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Re: L.A. Times Editor Pleads With Fleeing Californians to Please Stop Bashing State on the Way Out
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Jan 6 Was A Peaceful Lawful Assembly
Jan 26, 2024, 7:10:03 PM1/26/24
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> Another tale of leftist vapor money blowing in the wind.
So here's the thing, Paul. I don't doubt that most of the people
fleeing Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom's state — not to mention Mayor
Karen Bass' Los Angeles or Mayor London Breed's San Francisco — will
remain more than concerned about the friends and relatives they
leave behind. The good people aren't the problem; the out-of-control
crime rates, increasing number of illegal aliens and homeless
people, runaway inflation, and the damning number of drug-related
deaths are.
Thornton continued, seemingly either naive or at least incapable of
grasping the magnitude of the difficulty faced by people no longer
capable of coping with their California lives.
Several friends and members of my extended family have moved out of
this state, so I can understand the factors that drive such
decisions. But reasons to leave don’t explain the impulse to insult
California on the way out.
More than 800,000 Californians moved away in 2022, and many
thousands more left last year. Often, the departees, cash in hand
from the sale of their $1-million bungalows, feel the need to
express disdain for their home state, and even some anger too.
As we watch you — our aging parents, our friends, our neighbors with
kids the same age — eye Idaho and Nevada for home listings, we hear
the digs against California. Some are subtle, and some less so.
I remember one relative last year who, regaling me with tales of the
charming small town he found several states away, said that his
neighbors admonished him to not “bring those weird California ways”
to his new home.
Amusingly, Thornton then answered — correctly so — his own
questions.
And which ways would those be? I have a hunch it isn’t California’s
low property tax rate and zoning rules that conspire to push up
home values so homeowners can sell their houses for a huge profit.
Perhaps it’s our embrace of LGBTQ+ Californians. Or it’s our liberal
politics, with the state Republican Party shrunk to irrelevance
after its vicious attempt in 1994 to marginalize immigrants with
Proposition 187.
Perhaps I’m sensitive because California — and especially Los
Angeles — used to be the place people would come. And plenty still
move here, especially immigrants. I come from an immigrant family
blessed by working-class rich our state once offered.
Correct. Every bit of it. And there's more.
The Bottom Line
Yes, Mr. Thornton, California used to be the place. Not only Los
Angeles but other California cities that once offered enviable
lifestyles — San Francisco foremost among them.
And? Rather than calling out ex-Californians, many of them from whom
it was likely a difficult decision to leave, how about calling out
the Democrat politicians who made — and continue to make — the
left-wing decisions that drove them out of your state?
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/01/23/la-times-editor-pleads-
with-fleeing-californians-to-please-stop-bashing-the-state-on-the-
way-out-n2169100
> Another tale of leftist vapor money blowing in the wind.
So here's the thing, Paul. I don't doubt that most of the people
fleeing Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom's state — not to mention Mayor
Karen Bass' Los Angeles or Mayor London Breed's San Francisco — will
remain more than concerned about the friends and relatives they
leave behind. The good people aren't the problem; the out-of-control
crime rates, increasing number of illegal aliens and homeless
people, runaway inflation, and the damning number of drug-related
deaths are.
Thornton continued, seemingly either naive or at least incapable of
grasping the magnitude of the difficulty faced by people no longer
capable of coping with their California lives.
Several friends and members of my extended family have moved out of
this state, so I can understand the factors that drive such
decisions. But reasons to leave don’t explain the impulse to insult
California on the way out.
More than 800,000 Californians moved away in 2022, and many
thousands more left last year. Often, the departees, cash in hand
from the sale of their $1-million bungalows, feel the need to
express disdain for their home state, and even some anger too.
As we watch you — our aging parents, our friends, our neighbors with
kids the same age — eye Idaho and Nevada for home listings, we hear
the digs against California. Some are subtle, and some less so.
I remember one relative last year who, regaling me with tales of the
charming small town he found several states away, said that his
neighbors admonished him to not “bring those weird California ways”
to his new home.
Amusingly, Thornton then answered — correctly so — his own
questions.
And which ways would those be? I have a hunch it isn’t California’s
low property tax rate and zoning rules that conspire to push up
home values so homeowners can sell their houses for a huge profit.
Perhaps it’s our embrace of LGBTQ+ Californians. Or it’s our liberal
politics, with the state Republican Party shrunk to irrelevance
after its vicious attempt in 1994 to marginalize immigrants with
Proposition 187.
Perhaps I’m sensitive because California — and especially Los
Angeles — used to be the place people would come. And plenty still
move here, especially immigrants. I come from an immigrant family
blessed by working-class rich our state once offered.
Correct. Every bit of it. And there's more.
The Bottom Line
Yes, Mr. Thornton, California used to be the place. Not only Los
Angeles but other California cities that once offered enviable
lifestyles — San Francisco foremost among them.
And? Rather than calling out ex-Californians, many of them from whom
it was likely a difficult decision to leave, how about calling out
the Democrat politicians who made — and continue to make — the
left-wing decisions that drove them out of your state?
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/01/23/la-times-editor-pleads-
with-fleeing-californians-to-please-stop-bashing-the-state-on-the-
way-out-n2169100
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