California Trailblazers Announces 2022 Candidate Training Program

The California Trailblazers, the candidate training program of the California Republican Party, has announced its 2022 candidate training schedule which will extend through July 2022.

The next scheduled training is Nuts and Bolts in Sacramento on February 12. Future sessions are scheduled to cover data, digital and in-person communications, fundraising, policy, and grassroots mobilization. Programs include both virtual and in person training sessions and are listed on BayAreaGOP.com.

California Trailblazers is open to Republican candidates for federal, state and local office so long as they are not challenging Republican incumbent officeholders. Founded in 2011 by CAGOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson and Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Trailblazers is based on the successful Young Guns program developed by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. . . .  read more

San Mateo County GOP Chinese New Year Dinner

featuring Lanhee Chen and Peter Ohtaki

Friday, February 4, 2022 / VIPs 6:00 pm, General 6:30pm

Location to be announced, South San Francisco

The San Mateo County Republican Party invites you to their Chinese New Year Dinner celebrating the Year of the Tiger! Featured speakers include Lanhee Chen, candidate for State Controller; Peter Ohtaki, candidate for Congressional District 16 and former Mayor of Menlo Park; and Eric Early, candidate for California Attorney General.

There will be many other candidates present. Come and socialize with your fellow community members.  

RSVP: Please click here to learn more and to register for this event. $60 General, $100 VIP, $500 Sponsorship, $25 Students & Children, $1,000 VIP Sponsor. The dinner location will be provided the day before.



Crisis manager and former Menlo Park mayor Peter Ohtaki is running for Congress in the Peninsula/South Bay District 16 with a theme of freedom and opportunity. He has an impressive record of leadership in both business and government.

Ohtaki says, “America stands for freedom and opportunity, but lately these seem in doubt. Failed policies in California are being adopted by other blue states and the Biden administration, while emboldening Russia and China to expand.” He points to:

• The demise of single-family zoning and local control by SB9/10. If elected, he would propose a neighborhood preservation act.
• Labor Dept. blockage of California transit funding in an effort to overturn state pension reform. He says, “Our Congressmember should be fighting for billions from the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill to relieve traffic congestion in Silicon Valley”.
• Rising inflation from trillion dollar deficits and rapidly increasing money supply.
• “Smash and grab” crime
• New foreign policy challenges from Russia and China.

Peter Ohtaki was elected to the Menlo Park City Council in 2010 and 2014, and additionally served as Mayor in 2013 and 2018. He co-chaired the city’s first Housing Element update since 1994, . . .  read more