[Greg in LA]

Thanks for the reply Rim, and Ilbegone.

I Went to a very interesting meeting in Santa Clarita last night. It was a Republican committee group. The Santa ClaritaTea Party kind of disbanded and took over this group. I was invited to it by one of the guy's that went to the McKeon office visit. There were several people from the McKeon office visit that were at the meeting last night. They told me that the Santa Clarita Republican committee use to be a McKeon strong hold, but the Tea Party members forced them out through an election in the group. Apparently the members of this Republican Committee in Santa Clarita can't stand McKeon, and McKeon's strength no longer resides in Santa Clarita, but has moved to Simi Valley. McKeon's political base is through the Mormons in Santa Clarita and Simi Valley.

The guy that I was arguing with in the video was Morris Lewis, McKeon's district director. They told me he use to be a lawyer and they think that he was disbarred. They told me that he use to work for the local newspaper the Santa Clarita Signal, and that's why the Signal refused to print my letter to the editor.

I gave up on the Signal printing my letter about a week before the meeting, and I drew the conclusion that they wouldn't print the letter because they wanted to protect McKeon. Several people at the meeting confirmed my conclusion.

Apparently there's a lot of nepotism in Santa Clarita, and most of it revolves around McKeon and his wife, and the Santa Clarita Republican committee/ Tea party can't stand him. They also said that McKeon's power here is greatly diminishing.

While in the meeting, the district director that we met with, said "McKeon is 75 years old, and we would be doing him a favor by not returning him to Washington".

This is fueling thoughts that McKeon won't run for reelection.

During the last election, McKeon had challengers, and his support is no where near as solid. His wife ran for the State Senate, and she was defeated, by the Tea Party favorite Scott Wilke.

All of this points to a weakened McKeon power base.

One just hopes that McKeon won't vote for amnesty as the last thing he does in office.