Posted on 07/08/2017 4:59:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
Despite Jerry Brown using "goon squads" to intimidate voters, and angry Democratic Party leaders verbally assaulting signature gatherers, organizers of the effort to recall California state Sen. Josh Newman (D-Orange County) gathered 85,000 signatures in support of a recall election.
Sensing Newman's vulnerability, legislators changed the recall rules ex post facto (which will assuredly be legally challenged by recall supporters), and now Democrats are stepping up their attacks on people who organize dissent in the state.
College students. Or, more specifically, three College Republicans who volunteered as signature gatherers.
That's right. The California Democratic Party is suing them, accusing them of lying to voters and saying that the recall would repeal the gas tax.
First of all, that any California Democratic Party official or candidate would accuse Republicans of lying to get votes - and say it with a straight face - is a massive insult. These are the people whose confiscatory gun control scheme was called "Safety for All" in ads. These are the people who claim that sanctuary cities are simply shielding hard-working, law-abiding, family-centered immigrants from being deported. These are the people who call taxpayers "freeloaders" when they finally get sick of forking over the highest gas taxes in the nation.
The lawsuit names three Cal State Fullerton College Republicans, as well as other activists, as defendants - Amanda McGuire, Brooke Paz, and Ryan Hoskins - and was filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, a clear effort to make it as difficult as possible for the three to defend themselves. If you're not familiar with California, Sacramento is at least a six-hour drive from Fullerton. (And that's if you leave in the middle of the night to avoid traffic.)
Paz, the group's public relations director, told the Daily Wire :
"This lawsuit is a baseless attack on the character of hardworking and passionate activists, as well as a shameful intrusion on the democratic processes that are my right as an American citizen."
"As we just celebrated the 241st anniversary of our independence, my God-given rights are being threatened by the California Democrats simply because they disagree with me and my colleagues," Paz continued. "Our elected representatives are supposed to govern by the people and for the people. The people do not want higher taxes, and as proven by the incredible amount of signatures we've gathered for this recall petition, the people do not want Newman."
Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Fred Whitaker told the Daily Wire:
"Democrats are desperate to hold on to absolute power – whether it is changing the rules ex post facto on signature verification, or contribution limits, or a lawsuit challenging the validity of signatures – they will stop at nothing to keep absolute power," said Whitaker. "There is no principle left for them, it’s only power, and it doesn’t matter if we change the rules or ruin the finances of ordinary college students now having to defend their own signatures."
Conservatives in other states should take note. If we do not vigorously fight back against the "spin" the mainstream media and Democrat politicians put out there, and Democrats take over, this will be the way the entire country is run.
Unleaded Gas in my part of coastal Calif today is $2.86 at ARCO..!
Gas Buddy states that unleaded gas today in Huntsville, Alabama averages $1.86..!
The downside is that as California fails, its citizens leave the state, in the same fashion as “Plague Rats”. Thus, they spread the stupidity that is killing California to states that we’re doing fine.
This isn’t a ‘temper tantrum’. This is intimidation. This is violence. This is the mafia.
The only effective response is asymmetrical force.
I bought regular for $1.889 yesterday, when I was in Abilene.
Yuck! Agreed! We need to call the exterminator here in Colorado. We are up to our eye balls in them. Our state voted for Hillary... a square state of blue in a sea of red.
They are Demonicrat domestic terrorists.
Smart ones leave, with their income, no more tax.
Dumb welfare suckers stay.
Percent of stupidity goes up.
where do i contribute to the legal defense fund? these are saul alinsky intimidation tactics.
I often wonder when Jim Rob is going to bail and move his family to Texas.
I hear ya.
Jim, any of these CalStateFullerton related to you? I hope they can get an honest attorney to help them fight the Dems...
The college students need to contact the US Attorney in Sacramento and file a criminal complaint under 18 USC Sec. 241.
Not just California leftists, other leftist places also. I read a blog based in Chicago-the commenters often complain about tax raises and certain other leftist policies which hit them in the wallet, but then they go on to talk about other leftist policies they like. Now that Chicago’s sh*t is really hitting the fan, many of them are talking about moving to greener (red, as in conservative Republican) areas. The problem is, they can’t seem to tie the hits they’re taking financially, to other leftist policies which they support. And they will bring that same blindness or stupidity to the red states they want to move to. They will move for lower taxes, better property values, and still support other policies which make those costs go up. It’s so frustrating. I wish there was some law that you have to stay and live under the policies you vote for, but I don’t see a way to do that without destroying voting privacy. I mean, some are obvious-ie, blacks as almost a 100% bloc vote for ‘rats, but then you have these “swing voters” or “centrists” who are “fiscally conservative” but “socially liberal”, who can’t seem to make the connection that their socially liberal programs are one reason why we have big government and loss of freedom, which makes their taxes and living expenses go up. They bring that mindset to red states and ruin them too.
We need a Gadsen refund....
File an anti-SLAPP motion against the Democratic Party, request mandatory attorney’s fees and sanctions.
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