State GOP in combative mood

In a year of financial meltdown at home and declining fortunes in their own party, California Republicans heard a pair of wealthy Silicon Valley Republican moderates take sharp turns to the right Saturday to sell their 2010 campaigns for governor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner joined nearly 1,000 delegates this weekend at the three-day state Republican convention, a gathering where party activists in decidedly blue California met to hear candidates and talk strategy for future elections.