What Happened to California Republicans?
PJ Media,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
11/14/2019 8:47:06 AM
From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder? California also has a Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only seven of California's 53 congressional seats are held by Republicans.In 1994, then-Gov. Pete Wilson backed Proposition 187, which denied state social services to undocumented immigrants. The spin goes that it backfired, alienated the Hispanic community and thus marked the road to Republican perdition.Not quite.Prop 187 passed with 59 percent support.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 11/14/2019 9:13:22 AM (No. 234751)
The spin about prop 187 is to cover their cheating, just as they did in KY for the gov race.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/14/2019 9:15:49 AM (No. 234758)
Based on what my nephew who lives in Huntington Beach tells me, many pubbie voters have left the state due to high taxes and extremely high levels of regulation. Millions of illegals have arrived to replace them. A very liberal msm hypes the Hollywood crowd and gives them the pulpit. The NGOs run the state government. Still quite a beautiful state though despite the political failures. My childhood State of Illinois is experiencing the same decay. This is about all I know. Perhaps Timber Queen can chime in.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fayebeck 11/14/2019 9:21:22 AM (No. 234764)
Neal Boortz wrote a book many years ago explaining this subject. Simple. The druggies, hippies and other slovenly people came to California where as Jimmy Rodgers sang "where people sleep out every night". Haggard did a great job on the song also. But, I digress. Many of these folk dodged the draft, got their "teaching credentials", became legal aid lawyers or became well versed in nonsense. Then they found out that the only jobs for worthless degrees and jobs where a law degree and teaching credentials would allow them to do the most damage to western culture and civilization. AND THEN they discovered that politics and social engineering was where it's at. Then came offices of all kids. City, county, state and the biggies in DC. Business men need not apply then degreed social geniuses had all the solutions. Then all the social misfits, gays, lesbians, "they were considered misfits at one time", social activists, trannies, and all kinds of wierdos. After almost 60 years of becoming "woke" here we are. Nearly no city council has business people on it. School boards also. From those lowly positions the nutjobs just went up the ladder to great jobs such as governor or president. The swamp ain't just in DC.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HotRod 11/14/2019 9:27:22 AM (No. 234775)
''It's no who wins the most votes, it's who counts the votes!''
Voting irregularities are so visible, now that it is accepted in California, that democrats will continue to cheat their way into office. ''The ends justify the means'' as far as democrats are concerned.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fayebeck 11/14/2019 9:28:30 AM (No. 234778)
My fingers are slower than my mind at 83 so pardon some grammar omissions. It's the teacher's fault.
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I am one of the few republicans left in CA. Job, family, and love for the state I grew up in (which is not the state in which I still reside--thanks to leftist policies). But, alas, I (we) too plan to leave in the next year; but, we will be taking our conservative values to another leftist state to be near family (the other side of it).
This beautiful state is rotting from the inside out. So very sad. Everything we enjoyed growing up--not caring about color or ethnicity in friends, beautiful landscape, water aplenty, not horrible taxes after Prop 13 (a property tax reducer--which is now being threatened as the next piggybank for Dems), and just a normal life. Now it's a desert of morality, prosperity, and water.
I guess the newest requirement for being governor is you first have to have presided over a failing city (San Fran and NuisenceNewsome). It's an ugly situation here. Imported illegal voters, George Soros, and the dumbing down of the generations over the last 50 years has been our lot. So, we're planning on heading out. We left LA for San Diego for greener pastures 25 years ago--best day was seeing LA in our rearview mirrors. This time next year we plan to be looking at all of CA in more updated rearview mirrors.
MAGA!!! KAG!!! Keep the USA great! It's too late for Cali!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/14/2019 9:38:03 AM (No. 234790)
Sounds like New York.
What happened to California Republicans? Nothing! That's precisely the problem. They do nothing and defer to the Dem 'leadership'. I understand about being outnumbered, but Republicans still have to do something. They have to show they are a real alternative. For starters, they have to find their voice or the lefties are free to set any narrative they want. If you come across as weak, why would people back you?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chumley 11/14/2019 9:54:21 AM (No. 234820)
I lived there for one year in 1971, in elementary school. The place was already overrun with weirdos then. Not just hippies either. Regular people too. There was no concept of private property. It was all sunglasses, convertibles and motorcycles. And able bodied people signing up for welfare. Lots of that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lucky5 11/14/2019 10:16:20 AM (No. 234849)
#3 Very well explained. Native Californian here. I love my own small town and state in spite of all the problems we have. This is a stunning place to live. I work with non profits and "artist" types so they are mostly older free spirit hippie types who are in their 60's and beyond. She is right, they got into all the school systems and brought their wrong thinking in there with them. I have watched the last 25 years of schooling with my kids and it has turned into a huge amount of propaganda and getting worse every year. The left has an agenda and it is very bad and quite frankly evil. The sex ed in elementary school, transgender bathrooms in elementary school? Shutting out any kind of Christian clubs or anything remotely like that in middle school and high school. I have seen some terrible teachers and school paper articles from when my kids got to high school, but it has steadily gotten worse. This is where we need to fight.
