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California State of Dysfunction
I’ve lived in California since 1964 except for a two-year tour of duty in 1990. I had started Kindergarten in Lansing, MI (where I wept every morning to the growing frustration of the teacher), but within ten weeks of having arrived to live with my grandparents and my dad to begin his job with the Lansing Parks Department, we were once again packing up the homemade trailer and heading for Sacramento.
Brown-the-father was the governor, the State of California’s government footprint was tiny, and the population was some fraction of what it is today.
Although I was born in Kittery, ME (or Portsmouth, NH, depending upon which records you have), I discovered during my two-year tour of duty on my beloved east coast … that I am by nature a California girl. That means I love the climate, the beauty of the mountains, the cold winds of the northern coast, and the spirit of the artists that barely remain in Mendocino. As for the politics, I wasn’t paying attention much until I retired. My bad.
So now that I can look back on my career and easily recognize what was happening under my nose all that time, I’m awake. And I’m pissed. “They” have ruined my state.
Here is what prompted this post — an email from Kevin Kiley, a member of the State Assembly. I am sharing it in its entirety without further comment.
Except this … Newsomussolini is proposing to send $400 to every registered vehicle owner as a way to fight inflation at the gas pump.
Idiots … we’re dealing with idiots … deluded and bent on pleasing their megalomaniacal godless father figure, Klaus Schwab. You can read my posts on The Great (Lame from Hell) Reset here and here.
Here’s the email from Kevin. This guy is the only person I’m aware of fighting for California conservatives (no, that is not an oxymoron — there are millions of us).
| Hi [GLW],
I’ve just published a new blog post: Something very fishy happened yesterday. We again forced a vote to suspend the gas tax, beginning the day with a press conference at Stop & Shop Gasoline. You can see my remarks here. When we made the motion at the start of the Assembly Floor Session (which lasted ten hours), the initial vote was 30 Yes, 32 No. On our first attempt in March, not a single Democrat voted yes; this time 10 Democrats did. Our strategy of keeping on the pressure worked. But then, apparently, someone read the defecting Democrats the riot act. It may have been Newsom himself, as shortly after the vote they were with him for a press conference. When they returned, they changed their votes. One by one, they marched before the whole Assembly and announced the vote change. (See an example here.) By the time this Soviet-style reeducation was complete, only two Democrats remained in favor, and the final tally was 23-47. That is the way of our Capitol. Even when a Legislator wants to do the right thing, they are bribed or bullied out of it. But this isn’t over: we at least got the 10 to join our caucus in urging the Speaker to bring the bill back by Friday. Meanwhile, I am fighting to stop Newsom’s draconian new restrictions on water use: 5-minute showers, no baths, no using a hose for yardwork. There’s absolutely no reason Californians should be forced to change their lifestyles because of political ineptitude. When you’re told to take a shorter shower as water flows abundantly into the ocean, your government is broken. Kevin Kiley ***12 Days to Election Day. Help me get across the finish line and fight to stop Biden and Pelosi from ruining our country. |
| Paid for by Kevin Kiley for Congress |
The common folk working in the kitchen, yes.
You can easily identify them. They are wearing masks.
The difference being Pat Brown had actual conversation with the gardener, and did so often over weeks or months. Conversation that presumably went beyond “would you like the soup or the salad? “
Some of the real estate listings in my area (north Texas, “cutting horse capital of the world”) amuse me when they have more photographs of the horse facilities than they do of the house.
I spent the first five years of my life in my grandfather’s house in Raleigh. It was on the block next to the governor’s mansion. My mother (who grew up in the same house) told me she once participated in a scavenger hunt when she was young, so she went to the governor’s mansion to get one of his socks. She knocked on the door and the governor’s wife answered. My mother told her what she was doing and what she wanted, and the wife went and got one of the governor’s socks for her. Can you imagine trying something like that today?
Yes it’s ridiculous. Homelessness is a huge issue and young people can’t afford apartments so they’re staying longer with parents. It’s amazing to me that Newsom and his gang are so wedded to their ideology that that can’t see the obvious present and future impacts of their life and business crushing laws.
