Posted on 11/12/2012 6:15:14 PM PST by Steelfish
Advice to California's GOP: Leave — Or Better Yet, Change California needs Republicans' fiscal prudence, but the election shows there's no political future for them without a major makeover.
By Steve Lopez November 10, 2012
Memo to the California GOP:
Rough couple of weeks, huh?
First you found out that the number of registered Republicans in California has dipped below 30%, which means we are fast approaching the day when the entire state membership can fit into two golf carts.
To make matters worse, of the 1 million people who used a new online voter registration system this election cycle, only 20% registered as Republicans. And 60% of those who registered were under 35, which means your future's not looking great.
Then the dominoes really started to fall.
Gov. Brown's Proposition 30, the first general, statewide tax hike in two decades, passed so easily that the ghost of Howard Jarvis threw himself in front of a truck.
Proposition 32, an all-out attempt to defang public employee unions, got pummeled despite an infusion of last-minute anti-labor cash from Arizona.
What could be worse? I'll tell you what. In the state Legislature, Democrats won supermajorities in both houses. Do you know what that means? It's like handing your teenager a credit card, a checkbook and the car keys so he can drive to an all-night orgy.
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50 miles inland from Oregon to Mexico (Sorry San Diego)
There have been a number of proposals to divide California. If a division matched against Puerto Rican statehood is not possible maybe we could arrange a match with an Illinois/Chicagosplit.
Whew....that puts me on the east side. :-)
They get Dan Diego...we get Sacramento.....ummmmm...got to think about that one
East California would already have the capital set up. Our legislature would instantly become right of center as would our Governor. Very little expense involved unless the lefties blow up the town before they leave.
There are a few towns (notably San Diego) who would be screwed (being on the west side of the 50 mile zone) but the east side would get screwed as well (those few Blue Counties up near Tahoe).
California is just the canary in the coalmine. Expect it to spread. Everywhere.
The other day I passed a sign in Berkeley (posted next to a vacant lot or demolished building): a picture of a dead canary in a cage, with the caption "Wake the f*ck up."
It's over.
After reading your post....yep...it’s over.
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