Posted on 06/22/2017 8:46:48 PM PDT by artichokegrower
California is restricting publicly funded travel to four more states because of recent laws that leaders here view as discriminatory against gay and transgender people.
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Heh, heh......good riddance.
What needs to happen is every cubic foot of gas, every gallon of petroleum products, every kilowatt of electricity and every gallon of fresh water that flows into the shite hole should have about a 30% tariff placed on it. Call it the CA stupid tariff.
God bless Texas!
Gee, you'd think the political bosses on the far Left who run California would expend the same level of effort to addressing one or two other "tiny" issues facing the state (a woefully underfunded budget on the verge of a complete collapse; uncontrolled illegal immigration and associated lawbreaking by elected officials) as they do sacrificing the liberty of normal people to promote the ever-expanding "rights" of 2 percent of the state's population (6 percent in San Francisco).
A matter of political priorities, y'know!
IIRC, this is specifically prohibited by the Constitution and falls under the "commerce clause". In fact, I think a case can be made that the "bans" themselves run afoul of that.
Ten bucks says that Texas is just fine with being on that list!
Well now! South Dakota don’t make many “lists”; but if we are going to be on someones “list” I can’t think of a better one than THIS LIST! Thank You California!
I am thinking we should include the fact that “left Coast” government employee’s are banned on out tourist brochures!
They don’t have to worry, I would not visit there if it were the last state standing. I’d move to Timbuctoo before KalifornstanHomoland.
Interesting, because the Univeriosty of California system discriminates in its admissions and tuition. It favors illegal immigrants over out of state American students.
The comments there are surprisingly critical and scathing. Even from Californians. Has the left actually overplayed its hand?
Yes, we are.
Don’t blame you a bit.
Hey, I live here and I think our state government is out of control and bat “stuff” crazy.
After a 28 year career in the military, my wife, 3 of 5 kids, and I moved back to SoCal. We wanted to be near our families and aging parents/grandparents.
Since then, the older two have finished college and moved here too. We’ve also added two grandkids to the mix.
Nearly everyone who is important to us lives within 30 miles.
This is a real treat after living so far away for so many years.
Now, after 8 years here, we are ready to leave...for so many reasons.
It will be tough, but our survival in old age depends on us living somewhere that the populace and government are not looney.
I don’t blame you.
California has been destroyed by local, state, and federal government actions. The MSM did it’s worst to make that a reality too.
Californian’s haven’t helped. In their defense, there hasn’t been anyone with a loud voice here to sell Conservatism to them since Ronald Reagan.
Think about that. People who are 45 years old in the state, have never seen a big name well known Californian or other national public official pushing real Conservatism. After Reagan’s presidency (probably before), the Republican party wrote off the state.
The issues of the day are not hotly debated during the gubernatorial campaign seasons. There are few debates. The media barely gives the Republican any coverage, and the Democrat is lavished with air-time and moment by moment descriptions lauding him for literally nothing.
Washington big names come here to support the Democrat candidates. Republican big names... crickets!
So here we are, a state that has gone full tilt Left. Other states blame it on the wing-nuts that live here. There’s some validity to that.
Many bases were closed in California. The people that worked at them were no longer living in those communities giving their input as to what solid governance was.
Our nation’s universities, California’s universities have been Leftist dens of iniquity for the last close to 60 years now.
In this void of decent values being presented to the people, what did we expect would happen?
When many of us tried to explain what illegal immigration was doing to the state, folks blamed California for it. California does not establish or enforce immigration law. It’s a federal government mandate.
Border enforcement, inland enforcement, government raids..., it’s all a federal government duty. It’s a duty it shirked since 1990.
Today we have an admitted 5 million illegal alien presence, that I would challenge as being perhaps as high as two to three times that amount.
School figures would make that very clear if it were provided to the public.
Along with this problems is the gang activity that takes place.
You would think there is no gang activity from the local media reports. You don’t hear about gangland killings. What’s up with that?
At any rate, so it goes in California. This state is an amazing place. It has literally been destroyed by the Democrats and with the permission of the Republicans.
Add to all of that that the CA Primary systems can (and often will) lead to no Republican on the ballot.
SEE: Kamala Harris (D, NorCal) vs. Loretta Sanchez (D, SoCal) for Senate.
Yep, that’s right.
Did you notice the deathly silence out of the Republican camp during the election where open primaries were approved?
They couldn’t have cared less.
Yes, it did set up a situation where Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez were the two candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat.
No Republican was on the ballot. Right you are. And so, when folks object to the idea of there being only one party, remind them. This is what the Republican party didn’t lift a finger to stop.
Uniparty!
>>Isn’t this unlawful?
Evidently not when the 9th Circuis “brain works” of the farm are paddling the banana barge up the river into the heart of darkness.
And remember — NO SLEEPING IN BEDS err {edit} WIF SHEETS!
Things like this happen when you let people vote for what they want.
Right, why does it feel like we lost?
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