Platner drops out. Now Maine is going to let 600 Democrat party insiders pick the new candidate, replacing the guy that 156,000 people voted for. Just like the party kicked Biden to the curb and replaced him with Kamala. Tell me again which party is a threat to democracy.
Mayor Mandami has shown us the reality of big government socialism’s inability to solve problems. Telling New Yorkers to set their air conditioning at 78 degrees is an open admission of the failure of the left to provide enough inexpensive electricity that people can be comfortable even in hot weather. Does anyone believe Madison Square Garden will be at 78 degrees for the Taylor Swift -Travis Kelce Wedding. Big government socialism always takes care of the well connected while causing pain and deprivation for normal everyday people. Mandami is no different. Reporter should ask him if he is going to ask Taylor Swift to sweat through her wedding at the Mandami dictated 78 degrees. That would lead to the wedding moving to a red state where they have adequate electricity for air conditioning.
Let me help everybody out.
Many probably remember Gavin Newsom's infamous French Laundry scandal where he ignored all Covid protocols (which he implemented) to have a private party at the exclusive Napa restaurant.
Well, what many people don't know about the story is that the dinner was hosted by a PG&E lobbyist named Jason Kinney.
PG&E is responsible for igniting hundreds of fires in California, including the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 residents in town called Paradise, CA.
Newsom, who takes hundreds of thousands in donations from PG&E, arranged to have the victims paid in part with the company's stock, instead of cash, and in part with a taxpayer-funded slush fund. Predictably the stock price plummeted after the scandal was made public, leaving the victims billions short what they were initially owed.
He then set up something called the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which was supposed to grant "safety certificates" to make sure PG&E was compliant with safety regulations. Except, per whistleblower complaints, the CPUC was effectively controlled by Newsom, and functioned essentially as a rubber stamp for PG&E.
In short, Newsom ignored court rulings and rigged California law to bail out a major corporate donor, trading policy favors for campaign cash while sticking wildfire victims with the bill.
Justin Gaethje on reading the Declaration of Independence before walking out tonight:
"Their language was different...I am not smart enough to read that"
This is all bullsh*t. Prior to 2014 California took 48 hours to certify. The Democrats put this system into place deliberately and systematically - NONE of this is "incompetence" or "lack of funds". You can follow the exact legislation Newsom and Brown signed into law to make this happen:
SB 29 (2014): Enacted the "postmark rule" (allowing ballots to arrive 3 days late) and extended the county canvass to 30 days to handle the influx.
AB 187 (2014): Aligned state timelines, giving the Secretary of State until Day 38 to officially certify the results.
SB 589 (2015) & AB 1407 (2017): Established the "ballot curing" framework, forcing counties to notify voters of missing or mismatched signatures and giving them a statutory window to fix them during the canvass.
SB 759 (2018): Standardized the cure timeline, mandating that counties allow voters to cure signature issues up to 2 days before the final certification.
AB 860 / SB 29 (2020–2021): Permanently extended the postmark arrival window to 7 days, further expanding the processing and signature-curing buffer within the 38-day limit.
Proposition 71 (2018): Delayed the effective date of ballot measures until 5 days after the 38-day certification to account for these extended counting and curing windows.
America needs more of this kind of common sense.
Why should Americans trust politicians with more tax revenue when they already have a track record of wasting the money and failing to solve problems?
Billionaires aren’t the enemy. Bad policies are.