Posted on 05/04/2025 1:35:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva revealed that he was leaving the Democrat Party, after being a registered Democrat for more than 40 years, and joining the Republican Party.
“As of today, I’m leaving the party of paid protests, purple hair, and pronouns, and joining the party of faith, family, and freedom,” Villanueva said in a video posted to X.
Breitbart News previously reported that Villanueva, a former Democrat who was elected to serve as the sheriff of Los Angeles County in 2018, lost his re-election campaign in November 2022 to Robert Luna, the former police chief of Long Beach.
Villanueva, a Democrat, was elected in 2018 on promises of reform. He became more conservative over time, standing up to the Black Lives Matter movement and adopting a tough stance against a rising tide of crime.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Villanueva refused to enforce a directive to close beaches over the Fourth of July weekend. In July 2021, Villanueva also stated that he would not use the department’s “limited resources” to enforce a mask mandate, noting that it was “not backed by science.”
“Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear masks indoors is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines,” Villanueva wrote at the time.
In response to Villanueva’s announcement that he was leaving the Democrat Party, several people took to social media to congratulate him on realizing that the California Democrat Party left residents and “sanity behind.” Other people noted that the Democrat Party had “lost touch with the every day American.”
“Chairwoman @corrinrankin and the entire @CAGOP welcome you to the Republican Party, @AlexVilanueva33!” the California Republican Party account on X wrote. “Californians are realizing that the @CA_Dem left them and sanity behind.
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He surprised me during Covid. My initial impressions of him were wrong I must say…Welcome to the fold Sheriff 😎
I’d say this is pretty huge. Maybe a run for governor?
“registered Democrat for more than 40 years”
Some people are just slow learners. Welcome to freedom, Sheriff Villanueva!
Good for him I think, but we don’t need to elect or celebrate somebody that stupid, 40 years?! Really????
His gravy train must have derailed.
I saw the light 30 years ago when I realized that “the Democrat Party left me”.
Good for him. Let’s hope there are many more like him. A ten percent switch would be huge.
Let’s be happy he has had a political conversion.
Why do you call him stupid?
What do we gain, by calling those who want to join our side stupid, call them stupid because they had been Democrats?
It only took the nimrod 40 years to figure it out.
40 years is a long time to remain blind and ignorant.
Without a brain then?
Too much sugar coating ?
Maybe I should reply you don’t say or
I declare
To democrat epiphanies
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