Posted on 07/18/2017 5:52:40 AM PDT by Rockitz
The “shadow presidency” of California Governor Jerry Brown scored a win Monday night as eight Republican legislators crossed the political aisle and voted with most Democrats to extend a key component of the “cap-and-trade” program that has literally shifted $4.42 billion from the private sector to the government since mid-2012.
While a lot of politicking went into rounding up the votes for the cap-and -trade extension among both political party caucuses in both chambers, it was clear that Governor Brown had enough political capital, along with a willingness to “strategically target” the spending of Cap and Trade tax dollars to woo Democrats.
So in the final days preceding a vote, much of the attention was focused on Republican legislators. Because it is a tax increase, the bill required a two-thirds vote to pass. Democrats have barely over two-thirds in either chamber and so, in theory, could have passed it without a solitary GOP vote. But Democrats were not 100% unified, and also at least one Democrat in the State Assembly was going to be absent this week on a long-planned family vacation, meaning at least one GOP vote would be needed in the lower house.
On the GOP side it was a David vs. Goliath situation, with a small coalition of small business and taxpayer advocates, as well as GOP groups like the Orange County Lincoln Club. They were out-gunned and out-spent, up against many well-heeled interests, including the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Manufacturing and Technology Association, and others. (Big businesses can handle navigating a cap-and-trade system, and largely pass along the costs to consumers. The small- and medium-sized businesses suffer the most, and of course taxpayers in general.)
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State Senator Tom Berryhill (R-Stanislaus)
Assemblymembers
Catherine Baker (R-Walnut Creek)
Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside)
Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo)
Health Flora (R-Modesto)
Devin Mathis (R-Visalia)
Mark Steinorth (R-Rancho Cucamonga)
Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley)
Bye Bye California. Whether you stay part of the country or secede your economy is toast as long as the left controls everything, and you have spineless, hapless Repukes as the “opposition”.
Trump could really change America by announcing in September a convention of a new party to meet somewhere in Heartland USA. There nominations would be made for all House and Senate seats open for election. It would fail at first, but by 2020 the Republican Party, like the Whigs that proceeded it, would be history.
In the old days the government existed to serve the people.
But liberals have progressed beyond that novel but acquainted notion.
In The Brave New Liberal World working, productive people exist solely to serve the government and government interests.
They are the wage slaves of the government and the moochers.
I am a firm “yes” on Calexit.
It looks like the wall will need to run up the California border. California is becoming another country step by step.
It would be interesting to see what the constituents want. With only 12 GOP Politicians in California, they clearly are an endangered species. All politics are local.
One word: Recall.
It’s laughable. There is no Jerry Brown shadow presidency. California cannot enter into a treaty on it’s own, not even an agreement without approval from Trump’s administration.
As soon as all the lawsuits get to the federal level, all hell will break loose over the origination and supremacy clause, not to mention commerce clause.
Author barely reaches a 3rd grade understanding of the Federal system and even that is a stretch.
I don’t know. In a sane world, you are right on. With the activist Federal court system we currently have, anything is possible.
How do you prevent infiltration by progressives masquerading as pro American Trump supporters like what happened to the tea party? Somehow you have to have known and trusted candidates that won’t turn to mush after they win the election.
Buried in this mess is a 68 cent per gallon fuel tax. Projections are that gas will cost between $4 and $5 per gallon in he near future. Once the shills realize this the Democats will immediately point to the Republicans as the reason. After all it wouldn’t have passed without their support so it’s their fault.
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The need for a new party has been obvious for a very long time. The GOP simply does not represent conservatives. They want our votes and our support, but not our beliefs and values.
There is no future for us relying on, or remaining in, the GOP. It is a failed party without a soul.
Both republican and Demorat parties need to be disbanded. Both parties no longer represent the American people.
So now these useless eunuchs have taken a great deal of money out of the private sector and put it into the maniacal hands of Jerry Brown, to eventually be redistributed to illegals. Taxpayers of California, don’t you love getting out of bed and working hard all day to support these scum in the style they’ve become accustomed to, thanks to Jerry Brown and his merry band of law ignoring libtards?
That would help;)
How do you get and vet the proper conservatives to run for office? That can be done by the millions of voters who are sick of the Republican Party and want a new direction in Congress. I, personally, would be one of them. The vote would likely be split in the Senate races and could return in 2018 the Senate to the Dems. Trump could tough it out, and the 2020 election would signal a seachange in American politics, and the Republican Party and the phonies like Corker and Alexander, McCain and Flake, Collins and Murkowski would be finished.
The GOP died here in California the day aRnie jumped in the recall race.
My biggest voting regret ever is voting for Arnold.
Hey, if he was good enough for the Bilderbergs and Buffett and Rothschild.. ;-)
He fooled a lot of folks.. and killed a party while he was at it in office.
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