Friday, September 17, 2021

Looks like California is wasted on California voters

 Apparently, the California anti-Newsom voters all live in Texas now.

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)
 
How Gavin Newsom survived the recall - POLITICO  . . ."By Labor Day, Newsom had turned what started as an up-or-down vote on his governorship into a choice between him and Elder, the radio show host Newsom relentlessly tethered to Trump — with a predictable outcome in this staunchly Democratic state. For Newsom, the emergence of Elder as the GOP's standard bearer was an unexpected gift, so beneficial to the governor that many Republicans came to resent Elder for turning the race into a traditional — and unwinnable — choice election.". . . 

Reflections On The California Recall (capoliticalreview.com)  . . . "California today works primarily for two key Newsom constituencies: unionized public employees and pop culture, tech, and financial leaders. Money from these groups gave Newsom a massive advantage in advertising and organizing. Newsom’s coffers exceeded those of the nearly bankrupt recall campaign and all the prospective candidates combined by almost three to one. The combination of tech IPOs and federal money has also financed massive relief funds for a third Newsom constituency—California’s highest percentage-in-the-nation poor population—allowing the governor to act like a modern-day Boss Tweed.

"This electoral triangle remains too entrenched to dislodge, at least for now. Massive spending secured the votes of disengaged voters, even as the San Francisco Chronicle warned about “an alarming enthusiasm gap” among Democrats. The effort to reach enough of these voters clearly worked."...

. . . "California “conservatives”—whatever that term might mean today—need to abandon our wishful thinking about savior politicians and do the tedious work of politics. That means laboring and building at the local level—beginning in our own neighborhoods. That means not only attending school board and city planning meetings but also running for those seemingly low-level posts because that’s how real candidates for higher office are made. 
"This is not an appeal for milquetoast moderation. Rather, it is an argument for seeing the state as it is and changing course accordingly. Larry Elder wasn’t going to save us. Nobody was ever coming to save us. We can only save ourselves."

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