More like dreaming of a horse property.
They live the bubble life
Cool story! Wish it were still that way today.
The way people have been swarming to Tennessee to get away from places like the People’s Republic of California (or of Oregon and Washington) the prices in TN are going up fast. People looking for horse properties should be checking Texas as you say, also Oklahoma etc.
Actually I was referring to Tennessee. The places I was looking at in Tennessee, around Franklin, to get at least 3 acres with a house the prices approach or exceed $1 Million.
People fleeing the People’s Republic of California and other leftist enclaves, are driving the prices way up in Tennessee.
But even just other parts of Tennessee are still a lot less expensive, as long as you don’t expect to be within walking distance of Nashville or something.
Oh. Got it
I’m good with that.
I saw some places with 2 to 5 acres that were under $400k. Or get 5 acres of land for under $100k and build your own, or put in a nice manufactured home or something.
I was looking around Cookeville, which I believe is where @randyweivoda is moving to soon so I remembered the name Cookeville.
Knoxville TN, The Smokies, plenty of rivers, the TVA for pleasure boating, no income tax, and ~1/5 the cost for housing.
You are welcome.
EDIT: Never mind, I see others have point out the obvious relocation paradise.
Cookeville probably less expensive than Knoxville.
So it appears the Good Governor doesn’t know what to say while filling out the interrogatories:
BTW, the following detailed talk by one of Canada’s top legal scholars offers up what is inside the National Emergency Act for Canada.
Although I have not investigated what is inside the Emergency Act for the state of California, I would not be surprised to find out that much of what defines a national emergency in Canada also defines what would be considered an emergency in California.
The last segment of his talk is the scariest, as it is quite true that the meanings of words, and therefore of legal concepts, have shifted in a most extreme manner over the last 8 to 10 years. For instance, racism, as used by the ‘liberals” now means something entirely different than what it did just a while ago.
https://www.brighteon.com/3f6ec569-c167-4ffe-a02a-918d09c34426
Our town and county (Aiken, SC) are horse country for sure. There are even dirt roads inside the city limits just to accommodate the horse traffic . . .
I’ve never heard of that, but I like it. Well, there are some multi-use trails in Ohio and Indiana that are intended to benefit horse-and-buggy users as well as bicyclers and others. But some of those are paved. Communities with big Amish populations tend to make an effort to make the roads accommodate buggies, but Amish people in general don’t like to go talk to government people, so sometimes there are misunderstandings. There was an expensive do-over in St Joseph County, Michigan, because the state highway department made a state highway incompatible with buggies. They had asked for input ahead of time, but Amish people had not responded and the state people hadn’t gone directly to people and asked. The problem might have been rumble strips, which then had to be paved over, but my memory is not sure now.
Bicyclers don’t like rumble strips, either, when they are placed badly. I joined the League of Michigan Bicyclists when their main lobbying issue was rumble strips. But then they changed and made speed limits and passing distance their issue, so I dropped my membership. Those aren’t exactly wokist issues, but they have some of the same odor.
Fab … thank you so much. I’ve been off line since Saturday so sorry for the delayed reply!
No never mind … I think this is the first one pointing to Knoxville that I’ve seen (or maybe I don’t remember). :) Thank you so much. I am so ready to go. There is one huge issue … we have a special needs daughter and when I say special needs, I mean super special needs. Talking 8-10 (lost count) emergency neuro-surgeries in 2009 kind of support … and then there’s ongoing therapy and monitoring – she has a huge team of doctors here. Despite California’s going from bad to worse in perpetuity, the services for at risk children and adults is hard to replicate elsewhere.
All I can do is test the waters by making some exploratory trips around the country and see whether we get taken up into a God-triggered tsunami of change.
Ahh! Thank you for posting this! I was just about to do the same. I might post the entire Kiley email to provide context.
Adding to the list! South Carolina has always been in the back of my thoughts – for a couple of years now. I will check it out and thank you so much. Having immediate access to so many Ricochetites who know what’s where is a blessing for us right now.