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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

We are very much aware of our ridiculous ballot to save the governorship. One side is where one votes NO and then folds the ballot, puts it in the envelope, signs and dates the back of the envelope, and delivers it either to the nearest ballot box or the mailbox. I happen to live in the county seat so a ballot box is very convenient. Both hubs and I did that and pray everybody else has the good sense to do it also. CA cannot afford to have another Repub as our governor. Hell, I want us to secede from the Union and form our own country with Oregon, Washington, NY, and any other decent state.

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Ellie Kona's avatar

Marlene, I hope your "we" is the entirety of eligible Democratic voters. A few days ago, Dem voters were looking too complacent, with polls showing only 51% No recall.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Yes, Ellie, I certainly meant that.

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Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

51% is WAY too close given that there are still several weeks until the formal election on Sept. 14. California voters, please vote NO on the recall but also vote for Kevin Faulconer who appears to the be only other candidate close to Elder in the polls. Faulconer, who I have known for almost 2 decades, would normally not be my choice but at least he's a more "traditional" Republican whose politics tend to support business interests over those of the people of California. He would be *miles* less destructive than Larry Elder.

Except from link posted above: "Elder is a Trump-loving, COVID-truthing, Big-Lie believing, Right-Wing zealot. He has spent his long career in Right-Wing media pushing conspiracy theories and spreading abject idiocy. Here are just a handful of his positions:

Aims to repeal California’s mask and vaccine mandates to try to turn California into Florida and Texas;

Doesn’t support the minimum wage. Not the $15 minimum. The entire concept of the minimum wage;

Believes employers should be able to fire women who get pregnant;

Has advocated for privatizing Social Security and abolishing Medicare.

Additionally, Elder has spent years saying and writing horribly offensive things about women. According to the Los Angeles Times, Elder claimed in a since-deleted tweet that the women involved in the 2017 Women’s March were too unattractive to be victims of sexual assault."

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