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Assemblyman Curt Pringle was named chairman of the powerful Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday, a move that should increase Orange County's clout in the Capitol and boost the lawmaker's own political cachet. The coup by the conservative Republican from Garden Grove was just one of several plumb committee assignments garnered by Orange County lawmakers under the Assembly's new leadership system, which for the first time in years gives the GOP a share of power.

Assemblyman Curt Pringle was named chairman of the powerful Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday, a move that should increase Orange County's clout in the Capitol and boost the lawmaker's own political cachet. The coup by the conservative Republican from Garden Grove was just one of several plumb committee assignments garnered by Orange County lawmakers under the Assembly's new leadership system, which for the first time in years gives the GOP a share of power.

Groups organized on the basis of sexual preference would be banned from the state Republican Party under a resolution unanimously adopted here Sunday by the board of the California Republican Assembly, a conservative volunteer group. The proposed amendment to the party's bylaws, aimed at ousting homosexuals, is similar to one that failed to pass at the biennial state GOP conference last month.

Groups organized on the basis of sexual preference would be banned from the state Republican Party under a resolution unanimously adopted here Sunday by the board of the California Republican Assembly, a conservative volunteer group. The proposed amendment to the party's bylaws, aimed at ousting homosexuals, is similar to one that failed to pass at the biennial state GOP conference last month.