[WilliamofCarmichael]

What about California? Why are these old, corrupt, and now super-rich commies ignoring California?

Ans:

They are not. All they have left to do is change "government" to правительство (pravitel'stvo "government" in Russian)

[diogenes ghost]

"Why are these old, corrupt, and now super-rich commies ignoring California?"

For the same reason you actually took the time to read the article.

In other words....they didn't.