“It was like facing a howling mob,” a liberal said of the one hundred conservatives who set upon the Oakland chapter’s convention in December-and, after Nelligan declared the the conservatives’ victory in Oakland null and void, did it again in January. One, led by Newport Beach optometrist Nolan Frizzelle and S&L magnate Joe Crail, worked to take back the CRA. The efforts developed along three fronts. Redeeming that loss became the focus of conservative energies for the rest of the year. Conservatives had suffered razor-thin defeat for control of the party’s premier volunteer group, the California Republican Assembly, at the convention in March of 1963-a convention, conservatives were convinced, that San Francisco union leader and Rockefeller stalwart William Nelligan had stolen from them. “The audience in Bakersfield was battle-tested.
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