DOLE, KEMP WILL SKIP THIS MEETING.

Byline: Rick Orlov

FOR the past three weeks, ever since Republicans held their convention in San Diego, all that's been heard from the Dole-Kemp ticket is how important California is to the GOP prospects for taking back the White House.

Yet, with the California Republican Party holding its meeting this weekend in Anaheim, neither presidential nominee Bob Dole or vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp - a California native - will be in attendance.

California organizers for the ticket claim scheduling conflicts that prevented them from attending.

But the failure to show - or even send a high-powered surrogate such as Elizabeth Dole - has raised concerns that 1996 will be a repeat of 1992 when then-President Bush wrote off California.

The latest Field Poll shows Dole far behind President Clinton, and California Republicans fret that Clinton's coattails will carry Democrats in close legislative races.

Don Knabe might have run as a Republican for state Senate in the past, but he now is claiming support from politicians across the political spectrum in his bid to replace his retiring boss, Deane Dana, as Los Angeles County supervisor. The list of people on Knabe's invitation to his $500-a-plate fund-raiser at the Century Plaza Hotel last Thursday included such GOP stalwarts as former Gov. George Deukmejian, Treasurer Matt Fong, Secretary of State Bill Jones, Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, Rep. Jerry Lewis of Redlands, and state Sens. Ken Maddy and Bob Beverly.

But the list also included City Councilmembers Richard Alatorre, Laura Chick and Rudy Svorinich, County Assessor Kenneth P. Hahn, Sheriff Sherman Block and former state Sen. David Roberti, most of whom are either non-partisan or Democratic pols.

While Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a Democrat, was not represented, her husband, Bill Burke, was listed as a co-chairman of the dinner.

Also, among a list of endorsing council members from smaller cities is H. Delano Roosevelt of Long Beach, the grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Everyone seems to be entering cyperspace these days, the latest being Laura Chick, who opened up her own home page last week on the internet that can be reached at http://www.ci.la.ca.us/council/cd3.

It didn't take long for her to get some mail from a confirmed cyber-junkie, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.

``Laura: Welcome to cyberworld. It's great that you're on the net and have your own e-mail address. I warn you, this will become addicting, but it's a lot of fun,'' Yaroslavsky wrote.

Yaroslavsky has his own home page on the net and constituents can e-mail him at zevco.la.ca.us.

First there was Patsaouras Plaza at the MTA's new headquarters by Union Station. It's named after Nick Patsaouras of Tarzana, who has long been active in public transit issues.

Now there's Alatorre Park, a small spot of green at the MTA headquarters named recently after Los Angeles Councilman Richard Alatorre, a former MTA board chairman who remains as one of its members and is considered a major figure on the panel. The board motion was offered while both its sponsor, county Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, and Alatorre were absent, and sparked a flurry of amendments and changes before it was approved.

The upshot, after several amendments, is that the board will hold off naming other portions of the landscape until a committee has developed policies for dedicating facilities.

As one board member pointed out after the meeting, in jurisdictions such as New York City, ``They don't name something after you unless you're dead.''

MEMO: Daily News Staff Writer David Bloom contributed to this column.