Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. The california gop may have some soul searching to do at their state convention at burlingame this weekend. While there are challengers in the gub ernatorial race, scott brown intends to lead. No doubt republicans have their work cut out for them. Their share of registered voters are shrinking, now less than 30 , they hold no state offices and have limited power in sacramento. The chair, senator brilty, is rebuilding from the ground up, a job he says could take up to a decade. Joining me now to discuss what challenges are ahead for the Republican Party are gop strategist hector brahasas. Hes coveri scott detra is hosting. Hector would probably agree with me that its a little discouraging to be a republican in california, so i think what the Republican Leaders want to do here is hit pause and say, hey, guys, lets take a look back. Weve had a pretty successful year. Obviously we havent gotten to the point where were going to take the governorshi
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. The california gop may have some soul searching to do at their state convention at burlingame this weekend. While there are challengers in the gub ernatorial race, scott brown intends to lead. No doubt republicans have their work cut out for them. Their share of registered voters are shrinking, now less than 30 , they hold no state offices and have limited power in sacramento. The chair, senator brilty, is rebuilding from the ground up, a job he says could take up to a decade. Joining me now to discuss what challenges are ahead for the Republican Party are gop strategist hector brahasas. Hes coveri scott detra is hosting. Hector would probably agree with me that its a little discouraging to be a republican in california, so i think what the Republican Leaders want to do here is hit pause and say, hey, guys, lets take a look back. Weve had a pretty successful year. Obviously we havent gotten to the point where were going to take the governorshi
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The casino for a party. You could get almost anything you wanted. Reporter folks leaving river rock this afternoon says it was empty inside the tent like structure. There were three cars in the parking lot when we got here and you could virtually not see anyone else playing. Reporter river rock declined to talk to us but its gaming chairman commissioner says revenue is down at least 30 . Some say more like 45 . A tenyear bus driver for river rock invites me on the bulls. He says people used to fight over these seats. Now he is lucky if the bus is 10 full. A huge drop in employees and a huge major drop it customers. Reporter in fact, about 100 workers have left river rock to go work at graton. A slots supervisor at river rock says many of those workers live closer to the new casino. Theres a lot of options for people to go other places so, you know, graton has impacted us a little bit. A hit. Reporter many people say its hard for river rock and other smaller casinos to compete. They are
Them to partner up and develop this. We dont know. Whoever buys this will have a great chunk of land, 101, light rail, great freeway exposure. So somebody is going to pay a pretty penny but it will be a good deal. For the valley, too, jobs. All right, len, thanks. A civil rights heavy hitter showed up for hewlettpackards Shareholder Meeting today demanding diversity. Jesse jackson led a delegation of the rainbowpush coalition. The group says hp has a poor track record when it comes to hiring minorities. Jackson says the issue goes far beyond just hp when it comes to tech companies. Were concerned that this valley has perhaps the most creative people in the whole world and it must address in a meaningful way the issue of shared Economic Security and racial and gender disparities. For its part, hp says nearly half of its Leadership Team and board of directors are made up of women and minorities. New at 5 00 a twoalarm fire sent up a plume of black smoke over one Mountain View neighborhoo