Written and submitted by Mary Anne<\/p>\n
Not too long ago California was truly the golden state: in economic terms the 6<\/span>th<\/span> largest economy in the world; in environmental terms, proud of its clean cities and back county; in agronomic terms, the nation\u2019s breadbasket producing oranges, almonds, and virtually every other agricultural product, enough to feed the nation; and California\u2019s school system was ranked first in the nation. California produced feel-good movies and people from all over the world flocked here to participate in this almost mythical society of wealth and well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n Today California\u2019s cities are cesspools of homeless camps and drug paraphernalia; its great forests are jungles of deadwood and litter waiting for the first spark to erupt into infernos; its farmland and orchards are now deserts and dead trees; its schools are now considered some of the worst in the nation.\u00a0 Its motion picture companies now bow to foreign entities and celebrate wokeness and anti-Americanism.\u00a0 Its tax-paying population is leaving in droves; indeed, the only folks coming to California today are druggies and undocumented aliens, all promised a sanctuary here.<\/span><\/p>\n Governor Newsom is directly responsible for much of this.\u00a0 Since serving as mayor of San Francisco \u2013 once a great city, now in shambles \u2013 he has initiated or endorsed every crazy notion of the far left, from banning the sale of pet goldfish to obstructing any efforts to manage our forests or reduce crime, to embracing an environmental policy that is not only radical but unachievable considering our current science.\u00a0 While he\u2019s warning folks to expect black-outs and brown-outs because of the Democrat\u2019s war against energy, he is telling folks to purchase electric cars that would add an even greater draw on our grid.\u00a0 His partisans are now pushing to ban natural gas (one of the cleanest of energies) from our homes and replace all of our cooking and heating needs with electricity \u2013 that same electricity we don\u2019t have.\u00a0 This said, Newsom\u2019s Democrats are now proposing taxing home solar systems up to several hundred dollars per year while reducing compensation for the electricity thus produced and returned to the grid.<\/span><\/p>\n This, of course, is in line with Newsom\u2019s personal behavior during the COVID emergency.\u00a0 Shutdowns and mask mandates applied only to his subjects while he dined in fancy establishments, sent his kids to in-person private schools, and paraded his naked face for pictures with other unmasked celebrities.\u00a0 His on-again, off-again shutdowns and mandates destroyed the businesses and dreams of thousands of our citizens.\u00a0 He\u2019s now threatening these mandates again, just in time to no doubt install new election rules for the upcoming Gubernatorial Election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Newsom has overseen the explosion of crime throughout California.\u00a0 During COVID he released thousands of hardened criminals from our prisons and has done nothing to rein in the Soros-funded prosecutors who seem more intent on coddling criminals than on protecting our citizens.\u00a0 Murder and other violent crimes are up.\u00a0 In response, Newsom did visit a railyard full of looted mail and spent an hour helping with the clean-up.\u00a0 He seems to think that hour made up for years of neglect of his duties in this area.<\/span><\/p>\n He is, of course, compromised by the public service unions who supported his election and that of others who turn a blind eye to the teaching of racism in our public schools, support priority by race in medical treatments and our judiciary, and would blame the United States for every ill in the history of the world while ignoring what our country has achieved and what its founders, men of their time, set in motion.\u00a0 He decries the banning of pornographic books from school library bookshelves, while, at the same time, ignoring the banning of classics such as <\/span>Huckleberry Finn <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>To Kill a Mockingbird <\/span><\/i>\u2013 the first written to protest slavery; the second to protest judicial racism.\u00a0 No, teachers he supports promote the fictional <\/span>1619 Project<\/span><\/i> as fact while demeaning many of great American heroes as irredeemable racists.\u00a0 In short, the schools under his watch are teaching hate, and he says nothing except to praise the teachers who are teaching it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Newsom now has Presidential ambitions.\u00a0 To that end he\u2019s attacked the Governor of Florida and invited those folks who escaped California to come back again although he\u2019s done nothing to correct the problems that sent them to Florida in the first place.\u00a0 He traveled to Montana, again in violation of his own rules which bans any official travel to MT.\u00a0 He calls it a vacation.\u00a0 It was, of course, a campaign stop: at least he allowed his publicists to treat it as such.\u00a0 Newsom visited the White House when the President was not in residence and paraded the grounds as if he had already been elected to that office.\u00a0 This would be rude under any circumstances, but to do so when the current President is the head of his party indicates a degree of self-absorbed narcissism seldom seen in even the most ambitious of Presidential candidates, but common to the world of would-be dictators.<\/span><\/p>\n Newsom is a disgrace to this state and this country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And now he looks to give CA voters another payout as a bribe towards his reelection.\u00a0 We\u2019d say shame on him, but he\u2019s already proven he\u2019s shameless.<\/span><\/p>\n Do we really want to give this self-serving autocrat another step-stone towards the U.S. Presidency?<\/span><\/p>\n California voters wake up and vote Brian Dahle for Governor<\/strong> in November.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written and submitted by Mary Anne Not too long ago California was truly the golden state: in economic terms the 6th largest economy in the world; 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