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California retirees flocking to small Idaho town, prompting concerns about 'liberal baggage': 'Wait a minute'
Foxnews ^ | 12/29/2023 | Andrew Miller

Posted on 12/29/2023 9:56:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Retired California public employees are flocking to Idaho with their pension funds and becoming the financial "lifeblood" of at least one Idaho town, ruffling feathers with some locals who are taking issue with the "liberal baggage" of the new residents.

The Los Angeles Times reported this month the town of Eagle, Idaho, has seen an influx of retired cops and firefighters moving to their town with many of them identifying as conservative but who "seem practically socialist to the old guard" with their large pensions.

Two California transplants squared off in the most recent mayoral race, and the key issue between the two former Golden State residents was "who was the least Californian."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: california; idaho; liberal; retirees
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Great just great...
1 posted on 12/29/2023 9:56:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like termites.....


2 posted on 12/29/2023 9:57:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

California is sinking they’re running to higher ground ,LOL


3 posted on 12/29/2023 9:58:14 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A large percentage of police officers and firefighters are mostly conservative.


4 posted on 12/29/2023 9:58:20 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Progressives are arrogant pigs who lack self awareness. They can’t even conceive the idea that their voting patterns caused the problems they are fleeing. Therefore, they bring it with them. Like a plague.


5 posted on 12/29/2023 9:58:48 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If the California transplants are claiming to be refugees from the liberal state they come from, will they get court dates in 2031 to prove that they are actual refugees, or will they be accepted as normal people just looking for a better place to retire?


6 posted on 12/29/2023 10:00:14 AM PST by Bernard (We honor veterans who fought to keep this country from turning into what it now is. --Argus Hamilton)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tar, feather, rail them. They ain’t on your side.


7 posted on 12/29/2023 10:00:25 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: riverrunner
A large percentage of police officers and firefighters are mostly conservative.

Not when it comes go state employees. PO's and FF's tend to side with their fellow state government employee causes of more pay and benefits for less work and less accountability.

8 posted on 12/29/2023 10:02:04 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: riverrunner
A large percentage of police officers and firefighters are mostly conservative.

Certainly in the past. Not so much anymore. Even here in the suburbs, well outside of Austin, the liberal leaning is readily apparent.

9 posted on 12/29/2023 10:02:23 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Retired California public employees are retiring to Eagle Idaho?

You have to be very well off or wealthy to live there. That’s what gold plated government pensions can do.


10 posted on 12/29/2023 10:03:02 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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California real estate is so insanely priced that anyone who managed to own even the most modest of residences is a “millionaire” when they cash out...


11 posted on 12/29/2023 10:05:17 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: riverrunner
That may be so on the surface. yet they all vote their pocket book.

The dem legislature every year sits at the table across their union bosses and debates how best to divvy up the taxpayers monies.

12 posted on 12/29/2023 10:05:27 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have now read this article three times. The concern isn’t that the invaders are Republican. The concern is that they aren’t Republican enough.

Well, just gonna have to work hard to de-educate these people from their CA baseline. They have been beaten down in belief to accept what no longer has to be accepted. You are in Idaho now, act like it. Get over the California PTSD.


13 posted on 12/29/2023 10:06:16 AM PST by FlipWilson
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Eagle Idaho listing...

$1,975,000

3 bed 3.5+ bath 3,887sqft 3,887 square feet 5acre lot


14 posted on 12/29/2023 10:06:45 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Tell It Right

Yeah - those “conservative” cops, firefighters and construction workers love stuff like the increased minimum wage ($16.28 in WA come Jan. 1). It doesn’t just affect the minimum wage, but those union wages that use a multiplier of the minimum wage.


15 posted on 12/29/2023 10:08:50 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Q for anyone: If CA is so well and truly lib, why does Deep State have to steal its elections...?


16 posted on 12/29/2023 10:09:01 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Luckily, Newsom has plans to remind Californians why they left:

https://honemaxwell.com/california-exit-tax/#:~:text=The%20proposed%20California%20Wealth%20Tax,to%20relocate%20outside%20the%20state.


17 posted on 12/29/2023 10:09:16 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Eagle Idaho... This one is only $834,800


18 posted on 12/29/2023 10:10:16 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I've been watching it happen since I returned to Idaho in '03. It's depressing as hell. These are largely people who claim to be conservative (and from a Kali perspective are) who still hold dear the best government is the one that does the most for you. And, unfortunately to you.

Still, not to panic. Can't paint them all with a broad brush. It isn't as if they're taking over - oh, wait, here two of them are running for mayor. We're screwed.

19 posted on 12/29/2023 10:11:30 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ROTFL! Cauliphonya miggies lookin’ for “a better life”.


20 posted on 12/29/2023 10:14:19 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (They've begun dismantling Arlington Cemetery, next comes diggin up white solders and dumpin' 'em.)
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