Posted on 11/15/2021 2:49:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“Don’t California my Texas” has been a popular phrase amongst Texans for some time now. For years, we here in the Lone Star State have watched people from New York and California flee to our greener pastures and while we love the fact that we have such an inviting atmosphere that businesses and people want to come to, we worried that people would forget the reason they came here in the first place.
Texas has no state tax and a lower cost of living. A three-bedroom home in a nice neighborhood in the suburbs outside of Dallas costs many times less what a two-bedroom house would cost in Los Angeles. We like it this way, and the last thing we want is for people to come in from out of state and screw this up by voting in policies that ruined their previous homes.
Yet, despite the constant influx of people from blue coastal states, Texas has maintained its crimson red hue. It would appear that many people did learn their lesson and aren’t falling for what they used to buy from Democrats. These former Democrats now seem to be voting Republican.
This is bad news for the left…but it gets worse.
It would appear that even Democrat officials are swapping parties and becoming Republicans. As indicated by The Texan, Rep. Ryan Guillen of Rio Grande City announced that he’s had it with the Democrats and is exchanging the “D” for an “R”:
“Something is happening in South Texas. Many of us are waking up to the fact that the values in Washington D.C. are not our values in South Texas,” Guillen said at the announcement. “I’m proud to continue voting the way I have and not doing so against my party.”
Guillen was flanked by some of the state’s top Republican officials such as Governor Greg Abbott, Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont), and Texas GOP Chairman Matt Rinaldi.
Guillen has a track record of being pretty moderate, to begin with, and some of the more salty Democrats would say he was a Republican already, but the fact is he wasn’t.
This should scare Democrats, and it should be seen as a continued pattern of things drifting further and further to the right on them. Virginia went from being a Democrat Party-state to a Republican one, and a lot of it was thanks to the same mindset that Guillen mentioned in his speech. The left has fallen over into radicalism and has disconnected itself from the people.
This was mentioned by Texas GOP Chairman Matt Renaldi as well.
“Following this month’s Republican victories in Virginia and in Texas HD 118, this is yet another example of how the increasing extremism of the Democratic Party has alienated Texans who care about smaller government, strong families, safe communities, and the protection of the unborn. Those people have a home in our party,” he said at Guillen’s announcement.
This puts Texas even further out of reach of the Democrats, especially considering that both two traditionally Democrat strongholds in Texas went Republican recently as well, including McAllen County Starr County, and Zapata County.
It’s clear that the Democrats have nothing going on in Texas. Even its challenger for Governorship of the state, Beto O’Rourke, proves that Democrats are desperate to find any kind of foothold they can.
(READ: Stop Trying to Make Beto O’Rourke Happen)
For now, it would appear that despite the left’s hopes that Texas would begin tinging purple, it will remain solidly Republican. While time will tell if this is true or not, all these strongholds leaning to the right shouldn’t give the left any cause to hope.
But Beto O’Rourke will try again ...
Isn’t that awesome?
I mean that guy incinerates liberal cash from Hollywood and Wall $treet better than anybody.
Dem politicians turning Republican is not a good thing. Don’t Democratify my Republican party!!!
If I recall the original was:
Don’t Californicate my Texas!
I have an acquaintance who’s a pretty wealthy artist. About two years ago he moved his wife and two young kids (he also has three older kids) from California to Texas. He absolutely LOVES it. The kids are playing football, he bought a huge house, and has a large studio for his art. He was a big liberal but I’m interested in who he will vote for in the next Governor’s race. From what he’s turned into, I cannot see him voting for Beto, ever.
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“Don’t California my Texas”
“DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO” was the most popular bumper sticker in Colorado back in the 1970s.
Well, now it has been, and they have started their work on New Mexico and Texas.
As in some other states, the problem seems to be with the big cities. Perhaps this problem might be eased by the state carving them up into smaller, local management cities.
As an example, Albuquerque in New Mexico was administratively unwieldy, so was quartered as far as social services goes. But that’s as far as they went.
Variations to this scheme might be more like zoning or cut up like school districts, etc. And parts, like taxation or police and fire, might be consolidated.
Am I misreading this or does Beto lose big?
Oh, he will lose but he has figured out there is a truckload of money to be made running for an elected office.
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Those “Californians” are actually leftist Texans who moved to California and ruined it and are now moving back home
Just like the hippies moving to San Francisco decades ago were all from out of state
/sarc
Puto O’Rourke is a loser, always will be.
Thinks he’s cool, when in reality he’s just another grifter.
I’m good with that. Anyone who gives him money deserves to waste it.
"Don't Californicate Oregon" was a popular bumper sticker in the nineteen seventies.
Beto is the designated Kamikaze.
He was On TV tonight saying he’s a hunter who is a strong believer in the 2nd Amendment.
He is a guy that will do or say anything and is going to take one for the team, so national Donors still give money to “a fighter” and Texas Dems don’t burn a Progressive that hasn’t said a bunch of stupid Sh*t in public already.
Beto is the designated Kamikaze.
He was On TV tonight saying he’s a hunter who is a strong believer in the 2nd Amendment.
He is a guy that will do or say anything and is going to take one for the team, so national Donors still give money to “a fighter” and Texas Dems don’t burn a Progressive that hasn’t said a bunch of stupid Sh*t in public already.
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