Posted on 02/03/2018 11:13:37 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
FILE- In this May 25, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pelosi’s daughter is sharply criticizing the California Legislature’s handling of sexual misconduct while Pelosi faces criticism for not being more strident in responding to sexual harassment allegations. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
California is a really odd state to live in when it comes to politics in the first place.
Enter Nancy Pelosi. She is one of those people that is directly cut from the mold of the Democrat Party prototype, Hillary Clinton. She is as crooked as a stick and strangely develops amnesia the moment someone challenges her on anything. I'm honestly surprised she hasn't started passing out like one of those fainting goats.
Resignations due to sexual harassment scandals and the #metoo movement have once again cost Democrats their super-majority in California's legislature, which, in turn, have temporarily saved the people of California from even more tax hikes. If you couple that with the fact that it's now a widely known fact that Nancy Pelosi effectively stalled the resignation of John Conyer's in Congress, there might actually be an opportunity to save this state in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections and retire Nancy Pelosi once and for all.
If there's any state in the union that is most assuredly "blue," it’s California. Outside of a single Republican governor — Arnold Schwarzenegger — and a handful of state and federal legislators in northern and far southern counties, Democrats hold nearly every elected office in the state.
But according to Politico, a burgeoning sexual harassment scandal is roiling the state’s Democratic ranks and a series of "scandal-induced resignations" thought to be coming in 2018 are threatening the Democrats' stranglehold on power.
"We're in unchartered territory here," Garry South, a veteran Democratic strategist told the political news outlet. "This whole issue has hit a critical mass in a very short time. I've never seen anything like it before — and I don't know where it ends."
South and others claim that Democrats have suffered from a severe decline in public trust. The Hollywood leftists who have bankrolled Democratic candidates at both the state and federal level are now under scrutiny, as Harvey Weinstein, perhaps chief among the entertainment industry’s political powerhouses, is facing dozens of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape allegations — and, quite possibly, an indictment.
The major Democratic players who represent some of California’s biggest urban areas can't escape the tarnish. Even Rep. Nancy Pelosi isn't immune, the article claims, because she stalled Rep. John Conyers's resignation, calling Conyers an "American icon" and pleading with him to remain in office, even as more women came forward to accuse Conyers of bizarre — and often sexual — behavior.
The California Assembly is itself embroiled in its own sex scandal. Dozens of women signed a petition to demand accountability from Democratic legislators they claim have sexually harassed aides and staff. They even have their own movement: #WeSaidEnough.
The Assembly plans to hold hours of hearings dedicated to sexual harassment within its ranks when it reconvenes in January, and the State Senate has hired two separate law firms, Politico reports, to handle what leadership believes will be a wave of claims. Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Alexandra, is leading a group of progressive feminists attacking California state Democrats from the left, accusing them of covering up for abusers in their ranks while labeling themselves great protectors of women’s rights.
Democrats have yet to see electoral fallout from D.C. and Hollywood scandals, but Politico seems convinced that, at least in California, certain seats are likely to remain vacant or even flip to Republican if state-based scandals make national headlines. Californians prefer Democrats, that's not in doubt, but they may want a change of pace from their regular representation.
I like that she is the face of the Democrat Party.
Project Veritas needs to do a sting on the illegal aliens thing.
If she leaves, it needs to be in disgrace.
Huh? Schwarzenegger isn't governor, hasn't been for nearly eight years.
Fantasy...
“Dennis Miller: Nancy Pelosi is Bat Shit Crazy”
Well Dennis Miller must read at Free Republic, because this Freeper, and others have been posting that same statement for seemingly ever.
Ugh.
#ranoutofbotox
This is a very poorly written or intentionally confusing statement, insofar as it implies that Arnold Schwarzenegger is still governor of California, or that he has been the only Republican governor of California ever.
Regards,
How on earth do gastroenterologists know which pucker to use for colonoscopies on this poor disfigured soul ?
The issue is not whether the GOP can win control in California. The issue is lowering the number of Dems so they don’t have a super majority to do all those bat shit crazy things they like to do. They’ve already lost that due to resignations. They could lose even more seats. This will at least put a check on their wretched excesses.
here’s the full politico article from 2 months ago that AJR ripped off:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/24/sexual-harassment-allegations-california-democrats-306231
Conspiracy theory has it that California went Blue except for voter fraud.
Looks like Nancy P Lousy missed her last Botox appointment.
Republicans could pick up enough seats in the House delegaton in CA to strengthen theirn hold on the House.
Which would deal a blow to Democrats’ prospects of taking over the House.
As for the rest of it, the Democrats have ruled for generations that for them power is an entitlement.
The sex scandals couldn’t have come at a worse time for the party.
The democrat party cannot be saved until traditional liberals stop running scared. They need to go to war against the current insane, anti-American leadership of their party. There are plenty of them around, hiding in plain sight.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
When I look at Nancy Pelosi and many of the other democrats I am beginning to wonder if we are in a Zombie Apocalypse! If you saw them at the SOTU they all looked like corpses during the speech, barely moved at all when everyone else was clapping. It’s kind of like the movie “They Live”
Nancy is not worried https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7jgg6-bF7s
Sheep don’t know how to fight!
Ronald Reagan became a republican before becoming Governor of California.
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