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Party of the KKK Rigging Election Against Black Republican
California is in the middle of voting on whether to remove a white privileged “progressive” politician, and, if the polling is accurate, replace him with a Black Republican who grew up in a blue-collar Los Angeles neighborhood. It should surprise no one that the party of the KKK, with a vile elitist bigot, Woodrow Wilson, as its ideological father, would try to keep the Black Republican from even getting on the ballot, smear him, and engage in real election fraud, stuffing the recall election ballot box between mid-August and September 14.
The radical leftist Democrat California Secretary of State falsely disqualified Larry Elder from placement on the ballot, on the pretext of incomplete tax return informational filing. A leftist Democrat judge had the integrity to stop this attempt at suppressing a Black Republican and his voters.
“I don’t find Mr. Elder was required to file a tax return at all,” Superior Court Judge Laurie M. Earl said. “I would find he substantially complied.”
“I don’t find that the recall election is a direct primary election ballot,” Judge Earl said. “I don’t find that Mr. Elder was required to file tax returns at all.”
The law misused against Larry Elder was created to attack President Trump in 2024.
In 2019, Gov. Newsom signed a bill into law requiring presidential and state candidates to release five years of tax returns. Aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from being on the California ballot, the California Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for only Presidential candidates. However Judge Earl together with the attorneys noted that the statute language does not apply to recall elections.
Having failed to rig the ballot, the Democrats have shifted to the usual smear campaign, along with setting the conditions to steal the election by stuffing the ballot box. A Fox News report, on a prominent California Democrat endorsing Larry Elder and a “Yes” vote, drew this early comment:
I live in LA county. A few days ago, I received 7 ballots in the mail. 3 of them are for people that have not lived in my house for more than 3 years. Two Of them now live in the Midwest. I’m just one household.
Three extra ballots per household add up to more than chump change, but that is small potatoes next to larger scale operations. How about 300 stolen ballots at a time?
TORRANCE (CBSLA) — The theft of hundreds of stolen California recall election ballots is being investigated by Torrance police’s Special Investigations Division, the U.S. Postal Service and the LA County District Attorney Public Integrity Unit.
More than 300 ballots were found in the car of a person arrested last Monday. Torrance police did not say why the person was arrested, or where the arrest took place.
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You can track your ballot information here.
The perpetrator was released on his own recognizance, thanks to a radical leftist county prosecutor. The tone of the Democrats’ propaganda organ is that there is nothing to see here and that the Black man leading in the recall election polling is a really bad guy. Steven Hayward offers this composite of L.A. Times headlines in “Elder Abuse:”
Here is what Larry Elder had to say to the party of the KKK’s smear campaign:
Despite the Democrats’ worst efforts, the race is safe to steal. It is a matter of who gets the most ballots into boxes and counted. To support the steal play, Kamala Harris was supposed to appear in the Bay area in the name of increasing turn-out on the “No” side. The Democrat-made catastrophe in Kabul, however, derailed that plan. Gruesome Newsom has a bad enough image problem due to Democratic Party mismanagement of California, combined with flagrant exercises of progressive privilege, without closer association with the dumpster fire in the Swamp. Whether Newsom uninvited Harris in the hours after the mass murder of Americans in Kabul or whoever is running the White House waved off Harris, reinforcements are not coming for Newsom, as Harris canceled the Bay area trip.
Larry Elder responded to the slaughter of Americans with two messages:
Tragic, outrageous, avoidable.
Joe Biden’s mindless withdrawal has killed more American service members than died in Afghanistan in the last 18 months. https://t.co/cfGOT9aRKU— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 26, 2021
Let’s us all pray for our brave service members killed and wounded in the Kabul blasts. Another sad day under this Commander-in-Chief. Speaking of whom, where is he?#AfghanistanCrisis
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 26, 2021
Meanwhile, Larry Elder continued to take on hostile media and gained religious community support. Here he did a long interview with a professional television reporter whose station could not manage basic recording levels. Elder soldiered through:
Larry Elder asks “Do I look like a white supremacist?”
Pastor José Velazquez promotes Larry Elder as a governor who will restore positive partnership with the faith community, addressing the issues of the poor and mentally ill who make up the massive homeless population.
On a day with dreadful news, Larry Elder’s long-time tagline is especially appropriate: “America, we have a country to save!” Part of saving our constitutional republic is inflicting real defeats on the radical left and their RepubliCAN’T enablers. If enough ballots are counted to add up to 50% plus 1 for “Yes” to recalling Newsom, and if a plurality of ballots are counted for Larry Elder, that will be a significant defeat for the radical left and their RepubliCAN’T enablers a month from now. Californians, you have a state to save, because America, we have a country to save.
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And some of the hot models who had voted for Newsome came out for Elder. Only in California. Maybe there is hope
The virulence of their attacks shows how worried they are about an honorable, smart black man running against Newsom. They should be very worried. Go, Larry!
Catching flak while he’s over the target.
Mail-in ballots are inherently scamtastic. It’s why they should be extremely limited and more scrutiny put on them – which is the opposite of what has happened in the last year or two.
The fact that there’s been such a successful recall campaign should be enough information to a non-egotistical maniac that he should resign. No confidence means what it means.
Democrats never cease to amaze me by how despicable they can get . . .
This election is the canary in the mine shaft. If Newsom survives it will establish that California is beyond saving.
Haven’t even read it yet and am “Liking” it in advance. Because of course they are.
