California State Club Association (CSCA) stands for the right of every truly private club to determine its own membership policy and to manage its own operations free of direct or indirect government dictation, supervision, or interference. This it defends as a right guaranteed by both the Federal and the State constitutions.
CSCA, organized in 1970, is a California nonprofit, mutual benefit corporation. It currently has over 100 members all of which are nonprofit private clubs and which include many of the leading clubs of this State. Its purpose is to serve the club community. CSCA is the only entity that speaks for its member clubs at the State level. (Clubs operated for profit and public golf courses are not eligible for membership in CSCA).
- Monitors proposed legislation directed at private clubs at both the State and Federal levels.
- At the State level, it registers formal opposition to all legislation that it considers inimical to private clubs and it opposes those bills through aggressive lobbying.
- Through occasional Newsletters, it informs its members about (i) the introduction and current status of proposed State and major Federal legislation directed at private clubs, (ii.) significant administrative regulations and actions (including those involving taxes) directed at private clubs, and (iii.) the significance and status of reported court decisions affecting private clubs.
CSCA needs as many additional members as it can recruit because its effectiveness depends not only upon reasoned arguments but also importantly upon its political clout. This in turn depends upon the total number of individual club members - the total number of voters - that it represents. Based on the average club membership and the family of the average club member consists of four adults, CSCA can urge that it represents over 274,000 voters of this State. Each new member will add hundreds of voters to the total number being represented by CSCA. To combat the increasingly severe attacks being made upon private clubs, CSCA needs all of the political muscle it can develop.
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