About Tom Del Beccaro
Publisher & Columnist Tom Del Beccaro
Tom Del Beccaro, “The Most Heard Voice in CA Republican Politics,” is the Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party, Publisher of PoliticalVanguard.com, author of The New Conservative Paradigm and frequent talk radio and television commentator. In those roles, Tom is heard by millions of conservative activists on the radio, TV and in person each year. In his multiple roles, Tom is uniquely positioned to hear the pulse of politics all the way from the grass roots to Presidential candidates and legislators in between.
Political Career
Tom was first elected Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party in February of 2007 and re-elected in 2009. He was formerly Republican Party County Chairman of Contra Costa for three terms and former President of all 58 Republican Party County Chairman in California. Tom is currently running unopposed to be Chairman of the California Republican Party.
Media Career
Tom is perhaps best known for his frequent talk radio show guest appearances which number over 300 per year and covers 80% of the State of California including the important LA, SF Bay Area/San Jose, Sacramento and San Diego markets. Tom weekly appears on San Diego’s KCBQ 1170 w/ Mark Larson at 7:35 am, Monterey’s 1460 KION on the Mark & Jim show at 8:35 am, Riverside/San Bernardino’s KTIE 590 News hour at 5:50 am and on KTKZ 1380 w/ Eric Hogue each Friday at 12:20 pm for Tom’s “Week In Review.” Tom also has regular appearances on SF Bay Area’s 560 KSFO, Fresno’s 580 KMJ, Bakersfield’s 1410 KERN and Santa Maria’s AM 1440 among other stations. Tom appears on TV over 50 times per year and is seen from time to time on KTVU (Fox affiliate), KPIX (CBS affiliate including in studio commentary), ABC7, KNTV 11 (NBC affiliate including in studio commentary) and KRON.
Book Career
With the release of his book, The New Conservative Paradigm, Tom was heralded by Mona Charen as a writer that “Not since Newt Gingrich in the 90s has a Republican activist so clearly analyzed what has gone right and wrong for the party and the Conservative movement.” Tom made over 150 book signing appearances for the book.
Speaking Career
In the last 6 years, Tom has made over 400 speeches/lectures throughout the State of California and beyond including for the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, Western C-PAC, the University of California at Berkeley, International Trade Association, dozens of conservative and Republican groups and other community groups.
Columnist/Publishing Career
Tom first published the Internet Magazine PoliticalVanguard.com in 2002 which has featured his weekly column since its inception and has received millions of hits. Tom has written on subjects as diverse as foreign policy and economics, as well as national and state politics. Tom’s columns have been featured in numerous California based websites such as The FlashReport.org, The FoxandHoundsdaily.com as the Montecito Journal Newspaper.
FirstAmendmentNow.com
Tom is the Chair of the FirstAmendmentNow.com Campaign to Save Talk Radio from the federal regulators. The Campaign works with talk radio hosts throughout California educating listeners about how the federal government is attempting to regulate talk radio and the Campaign is in the process of gathering thousands of signatures from grassroots activiists in opposition to this challenge to our our First Amendment rights.
Media Comments on Tom Del Beccaro
Conservative Magazine Human Events on Tom Del Beccaro – “One of the GOP’s most effective communicators.”
London based Economist Magazine: “Republican spines are . . . stiffened by conservative bloggers such as Tom Del Beccaro”
Brian Sussman of Talk Radio’s KSFO in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tom Del Beccaro: “You are the face of Conservatism going forward.”
According to syndicated columnist & author Mona Charen: “Not since Newt Gingrich in the 90s has a Republican activist so clearly analyzed what has gone right and wrong for the party and the Conservative movement.”
According to author Jack Cashill: “The Roman poet Horace would have admired Tom Del Beccaro’s The New Conservative Paradigm. Where Ronald Reagan embodied the principle in person . . . Del Beccaro captures it in print.”
Mike Villines: “As the Republican Assembly Leader in California, after reading Tom Del Beccaro’s “The New Conservative Paradigm,” I gave a copy to all of my legislative colleagues in the caucus to read. It was insightful, important and the exact message we all needed to hear.”



