A large percentage of police officers and firefighters are mostly conservative.
Not when it comes go state employees. PO's and FF's tend to side with their fellow state government employee causes of more pay and benefits for less work and less accountability.
Certainly in the past. Not so much anymore. Even here in the suburbs, well outside of Austin, the liberal leaning is readily apparent.
The dem legislature every year sits at the table across their union bosses and debates how best to divvy up the taxpayers monies.
I call them “Orange County Republicans” and as an ex-Californian living in North Idaho, we see the same behavior this article describes. We moved from Kootenai County to Boundary County because we saw the writing on the wall. Recent ex-Californians moving into Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene are voting for tax increases and justifying it by saying “It’s for the kids”. I blame it on the “Covid Rush”. It used to be that people slowly trickled into Idaho and unlearned their old thoughts and behaviors. That “localization” is no longer happening due to the volume of people (kind of like our southern border). A prime example is in driving behavior. So many California drivers arrived at once that they didn’t notice that they were not behaving like locals. We left California to get away from that behavior. That’s also why we left Kootenai County.
That is very true. Just because you work for a liberal State, doesn't mean you share the political beliefs of that State. I spent 25 years in uniform for NY State, and am no friggin' liberal. Most of the people I worked with were Republicans. Many of the guys I worked with owned personal weapons on their badges, and were big hunters.
A large percentage of police officers and firefighters are mostly conservative.
A large percentage of police officers and firefighters *think* they are conservative.
Not in my experience.
> A large percentage of police officers and firefighters are mostly conservative.
California conservative. Their overton window is doppler shifted to the left.
My experience with them(city/gov workers) is that they seem to like “laws” “rules” and “services” that require more taxes imposed on property owners who pay for everyone including non property owners. They need to stay in their state and fix it instead of screwing up my state with their socialist mindset.