Where do I start with the Canary’s Nov. 26 rant, “Way out there”? While this tweety bird is entitled to its opinion, it’s not entitled to its own facts.
First there is the fowl’s assertion that the 24th Congressional District “has been blue for its entire existence”; that is patently false (see the 24th District’s Wikipedia page). Elton Gallegly (R) served 10 years—that’s five terms from 2003 to 2013 as he handily beat each of his opponents.
Maybe the Canary should read some of those papers in the bottom of the cage before going out on a limb.
The canary’s observation that Democrat voters have outnumbered Republicans for decades is accurate, and that’s why this state is in the condition it is today. With the central cores of the two largest cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles, turning in to vast homeless camps, it is a testimony to a failure of liberal governance. And Democrat-dominated Santa Barbara isn’t far behind.
Democrat environmental and business regulation, and taxation policies have chased major corporations out of the state, and the latest “science driven” rounds of restrictions on businesses in the name of an emergency that has no end in sight has managed to ruin thousands of small businesses, create vast unemployment, close large commercial chains, segregate families from their loved ones, and create restrictions on freedom of movement and religious gatherings without justification.
I was born and raised in California, and in my nearly eight decades of existence, I have witnessed what was once the “Golden State” become tarnished by the stain of incompetent political leadership.
Ron Fink
Lompoc
This article appears in Dec 10-17, 2020.