You represent one of the biggest undertold stories of the decade — the mass wave of disgust felt by lifelong liberal Democrats (like me) with a party now captured by a faction that says any law violated disproportionately by people of color is racist, ipso facto, and must be loosened. Boudin stands for this belief. You could win this election as an Independent, Michael. Never before have so many party members on both sides felt betrayed. Millions yearn for a normal government, and yet the very word “normal” uttered at the Dem convention would evoke a rafter-shaking torrent of booing.
My family came to California in the late 1800s. I left for good to live in Texas this year. Seeing the infrastructure decay, forests burn, power outages the new normal, high taxes and passing of my tax money on pork barrel programs that inflame the degradation of California. Property values would seem to follow the downward trend. I hope you are successful Michael! California is an amazing piece of art the world made into a showcase of "good ideas" that don't work.
Good look Michael. Resist the pull to cater to the left by softening your critique of progressivism. I suspect there's a majority in California who are sick of it, some literally. Be yourself. I know you will.
My family and I are moving to North Georgia from Southern California. We became completely fed up with the endless Covid restrictions and constant threats to my livelihood (physician) unless I got every injection the governor thought I had to get. People in Southern California are angry and used to scream at us when we were walking around outside without masks bc we wanted to breathe fresh air. It was madness. With homelessness everywhere, we constantly had to worry about needles in the parks. It’s nice for a child to be able to walk around barefoot in the grass in a park. You can’t have that in blue parts of Cali. Then there’s the cost of living. Even as a high earner, you really can’t afford anything that’s normal- let’s say - 2 he’s 2 bath house with a nice backyard, for less than 1.5 million now. The pace of inflation outpaced our earning power. At the same time, there were the endless lockdowns and business closures at the whims of the governor or hysterical democrat local leaders. They put chains around swings in the parks where I live. It’s not a place to raise children. It’s just isn’t.
In terms of beauty, sure aspects of California are beautiful, south Orange County, the central coast, norther California, etc. But this is not unique. Northern Georgia has gorgeous rolling hills, incredible foliage, creeks and rivers and lakes. Plus, it functions, it’s clean, and normal families who don’t want to be involved in every latest Leftist hysteria thrive there. Californians don’t have a monopoly on natural beauty, but they do take the lead on making the lives of their citizens miserable. But their citizens overwhelmingly vote for that stuff so I now just congratulate them on getting what they voted for.
After nearly 40 years in California, my husband and I escaped last year. I’d been wanting to leave for a long time but we own a business and my husband didn’t want the disruption.
When Covid lockdown happened, he got to see that he and his staff could work from home effectively, so he finally agreed to leave.
I’ve seen California degrade and deteriorate every year. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating to see my once beautiful State become a moral shithole and an environmental mess. I’ve struggled with the bad, smokey air every year, the water price hikes because of the lack of new dams, the encroachment of homeless into my suburb, the feeling of malaise and a bit of doom.
And not least, the horrendous taxes I’ve paid year after year, along with new rules for small business to require things like annual sexual harassment training, and now CalSavers.
I said we escaped because that’s how it feels. Like escaping the pot of slowly boiling frogs.
You are a proponent of universal health care, but to pay for it I would, once again be forced, as a business, to pay more than my fair share for that - and not even have the option to keep private health insurance. No thank you. I had enough of being squeezed and watching unions rule our kleptocratic leaders, while BLM rioters ran amok and drug addicts took over parts of our cities. I’m sorry, but I’m done being victimized. I opted out instead of staying to fight a rigged system.
please run_ be aware at attempts to cheat by dems-also, as someone here mentioned, take strong positions re homeless drug addicted and mentally ill that emphasize two psychiatric consent, reimagine the psychiatric hospitals and make them larger. Reach out to other states because the homeless, mentally ill are often originally from elsewhere.
How did Newsom "win"? he gave himself the win when he decreed that all voters could print ballots at home. How would this work? all an unscrupulous politician and his people would have to do is scout the voter data (readily available from the ROVs) for people that are registered but rarely or never vote. The campaign would print ballots in the Voter's names, fill them in and, with the *magic* of ballot harvesting, drop the printed ballots into the system. Lets be honest, with the current state of California there is no way Newsom won the recall election...and certainly not by the huge margin he did. They will leverage this fraud against your campaign, how you and other candidates fight this will tell the tale of CA's future. If it were me i'd have my campaign's digital team run some forensic analysis on the recall election to see if this happened and publicly make the case against the practice of printing ballots.
Little that I know of you, I think you would be a great change for Cali. I've never lived there, but did lots of work as a lawyer for a global entity with presence there.
My gut says you are trying hard to please all significant CA constituencies to get elected. Probably trying too hard, unless you just want to say "I ran, I tried". Have you thought about identifying the positions that would turn enough voters your way? That is, taking on a posture that is not waffling, not weaseling, but that speaks to the needs, interests, of ordinary folks who will vote?
