Category Archives: California

Democrat Quid Pro Vote

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Given what he has done to California, who the hell would vote to put Gavin Newsom in a position to do the same thing to the whole country? This guy would:

Democrats enable criminals and scumbags and help to grow their numbers. In return, they acquire loyal support on election day. You’ve heard of quid pro quo. This is quid pro vote.

On a tip from patthedog.

California Gubernatorial Debate Canceled for Not Being Sufficiently Diverse

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If there are not enough DEI candidates, then there cannot be a debate.

Via USA Today:

USC has canceled a planned California governor’s debate after days of backlash over claims that the event’s invitation criteria excluded candidates of color…

The debate, scheduled for Tuesday, March 24, was to be hosted by ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles and the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future. It was called off less than 24 hours before airtime after USC said it could not reach an agreement with KABC to expand the number of participating candidates.

Former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra — who pushed for kidney transplants to be provided on a racial basis — plays the race card once again:

Becerra, a Democratic candidate for governor, accused USC of using an “arbitrary formula that favors wealthy candidates” and said the criteria resulted in the exclusion of all candidates of color from the debate.

Objective standards will sometimes have that effect. This is why Democrats tend to oppose merit in favor of contrived diversity.

USC previously said invitations were based on a candidate viability formula developed by USC Professor Christian Grose and the USC Democracy and Fair Elections Lab, using polling and fundraising thresholds as key variables.

Racists! Participation should be based on membership in favored I mean marginalized identity groups.

On a tip from Franco.

Rap Taught in Public Schools

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If Democrat-dominated public schools no longer teach children to read, write, and do math, it could be that educators have different goals.

The New York Post reports from California:

The Merced City School District in the Central Valley — one of the state’s lower-performing school districts based on test performances — has signed a $270,000 agreement with Fresno-based School Yard Rap, which describes its approach to learning as “edutainment.”

School Yard Rap founder Brandon Brown boasts that his edutainment “helps eradicate a lot of hate and ignorance in the country.” It does this with lyrics instructing kids that “History books have a white male skew.”

The contracts include a summer “Rap Camp” and an “African American Affinity Group,” which is only for 100 African American students, raising questions about whether the program complies with federal law. …

“It is illegal for the government to offer benefits solely on the basis of race,” Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said.

Never mind what’s illegal. The important thing is to affirm and promote the preferred culture. Refraining from teaching the three R’s will help achieve this objective.

Only about 13% of students meet math-proficiency benchmarks…

This is not a bug but a feature, when you are trying to grow an underclass dependent on welfare and therefore beholden to the Democratic Party.

On a tip from R F.

California Wastes Big on Bridge to Nowhere

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The homelessness grift and the bullet train to nowhere are hardly the only means California Democrats have had of flushing taxpayer money into oblivion. The New York Post reports on a bridge to nowhere:

In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.

At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to “complete the job within another $10 million,” before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.

By now we know what this means: $64 million was only the beginning. The project, which was supposed to be finished last year, is currently $21 million over budget.

WAWC leader Beth Pratt tells taxpayers to keep bending over:

“There’s no boondoggle,” she said. “Given the times we’re living in,” a potential $21 million overage is “not that bad.”

The times we are living in are characterized by arrogant looting inflicted by pathologically greedy liberals.

Within days of Pratt’s announcement, the California Transportation Commission funneled another $18.8 million to the project, well exceeding the governor’s $10 million cap. The project’s total price tag now reaches about $114 million, reportedly including some $77 million in state funds.

Helping animals across the road is only a pretext. The bridge is a jobs program for useless enviromoonbats.

As the WAWC-endorsing Wildlife Crossing Fund notes, citing the California Department of Transportation’s estimate, “for every $1 billion spent” on wildlife crossings, “13,000 jobs are created.”

Presumably at least a few of those 13,000 would be engaged in some productive activity if Democrats did not pay them to drag out boondoggles — of which there will be many more if Dems remain in power:

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Newsom envisioned WAWC as a catalyst for the construction of wildlife crossings across the state. California, he boasted, set aside $105 million “to replicate projects like this all up and down the state.” Pratt reportedly thinks “hundreds more crossings are needed.”

You can see why Newsom has presidential ambitions. California’s deficit has been estimated to reach as high as $35 billion in coming years. As Margaret Thatcher famously observed, moonbats eventually run out of other people’s money. But if he achieves power at the federal level, he can just print more.

On tips from R F and abcanc.

California’s Fraudulent Lifeline to the Dead

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No wonder the dead are such a loyal Democrat constituency, considering how much of other people’s money they are given in deep blue California.

