Tea Party Seeks to Rebuild California GOP

“Tea party activists made an energetic showing Saturday at a California Republican Party convention, promoting resolutions to block the state’s high-speed rail project and require voters to show photo identification at the polls as part of a push to influence the direction of the struggling state organization,” the AP reports.

“The meeting represented the best organized effort to date by the tea party to become a force within the state party, as leaders consider how to rebuild after being pushed to the political margins in the nation’s most populous state.”