The other vulnerable governor
Not only is New York's Governor in trouble, but the left coast's radical leader is facing a recall election on September 14th. The ballot will ask voters two questions: Do they want to recall Newsom, yes or no? If more than 50% of voters agree, then, who should replace him?
Only two U.S. governors have been removed from office in a recall election – one in North Dakota in 1921 and Gray Davis' ouster in California in 2003.
I'm guessing that the leading candidate who could win the Governor's seat is a Libertarian radio host named Larry Elder. Until he got into the race it looked like another leftist governor would simply be re-elected in anoter questionable CA election. It also required Elder to go to court to fight for his place on the ballot. Now it looks like a contest. Last Wednesday USA released a poll that showed Mr. Newsom losing the recall vote, 51% to 40%.
Mr Elder's assessment of America in 2021 is hard to argue with:
“My father came to Los Angeles in 1945, right after the war. And he was able to work two full-time jobs as a janitor, cleaning toilets. He had a stay-at-home wife, my mother,” he says. “My father was able to save his nickels and dimes to buy a house in South Central that right now remains in the family, and according to Zillow, it’s worth $600,000.” "In those days it was easier for low- and middle-income families to climb the economic ladder. “Somebody nowadays with an eighth-grade, a dropout education like my father could not duplicate the route from poverty to the middle class if he worked three or four jobs because the price of homes has gotten so outrageous—because of the stranglehold that the environmental extremists have on development contractors who otherwise would build more homes in California.”
I think most Americans can relate to that.
Mr. Elder graduated from inner-city Crenshaw High School in 1970, then earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a law degree at the University of Michigan. He has name recognition as a radio host. He is the host of “The Larry Elder Show,” which covers mostly politics focused mainly on California.
Does he have a chance of winning in California?
This is what gives me optimism:
“There was recently a study that showed two-thirds of black parents do not want to send their kids back to the Los Angeles School District, and one of the reasons they cite is ‘systemic racism, what they mean is this: the worst teachers end up in the urban schools. They don’t end up on the West Side, they don’t end up in the Valley; the worst teachers end up in the urban schools. And black and brown parents are aware of this, and they want something done about it.”
Maybe the minority vote can overcome the migrant's "thank you vote?"
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In a year or so, we should be minus a few more democrat governors.
Why do the voters forget so easily?
I have some cousins in Calikakistan. Great people but politically dumber than a box of rocks. The devil could be running as a Democrat and they would vote for him. When asked about it they simple say they are Democrats so they vote Democrat. No other reason, no discussion of positions or past problems. We are Democrats, that is it.
It's amazing how otherwise very smart people can be so ignorant.
And on the other hand you have democrats who have become independents because the party has gone so far left.
Of couse the party depends on those bloc votes. Their policies are so offensive to the rational mind.
I also personally know union members right here in Michigan who will vote for whoever their union tells them to. No thought, no investigation of positions just total blind faith in what union management tells them.
Very Orwellian .....
My experience has been somewhat different. I know union workers in the construction game who have unions endorsing democrats, yet they are almost 100% Republican voters.
BTW Walter Reuther, the man who built the UAW was involved with the mob when it came to winning strikes etc, just like Hoffa and the Teamsters. So why did only Hoffa get prosecuted?
Answer: The UAW endorsed Kennedy. The Teamsters endorsed Nixon. Even then there was a double standard of justice.
I signed the petition to get the recall on the ballot and I’m voting to recall the hypocrite. I’m voting Larry Elder to replace the fascist.
What do you think? Can we get an honest election restricted to citizens only in CA?
I have no confidence in that at all…
Larry Elder is full of shit. How does it follow that what happened to his father bears effect on generations after his departure? That is, his father is not benefiting from any of it!
I am going to vote: NO (Recall). We don't want some conservatives who hide in Donald Trump's pack of lies in-charge in California!
VOTE NO on California Recall in September!
I see. You don't like him why?
Don't you want better education for black students?
Because I like people who do not cowtow to Donald Trump world of lies. I can't post this CNN: Smerconish video (live) here but watch it for yourself! 53 seconds long.
And watch "tough against democrats" Larry Elder get tongue-tied and mealy-mouth when Trump is mentioned. And then come back:
In other words, you don't care about black kids getting a better education? You are voting for the "white guy" possibly because he is going to sock it to white people?
Let me nip this in the bud. If you want to talk about black student education comprehensively post an article on it. This time, we are discussing Larry Elder versus Gavin Newsome. I have never liked Larry Elder's abruptness personally on television. And @2.1.1 I like him even less after I watched the Smerconish 50 second segment where he can't even properly wrap his arms around Donald Trump even when a republican like Smerconish is doing the asking.
Elders had a "gotcha" moment at the hands of a fellow republican!
More reason to despise Larry Elder.
There it is in all it's. . . so-called, "glory" — Elder kowtowing to help Trump. Now then in a Smerconish video "tough on democrats," Larry E. gets mealy-mouth, tongue-tied, and guffawing when asked about being called a get read for it: "Trump supporter."
I am going to proudly vote for our first African American governor. He’s a good man and is correct on the issues.
Why not? He speaks fluent Trump! That's all you need to know, eh?
Elder was far from "tongue-tied and mealy-mouth". He had to clearly state a second time that he has voted for every Republican since Bush 41, because Mr. Smerconish obviously didn't want to understand the first time.
If you like your Trump in Black. . . here's Larry Elder.
He was not asked a second time about "every other republican since Bush 41" the question was specifically did he vote for Donald Trump in 2020? Since he failed to explicitly mention Trump! Mealy-mouthed Elder deferred and never clearly made the connection to the answer.
