Hey Mike, I'm ready to vote for you. However, there are all these other names on my ballot that I do not recognize. How about some endorsements for the other state offices? It would be a lot easier for you to get things done if you have allies around you, and I have no idea who those allies might be amongst those listed on the ballot.
So it seems like we should vote for someone that no one else likes, to avoid him or her coming in second, or should we only vote for MS? Btw I never took statistics.
We were just having a tangent thread on one of Thomas Sowell's tweets about this. Someone was arguing about how we are the wealthiest nation in the world. I will save you all the reasons why we are not really. Even though Italy is not on the list, it sounds like a heaven next to USA. But they do not squander their money on a large war apparatus like we do and gut their infrastructure. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-of-life
Lebowski syndrome is apt. I hear it all the time, "It's all good, be kind, conquer fear." Well, no, it's not all good. Kindness does not stop a psychotic from stabbing you. And sometimes the bad vibe you get from someone will save your life, if you listen to your fear.
I would also like to know how people like Mike S or Chris Rufo survive in a totally leftist area! I just got yelled at by a neighbor when I told her that some vagrants stole books from her little library. She said it was probably because they couldn't get library cards. *sigh*
I like Mike...but I wish he would answer this question: How do we trust the judgement of someone who dismissed Trump's policies ( which were obviously working) and who voted for a near fifty-year tax and spend politician? (Biden)
Because the other option and the only other person with a chance to win is Gavin Newsom!!
You don’t have to like all of Mike’s policies or decisions, you can simply like them more than Gavin’s and understand the single party California reality at the moment.
This poisonous "RINO" finger pointing is how the woke mob took over. So-called "real" Republicans sitting around crying about how they want to bring back buggery laws and back-alley abortions (for the poor only; rich children of both Dems and Republicans will be able to get this care on demand, obviously). If we could just get rid of the stupidest elements of the far right, we would win every election like Reagan in 1980.
I am inclined to vote for you for Governor but your focus on the homelessness crisis has left me wondering what your approach as Governor would be on a related problem that effects even more Californians every day: the housing crisis. You’ve written in the past about needing more infill and suburbs, but I’m wondering what sorts of measures you’d try to drive through the legislature. Would you support, for instance, the original SB 827? Or one of the versions of its slimmed down/less ambitious descendants SB 50?
Are you concerned we’re reaching maximum effective commuting distance (many have 2+ hour commutes to get to an affordable community). How will you overcome NIMBYism in rich high opportunity areas like Beverly Hills, Larchmont, Pasadena, the west side of SF, Palo Alto, etc, which forces higher income people to compete for homes in the only places they exist at an affordable price, namely lower income and minority communities?
A post or even simply tweet thread on your approach to addressing the housing (not homelessness) crisis would be hugely appreciated and I think go a long way in at least some circles. (Apologies if you’ve written something since you started the campaign on it and I missed it.) I live in DTLA and while I have to deal with homelessness every day, rent and housing prices are out of control. You shouldn’t have to make 6 figures to afford a place built in the last 30 years!
I love that the solution is always to decimate any livable neighborhood, pave it over, and put up grotesque Yuppie behemoths that raise rents everywhere and gentrify every decent neighborhood. But hey, let's make Adams and Crenshaw ground zero for the 22 year-old white girls who immediately invade any place where these abominations are erected.
The building of a skyscraper has never lowered the going rate per square foot. I'd love to live in Santa Monica, but I'm not willing to destroy it so Democrats can let developers run even more wild then they already are.
My preferred solution would be to radically upzone everywhere and cut off any ability for people to stop developments w lawsuits and get rid of the ability of city councilmen to influence what gets built when in their district. What would happen then is mostly that Beverly Hills, WeHo, Culver City, Brentwood, Santa Monica, and other job rich, high income and desirable areas would get a huge number of apartment towers thrown up fast because 22 year old white girls would rather move there than Adams / Crenshaw. They can’t though, because rich NIMBYs use our systems for public comment, their donations to politicians, etc to make it insanely expensive to build anything there and so people trying to build housing (developers) have to do it the only places they can — in poorer, mostly minority neighborhoods without political power.
If I had my druthers Beverly Hills and surrounding areas would look like Hong Kong. Unfortunately LA needs a massive amount of housing, and so presently I’ll support any project that increases unit count, I don’t care about anything else. But if we could just upzone, especially in rich areas, then I’d be happy to fight to force development there. But that will require state action like the original SB 827.
What is it about the Democrat party that you do support? And for those things, are you SURE that Republicans in general, i.e., the real Republican voters, not the captured-by-Big-Tech/Media expired-date ones, don't also support them?
I do not live in Commiefornia, but since I don't want any more of your idiot liberal neighbors moving to my state next time I see one of your emails asking for money I'll send you some. I think you're gonna get your ass kicked but you are the only sane option. Which, is why you'll ask kicked as I am convinced nobody in CA is actually sane. Anyway I'd rather give you some money than give it to any of the losers in my own state. Good luck Mike.
I'll be getting my nursing degree in a year (adult student) and I'll be expatriating from the Golden State posthaste upon saving a few bucks. Some nurses already showed me the drill. Work in SF or L.A. and live an easy flight by Southwest away in a sane place. Save me a parking space! PS
Hey Mike, I'm ready to vote for you. However, there are all these other names on my ballot that I do not recognize. How about some endorsements for the other state offices? It would be a lot easier for you to get things done if you have allies around you, and I have no idea who those allies might be amongst those listed on the ballot.
A start: Voting against any candidate endorsed by the press, teacher’s unions, and homelessness industrial complex organizations.
So it seems like we should vote for someone that no one else likes, to avoid him or her coming in second, or should we only vote for MS? Btw I never took statistics.
