Posted on 11/06/2018 9:55:57 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
I have to shoe-horn this in somewhere. Our local paper talked about the gas tax proposition in such a strange way. But people seemed to buy it.
“No on Proposition 6.
This would repeal last year’s gas tax increase of 12 cents a gallon and vehicle registration hikes of $25 to $175, among other things. We don’t like taxes any more than the next person, but this measure is mainly a ploy by Republicans to get their base voters to the polls Tuesday. Ventura County already has benefited from the increases. If oil companies can raise gas prices on a whim, why can’t our state government raise them for a worthy cause?”
(a) A ploy by Republicans?! Like they don’t care about anything else going on? (b) Why can’t the government raise taxes for a worthy cause? Are they saying government can raise taxes on a whim if it is for a worthy cause? Don’t we pay enough taxes here?
And here I thought Fantasyland was only found in Disneyland.
The reality is that the majority of California independents vote Democrat. You can find the data here:
http://www.ppic.org/publication/california-voter-and-party-profiles/
Demographics are what have transformed California Reagan Country into Obamaland. Immigration has been the driving force. Legal, not illegal.
“It was a miracle that John Cox was even on the governor’s ballot “
He might as well not have bothered. He managed to be invisible. More appealing than the Obama clone that the national GOP establishment forced on us last time (Neel Kashkari). But he was far too bland.
Yes, but Dems carried all 6 of the other state-wide offices, plus the U.S. Senate seat, plus added several Congressional Representatives, plus secured supermajorities in both houses of the State Legislature.
Some more stats to consider:
Orange County CA - In the June primary: 1.6 million were eligible to vote. Only 650,000 did.
CA Secy of State page says:
43.5% of eligible voters registered as Dems.
24 % of “ “ “ as GOP
27,5 of “ “ “ no designated party
only 80% of eligible voters registered to vote. So far babies and felons disallowed.
16 and 17 year olds in CA are ‘pre-registered” to vote when they become 18 years old.
These kids pre-registered as:
31.7 % as Dems
10 % as GOP
52% no party stated.
SACRAMENTO fix is in for 18 year olds, they know their name, Soc number and address now.
“District Voting” is just starting to benefit the Dems, it will stifle voting for those with most merit but live across the street.
The Chickens, Cows and Pigs won big yesterday and are all
looking forward to big pens, etc. CA ready to pay 10 million just to inspect chicken, cow and pig farmers that still farm in CA beginning 2020.
Leaving the ocean behind may become do-able for me.
“District Voting” is just starting to benefit the Dems, it will stifle voting for those with most merit but live across the street.”
Democrats managed to foist district voting on Anaheim, an OC city which seems to be in play by the Left.
The city’s mayor, one Tom Tait, ostensibly a Republican, has close ties to the Open Society Foundation, the Soros front group. The dude is bad news, a radical hiding in plain sight.
As we know all too well, California is a One Party State.
And while that one party carries the name Democrat, it’s really a Latin American socialist party with dreams of going full communist.
I guess we’re the Vanguard of the Revolution. That red star on the flag will start growing bigger and bigger.
Being half-Asian, I am ethnically ambiguous as many Californians increasingly are...and though some vote Democrat out of habit and conditioning - in practice, minority and immigrant groups aplenty are more conservative than people think.
All this propagating of transgenderism in public schools for example — has been pushed by ‘white’ progressives and ‘white’ elites. And it turns off a good chunk of Californians.
I was in a cafe near LAX - occupied mainly by retired, old-timer African-American men on the eve of the 2016 election — everything from domestic and foreign policy was discussed —and there was a LOT of support for Trump. Their mentality is not the same those indoctrinated in today’s leftist university system for example.
Conservatives can win in California. We just need to think outside the box.
I admire your optimism, Condoleezza.
Agree!
EX-RINO Steve Poinzer ended up losing to Queer Hispanic democrat Ricardo Lara when all the “votes” were “counted” by a good 5 points, though admittedly this was a lot closer than R/D races. If decent Republicans start running as “I”s I doubt it will fool anyone.
The teachers union whore also beat the pro-reform candidate in the D/D “officially nonpartisan” Superintendent of Public Instruction race. Marshall Tuck the loser again, last time he clearly didn’t get the GOP support he needed, a great failure for CA conservatives to use their voting power. This time without seeing the county map, don’t know why but he lost again.
okay perhaps you’re right. it’s Cali’s gone communist. and it stinks.
The just stole another House seat, one that was called on election night cause the lead was comfortable. SMH.
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