The Golden State might have just economically and culturally bottomed out, yet signs point to a shakeup that could move California more to the political center.
I spend part of the year in CA but do not vote there. It's a reliably blue state, but it seems to lack political enthusiasm. In LA County, election turnout is often less than 25 percent. In the legislature, I have read, a recent effort to enforce anti-fentanyl policies didn't get opposition from from lawmakers but a flat-out failure to vote on the measure at all. The most active voting citizens may be the Asian population in SF, who took education seriously enough to toss out three school board members who dumbed down requirements and who banned well-prepared eighth graders from taking basic algebra classes before ninth grade; SF County also recalled its soft-on-crime DA, Chesa Boudin, while LA's attempt to recall a similarly unpopular DA, George Gascon, fizzled. Rather puzzling.
Thanks for your comment...CA is demographically shifting toward the center. The wealthy Progressive enclaves are becoming outnumbered. It's wonderful to watch!
Newsom is someone who has failed upward his entire life which is quite common in CA politics. It is a state that puts ideology over results every time. Newsom is the perfect avatar for CA. For that reason, he'll never be president.
I spend part of the year in CA but do not vote there. It's a reliably blue state, but it seems to lack political enthusiasm. In LA County, election turnout is often less than 25 percent. In the legislature, I have read, a recent effort to enforce anti-fentanyl policies didn't get opposition from from lawmakers but a flat-out failure to vote on the measure at all. The most active voting citizens may be the Asian population in SF, who took education seriously enough to toss out three school board members who dumbed down requirements and who banned well-prepared eighth graders from taking basic algebra classes before ninth grade; SF County also recalled its soft-on-crime DA, Chesa Boudin, while LA's attempt to recall a similarly unpopular DA, George Gascon, fizzled. Rather puzzling.
Thanks for the article.
Hope springs eternal 🤞🙏.
For some reason Newsom has CA on the road to ruin.😢
Thanks for your comment...CA is demographically shifting toward the center. The wealthy Progressive enclaves are becoming outnumbered. It's wonderful to watch!
Newsom is someone who has failed upward his entire life which is quite common in CA politics. It is a state that puts ideology over results every time. Newsom is the perfect avatar for CA. For that reason, he'll never be president.
We can only hope for the latter. Thanks, Keith. Good article.