Republican National Convention History

The California delegation is definitely up front at this convention. Seated directly in front of the podium is Kansas (no surprise, given native son Bob Dole), but stage right is California and its 165 delegate seats. That makes the delegation a handy attraction for the hundreds of television cameras around San Diego's convention hall. CNN's Gene Randall says that California's delegates are "certainly going to be one of the focal points of the convention."

The California delegation is definitely up front at this convention. Seated directly in front of the podium is Kansas (no surprise, given native son Bob Dole), but stage right is California and its 165 delegate seats. That makes the delegation a handy attraction for the hundreds of television cameras around San Diego's convention hall. CNN's Gene Randall says that California's delegates are "certainly going to be one of the focal points of the convention."

Although he has been applauded nationally for mastering California's budget crisis, Gov. Pete Wilson faces the taunts of tea bags this weekend and perhaps being hanged in effigy by angry anti-tax conservatives from within his own Republican Party. The setting is the semiannual convention of the Republican State Central Committee tonight through Sunday in Anaheim.