Posted on 01/19/2022 7:14:28 AM PST by fluorescence
HANFORD,Calif. It’s been a year now, but in this Central Valley farm town, like the nation, the divide has only grown.
Todd Cotta was working in his gun shop when a customer came in with the news about David Valadao, the Republican congressman for whom Cotta had campaigned across Kings County and beyond just months before.
Bewildered, Cotta turned to his phone and tapped in a text message to a man he considered a friend.
“Hey David. Somebody’s spreading a nasty (rumor) that you voted to impeach Trump,” Cotta wrote. “I certainly hope that’s not true.”
Within seconds, Valadao responded.
“It’s true.”
The two haven’t talked since.
And, really, neither have the two sides of the country.
A year after President Donald Trump was impeached for a historic second time, few places better illustrate America’s lost middle ground.
Historians will look back to Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, as a day of infamy. But in Valadao’s hometown of Hanford, they point to Jan. 13, 2021, when, as local mechanic Joe Flower puts it, the local congressman “not only stabbed the president but stabbed us all in the back.”
Valadao was one of just 10 Republican House members — and the only one in California — who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection.
That decision put the 44-year-old dairy farmer and the other reviled Republicans in the crosshairs of Trump himself, who gloated after two of them announced last fall they would not seek re-election: “2 down, 8 to go!”
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His Facebook page is often littered with random comments from people still simmering over the vote.
“Time to retire and hand it over to a MAGA candidate,” one commenter posted last month. “You have zero chance because Trump supporters remember your impeachment vote.”
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Pelosi ran the beta tests.
Every rino that worked in conjunction with the left to oust Trump and to steal,the election znd cover up,the steal is directly,responsible,for,the embarrassing and dangerous fiasco ourmparty,is now subject to, such as political imprisonment for misdemeanors, themafghanistan debacle, illegals pouring into the country, the horrible econo y, empty store shelves, endless shutdowns and mandates, kids being vaccinated, high gas prices and food prices, on and on it goes
Rinos deliberately betrayed this nation and our party, knowing full well that doing so would mean disaster
But, we can’t blame it,all on them- the people who keep voting these Benedict Arnold’s back in are to blame as well
Any politician voting to impeach Trump for January 6 fell into the trap of voting on manufactured “evidence” that was derived from a legitimate (but unnecessary) constitutional process (impeachment) and based on purely political motives. That’s it.
Nunes district is right next door. Hanford, Lemoore, and Coalinga, I believe. Fine people in Kings County. I worked there back in the seventies. Salt of the earth. That dude is done.
“If the GOP takes back congress they should immediately impeach Joe Biden for failure to secure the border.”
Yes!!! And Afghanistan. Leaving that hardware is giving aid and comfort to our enemies.
Two big ones.
Romney is running around Utah with his staff having constructed a rationale. It’s all about “character”, you see.
You can expect these other treacherous dogs to do the same.
The counter is . . . the absolute worst form of character is the person that backstabs the people he represents. No, not leads. Represents. Romney’s character is the lowest ever seen in Utah, and he must be erased. Character is defined by NOTHING else.
And this is the hard part. This is the part the GOPe doesn’t understand. This Is Personal. It’s beyond politics. If they obstruct a MAGA nominee in primaries, then a vote for a Democrat in the general is possible. The horrible character of these people must be erased, at all costs. If it means not winning the House or Senate, it is THEIR fault for obstructing the MAGA nominee, not the voters fault for choosing a Democrat over this horrible character.
The Republican Party in California is overdue to be called out for not throwing him out of the Republican Party as the good Republican people of Wyoming did to Lizard Cheney.
Yes. Keep shoving it in their face. Make the nation *HATE* the Senate for refusing to get rid of the corrupt idiot.
Psst. The rats went around the law in swing states to steal 2020.
They also need to round up and deport all the illegals, no matter who they are, where they are, or how long they have been here.
The criminal ones, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, etc, can all be dropped off on one of the Aleutian Islands with an air drop of food once a month for them to sort out themselves.
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