SVGOP Events
Your School District Needs YOU! SVGOP June Meeting
Your School Board Needs YOU!
featuring Mingi & Franklin Bodine and Sabrina Lin
Join Our June Central Committee Meeting
If you, too, believe Drag Queen Story Hour is not producing the rocket scientists we need, join our effort to elect Republicans to School Boards.
Every two years, there are over 100 school board seats up for election in Santa Clara County. For the past 3 election cycles, the Silicon Valley Association of Conservative Republicans (SVACR) has responded to declining academic achievement and overt sexual indoctrination of children in public schools by beginning a quest to elect more conservatives to school boards. By fall of 2022, SVGOP was able to boast that they had more Republicans running for school board positions than ever in the past.
Alas, recruiting and supporting candidates through election proved to be a great challenge. Over the ensuing years, Mingi and Franklin Bodine have built an organization of volunteers who not only help with the recruitment of school board candidates but support those candidates who have been elected, School Board Sentinels. Come hear all about this organization; anyone can become a sentinel, just show up at school board meetings and speak out when you see something amiss.
For the 2024 election cycle, Sabrina Lin joined the team to help potential candidates navigate through the process of running for elected office. As Republicans, we now have a “playbook” to help candidates through filing to run, setting up fundraising paperwork, and seeking endorsement from SVGOP.
Anyone who is interested in running for school board or helping a candidate run needs to attend this meeting!
Meeting details:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Coffee & chat at 6:30 PM, meeting begins at 7 PM
Campbell Community Center
Orchard City Banquet Hall
1 W. Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA
Free of charge, open to all conservatives
Downtown Conservative Meetup
Downtown Conservative Meetup
Saturday, June 28th 2:00-4:00 PM
Join Us!
Think you are the only conservative in your neighborhood?
Get to know fellow Republicans in Downtown San Jose!
Enjoy refreshments, fellowship and learn what the local Republican Party is doing. Bring your questions!!
Sign up and let us know you are attending! Location provided after signup.
RSVP for Our Downtown Conservative Meetup Here:
President Trump’s First 100 Days with Special Appearance by Steve Hilton
Celebrate with the Silicon Valley GOP!
The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration
with Special Appearance by Steve Hilton
Questions? Contact Jan Soule at jangsoule@gmail.com
Sunday, April 13, 2025, 4-6 PM
Afternoon Reception at a Lovely Home in Saratoga
Address Provided Upon Registration to Attend
Larry Pegram, President of Informed Parents California, Speaks at March SVGOP Meeting
You’re Invited to Our March Central Committee Meeting
Larry Pegram, Informed Parents - California, Speaks on California’s Broken Education System
Our school systems in California are broken. But how did we get here? And, more importantly, how are we going to fix things? At SVGOP’s March Central Committee meeting, you can hear Larry Pegram, President of Informed Parents - California, speak on the history of California’s education system and possible solutions to return our schools to their former world-leading educational status.
Larry Pegram is a longtime San Jose resident, who graduated from San Jose State with a BS degree in Business Management. He earned a commission in the Army Reserve rising to the rank of Captain.
He served on the San Jose Police Department as a Police Officer from 1967 to 1974. Larry then served two terms on the San Jose City Council in the late 70's.
He earned the Certified Financial Planner professional designation and served families and small businesses for over 25 years.
He and Pastor Dave Sawkins founded the Values Advocacy Council in 2004. Larry served as its President for 12 years.
In 2021, he founded Informed Parents to foster parents rights, parental control, transparency between parents and their children's schools, and increase student test scores.
Larry is married to Shelley. He has three children and six grandchildren. He and Shelley attend Calvary Chapel Church in San Jose.
Meeting details:
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Check-in and coffee at 6:30 PM
Campbell Community Center
Orchard City Banquet Hall
1 W. Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA
Opportunity Now SV Editor Christopher Escher at Our February SVGOP Central Committee Meeting
As a Republican in Santa Clara County, you are invited to learn more about the plans your local Republican Party has to Take Back California and make our county Republican again.
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