[Rich21IE]

The Horror; this why, really, we need to rethink secession. So many other States just don’t need anymore anything from California.

[matginzac]

So be it....the dims have driven this state into the ground...they own it...just let Mexico take it over now...it’s lost.
(I grew up there and witnessed the demise...RIP, CA)

[Logical me]

California the land of the communists building an empire similar to Greece.

[Huskrrrr]

Three words: taxes....taxes....taxes. They will find a way around the voters.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I always have to wonder these days...who got to Cameron Smyth and in what way?

[The Iceman Cometh]

You just can’t deny math, I guess. Stupidity multiplies.

[Dilbert San Diego]

You really have to wonder if California is on the road to being a failed state? A failed state politically, socially, economically, in education, health care, or any other things you want to measure.

It was interesting that on election night 2010, as the rest of the nation saw a surge of Republicans being elected governors, taking over state legislatures, and taking back Congress in Washington for the Republicans, that California alone experienced an uptick in Democrats being elected to various offices.

If there’s any “good” of all of this, it’s that the failures of California cannot be blamed in any way on Republicans. Democrats control every single statewide elected constitutional office. Democrats control both the state Assembly and state Senate. They can do whatever they want based on their control. So we’ll see the results of what happens in the future, when you have one party Democrat rule of a major American state.

[denydenydeny]

We will need a border fence from Oregon to Arizona.

[THE_RAIDER]

The rest of the country will pick up their tab via the federal government. We will keep pumping money into their failed POLITICS without the ability to stop it because they are to big to fail.

The truth is they want to prove that their warped Utopian society works at any cost.

[chris37]

Ya know all the GOP has to do now is figure out a way to permanently lose Florida, then it will never have to worry about presidential primaries again...

Nice work GOP.

[VRWC For Truth]

They are all Detroit’ers now.

[Tzimisce]

It’s okay: Californians LOVE high taxes.

[stevie_d_64]

The die was cast for a Democratic supermajority in the Senate when the state’s new independent redistricting commission redrew its 40 districts.

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What happened to the challenges by “groups” to this redistricting???

Ohhh, snap...I forgot...VRA only empowers liberal/progressive groups to challenge voting trends in a state by Federal DOJ enablers...

And, this is California...Not Texas...Muh bad...I bet California gets off a primary this election cycle...I wish Texas had gotten its act together...Its all still up in the air...

Ohhhh, snap...They really don’t have to for this one...

I have to ask...Does anyone in California even raise an eyebrow anymore when the state government actually spends more money than you have in the coffers???

I mean, I was stationed out there in the 80’s and remember when the State lottery had its first weekly game...And I remember hearing years later that in the first two years of operation that the lottery, which was to specifically back up state education was going to be able to fully fund ALL state education activities, (i.e.: new schools, maintenance and expansion of existing facilities, teacher hiring, raises, pensions, the whole smack) for the next ten full years, and that no referendums or other spending or bond issuances would need to be put forth in that timeframe...

I’m only going from memory, and it may be flawed, but from what I recall, I was fairly impressed with the system...

But now, as good as it may have been, doesn’t seem like a lot of conservative fight is left in that state...

But that’s just what I see...And that bit about the lottery, well, I wasn’t one to dabble in the California thing, just like in the Texas lottery...I did buy one scratch off in Texas when it first came out, I lost and said thats it...I can say I played only once...Not sure if my participation would have bought a single kid a banana for lunch...

I guess I am a really bad person...

[Carry_Okie]

We paid $14,000 in State income and property taxes this year alone, never mind the sales tax.

[OrioleFan]

Recognizing you have a problem is part of the solution.

Obviously, Californians haven’t recognized they have a problem.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The best solution in California and the rest of the country is for all Republicans to immediately re-register as Democrats and all Republican candidates to switch parties. The voters have been trained to vote for the letter (D), not liberal principles, and a lot more conservative voices would have a chance to rise if they had a (D) after their name.

The Welfare State Media would freak out and go into total melt-down mode, but the Left's policy of relying on stupid voters, state dependents, and vote fraud would have to end - and fast. :)