Hope for California Republicans

My latest OC Register column

Last week’s stock market crash offered hope for Republicans looking to make a comeback in California in 2022. When times are good, people don’t want to make a change. When the going gets tough, the tough want to elect somebody else.

Many reasons were given for the Republican loss of the September 14 recall to Gov. Gavin Newsom: A hangover from Donald Trump. Latinos still are mad at Republicans for Proposition 187 from 1994 — 27 years ago. Republicans want to end the school mask mandates and kill children. Democrats are doing a great job everywhere.

But if you read the Official Voter Information Guide mailed to all voters by Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, the reason was right in there. In Newsom’s signed rebuttal to the recall backers’ call to oust him, he wrote, oddly in the third person: “[H]e passed his $100 billion California Comeback Plan — the largest economic recovery package in state history. Under the plan, two in three Californian families are receiving at least $600 in direct relief, and 200,000 small businesses will benefit from our relief programs.”

If you give voters $600 each, most of them are going to vote for you.

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