
California Policies of the Democrats
What the California Democrats and their donors are bringing to Virginia
When Ronald Reagan ran for President in 1980, Republicans argued that he had the experience to be president because he had managed the fifth-largest economy in the world: California. It still is, but it is a very different state in 2020,
Californians are leaving in droves because of its "Cost of living, crime, homelessness, crumbling infrastructure, burdensome regulations and high taxes. Add to that gross mismanagement of the pandemic response, failure to manage . . . [its] forests leading to catastrophic fires and green policies that caused a shortage of electricity and rolling blackouts." Daily Breeze, August 30, 2020
It is important that Virginians understand the policies and political environment of the California Democratic Donors funding Virginia politicians.
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Aug 15, 2022, Radical Los Angeles Prosecutor Narrowly Dodges Recall, Washington Free Beacon
[Attorneys blame out-dated signature standards for failure of petition to oust Gascon]
May 2, 2022, Opposition Mounts As Newsome's Mental Health Overhaul Clears First Hurdle, Mercury News
Dec 27, 2021, No Wonder People, Businesses Are Dumping California, Daily Signal
Nov 22, 2021, Dozens of Looters Rush Nordstrom Store in Walnut Creek, California, NBC News
[employees were pepper-sprayed and attacked]
Sep 14, 2021, Newsom Rebounds to Beat Back Recall, Daily Signal
July 14, 2021, Two Out of Three Californians to Get Stimulus Checks: Officials, KTLA News
July 8, 2021, San Francisco's Leaders Out of Touch as City Descends into Lawlessness, Daily Signal
July 6, 2021, Clocks Ticking for California Recall Candidates Hoping to Oust Newsome, Politico
July 1, 2021, New, Earlier Recall Date Puts Republicans at a Disadvantage in California Recall, NPR
June 28, 2021, California Lawmakers Craft New Legislation to Speed Up Gavin Newsome Recall, Sacramento Bee [The effort is perceived as an attempt to help Newsome retain office]
May 29, 2021, Newsome's Wildfire Prevention Plan Won't Help Californians, Washington Examiner
May 20, 2021, Facing Recall, California Governor Blows Out the State Budget, Hoover Institution
Apr 14, 2021, Supreme Court Slams California's Authoritarianism Again, Washington Examiner
Mar 30, 2021, Los Angeles is Failing California, ZoCaloPublicSquare
[The County's Pandemic Failures Point to L.A.'s Long-Term Problems, and the Statewide—And National—Urgency of Fixing Them]
Jan 17, 2021, Recall Petition: Stop the Spread of Newsom, Washington Free Beacon
Oct 4, 2020, Record-breaking California Fires Surpass 4 Million Acres, KUSI - San Diego
Sept 8, 2020, Golden State Considers Increased Taxes: California Legislative Update, Baker Botts
Aug 30, 2020, One-Party Rule in California is Backfiring, Daily Breeze
June 18, 2019, California: America's First Third-World State, National Review
Fall 2009, Who Killed California?, National Affairs
Corruption Is a Staple of California Dem Politics
Dec 9, 2020, Dem. Rep Eric Swalwell Suggests Trump Behind Blockbuster Axios Report, Fox News
Dec 8, 2020, Biden's EPA Frontrunner Worked to Ban Gas-powered Cars, Washington Free Beacon
[California Democrat Drew Bipartisan Backlash Over 'Crooked' Environmentalist Agenda]weredCars, Washington Free Beacon
[California Democrat Drew Bipartisan Backlash Over 'Crooked' onmentalist Ag
June 22, 2020, LA County's 'corridor of corruption', CalMatters
Oct 11, 2020, Which US State is most corruption prone?, Quartz [Reviews study by anti-corruption NGO Coalition for Integrity, which rates North Dakota and Wyoming worst, but California's high rating is more a measure of technical standards rather than reality]
Jan 20, 2020, The California Legislature: A Parliament of Whores, Global Gaming Business News
July 11, 2019, Gavin Newsom, most state lawmakers took money from convicted felon PG&E, ABC10
August 2018, Los Angeles County Plagued by Local Corruption, Public CEO
June 21, 2016, Former California State Senator Pleads Guilty to Corruption Charge, Reuters
Apr 16, 2015, The Most Corrupt State in the Country Is, NPR [Monmouth Poll ranking of states in order: NY, CA, IL, NJ, TX]
Apr 6, 2014, California Senate: Inside the Corrupt Reality of Government, Reason
California Policies by Issue
California's Handling of the Pandemic
Feb 20, 2021, Two Democratic Governors See Stars Dimmed by Virus Woes, Associated Press
Jan 14, 2021, NFL Star Aaron Rogers Slams Gavin Newsom's COVID Hypocrisy, Washington Free Beacon
Dec 21, 2020, Gov. Newsom says California stay-at-home orders will likely be extended, SFGate
Dec 7, 2020, California Restaurants Sue Governor Over Lockdown Order, Daily Signal
