Posted on 04/13/2017 10:32:24 AM PDT by re_tail20
San Francisco County and Marin County,OTOH,went something like 75% ILLary....with a million or more votes cast.
OK,draw a line down the state that remains 75 miles from the coast.Everything to the east remains part of the US,everything else is spliced onto Baja California to become California Grande.
Cigarettes are now more expensive than rifle ammunition.
I have lived in California and voted as a registered Republican for 47 years. The days of the Republican Party in this state ended some time ago. This was not simply due to the mass immigration from Mexico and other southern countries and from Asian countries. It was also due to the self immolation of the Republican Party by its inept and corrupt leadership.
Just how corrupt? Consider the fact that the Dems could not push through a 12 cent per gallon gas tax increase along with a massive increase in the annual motor vehicle property tax without the vote of one Republican legislator. In other words, the auto driving residents of CA should have been saved from this Jerry Brown robbery. But what happened? Well, one Republican legislator from Northern California was BRIBED to vote Yes. He was BRIBED by the Dems offering to devote $400 million of the gas tax increase to an extension of a commuter rail line and service in his district.
Now, think about that. Not only did this guy accept what any ordinary person would consider to be a BRIBE, the gas tax increase that supposedly was being implemented in order to repair and maintain the state’s failing road system, a huge chunk is going to build and support a commuter rail system. Once again, the auto driving public of CA has gotten the shaft from the Dems in Sacramento with the assistance of one Republican legislator.
Feeling the same but I can’t get Mrs. KC to consider moving out of here, at least while she still has Family here.
We live in South Orange County, minutes from the Coast while enjoying nearly perfect Weather. It’s hard for her to give that up and I honestly feel the same.
Politically, we live behind Enemy Lines. My Wife is Apolitical so she doesn’t have the same level of concern I have with our out of control Marxist Government in Sacramento.
The idea of being forced out of our Home for the past 60 Years because of out of control Liberalism really pisses me off.
I guess my role here is being part of the outnumbered Resistance, at least for the time being.
Second....not to be preachy...having worked in health care for 20+ years *and* having watched both my parents die ugly deaths thanks to cigarettes maybe you can try to quit.
Better health for you...and less of your hard earned cash funding cushy pensions for politicians in Sacramento and DC.
Just sayin'....
I hear ya. It’s the same thing we face with people like Snow, McCain, Graham, in the U.S. Senate.
With the super majority the Democrats have now in both California Legislative houses, they still couldn’t pass this without a Republican.
The bribe is just sickening icing on that cake too.
Makes my blood boil.
I don’t fully agree with you, but I appreciate your heartfelt advice. You have been in the ‘eye of the storm’, so I have to respect that.
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Thanks for the comments SCR.
Yes, you touch on the same problems. Sad.
There was a theory a while back about the two parties nationally not going after each other’s candidates in certain states. For instance, the Republicans didn’t go all out to win the Senate seat back from the Democrats at the last U.S. Senate election.
It seems they’ve adopted that policy on states too, in some instances.
California has been graced to the Democrats, and it sounds from what you’ve said like the same thing has happened in Illinois.
Can’t tell you how sad I feel for you. Knowing you’re in surrendered territory behind enemy lines is demoralizing.
Let's work on turning these areas red again. The South was a Democrat stronghold for 100 years after the Civil War and it was once an area Republicans never even tried in.
So as bad as things seem, never say never.
A calexit would be followed quickly by a Jefferson exit from CA.
Winning.
Sickening. My old home county of Ventura used to be solidly conservative. So happy I bailed out 11 years ago.
“We have enjoyed average gas prices of $2.85 here for years.”
Right now, in Knoxville, TN, it’s about $2.06/gal. Our only income tax, applicable only to interest and dividends, is being phased out. All our state-wide constitutional offices are held by Republicans.
That’s it! That is the length I was thinking off for a minimized cigarette. Just enough for a three or four minute smoke. Bruce Willis agrees with me!//
Wifebeater shirts are optional, regardless of color.
Well, your going to have to learn a dozen or so languages other than English, and be willing to try to convince millions of people with little background or knowledge of American Constitutional law and government, before California will move an inch to the right.
It is ludicrous. This silly notion that a state is leaving the republic is absurd. If by extreme necessity it is necessary to break it up, so be it, but that opens other issue obviously. I live in the socialist state of NJ. I loathe Trenton,the inner Amish run areas and NYC influenced areas. We could cut NJ in half south of Camden and live happily ever after.
Always conceding defeat. We need people with a winning attitude.
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