California Legislature uses supermajority vote to change flag to more appropriate symbolism
Posted on 11/07/2012 10:52:48 AM PST by So Cal Rocket
California Democrats appear to have picked up a supermajority in both houses of the state Legislature Tuesday night, a surprise outcome that gives the party the ability to unilaterally raise taxes and leaves Republicans essentially irrelevant in Sacramento.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Democrats-get-supermajority-in-Legislature-4015861.php#ixzz2BZ1jgHgh
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I visit that whole area every 6 mnths. Have family in Arkansas and Oklahoma. I don’t like Oklahoma as well as I do Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri. Was there in May and went up into the Table Rock Lake area of Missouri. Not by Branson but the southwest side. Loved it. So it will either be there or around the Jasper area of Arkansas.
That is not all of the bad news in California. Proposition 39 passed. Prop 39 is a another tax increase on businesses with money going to “green energy.” Prop. 30 passed, it is for a “temporary” tax increase. San Diego will have the worst mayor in history, former U.S. Representative fish face Bob Filner. He is red diaper baby stooge of the labor unions. It also looks like Congressman Bilbray is going down to another union stooge named Scott Peterson. I keep pinching myself. I want to believe this is not real. This is a nightmare.
East Tenn. is a wonderful place to live
and quite Laissez-Faire
I have loads of family in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Main reason that area is a draw.
Run, don't walk. Do not be the last white farmer in Zimbabwe.
Conservative Californians: PLEASE move to Ohio and Florida!
I hope conservatives living in California understand what this means. Get out, get out now. The state is about to tax you into oblivion. Move to a red state - preferably one with low minority population and try to ride out the storm. It isn’t really safe to move somewhere like Arizona or Texas either since those states will begin trending Democrat due to all the Hispanics. In a generation Republicans won’t even be able to win statewide in the lone star state. Unfortunately the kind of government you see in California will become the norm nationally at some point. The best we can do is find a decent red state that isn’t hosting a rapidly growing minority population and hunker down.
I hope and pray they overturn Prop 13.
I have been trying to get out of this asylum for 11 years. My wife refuses to leave but if they scrap Prop 13 she'll go.
Kalifornia is not a good place to die. If it gets real bad, ask for help. Perhaps some Freepers can assist in some way. The cost of living in many locations in the heart of America can be 40 % less then the cost of living in Kalifornia. And you will need to lower your cost of living for whats coming.
Hey, maybe what we need is an underground railroad for Californian Conservatives. We shall help set you free.
>Be very careful about trashing California and urging it be jettisoned. Your state is next.
This is actually the only good news that I have heard today.
Now maybe the state can collapse in good time to warn the rest of the world what a socialist wet dream really is.
My homeschooled children are learning Japanese & Chinese... go figure
Would not worry about the big city population centers. They wont last long in a WWIII or Economic Collapse scenario. And one of those two will definitely occur sometime in the next 10-15 years.
You will feel like you came home for the first time. Like a trip back to where America was 30 years ago. When I moved to Cali a few decades ago, it was because Cali was a decade ahead of Michigan at the time. Now, you do not want to be living in America's future. It's past is much better. Personally wish I was born in the late 1600's myself. Not as an indentured servant though. As a free man.
I wonder why? Is it because we didn't have candidates?? Or was it because the MSM (which is still the news source of most Americans) think the GOP is out of touch on social issues!!
See my new tagline!!
Voter would still need to approve a prop 13 change as voters are the ones who enacted it to start with
Oh goodie, in 20 years California will start looking more like Detroit.
Yup, this super majority was the last straw for me. I've been on the phone to realtors all morning to list my house and talked to a realtor in Phoenix. As much as I hate hot weather and would rather live in Reno or Flagstaff, my SO wants to work for another 5 years and Phoenix is the only west coast city she can transfer to.
While I was somewhat okay with Moonbeam's Proposition 30 passing, a super majority in a liberal legislature is a nightmare just waiting to happen. I give them 6 months before they start passing more tax/fee increases. I already read that 3 major companies are now leaving because of this super majority, not to mention the hundreds who have already left Cali for more business friendly States. Texas is reaping the rewards, especially.
We're heading to Arizona - the cutting edge of the fight for State's rights.
I’d look east and south.
What are land prices like there? OK land seems to be fairly cheap in some places.
They are about average prices. Our thing is taxes, etc. Hubby is retired and I recently retired so we can live anywhere.
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