Via Breitbart:

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr discussed fraud in the federal Lifeline subsidy program during a Breitbart News policy discussion Tuesday, citing a report from the FCC’s inspector general that found more than 94,000 dead people signed up for benefits in California. …

“The Lifeline program is a federal program that you pay for,” Carr explained. “It is effectively an assessment that appears on your monthly telephone bill. We collect that money, and it goes to do a lot of things, but one of the things it does is to provide subsidies for phone or internet service for low income households.”

Carr says California has been responsible for “vetting to see who’s eligible for Lifeline.” Consequently, the program has degenerated into a looting spree in Gavin Newsom’s Land of Fruits and Nuts, which is as likely to prevent welfare fraud as Tim Walz’s Minnesota.

Good news from Carr:

“So we’ve now revoked California’s authority to conduct its own vetting.”

The bad news is that Newsom could be the next POTUS and would likely take his ruin of California nationwide.

On a tip from patthedog.

Wealth-Producers Escape as California Succumbs to Democrat Death Spiral

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Let’s hope the last employer to leave California won’t forget to turn off the lights.

Via Just the News:

Yamaha Motor Company is now the latest seismic hit to California after announcing that, after half a century, the nearly $7 billion company is leaving the deep blue state.

Although Yamaha is relocating to Georgia, most companies bailing out of the erstwhile Golden State are heading to Texas.

Toyota Motor North America completed an earlier headquarters shift from Torrance, California, to Plano, Texas…

Chevron also relocated its headquarters from San Ramon, California, to Houston, Texas, in 2024…

Charles Schwab completed its headquarters relocation from San Francisco to Westlake, Texas, in 2021.

Public Storage, the nation’s largest self-storage operator, announced in February that it was relocating its corporate headquarters from Glendale, California – its home for more than 50 years – to Frisco, Texas.

The visionary Elon Musk can see what’s coming and wants no part of it. He has moved Tesla, SpaceX, and X from California to Texas. Click through for plenty more examples.

Businesses leaving California in recent years often cite the state’s high taxes, burdensome regulations and elevated cost of doing business as key factors driving the decisions.

Left behind will be the underclass that California has imported through mass immigration to vote for the Democrats who impose the high taxes and suffocating regulations. As productive citizens follow opportunity out of the Land of Fruits and Nuts, ever more radical Democrats will be elected to redistribute the shrinking pie ever more greedily, which will drive out the productive at a still higher rate, in a vicious cycle that guarantees single party Democrat rule and the total ruin of the state. California is succumbing to the Democrat Death Spiral.

On a tip from abcanc.

Sex Offender Running for Fresno City Council

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The next step after enabling criminals is placing them in a position to rule us directly. Daily Caller reports on a Fresno City Council candidate:

Rene Campos, a registered sex offender, has launched a campaign to represent Fresno, California’s District 7, ABC30 reported Wednesday.

Campos, who was charged with possession of child sexual abuse material in 2018, says his campaign will focus on safety.

Whose safety?

Campos told ABC30 he has “experienced the laws” his team is “trying to reform.”

Reform them enough and we won’t have any laws.

Fortunately for Campos, representatives of criminals are already in charge:

The candidate, who was initially charged with a felony count of possessing child sexual abuse material, only served 27 days in prison according to court records, with the rest of his sentence being served as “treatment” or rehabilitation.

Barks Campos:

“Public safety must be about outcomes, not outrage.”

When we lose our capacity for outrage, the moonbats win.

Campos looks the part:

On tips from Franco and R F.

CEO in Homeless–Industrial Complex Charged With Misappropriating Over $1.2 Million in Public Funds

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The homeless–industrial complex is a lucrative sector of the economy. However, liberal establishment grifters are advised that if they are dumb enough they can still get in trouble, even in deep blue California. National Review reports on Gwendolyn Westbrook, former CEO of the United Council of Human Services:

The former CEO of a San Francisco-based homelessness nonprofit was charged Monday with nine felony counts after allegedly misappropriating more than $1.2 million in public funds.

In addition to the $1.2 million,

Court documents show that other large amounts of money are also missing from UCHS accounts.

Westbrook represents the tip of an iceberg:

The state of California spent $24 billion from 2019 to 2024 to address homelessness but officials are unsure exactly how the money was spent, according to a state audit released last year, which found that no systems were in place to track expenditures.

Regarding the return taxpayers get for their money,

Over the five-year period covered by the audit, California’s homeless population grew by 20 percent, from 151,278 in 2019 to 181,399 in 2023.

From the viewpoint of Gavin Newsom et al., this represents success. Spending other people’s money on homelessness results in more homelessness, which facilitates ever greater access by Democrats to other people’s money.

On a tip from Varla.