First off, the post title is great. We can’t let Democrats hide their party’s racist past (and present). It can be different each time – “the party of the Dred Scott decision” (7 Democrat judges for, 2 Republican judges against), “the party of Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd”, etc. Speaking of Robert Byrd, I’m surprised this quote is still in his wikipedia article:
In regard to the California Recall, this tweet appeared in the Breitbart news story about the guy arrested with 300 ballots, drugs, guns, etc. in his car. It’s a good warning to pass on to any friends you may have in California. California is the land of ballot harvesting, ballot stuffing, and illegal aliens voting. Unfortunately, and as it’s legal, the only way to win is to ballot harvest just as much if not more than the Democrats.
You will not be disappointed.
Fake but accurate.
I find it reprehensible when the Democrats and the Left make unfounded accusations of racism, for political reasons.
How is this post any different?
Is there any evidence that Dem shenanigans associated with Elder’s candidacy have anything to do with his race? I would expect them to do the same sort of thing if Elder was white, red, or purple.
If nothing else, Dems become enraged when black Conservatives become high profile. They feel he is betraying their cause, and he should know better. I doubt you’ll find one black Conservative/Republican that they not only disagree with, but that they insist on condemning and smearing.
I suppose it’s just me but when I look at Newsome and his slicked back hair, I can’t help but think that with fangs and a long black cape, he’d be a perfect double for Christopher Lee in one of his Dracula movies.
Since he and the Dims have been sucking the blood out of California, it fits.
This is good trial run for Democrat theft and fraud and for Republicans to learn if they have any probability of winning the next national election.
It’s such a knee-jerk reaction for Democrats to call any conservative a racist and/or White supremacist that they don’t even think to change their attack when faced with a conservative who is not white
What do you call the LA Times column: “Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned” ? Seems like someone has injected race into the election and it wasn’t the Republicans.
White liberals are constantly smearing black conservatives as race-traitors, uncle toms, etc.–there seems to be a special level of hatred for blacks who step out of their expected roles. Of course, it’s a lot easier for liberals to defame than to debate. Thomas Sowell, in fact, has repeatedly remarked that the left won’t debate him because they would come off looking so bad.
That’s for sure. We have the video from past years to prove it.
SRSLY? They are RACIST even though they would do the same crap to a person of any color.
They believe this is a lesson for other uppity Blacks who also may deign to think for themselves.
That is, they are racist to the core.
Exactly so.
CAB gets my support and so does Larry. (I met him at David Horowitz’s wedding, more than 20 years ago. He’s just as great as he is on the radio). But I have to disagree with one detail, the line if the polling is accurate. The polling isn’t showing Elder with a victory, not yet, and we’ve all seen that polling in close elections is far from a sure thing. Larry’s managing something that few people predicted, and it’s exciting, but don’t kid yourself–and don’t claim that if he loses, it’s a sure sign of cheating. As conservatives, we’re getting a little over-addicted to the idea that we never actually lose. That’s baloney, and dangerous to our political situational awareness.
If I had kept a file, since high school, documenting every example I had seen or heard, I would need a [expletive ] warehouse.
That would require way too much thinking on their part.
To clarify my meaning in that first sentence, the polling looks at both steps of the recall decision. It is far too close to call on the Yes or No question. IF the result is 50% + 1 YES, THEN the polling shows Elder as the leading candidate to replace Newsom.
And we would be deeply naive to believe the leftist true believers, and the party workers who follow in the long tradition of the Daley machine and others, will not do what is necessary to make sure the vote comes out right, if the ballot count is inside the margin of cheating.
AND.
Democrats have an overwhelming voter registration advantage in California, so if people vote their party ID and do so with equal enthusiasm across party ID, Newsom likely survives.
Up through when I was in my thirties, California was a competitive state that frequently voted Republican. Southern California was (still is slightly) more conservative than the Bay Area. Orange County, to the south of L.A., was a virtual ATM for the Republican Party. On the other hand, Texas was solidly Democratic. What happened? National trends, sure…the end of the Cold War meant hundreds of thousands of SoCal jobs were lost in the generally conservative defense-related industries. A century-old tradition of CA elites looking up to east coast social styles and attitudes. But a lot of it was the simple fact that the CA state Republican party messed up nearly every chance they got, and the TX party played their economic cards much more shrewdly.
Much of the immigration problem was originally caused by GOP fat cats, who wanted those cheap workers, so the party acquired the justly two faced reputation of one that would fight the culture wars piously but not touch the borders, the lifeblood of CA’s powerful agriculture, restaurant and hotel/leisure businesses. Even in the Reagan years, the state party was too dominated by the kind of businessman who spends a lot of weekday time on the golf links. An unfair stereotype? Not by much. And it hasn’t been outdated for that long, either.
Larry’s up against that, and winning support. If he gets elected next month, he’ll need a lot more Latinos to win re-election in 2022. If he gets them, then that would be a profound shift.
The makeup of the R party shifted. It’s not comprised of wealthy people protecting their wealth and big businesses. It’s made up heavily of middle class workers – both entrepreneurs and employees to big businesses.
The big wigs have shifted left. I don’t know what the impetus was, but as CA and the DC corridor has gotten richer, the more blue both have become.
The libertarian argument would be that once you get rich and powerful enough, you ask the government for special favors and favor big government to get those special favors. Libertarians complain that the rich and powerful never like Libertarianism because the rich and powerful prefer various kinds of cronyism.
Precisely so. When the middle class gets property they get a gun and vote for law and order. When someone arrives in the upper class they hire guns and politicians.
They hire politicians to put the squeeze on their competition. Works marvelously — for them.