Dec 6, 2020, California Sheriffs Reject Newsom's Lockdown Order, Washington Free Beacon
Nov 19, 2020, California County to Sue Governor Over COVID Restrictions, Washington Free Beacon [San Bernardino County argues "one size fits all" restrictions don't fit many communities]
June 30, 2020, There's not one reason California's covid-19 cases are soaring - there are many, MIT Technology Review [Latino population accounts for unusually large proportion of cases per capita]
California's Population Exodus
Dec 18, 2020, A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them, Wall Street Journal
Dec 11, 2020, Oracle Moving from California, Joins Tesla and Hewlett-Packard, Fox Business
Nov 17, 2020, California Exodus Roared On Even Before Coronavirus Hit, BizJournals
Oct 23 2020, All of California's Exes are Moving to Texas: The California Exodus, Stanford Review
Oct 8, 2020, Anti-California Dream Creates Boom Business, Fox Business [Many CA residents disillusioned with high cost of living and state's handling of natural disasters]
Sep 8, 2020, California Businesses Leave the State by the Thousands, Hoover Institution
California's Agriculture
July 31, 2021 Bacon May Disappear in California as Pig Welfare Rules Take Effect, Associated Press
May 23, 2021, Not Just Another Drought: The American West Moves from Dry to Bone Dry, Resilience
May 20, 2021, How Unprepared is California for the 2021 Drought?, CalMatters
Feb 18, 2020, California Agriculture in 2050: Still Feeding People, Maybe, Public Policy Institute of California [Tree and vine crops replaced annual crops]
Oct 2018, Lessons from California's 2012-2016 Drought, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management [Water resources mismanagement adversely affected agriculture]
July 2009, Sustaining California Agriculture in an Uncertain Future, Pacific Institute
California Consumer and Business Costs
Aug 18, 2020, Blackouts Expose Perils and Costs of California's 'Electrify Everything' Push, Forbes
July 8, 2020, The High Cost of California Electricity is Increasing Poverty, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) [California's poverty rate is the highest in the nation. New restrictions on natural gas, will increase electricity costs, making the problem worse.]
July 29, 2019, Why Californian's Pay 50% More for Grid Power than the National Average, NeoVolta
Electricity Rates By State, ChooseEnergy.com
[California's energy costs are in the highest 10 states]
Average Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector [California's costs by sector are roughly double Virginia's costs in every sector]
California Average Weekly Retail Gasoline Prices
[Take a look at the weekly chart and compare what you last paid with what residents pain in California]
California's Drug Culture
California policy has favored drug production over food for several decades and the preference for drugs over food is intensifying. This is a short-sighted policy which we must not allow to take root in Virginia.
Oct 20, 2020, How Growing Drugs Damages the Environment, EcoWatch
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Worldwide cocaine production is at record levels
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Cannibus production accounts for around 1% of the country's total energy consumption
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"A single joint has a similar carbon footprint to about 6.6 pounds of potatoes"
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"Within a single year, approximately 16.5 tons of carbon dioxide are emitted in the United States as a result of indoor cannibus production equivalent to the annual emission of 3 million cars" according to a UC Davis study.
July 16, 2015, The High Cost of Illicit Marijuana Cultivation, Yale Environment [sensitive forest areas and watersheds in No. California were destroyed]
June 25, 2015, Environment takes a big hit from water-intensive Marijuana Cultivation, Berkeley News
California Education
May 3, 2022, California Could Lead Charge in Fight Against Woke Education, Daily Signal
[Curriculum does not encourage students to volunteer for any other ethnic groups]
Housing
May 19, 2021, Does 'Housing First' Help Homeless? Here's What Happened in Los Angeles, Daily Signal
California and First Amendment Rights
Mar 19, 2021, California Caves on AR-15 Registration Fight, Washington Free Beacon
Nov 23, 2020, Blaine Amendments and California Charter Schools, Orange County Register
Nov 10, 2020, California Religious Schools Granted Relief from Newsom School Closure, Jewish Journal
July 21, 2016, California Legislation Threatens Christian Colleges, National Religious Broadcasters
May 13, 2016, Attack on California Religious Colleges, SB 1146, California Family Council