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Opinion: California is sending warning signals to Democrats
Washington Post ^ | Feb 17, 2022 | By Karen Tumulty

Posted on 02/18/2022 1:57:00 AM PST by 11th_VA

California, one of the bluest states in the country, is sending a flashing warning signal to Democrats. They would do well to pay attention. Famously liberal San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to throw out of office three school board members who had been insufficiently attentive to parents’ concerns about prolonged classroom closures during the coronavirus pandemic. The board members also faced criticism for focusing their energies on uber-woke causes, such as changing the names of a third of the district’s schools (including, embarrassingly, ones honoring George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and ending merit-based admissions at elite Lowell High School, one of the best schools in the country, citing “pervasive systemic racism” at a campus where more than half the student body is Asian American.

The recall election was the first in San Francisco in nearly four decades, but it may just be a warm-up. A recall of progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin will be on the ballot in June, testing how much voters — who are increasingly fed up with rising crime — are willing to support his efforts to reduce the number of people in jails and prisons.

And these are not the only clouds of voter discontent in the not-so-Golden State. A raft of fresh polling by the Los Angeles Times found approval of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who easily beat back a recall effort in September, has dropped from 64 percent during the early months of the pandemic in the fall of 2020 to 48 percent. The chief reasons, according to the Times: “concerns about rising crime and California’s seemingly intractable homelessness crisis.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: arth; democrats; demonicrats; midterms; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; schoolboards
I hope the Rats never wake up - this is the ‘day’ Rush Limbaugh’ longed for …
1 posted on 02/18/2022 1:57:00 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Do not get to excited, they stole the national election. They may be concerned but there can be no doubt it is not about persuading people, it is how they can count the votes.


2 posted on 02/18/2022 2:36:59 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Skwor
Exactly. The Night Of The Long Knives in Nazi Germany didn't end the Nazi's power.

It strengthened it. The Democrats are getting rid of the too obvious radicals among them as the mid terms get closer. All in an attempt at looking more acceptable to the mom's and dad's and Middle America. Don't be fooled.

3 posted on 02/18/2022 3:47:12 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: Skwor

Don’t be such an Eyeore.

As Honest Abe said: “You can cheat some of the election results some of the time, but you can’t cheat all of the election results all of the time.”


4 posted on 02/18/2022 4:19:03 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: jmacusa
The Democrats are getting rid of the too obvious radicals among them as the mid terms get closer.

Are they?


5 posted on 02/18/2022 4:25:20 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Missed this one.
What in God’s name is THIS?!


6 posted on 02/18/2022 4:44:20 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: 11th_VA
Famously liberal San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to throw out of office three school board members

Who will be replaced with three other liberals just as bad as the three kicked off the board. The city would have to throw everybody out to get anywhere.
7 posted on 02/18/2022 4:54:21 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: jmacusa

Here's Biden's new director of Nuclear Waste disposal. pic.twitter.com/DEZYX1qCFU— Daxton Brown (@daxtonbrown) February 11, 2022

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#ItsTheTalkOfTheTown


8 posted on 02/18/2022 4:58:18 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Good God. We’re done.


9 posted on 02/18/2022 4:59:54 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: jmacusa
Tell me about it.

#PillarsOfSalt


10 posted on 02/18/2022 5:01:08 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: jmacusa
 ‘Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, even if these three men – Noah, Daniel and Job – were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness,’ declares the Sovereign Lord. . . .
 
 ‘Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its men and their animals, as surely as I live,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.’ ” 
 
(Ezekiel 14:13-18)

11 posted on 02/18/2022 5:12:15 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Poison the idolaters wells, salt their fields, drive out their livestock and ravage their women.

Burn the land with fire and leave no stone on top of another. It's time to go Biblical here.

12 posted on 02/18/2022 5:15:42 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: jmacusa

Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Montenegro glad I have a foot print in this part of the world, as soon as I retire I will buy a house in one of these countries and live the rest of my life, this nation is going down the S**tter for sure.


13 posted on 02/18/2022 6:46:11 AM PST by the_individual2014
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To: the_individual2014
Hungary is looking very nice too.

Like America was in the 50s.

14 posted on 02/18/2022 8:02:36 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: 11th_VA

Ever notice at every election time the democrats try to sound like a Republican it’s what they call baiting the trap.

Mao media approved


15 posted on 02/18/2022 9:28:51 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Vaduz

The Dems are running out of middle of the roaders. Their main power grab is with multi-personalitied humans and illegal aliens and their relations.


16 posted on 02/19/2022 4:52:36 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: 11th_VA

Puff piece by Washington compost. Trying to portray the Dems as caring about how their constituents vote.


17 posted on 02/19/2022 4:54:40 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Skwor
San Francisco is a jurisdiction where the Democrats don't bother to cheat. The last Republican Presidential candidate to carry the city was Dwight Eisenhower. In 2020, Biden won San Francisco by over 70 percentage points.

San Francisco has a huge Asian population, over one third of the electorate. If Asians get worried about an issue, it is education. Nonsense like renaming schools and eviscerating gifted and talented programs will cause them to revolt.

18 posted on 02/19/2022 5:03:05 AM PST by Wallace T.
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