We need conservatives to get back into the schools. It is like a war zone.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NotaBene 11/14/2019 10:18:09 AM (No. 234854)
One key moment was when Schwartzenegger presented four reasonable propositions and the teacher, firefighter, nurses and prison guard unions came out in force and defeated them. Then people like me stopped donating to the do-nothing Republican Party, I will rectify that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
seamusm 11/14/2019 10:42:28 AM (No. 234884)
The immigrants find living in overcrowded apartments and working for peanuts still infinitely better than where they fled from. Foolishly but deliberately they're being given not just a better life but the opportunity to vote for Democrat Santa Claus. Nothing will change until the state collapses and maybe not even then.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 11/14/2019 11:07:36 AM (No. 234902)
My experience with the CA Republican Party:
My wife, a lifelong Republican, ran for our local school board in 2010. We contacted the local (Alameda County) Republican Party office to try to arrange for their endorsement and support. They would only interview my wife on the Saturday of our daughter's wedding, so we passed. She received ZERO support from the local Republican Party, while her two of her three opponents were endorsed by the local Dim party, with slate mailers, funding, phone banks, canvassing, etc.
To our surprise, she won, in first place, and was deluged with congratulatory letters/emails/etc. from local Dim elected officials. Not a single peep from the local Republican party.
When she ran for reelection in 2014, we didn't even bother to contact the local Repubs, and had zero contact with them before, during, and after the election. Once again, she received first place out of four candidates.
She changed parties -- is now a Dim -- when she ran for reelection in 2018 (last year). We found out that the local Repub party had actually formally endorsed her in the 2014 election, but we knew nothing about this until the local Dim party pointed this out to her.
This is why the Repub party is dead in California.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
fayebeck 11/14/2019 1:32:48 PM (No. 235032)
#9 I'm a he and not offended. I guess you could refer to me as a "transgender Ldotter.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
msavalla 11/14/2019 2:02:19 PM (No. 235052)
The real problem is that the Ca. GOP failed to do anything. They became lazy. They failed to do the basics such as voter registration, local support for local candidates and I believe they have been infiltrated by communist plants and Democratic leaning do nothings. The GOP in Ca. is a joke. I give money directly to Trump, not the GOP. I do support the local candidates and participate in Trump rallies, TEA PARTY and EIP. Get off the couch and start fighting. Lets get rid of the entrenched do nothing Ca. GOP.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 11/14/2019 2:23:07 PM (No. 235069)
#2 - You've pretty much got it right. Counter to "conventional wisdom" my experience is most of the refugees out of California are conservatives. (For residents of other states it is easier to blame the creeping socialism they see on fleeing Californians than on the socialist weeds growing in their own colleges and state bureaucracies. Not sayin' that libs don't leave also.) There is no Republican Party in California and there hasn't been one since Reagan, if indeed it truly existed at that time. RR was also an outsider, like Trump, but back then the Swamp RINOs could not risk exposure and they liked the popularity.
Pete Wilson and the CA-GOPe never fought against the court decision nullifying CA voters on Prop 187. They accepted the decision and walked away from the issue. When the people threw out Davis the party poohbahs forced Swartzenkennedy down our throats instead of backing conservative Tom McClintock, the front runner in a crowed all-comers field. We defended traditional marriage and once again saw our vote nullified by the communist courts. The CA-GOPe accepted the decision and walked away from the issue. We have the Jungle Primary resulting in general elections offering the choice between two Democrats because Able Maldonado (spit) as the last speaker of a majority Repub senate traded the "Open Primary" proposition for the passage of one year's budget. Unlike Epstein, the CA GOPe did commit suicide. Conservatives only choice was to attend a never-ending wake with a rotting corpse or flee to the square states in the middle.
TK and I made a conscious choice to stay in California and prepared ourselves to ride out the storm; just as we made a conscious choice to stay in America when Obama was president. California is my birthright because I am an American. California is the socialist plan for the country in fruition. Hold us up as a horrible warning, but do not abandon us. The rest of the country can never be the United States if you cut off CA, OR, WA, IL, MA, NY and the other Americans caught behind enemy lines.
MAGA is for all 50 states.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 11/14/2019 3:32:17 PM (No. 235134)
I know several who have moved out of Cali in the last few years, three in total.
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