Vote for Change
Some people vote with their feet; others don’t vote at all. Speaking of CA, more than ten million people have left in the last sixteen years. Yes, you read that right. Ten million.
Why did so many people leave? The high cost of housing? Taxes? Poorly performing schools? Failing roads and infrastructure? Crime? A struggling economy? Problems associated with the homeless, despite tens of billions of dollars spent on the same? An oppressive and corrupt state government?
Yes, to all the above.
According to the Public Policy Institute of CA, “Much has been made of the California exodus to other states, and rightly so. This migration, over the decades, has the power to reshape the state. (That is an understatement, if I have ever heard one). From 2010 through 2024 almost 10 million people moved from California to other states.” Of course, many more have left since then.
Much of the replacement population is comprised of immigrants, legal and otherwise, and their children. On average, they are poorer and less educated than the people they replaced. Hence, CA, along with Louisiana, has the highest poverty rates in America.
According to various polls, another one-third of the state’s population would also like to leave.
I would offer an alternative. Vote for change. And, by that, I mean quit voting for Democrats who are, by their complete control of the state for the past 20 years, driving it into a political and economic abyss.
Here are my personal ballot recommendations:
Steve Hilton for Governor.
Gloria Romero for Lt. Governor.
Don Wagner for Secretary of State.
Michael Gates for Attorney General.
Herb Morgan for State Controller.
Jennifer Hawks for State Treasurer.
Sonja Shaw for Superintendent of Public Education.
Bob Smith Congress CD 24
Sari Domingues State Assembly 30
Shannon Kessler State Assembly 37
Maribel Aguilera for 5th District Supervisor
A word of caution on the ballot propositions. As you would expect from a third-world banana republic, our state Attorney General distorts the meaning and intent of ballot measures with a title that is purposefully confusing to voters. In many instances, the title of the ballot measure does not accurately reflect the proposed outcome of a yes or no vote. In other words, voter beware!
Ballot Propositions: