October 23, 2023
I haven\’t forgotten that World War Five is underway — it\’s just that there is a problem that\’s closer to home that has to be ministered to: World War Five will unfold as it will unfold…
No, that is not a misprint in the title: I used to be a registered Republican! In fact, I voted Republican on the first Bush/Cheney ticket (I was never a Clinton fan — though he famously balanced the budget). But after my Democrat colleagues threatened to boil me in oil — I started doing some research on electronic voting machines and riots in Washington DC. Subsequently I haven\’t voted Republican since 2000.
But when I learned of a coalition of State Democrats trying to overturn Prop 13 (a sacred cow that probably allows more-than-half-of-us to live in the Golden State) — I began contemplating a return to the Republican Party (at least at the State level).
The following names — and we need to begin citing them often — are the aforementioned Democrats who are no longer to be trusted to serve the peoples\’ needs:
Joaquin Arambula, Jesse Gabriel, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Tasha Boerner, Blanca Rubio, Sabrina Cervantes, Brian Maienschein, Al Muratsuchi, Cottie Petrie-Norris (voted yes on ACA 13 and didn’t vote on ACA 1), Avelino Valencia (voted yes on ACA 13 and didn’t vote on ACA 1), James Ramos (voted yes on ACA 13 and didn’t vote on ACA 1), Carlos Villapudua (voted yes on ACA 1 but didn’t vote on ACA 13) and Sharon Quirk Silva (voted yes on ACA 1 but voted no on ACA 13).
May as well throw Guvner Newsom into this mix!
We free-range tax-paying Californians don\’t want to see any new legislation from ACA 1 (Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1) or ACA 13 (Assembly Constitutional Amendment 13)!
ACA 1 seeks to lower the vote threshold from 66% to 55% for local housing and infrastructure bonds making it an attack on Prop 13\’s historic taxpayer protections and opening the floodgates for frivolous taxation on our already heavily taxed populous!
Even more insidious is ACA 13! It is a direct attack on the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act — which would again lower the vote threshold to make it easier change to statutes, and, tax Golden Staters willy nilly!
And to think that I voted for Jesse Gabriel — believing him to be for the common man. I\’m thinking that Jesse must have come into some money! Is he now enjoying the largesse of the State at the expense of his constituents?
My long-time readers have probably noticed that I don\’t refer to my \”beloved\” Times any longer: that\’s because I dropped my subscription when the sports page ceased to be a proper sports page and more of a fluff features section!
I now subscribe to the right-leaning Daily News — whose editorial board assisted in the framing of this attempt.
I am enjoying the view from the other side of the aisle: I read the Right\’s letters and editorials as critically as I did The Times Left-leaning material. An interesting dynamic I have observed is that The Daily News Letters to the Editor sound more learned than the Right\’s letters printed by The Times — while the Left-leaning letters in The Daily News don\’t sound as smug as those letters featured in The Times.
So, if we all make it to voting day in November — keep your wits about you — there are still greedy forces out there that wish to wish to suck more blood, er oil, out of the Golden State (and use the bullet train project [See elsewhere] as a slush fund!).
But long-time readers, fear not: I won\’t be voting Republican beyond the local and State levels! I don\’t see a single Republican out there I\’d prefer over a Biden/Newsom ticket (though these Two don\’t inspire much hope for the future either).