Posted on 05/25/2013 10:20:49 AM PDT by mandaladon
Democrats were writing obituaries for California's GOP after winning a supermajority in the state legislature last November, thus gaining veto-proof power to raise taxes. But their legislative lock may have slipped after this week's special election in which Republican farmer Andy Vidak appears to have defeated a Democrat—in a heavily Democratic senate district—who had championed high-speed rail and a higher minimum wage.
If Mr. Vidak wins an outright majority—late Friday, he led with 49.8% of the vote and provisional ballots were still being counted—his victory would put Republicans two senate seats short of reclaiming their veto on tax hikes. But more important, the election has exposed the Democrats' soft underbelly in California's Central Valley—a no man's land in state politics—and given Republicans a rallying point.
"This is the shot in the arm that shows that we are doing some things right," California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House GOP whip, says.
Three months ago, Democratic state senator Michael Rubio surprised his party by resigning midway through his first term to take a job in Chevron's lobbying shop. The 35-year-old moderate from Bakersfield had just been elevated to head the senate Environmental Quality Committee and was expected to propose regulatory reforms the week he tendered his resignation.
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Too little and too late.
Just accept that California is gone.
Now those libs are fleeing the high taxes and excessive regulations by coming to your neighborhood where they vote for big spenders.....
Just accept that California is gone.
Now those libs are fleeing the high taxes and excessive regulations by coming to your neighborhood where they vote for big spenders.....
Ping!!!
Farmers in the central valley are destined to be like farmers in Rhodesia. Increasingly isolated and surrounded by people of a different nationality who don’t like them. I feel for these people, who came to farm over 100 years ago, and Made a barren land fruitful.
By the way one technique of the Liberal Democrat is use "Green Policies" as a cover for wealth transfer. By precluding a farmer from water his land becomes non-productive. Non-productive land produces lower profits. However, a farmer's expenses and taxes remain high ultimately forcing him to sell his land at a loss. The buyers will be the ethnic buddies and political donors creating large "super farms." Once the transfer is accomplished the smelt will die and water be released.
Read Davis-Hanson’s excellent essays on his family farm in Selma, CA, what’s happened to the land and people, and the effect of the EPA. It is very sorrowful.
“Just accept that California is gone.”
I agree, and have to concede the same for my state (NJ). The fact is the demographic trend is irreversible in these areas; enough of “them” are here to stay (and continue breeding/migrating), while “we” aren’t even reproducing ourselves. Until taxpaying Americans prefer a new child to a new car or electronic gadget, they are conceding increasingly wider swaths of this country to “them” (and footing the bill for feeding, clothing, housing, and schooling/providing day care for them).
If people can’t wake up in dire economic times like these (as evidenced by the Kenyan Pirate’s re-election), than they have been lulled into a permanent lethargy from which they won’t recover. Watching the last generation of “legacy Americans” walk around in a stupor talking about television programs and sports is depressing.
Drive down I-5 and you will see sign after sign that says “Congress created this dust bowl”.
California has been invaded over the last 20 years by citizens from a corrupt failed country . This has been allowed to happen by the liberals with the intent of changing the demographics and providing more democrat voters. The desired effect will be temporary and eventually corruption and failed liberal policy will drain the wealth of California. The state will become similar to Detroit with rampant crime and slums .
Don't you even shed one tear for them.
They're the ones who hired every single illegal and stuffed the profits in their pockets.
They expect the rest of us to ride to their rescue when the hostile foreign nationals figure out that they're the majority.
No different from the plantation owners of the South expecting subsistence farmers to fight to protect their hideous institution.
No sympathy from this quarter.
I live in Kalifornia. I’m here to rescue hostages (kids and grandkids). The rest of the US can help us by sending representatives to DC who will NOT bail us out in ways that Pelosi and company have done. Let Kalifornia live with and pay for its programs and decisions.
The feds screwed this up, not the farmers. They would have gone out of business decades ago if they didn't hire the cheapest labor.
I have. His family is what I had in mind in thinking about what leftists have done to the people that created that region from nothing.
PA is not too far from NJ. I’m stuck in NJ for now but am thinking of buying a weekend house in Pike County and establishing PA residency instead. Pike County is the closest low population density area to NJ and NYC, 93% white, votes Republican. They have hunting, fishing, boating, ATV and motorcycle trails, trees instead of people. A few towns near the border have NJ disease with property taxes as much as 10% of house value per year, but a bit farther in it drops below 2%. Health insurance there is a fraction of the cost here. That savings alone could pay the mortgage on small house. The drive to PA to visit a doctor is less time than competing in the waiting room with Obamacare freeloaders here.
Thanks mandaladon.
Best description of the American people I've heard in a while; most are just plain crazy out there.
“Best description of the American people I’ve heard in a while; most are just plain crazy out there.”
Thanks; it is a shame. I don’t know where we’re headed, but I’m not optimistic.
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