Republican Club
by Brian Harmon
LW contributor
The LW Republican Club information and hospitality booth will offer ice cream to all comers as long as supplies last, to celebrate of Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 5. The booth will be open every Monday and Wednesday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the parking lot outside Clubhouse 6. The club meets on the third Wednesday of each month in Clubhouse 3, Room 2 at 7 p.m.
Membership is free and anyone who wants to join the club can do so by emailing lwrepublicans@yahoo.com.
••• Diane Dixon, the LW Republican Club’s endorsed candidate for California State Assembly, is the scheduled speaker for the club’s next meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 21, in Clubhouse, 3, Room 2, at 7 p.m.
Dixon served in the private sector as a business executive before being elected to the Newport Beach City Council in 2014. She is serving her second term as mayor, and has served as the chair of the water quality and tidelands committee and the chair of the finance committee.
Fiscal responsibility and government transparency have been the hallmarks of Dixon’s time at city hall. She helped the city deliver budget surpluses, pay down pension liabilities, improve public safety. She also helped complete infrastructure projects on time and within budget and greater cooperation between residents, businesses, and government to resolve community problems.
Dixon has held more than 30 town hall meetings, worked closely with local business owners and residents to solve community problems, and initiated numerous neighborhood and community improvement programs. She added citizen members to the city’s finance committee and other council committees and launched independent audits of city projects.
Dixon is a current member of the regional council of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and a board member of Orange County Council of Governments (OCCOG).
Dixon has been an active member on several philanthropic community-based boards of directors for nearly four decades, including United Way Orange County, YMCA, public television, USC Board of Councilors and Alumni Association, educa-tional institutions, child service agencies and health-related organizations.
••• The LW Republican Club’s book of the month is “Love Your Enemies,” by Arthur C. Brooks.
Brooks is the head of the American Enterprise Institute, the largest conservative think tank in America. His book demonstrates that people can change the current political “culture of contempt,” not just by toning down rhetoric, but also by changing attitudes about those who disagree.
The book is available free in digital audio version from www. overdrive.com or on the Libby app via cell phone or Kindle devices.