You don’t need to vote for anybody else in the governor primary. It can only hurt.
Gavin’s a shoe in and Mike needs to beat the top republican.
Just one bubble is fine!
I was wondering that...good idea.
I also would like his team to give us a slate, so to speak. And who do we vote for besides him to make sure he comes in the top two?
You can vote for just Michael; don't give anybody else a vote.
We were just having a tangent thread on one of Thomas Sowell's tweets about this. Someone was arguing about how we are the wealthiest nation in the world. I will save you all the reasons why we are not really. Even though Italy is not on the list, it sounds like a heaven next to USA. But they do not squander their money on a large war apparatus like we do and gut their infrastructure. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-of-life
Lebowski syndrome is apt. I hear it all the time, "It's all good, be kind, conquer fear." Well, no, it's not all good. Kindness does not stop a psychotic from stabbing you. And sometimes the bad vibe you get from someone will save your life, if you listen to your fear.
I would also like to know how people like Mike S or Chris Rufo survive in a totally leftist area! I just got yelled at by a neighbor when I told her that some vagrants stole books from her little library. She said it was probably because they couldn't get library cards. *sigh*
I like Mike...but I wish he would answer this question: How do we trust the judgement of someone who dismissed Trump's policies ( which were obviously working) and who voted for a near fifty-year tax and spend politician? (Biden)
Because the other option and the only other person with a chance to win is Gavin Newsom!!
You don’t have to like all of Mike’s policies or decisions, you can simply like them more than Gavin’s and understand the single party California reality at the moment.
This I fully understand - but that's all we conservatives seem to do, is compromise to our detriment. And elect RINOs. Tired of it.
This poisonous "RINO" finger pointing is how the woke mob took over. So-called "real" Republicans sitting around crying about how they want to bring back buggery laws and back-alley abortions (for the poor only; rich children of both Dems and Republicans will be able to get this care on demand, obviously). If we could just get rid of the stupidest elements of the far right, we would win every election like Reagan in 1980.
Wrong. Once you surrender your morals and integrity you ARE your own worst enemy.
I am inclined to vote for you for Governor but your focus on the homelessness crisis has left me wondering what your approach as Governor would be on a related problem that effects even more Californians every day: the housing crisis. You’ve written in the past about needing more infill and suburbs, but I’m wondering what sorts of measures you’d try to drive through the legislature. Would you support, for instance, the original SB 827? Or one of the versions of its slimmed down/less ambitious descendants SB 50?
Are you concerned we’re reaching maximum effective commuting distance (many have 2+ hour commutes to get to an affordable community). How will you overcome NIMBYism in rich high opportunity areas like Beverly Hills, Larchmont, Pasadena, the west side of SF, Palo Alto, etc, which forces higher income people to compete for homes in the only places they exist at an affordable price, namely lower income and minority communities?
A post or even simply tweet thread on your approach to addressing the housing (not homelessness) crisis would be hugely appreciated and I think go a long way in at least some circles. (Apologies if you’ve written something since you started the campaign on it and I missed it.) I live in DTLA and while I have to deal with homelessness every day, rent and housing prices are out of control. You shouldn’t have to make 6 figures to afford a place built in the last 30 years!
I love that the solution is always to decimate any livable neighborhood, pave it over, and put up grotesque Yuppie behemoths that raise rents everywhere and gentrify every decent neighborhood. But hey, let's make Adams and Crenshaw ground zero for the 22 year-old white girls who immediately invade any place where these abominations are erected.
The building of a skyscraper has never lowered the going rate per square foot. I'd love to live in Santa Monica, but I'm not willing to destroy it so Democrats can let developers run even more wild then they already are.
My preferred solution would be to radically upzone everywhere and cut off any ability for people to stop developments w lawsuits and get rid of the ability of city councilmen to influence what gets built when in their district. What would happen then is mostly that Beverly Hills, WeHo, Culver City, Brentwood, Santa Monica, and other job rich, high income and desirable areas would get a huge number of apartment towers thrown up fast because 22 year old white girls would rather move there than Adams / Crenshaw. They can’t though, because rich NIMBYs use our systems for public comment, their donations to politicians, etc to make it insanely expensive to build anything there and so people trying to build housing (developers) have to do it the only places they can — in poorer, mostly minority neighborhoods without political power.
If I had my druthers Beverly Hills and surrounding areas would look like Hong Kong. Unfortunately LA needs a massive amount of housing, and so presently I’ll support any project that increases unit count, I don’t care about anything else. But if we could just upzone, especially in rich areas, then I’d be happy to fight to force development there. But that will require state action like the original SB 827.
What is it about the Democrat party that you do support? And for those things, are you SURE that Republicans in general, i.e., the real Republican voters, not the captured-by-Big-Tech/Media expired-date ones, don't also support them?
Outstanding! There is iceberg off starboard bow. Vote Shellenberger!
And, NO we do NOT have a surplus! https://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
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Personally, I'm tired of political buzzwords. There is no "housing CRISIS", there is an "environmental lobbyist" crisis.
I do not live in Commiefornia, but since I don't want any more of your idiot liberal neighbors moving to my state next time I see one of your emails asking for money I'll send you some. I think you're gonna get your ass kicked but you are the only sane option. Which, is why you'll ask kicked as I am convinced nobody in CA is actually sane. Anyway I'd rather give you some money than give it to any of the losers in my own state. Good luck Mike.
I'll be getting my nursing degree in a year (adult student) and I'll be expatriating from the Golden State posthaste upon saving a few bucks. Some nurses already showed me the drill. Work in SF or L.A. and live an easy flight by Southwest away in a sane place. Save me a parking space! PS