Republican Club

by Brian Harmon

LW contributor

At a planning meeting on Aug. 9, LW Republican Club volunteers discussed which issues would be the most effective in this year’s political campaign. The consensus was that voters are more interested in issues that affect families, rather than foreign policy. The issues discussed at the meeing included:

•Fears of inflation and recession • Public safety or law and order

• Family values

• Schools Club President David Harlow shared information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve Bank on how rapidly inflation rates have increased since President Biden has been in office, even before the war in Ukraine.

Harlow also shared data on how the economy has been declining during the past two quarters. This was formerly the definition of a recession, but the present definition requires that all major sectors of the economy be affected. “So, technically we are not in a recession, yet,” Harlow said.

The club’s endorsed candidate for Seal Beach City Council, Nathan Steele, shared the latest Gallup Poll showing the confidence that Americans have in 16 of the country’s major institutions.

Gallup listed the public’s confidence level in 2022 as “% Great deal/Quite a lot.” The highest rated institutions are, in descending order: small business (68%), the military (64%), the police (45%), the medical system (38%), and the church or organized religion (31%).

Members of the Republican Club can take comfort that these five institutions are among the most highly regarded by Republicans, and vice versa.

The lowest scoring institutions were Congress (7%), television news (11%), big business (14%), the criminal justice system (14%), and newspapers (16%). Faith in the presidency fell 6 points to 23% between July 2021 and July 2022.

The Gallup Poll was founded in 1935 and is the oldest polling and analytics organization in the U.S.

Steele is the president of The Steele Agency, which works with Christian stations in North America and Cameroon, Africa.

Steele began his career in the stock brokerage business in Chicago, working with boutique brokerages firms before becoming a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

In the early 90s, he transitioned to training others in the skills needed to be option traders, working in Madrid, Spain, as the Spanish Options market was beginning.

In 1993, Steele joined Holden International, a global training and consulting firm specializing in Strategic Planning and the application of strategy to business, marketing, and sales campaigns. Through those years, he worked with several Fortune 500 companies like EDS, IBM, Accenture and Microsoft’s OEM division on a global scale.

Steel was a conference speaker at international conferences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, South Africa and other countries. He speaks fluent Spanish and is the author of “Strategic Clarity: The Essentials of High-Level Selling.” He lives in Seal Beach with his wife, Patty Steele. ••• The LW Republican Club information and hospitality booth will be open every Monday in August and on Mondays and Wednesdays in September from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the parking lot near Clubhouse 6. Volunteers will be selling election merch every Monday.

The club meets every third Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. in Clubhouse 3, Room 2.

Nathan Steele