Posted on 01/10/2018 8:34:44 AM PST by Coronal
I exaggerate for effect. But don’t be so fast to boast of the republican from Kalifornia some are not much better than democrats...remember Awwnald. Exactly what have all those republicans in the house accomplished? It is just a matter of time before enough illegals migrate to the north. It’s always amazes me that you guys are so fast to defend Kalifornia. It’s a beautiful state being turned into a leftest hellhole and people are leaving in droves... a lot comming to Texas!!!
>>>Wonder why all these gutless wimps are retiring?
Many are Committee chairs that are being term limited out of that role. Without the power, the role apparently isn’t worth it.
Ed Royce in Fullerton (Republican Orange County) not running either.
He had a reasonable shot before the tax bill.
Yes, he was walking a razor thin margin. But the demographics have not changed that much in the 14+ months since his last election.
He has the biggest advantage in politics: Incumbency. And Money.
Issa give up ,Obi wan
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.
Because they know they are going to get buried in a wave?
California's 49th Congressional District
In 2016, ISSA beat his (D) challenger by less than 1%, 50.3% to 49.7%.
In 2014, ISSA beat his (D) challenger 60.2% to 39.8%.
In 2012, ISSA beat his (D) challenger 58.2% to 41.8%
The numbers are more or less the same going back to 2002 when he was elected to that office the first time.
Not sure what demographic changes have occurred there in the last 10 years (for example), but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it bodes terrible for (R)epublicans.
CA and NY are lost causes.
California has some very conservative Republicans, some moderate Republicans and some liberal Republicans. Just like every other state with a large delegation.
What it comes down to for me is would I rather have a Republican who votes conservative 70% of the time or a Democrat who votes conservative 2% of the time.
American Conservative Union lifetime ratings for California Republicans:
Calvert: 84% conservative voting record
Cook: 74%
Denham: 65%
Hunter: 92%
Issa: 87%
Knight: 86%
LaMalfa: 94%
McCarthy: 88%
McClintock: 99%
Nunes: 86%
Rohrabacher: 95%
Royce: 96%
Valadao: 48%
Walters: 76%
http://acuratings.conservative.org/acu-federal-legislative-ratings/?year1=2016&chamber=12&state1=18&sortable=1
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.
Bingo - you nailed it. Issa is almost certainly retiring in part due to this issue. His district is going to get murdered by the new tax law.
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Personal money and taxes get...well...very personal.
Defending California from your admitted exaggeraction is
not the same as boasting. If there is one thing that
CaliFReepers won’t do it is to boast about the state’s
political status. What some of us do is to remind our FRiends
that the state is not 100% liberal when it comes to the
peeps.
Two types of people move from California to Texass. One
type move because they are tired of liberal rule and
they have the flexibility to relocate. The other type
transfers when their employer moves the company. You
can thank the hard work of Rick Perry for many of those
liberals. Any population increase brings liberal increase.
It happened in California and it is happening in Texass.
Best to slow the change as much as possible.
Horseshit.
I live here. The demographics HAVE changed significantly since his last election. I see the change every single day.
Yes, I know you lost your deduction(s). Looking at it aside from your personal bias, I disagree entirely with your premise.
I love the state. It’s like watching a loved one on their death bed. You realize even more how much they meant to you, how much you loved them, and you don’t want to say good-bye. I’ve been here since 1969. I was actually born here in 1951, but at the age of three I became independent and moved to Missouri for 15 years.
The massive coast line, the highest mountain in the lower 48 states, the lowest inland point in the nation, the mountains, the parks, areas with volcanic activity, beautiful unmatched forests, massive rock canyons and valleys, great world class ski resorts, deserts, high elevation meadows, tens of millions of acres of forests, many small lakes, a bread basket of farmland second to none, mineral deposits, oil and natural gas resources, thermal vents, hot springs, and the nation’s three major sea ports, at one point a decade ago the three largest in the nation.
Our military resources in state are also impressive.
I’ve seen Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and almost any other state in California. There is a part of California that will remind you of home. You’ll drive around a turn, and there it is. If you didn’t know better, you’d think this was real estate from your home state.
California also has it’s problems. It is besieged by Leftists for all these very reasons. It’s an incredible place. So is the United States. Both are under attack. The U. S. is on the road to recovery.
Some day California will be also.
I will live to see it. I will be here welcoming others who think our nation is too important to hand off this state in perpetuity to leadership like the old Soviet Union, Mao, Vietnam, or German Third Reich.
Something that is often overlooked, or unknown, to people outside CA and NY is that there are more (R)'s in the Federal House of Reps from either of those liberal states than from many "deep red" states.
CA has 14 (R) House Reps.
NY has 9 (R) House Reps.
The top 10 "most conservative" states can not match even NY's (R) rep count from AL to WY.
AL has 6 (R) House Reps.
WY has 1 (R) House Reps.
Unfortunately the fact is, due to population, the Republican party needs CA and NY in order to help maintain control of the House.
Otherwise, Nancy Pelosi will oversee impeachment and nearly all the rest of what Trump wants to get done will be even more impossible.
The more the Republican party, and base, ignores the big states...even the liberal ones, the more likely (R)'s are to loose even more control of the congress & executive...and eventually the courts. It's not a good game plan.
Unless there is a law put in place that immigrants (legal or illegal) can not vote for 20 years and every single family in those red states has 5+ children, it's a numbers game that the Republicans are going to find more and more difficult to win at.
The best bet, at this time, is to reform immigration by denying citizenship to any of the 20+ million illegals (and make certain none vote), shut down chain migration, close the diversity lottery, deport all those who overstayed their Visa's, enforce eVerify, build the wall, beef up ICE & other immigration enforcement.
It's a tall order, but we must put pressure on our elected representatives to do these things at a minimum.
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!!!
LOL
Those sanctuary cities and state issues have only come about in the last 2 to 10 years.
By that time California was inundated.
Why is it that folks always jump on these threads to deny federal responsibility for these things.
And what should the federal government have done the moment any of these things came up?
1. They should have been rounding up and deporting all along
2. They should have pounced on cities and states with both feet the moment they declared themselves to be sanctuary areas.
These sanctuary issues should have been over the moment they started.
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