“The registration gap [with Democrats] is widening, contributions are drying up, key posts have been left open for a year,” he said. “Immediate comprehensive action is required — the stakes are too high, the problems too deep, to do otherwise.”
Republican presidential candidates alone raked in about $1 million in the Newport-Mesa area, prompting one prominent Newport donor to express confidence the party would recover.
“We just had a tough campaign season, and there was lots of money going through here,” Inland Energy Company President Buck Johns said. “Just like any business, you have to balance the inflow and the outflow.”
