I’ve been receiving Issa’s eMails. It looked to me like he was in trouble. That seat will likely be lost.
We voted on this open primary thing about eight years ago, give or take a couple of years.
At the time I was against it stridently. The Republican party out here didn’t voice a single whimper. The RNC had nothing to say. The GOPe was MIA.
The state of California is like it is, because it was essentially abandoned post Reagan. Dole made a stop or two out here. Other than that, I don’t remember any other candidates coming to California. Trump came during the primaries, but not before the general election.
Our candidates are not helped by the party. We’re on our own, and of course our views are never heard. The Left has it’s proponents and for all intents and purposes, we have none in state.
What business person is going to leave business and run for governor knowing he’ll be outspent 15 to 1, won’t have ANY big names coming from back east to support him, and will see his opponent get ten times the MSM air-time he will? Add to that his opponent will get all positive coverage, and he’ll be covered as a newbie know-nothing.
I don’t care how much the rank and file do, you can’t overcome these types of insurmountable odds.
The GOPe is of no use to us whatsoever, hasn’t been for decades.
The state of California has been abandoned, and rather than get angry about that, FReepers join in to trash everyone who lives in the state.
I’ve said this a number of times on the forum.
When you start drawing new lines to cut off part of the U.S., you’re taking the first step to reducing our global influence.
California provides something in the neighborhood of 13% of Federal Tax receipts. Folks dismiss that saying that California takes much more government funds than it doles out. Wrong! California is pretty much in the middle of the pack when it comes to states who get the most federal funds.
If you peel off California, New York, and other obvious Leftist dominated states, pretty soon you have a nation with 50% of it’s former tax base.
Okay, then try paying for the military this nation needs.
Draw the new border at California’s edge. Next you’ll be drawing a new border ejecting all states next to California. Next you’ll be drawing a new border around all of them.
We fight for every inch of ground, and our nation hasn’t fought to keep California since the end of the 80s.
Instead they watched as the state was over-run by illegal aliens.
I complained about this on the forum, and my fellow FReepers told me it was our problem. California has never been in charge of immigration. It’s a federal issue. At the end of the 80s, almost all inland enforcement was stopped.
Here we are today.
I moved to CA when I came off active duty in 96. So while I am not native, I hear and have seen some of the same observations you articulate.
I am leaving next month. After 21 years I cant stand the nerve racking traffic, high taxes, lack of conservative representation, insane laws binding the law abiding citizen, the poor roads, the garbage people throw on the highways and streets, the failing education system, the crime and lack of desire to stop it, the illegals and the debt the state saddles its taxpayers with, the anti-2nd amendment govt (and the list goes on) any more.
I only have two things I can say positive. I love the weather, and I love my work. My company is now allowing me to transfer to another division in a better state. And the weather is simply not enough to hold me here anymore.
Very good post, Doughty. However, our state didn’t help
ourselves when back in the day, our politicians made
it nationally known that we had become a welfare paradise.
There is no doubt in my mind that there is more
governmental corruption in California then we will ever
know. The Democrats run the state and the media gives
them a green light to do pretty much what they please.
The flip side is that Republican politicians are too
scared to pick up dimes off the sidewalk.
Come on man.....this is just patently false....California regularly breaks federal law to cater to illegals!!! What the hell do you think sanctuary cities and states do!!!
It will be interesting to see just how much the change in the Schedule A tax deductions hurts the Republican candidates. CA is really catching heck these days with fire, flood and landslides. My sympathies.