Letters to the Editor: California’s in trouble. Why don’t its voters elect Republicans?
3 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: California’s in trouble. Why don’t its voters elect Republicans?

LA Times  

To the editor: Steve Lopez, in reference to California Republicans, writes: “None of them has offered winning solutions to deep-seated problems. To the editor: Lopez’s column mentioning angry letter writers who blame Democrats for all the problems facing this state was insightful. Both parties in this state share responsibility for misguided legislation and executive action — but only one, the Republican Party, has gone AWOL and articulated outright lunacy in response to immigration, housing, reproductive rights, climate change and just about every other issue facing us. The party’s over for Republicans in this state because they have zero to offer us in terms of solutions, and their divisive rhetoric severely limits our options as voters.

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Letters to the Editor: Is California a liability for Democrats nationally? Readers debate
1 month ago

Letters to the Editor: Is California a liability for Democrats nationally? Readers debate

LA Times  

To the editor: I am confident there is no single “The Reason” that President-elect Donald Trump won. I am an elementary teacher, and California Democrats lost me with their latest moronic education law forbidding elementary schools from taking away a student’s recess as a natural consequence for, let’s say, misbehaving on the playground. In the next state election, I won’t …

How California voters challenged the state’s deep-blue reputation this election
1 month, 1 week ago

How California voters challenged the state’s deep-blue reputation this election

LA Times  

An election worker watches a voter place his ballot in the drop box at the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana on Nov. 5, 2024. “Some progressive voters in the state, where Democrats control the governor’s office and Legislature, were dumbfounded by the early results,” my colleague Mackenzie Mays reported recently, “while Republicans seized on the moment as …

Letters to the Editor: Americans simply don’t like the party of coastal elites. Democrats need a change
1 month, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Americans simply don’t like the party of coastal elites. Democrats need a change

LA Times  

To the editor: I was lucky enough to be born to a Democratic activist mother and an ACLU father 81 years ago. What I have heard from my fellow Democrats is some version of, “Just wait until 2026, when we will take back the House and impeach him again.” One more empty feel-good gesture. She’s off when she writes in …

With progressive ballot measures on track to fail, California’s political identity is questioned
1 month, 2 weeks ago

With progressive ballot measures on track to fail, California’s political identity is questioned

LA Times  

There was no surprise on election night when a solid majority of California voters selected Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris over former President Trump. “It’s a new day in California,” Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher of Yuba City said in a social media post about the election results. “The shift is beginning.” But longtime California election watchers were more tempered …

Letters to the Editor: Democrats in Sacramento shouldn’t forget that they serve Republicans too
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Democrats in Sacramento shouldn’t forget that they serve Republicans too

LA Times  

To the editor: Reporter Taryn Luna asks an important question in her article, “Too many Democrats in Sacramento? What if the Republicans just gave up the party, re-registered as Democrats and voted for the more moderate candidate in the primary? The reason there are so many Democrats in the Legislature is that the people of California voted it to be …

Column: They say Democrats are to blame for all California’s problems. But GOP is MIA
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: They say Democrats are to blame for all California’s problems. But GOP is MIA

LA Times  

A pair of homeless men rest along the Pacoima Wash below State Route II8 in Pacoima on Aug. 16. “Major problems and issues surrounding us locally, statewide and nationally are more complex than simply looking at and blaming those now running the political shows,” said Jaime Regalado, former director of Cal State L.A.’s Pat Brown Institute. “There’s a simply unrealistic …

How bashing California became a requirement for conservative politicians
8 months, 3 weeks ago

How bashing California became a requirement for conservative politicians

LA Times  

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, residents of the rest of the country often saw California as the place their wacky or adventurous or beautiful cousin went to seek gold, celebrity, sunny beaches, sexual freedom, and maybe a new identity, away from the family and the baggage in St. Paul, Philadelphia or Levittown. “Some of it, from a …

Opinion: Republicans don’t like California. Readers’ response: Whatever
10 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Republicans don’t like California. Readers’ response: Whatever

LA Times  

A poll recently found what I learned after writing a short opinion piece last month asking for some goodwill from people leaving California: Much of America has soured on our state, and many Republicans really don’t like us. According to the poll, almost half of Republicans believe California is “not really American,” which is a much nicer way of expressing …

