: David Bozin, Republican Jewish Coalition, Santa Moncia

                       Juhn Hwang, current LACYR Secretary

Treasurer: Robert Jones, current LACYR Treasurer

HEY friends and Members of the Los Angeles County Young Republicans!

Please join us on Thursday 2/25 at 7pm at our impressive new location – The City Club Downtown on the top 54th floor! We are taking the LACYR’s to another level!!!

Our exciting Speaker this Month is Maya Buki Los Angeles Field Representative for Meg Whitman Campaign! Maya will arrive at 8pm to Speak but please feel free to join us earlier at 7pm for discussion and no host dinner/drinks. Please learn more about Meg Whitman’s Campaign for CA Governor 2010 message here:

No host dinners available, please note that jeans are not allowed at the City Club, plaase dress business casual!

Parking in Building $8.50 or on Street $6, we will give a cell number to reach us in case you need help parking or finding the Building Downtown LA.

Please rsvp here or to angelique@lacyr.org

Check out our new & improved website www.lacyr.org

See you then, God Bless America!

February 2010

Hello LACYR!
 
We are so excited to be celebrating our one year anniversary this Spring! I am pleased to have seen our original group of six persons that met in downtown Long Beach grow to current membership over 50 strong, now meeting in downtown Los Angeles. It has been an honor to serve as the first President of this club. Through the tireless efforts of my amazing board, we have only seen continued growth since our kick off in Spring 2009. I am especially grateful for our Vice President Derek Easley for serving as acting President and carrying the weight of the club in my absence over the summer. His leadership took the club from a small Long Beach City based group to the largest Young Republican club in the county. We will continue to grow in strength and numbers with our plans already in the works for 2010.
 
According to our bylaws, we need to have an election every six months. We invite all members to participate and run for office this month. While executive positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Chair are limited to those whom have already served three months on the board, all other board positions are open to any current member of LACYR.
 
Executive LACYR Board positions are: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer,
 
Other Board Positions are: Communications Director, Membership Director, Social Director, Media Director, Legislative Director
 
We will be holding elections on Tuesday, February 16th at 8:30 PM, 320 N. Pine Ave. Ste #404 Long Beach, CA 90808. If you cannot attend in person but would like to vote/participate via online or by phone, please let our Communications director know at: angelique@lacyr.org

It has been an absolute pleasure to serve as one of the founding members of the only countywide Young Republican group in LA. While I will not be running for re-election, I will remain an active member and participant in the club and in the Young Republican cause to call for fiscal responsibilty, strong national security and promote conservative values for all Angelinos and all Americans. God Bless America! Go GOP!

kind regards,

Catherine Casady
President, LACYR

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.

Happy New Year friends of Los Angeles County Young Republicans! January has been action packed between the increasing disapproval of the current administration, the race for Kennedy’s seat with Scott Brown’s victory, the continued fight against the corrupt healthcare bill, Haiti’s earthquake disaster & all the crazy rain we’ve had in LA !!! etc etc…

Our first Meeting of the year will feature our exciting Speakers of Tea Party Patriots – Ashley Ingram of YRFC and Nathan Mintz Candidate CA Assembly 53rd!

7:00 – 9:00 meeting in the Bradley Room

City Club Downtown
333 S. Grand Avenue, #54 Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Telephone: (213) 687-2650

Parking on the street $6.00 in the Building $8.50

We hope to see you on Thursday 1/28 at 7pm for another excellent time with conservative friends that are working hard to make a difference in LA County, CA and our great nation!

We thank all our friends & supporters in 2009 LACYR has rapidly grown from a small group formally the Long Beach Young Republicans (LBYR) to representing the entire County of LA – woot woot! We are becoming even a bigger & better resource for our fellow concerned & freedom loving Americans! God Bless America!!!

RSVP or Questions: angelique@lacyr.org