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Republicans recall the 10th anniversary of Pringle’s [CA] Assembly speakership
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Jul 13, 2023 10:31am |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Jan 05, 2006 10:00am |
| Description | It was 10 years ago this week that Curt Pringle, a Republican assemblyman
nurtured in the rough-and-tumble of Orange County politics, became speaker
of the California Assembly. His reign was brief, from January to November
1996, and outside the world of the Capitol and California’s political class, his tenure is all but forgotten. But even a decade later, memories of the
ferocious infighting that culminated in his ascension to the speakership are
strong. And the impact of his role are is still felt in the Capitol.
“The bottom line is that it showed that anything can happen in politics,”
Pringle, now the mayor of Anaheim, told Capitol Weekly. Pringle was in
Sacramento this week to attend a reunion of Assembly Republicans from that
era and host a dinner with former staffers.
Pringle was the first Republican speaker backed by the GOP rank and file in
more than 25 years, the first since Republican Bob Monagan was elected
speaker at the end of Ronald Reagan’s first term as governor. Two other
Republicans, Brian Setencich of Fresno and Doris Allen of Cypress, briefly
served as speaker in the year before Pringle took power, but they were
figureheads of the Democrats led by Willie Brown, who bent parliamentary
rules, wooed them to take the speakership, gave them the Democrats’ support and retained power behind the scenes. Allen, now deceased, was denounced as a traitor to the GOP and booted from office in a recall election and Setencich was later defeated in the 1996 GOP primary by Robert Prenter. |
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