Column: A lot of Californians loathe both the Democratic and Republican parties
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: A lot of Californians loathe both the Democratic and Republican parties

LA Times  

Protesters gather before former President Trump arrives in a motorcade for a deposition in New York in April. But just because Democrats run the state government — along with most major cities — and hold a whopping advantage in voter registration doesn’t mean that their voters are doing cartwheels about the party. Overall among California adults, 51% view the Democratic …

These California districts voted big for Biden, but Republicans are optimistic about their chances
2 years, 1 month ago

These California districts voted big for Biden, but Republicans are optimistic about their chances

LA Times  

Matt Jacobs, a Republican congressional candidate, waves to Jacqueline Mercado, 28, as her 1-year-old daughter, Olivia, crawls near her feet in the entry of their Oxnard home. “If California Democrats have a headache in California 26, they’ve got the flu in a whole range of more competitive seats,” including contests in the Central Valley and Southern California, said David Wasserman, …

California primary’s lesson for pundits: Don’t speak too soon in the age of mail-in voting
2 years, 6 months ago

California primary’s lesson for pundits: Don’t speak too soon in the age of mail-in voting

LA Times  

Los Angeles mayoral candidates Karen Bass, left, and Rick Caruso will compete in a runoff election in November. “We used to have a single election day, and often have decisive results for most contests on election night,” said Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. “It’s been a growing challenge to get the word out before election day …

California Republicans are convening. What to know as the state GOP tries to flip its fortunes
2 years, 8 months ago

California Republicans are convening. What to know as the state GOP tries to flip its fortunes

LA Times  

President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan ride horses at their Santa Barbara ranch, Rancho del Cielo, in 1982. The launching pad for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, the state remains home to many of the party’s wealthiest donors as well as nearly 5.3 million registered GOP voters. Politics House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy backs away from blaming Trump …

Conservatives say California is a disaster -- but facts show the opposite
2 years, 9 months ago

Conservatives say California is a disaster -- but facts show the opposite

Raw Story  

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for decades, you’ve probably noticed that conservatives hate California. The facts show that California attracts more capital, creates more wealth, generates jobs with better pay, suffers lower rates of work-related fatalities and has safer streets and longer lives. Never one to resist attacking California, The Wall Street Journal editorial board ran an editorial …

The California Republican Party is broken. The Newsom recall proved it
3 years, 3 months ago

The California Republican Party is broken. The Newsom recall proved it

Salon  

In the end, Larry Elder could not deny the inevitable judgment of California voters, and on Tuesday night he conceded with unexpected grace and near humility. Just days earlier, former President Donald Trump claimed the California recall was "probably rigged," before a single vote was counted. A website paid for by the Elder campaign repeated the claim and provided a …

How Trump-hating California got a slate of recall candidates who supported Trump
3 years, 4 months ago

How Trump-hating California got a slate of recall candidates who supported Trump

LA Times  

Candidates running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the recall election include, clockwise from top left: Larry Elder, businessman John Cox, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Assemblyman Kevin Kiley and Caitlyn Jenner. California Republican recall hopefuls seek to differentiate themselves in San Francisco debate Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Rancho Santa Fe businessman John Cox and Assemblyman Kevin …

GOP infighting in post-Trump era threatens California recall
3 years, 10 months ago

GOP infighting in post-Trump era threatens California recall

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — California Republicans eager to recall Democratic Gov. “This is California’s version of the national battle for the soul and the future of the Republican Party,” said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego. But Frank, her rival to lead the party, said the now-withdrawn proposal showed Patterson “was literally trying to …

Republican congressional wins in California won’t avert party’s ‘death spiral,’ analysts say
3 years, 11 months ago

Republican congressional wins in California won’t avert party’s ‘death spiral,’ analysts say

LA Times  

Rep. Young Kim, center, is among four state Republicans who in November retook districts that Democrats had flipped in 2018. “It’s probably a recognition that a death spiral is just that — it’s not a straight line,” said Mike Madrid, a Republican consultant and former political director of the California Republican Party. They erode over time.” The four congressional districts …

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