GOP convention post mortem

Last weekend, about a thousand members, alternates and guests gathered at the California Republican Party Convention at the Renaissance Esmerelda Hotel in Indian Wells in the Coachella Valley/Palm Springs area. As is typically the case, we'll be sharing some stories and happenings from this event over the next few days. Jon Fleishman in the Flash Report.

First and foremost, we're pleased to announce the return of our highly-acclaimed, caddy and pithy "Winners & Losers of the CRP Convention" column, which we should be featuring at the end of this week. While your trusted FR team had many of our team members on the ground, looking over the convention for nominees, we typically get some of our best suggestions from FR readers. If you have a nomination, you can e-mail us here. As always, we ensure the confidentiality of anyone who contacts us.

I'll start by fast forwarding to a couple of results from the weekend that I want especially emphasize. The first is that convention delegates unanimously put the party on record as opposing the ballot initiative sponsored by Senate President Don Perata and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. In a resolution that instructs the party to prominently display opposition to this measure, where feasible, on the party's voter-contact mail, the CRP attacked this measure as a brazen effort by termed-out liberal politicians to try to circumvent voter-approved term limits.