Opinion | California demons: Does Gavin Newsom really think he can win presidency? WashTimesOpEd
The state of California, once a place where people moved to find beauty, prosperity, and great weather , is rapidly becoming a failed state.
People are leaving in droves. Between July 2021 and July 2022, California lost roughly 211,000 people, according to data from the state’s Department of Finance. Half of those — 113,048, were from Los Angeles County, the state’s largest county. Around 160,000 Angelenos left in the last 12 months, with most moving to other states. Teachers and employees in the nation’s second-largest school district have gone on strike.
Meanwhile, more Californians are homeless, reparations for Blacks are debated in San Francisco, school names are being changed because politicians discovered some of the previously honored may have owned slaves, and gas prices and taxes remain high. Does Gov. Gavin Newsom seriously think he could run for president on such a record of failure should President Biden decide not to run?
In a delicious irony, Democratic San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen has demanded the hiring of more police officers to fight rampant crime in her district. This after joining the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 in its demand to “defund the police.” The TV pictures of homeless people in Los Angeles and San Francisco do not look like California as recently as a decade ago. “As of 2022, 30% of all people in the United States experiencing homelessness resided in California, including half of all unsheltered people .
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