![]() “As in all his little rhetorical dialogues, victory for one side was foreordained. ![]() That left the conservatives”īefore the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (There were only 569 registered delegates.) The next day, portly right-wingers held sit-ins in front of the mikes. ![]() And at the 1964 convention, Frizzelle won the presidency of the CRA near dawn with 363 out of 600 votes. The scene was repeated across the liberal northern tier of the state. “It was like facing a howling mob,” a liberal said of the one hundred conservatives who set upon the Oakland chapter’s convention in December-and, after Nelligan declared the the conservatives’ victory in Oakland null and void, did it again in January. One, led by Newport Beach optometrist Nolan Frizzelle and S&L magnate Joe Crail, worked to take back the CRA. The efforts developed along three fronts. Redeeming that loss became the focus of conservative energies for the rest of the year. Conservatives had suffered razor-thin defeat for control of the party’s premier volunteer group, the California Republican Assembly, at the convention in March of 1963-a convention, conservatives were convinced, that San Francisco union leader and Rockefeller stalwart William Nelligan had stolen from them. ![]() “The audience in Bakersfield was battle-tested. ![]()
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