"GOTCHA!"
It would be nice is CNN would "shop" the clip around whether than holding proprietary use of it.
It was very easy to find on DDG and YouTube:
Cheers, and have a great week!
As you know I have posted the link to the CNN video, Jasper. I am just 'fond' of embedding video (itself) in my comments. (Smile.)
I would like to have your link to the Youtube version of this video clip, please. I can't locate the short clip OR long clip for that matter.
But don't you use the argument that what happened regarding slavery in this country DOES effect present day people who have never been subjected to slavery themselves?
Nothing quite like a glaring double standard.
In conclusion, distinctions and degrees matter. Trying to compare a history and legacy of slavery to Larry Elder's private ownership of a family home in Los Angeles, shows a lack of scale and forethought.
It is like not ever being willing to engage in at-length substantive exchanges about the nuances of Donald Trump's political life matters to you.
We're done. Good day!
Certainly IS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I refer you to your very own words:
Nice if you heeded your very own "advice".
I would probably have chosen redlining instead of slavery. Surely if we're going to have a continual, never-ending conversation about past housing policy, then past home ownership is also relevant.
Which would only serve to make "elder" Elder an exception to the rule and not the norm. Indeed, diversity means differences of goals and experiences. That is, there does not need to be a mandate for all to be conservative (some conservative) or vice-versa all liberals! Meet/greet/work/celebrate in the middle!
It will be very easy for him to put together a statistical case demonstrating his father was pretty close to the norm
However, lest we lose sight of the point, Elder is using his father as an example of a working-class person who was able to put in additional effort and accumulate the resources to buy a house. He claims that's almost impossible today because real estate prices put even modest homes out of reach for working-class families.
I don't think there is any way to reasonably dispute this part of what he says....but it's not the important part. Anybody can identify a problem, especially one as obvious as this.
The important part about what he says will be what actions he intends to take in order to change that. Those prospective actions will need to be evaluated by the voters to decide if they would work and if they're feasible...especially in light of the reported fragility of the water and power infrastructure you have out there (which may be overstated in the media...I'll defer to your first hand experience).
Absolutely. Well said.
It was 1945. I was not alive then, but forgive me the indulgence of stating that Black Americans were catching hell at the time. And there is the possibility that the GI Bill was not extended to Blacks (though Elder does not mention if his father was a in government service). Moreover, "cleaning toilets" or janitorial services, menial labor, was a thing back then - what does Elder think we should today pull ourselves up from beneath the wage floor in like manner—like "dear old dad"?
And what does Larry offer to encourage us that his dad enjoyed his 'hardship' existence, simply because he survived it, nevertheless?
Does it escape Elder that blacks were denied placement on recall petitions to be governor in 1945? It's a tired old "invocation" on the past to exploit and I ain't going to let him do it!
Your point is well made, and I think Elder seems to agree with you. In the article, he laments the restrictions on homebuilding as the cause for a housing shortage that has driven prices beyond the level where anybody could reasonably expect to pull themselves anyway. His point seems to be that a person like his father could pull themselves up back then, but it's simply not possible now because of the economics of the current situation.
I think his point is that no matter how hard people are willing to work, the entry point to home ownership is still out of reach for working class people. So the wealth gap continues to explode to the point where redlining is recreated on a de-facto basis.
I think "what he offers" is absolutely the pertinent question. How does he intend to solve this problem? Frankly, how does he intend to provide water to the existing homes in Southern California, much less new ones that would supposedly be built? How will he pay for additional schools, roads and hospitals when property taxes will not increase proportionally?
Maybe he's thought it out, I don't know. But I am always very skeptical of simplistic "solutions".
There may be building restrictions but new homes are sprouting like mushrooms across Southern California.
In each generation there will be exceptions to the rule. Afterall, look at the billionaire class with its Jeff Bezos at 200 plus billion dollars to 'bankroll' any way or shape he likes. Bezos has exceeded the normal billionaire by an x factor. Was it hook or is it crook? Not the issue -just is. You would accept the child/ren of Bezos to go around pointing out how "dad did it" as a measuring stick for all billionaires. Do not let Elder use the line about "dear old dad" and a bygone era of enterprise to suggest all blacks follow his (dad's) grit.
Because grit can't always succeed against odds!
Does it make you feel all good inside to know that the reason for the recent increase in African Americans becoming part of the GOP is Trump? Greatly expanded support for HBC’s, educational choice, prison sentence reform, support for law and order in communities, opportunity zones, record low unemployment and best wage increases for African Americans pre pandemic, all thanks to Trump.
Don't try to bait me, Jefferson. You will fail.
You can’t deny that Trump did all those good things. The next step is the irony could be that California’s first African American governor would be a libertarian Republican!
For a good set of policies and even for any single good deed done I applaud Donald Trump and so should our nation. For being a lying, cheating, thief who does not know how to stop harming this country he took a presidential oath to protect I am angry with him "for a thousand years."
And since, the 'black thang' is your (and some other conservatives) GO-TO now that it is obviously accepted by y'all this writer is a black male behind the 'strokes,' black people—especially Black women are not enamored with "the Black Trump" - Larry Elder. Black conservatives eat his crap up, but are not the majority in California.
VOTE NO ON THE CALIFORNIA RECALL ! Trump ELDER shall expose school children to SARS-2 !
As long as you are supporting Abbot and Deathsantis, spare us your crap about our governor. [deleted]
Shall we give New York and California over to Trump America? Hell no I say! We can barely survive the lies told and election interference in Texas and Florida which are self-contained by land mass!
What interference do you imagine here?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Racking up even more wrongo election calls I see...