Here is an example: "We need cheap and reliable energy, but we also need to make progress on climate change." Really? If you put yourself into the shoes of a voter, that sounds like electoral BS. Please the folks who just want to drive their IC vehicles, but stroke the folks who just want to move to windmills and solar. That is unlikely to work.
You face an Everest of stasis in California politics. And the Governorship is the least of it. Even i9f you succeeded here, you'd face an intransigent legislature.
Good luck. you will need lots of it, even if you were to succeed this Fall.
I see no mention of the current governor's impending mandate that your children receive experimental mRNA shots to attend school. California removed nearly all -medical- exemptions to vaccines. That's insane! Frankly, I am a bit more concerned about my childrens' health than that of SF drug addicts and homeless. You should consider staking out a position on medical freedom. I think you may find that there is a growing and vocal part of the population that is against mandated medical treatments. I think there may be an explosive growth in support for medical freedom as the carnage wreaked by covid vaccines becomes increasingly difficult to hide.
We're leaving this summer. I'm one of a lot of knowledge workers that have the option to work remotely now. Don't get me wrong, the bay area is nice in many ways. But there are lots of equally nice places that don't have the Bay Area's many problems. And above all I am uncomfortable with the child Covid vaccine mandates. It's okay for them to be encouraged but choice in medical procedure must be allowed. Who knows what they will mandate next if this is accepted. Good luck with your gubernatorial campaign, we won't be here to vote for you, we are off to Utah.
You represent one of the biggest undertold stories of the decade — the mass wave of disgust felt by lifelong liberal Democrats (like me) with a party now captured by a faction that says any law violated disproportionately by people of color is racist, ipso facto, and must be loosened. Boudin stands for this belief. You could win this election as an Independent, Michael. Never before have so many party members on both sides felt betrayed. Millions yearn for a normal government, and yet the very word “normal” uttered at the Dem convention would evoke a rafter-shaking torrent of booing.
My family came to California in the late 1800s. I left for good to live in Texas this year. Seeing the infrastructure decay, forests burn, power outages the new normal, high taxes and passing of my tax money on pork barrel programs that inflame the degradation of California. Property values would seem to follow the downward trend. I hope you are successful Michael! California is an amazing piece of art the world made into a showcase of "good ideas" that don't work.
Good look Michael. Resist the pull to cater to the left by softening your critique of progressivism. I suspect there's a majority in California who are sick of it, some literally. Be yourself. I know you will.
My family and I are moving to North Georgia from Southern California. We became completely fed up with the endless Covid restrictions and constant threats to my livelihood (physician) unless I got every injection the governor thought I had to get. People in Southern California are angry and used to scream at us when we were walking around outside without masks bc we wanted to breathe fresh air. It was madness. With homelessness everywhere, we constantly had to worry about needles in the parks. It’s nice for a child to be able to walk around barefoot in the grass in a park. You can’t have that in blue parts of Cali. Then there’s the cost of living. Even as a high earner, you really can’t afford anything that’s normal- let’s say - 2 he’s 2 bath house with a nice backyard, for less than 1.5 million now. The pace of inflation outpaced our earning power. At the same time, there were the endless lockdowns and business closures at the whims of the governor or hysterical democrat local leaders. They put chains around swings in the parks where I live. It’s not a place to raise children. It’s just isn’t.
In terms of beauty, sure aspects of California are beautiful, south Orange County, the central coast, norther California, etc. But this is not unique. Northern Georgia has gorgeous rolling hills, incredible foliage, creeks and rivers and lakes. Plus, it functions, it’s clean, and normal families who don’t want to be involved in every latest Leftist hysteria thrive there. Californians don’t have a monopoly on natural beauty, but they do take the lead on making the lives of their citizens miserable. But their citizens overwhelmingly vote for that stuff so I now just congratulate them on getting what they voted for.
After nearly 40 years in California, my husband and I escaped last year. I’d been wanting to leave for a long time but we own a business and my husband didn’t want the disruption.
When Covid lockdown happened, he got to see that he and his staff could work from home effectively, so he finally agreed to leave.
I’ve seen California degrade and deteriorate every year. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating to see my once beautiful State become a moral shithole and an environmental mess. I’ve struggled with the bad, smokey air every year, the water price hikes because of the lack of new dams, the encroachment of homeless into my suburb, the feeling of malaise and a bit of doom.
And not least, the horrendous taxes I’ve paid year after year, along with new rules for small business to require things like annual sexual harassment training, and now CalSavers.
I said we escaped because that’s how it feels. Like escaping the pot of slowly boiling frogs.
You are a proponent of universal health care, but to pay for it I would, once again be forced, as a business, to pay more than my fair share for that - and not even have the option to keep private health insurance. No thank you. I had enough of being squeezed and watching unions rule our kleptocratic leaders, while BLM rioters ran amok and drug addicts took over parts of our cities. I’m sorry, but I’m done being victimized. I opted out instead of staying to fight a rigged system.
please run_ be aware at attempts to cheat by dems-also, as someone here mentioned, take strong positions re homeless drug addicted and mentally ill that emphasize two psychiatric consent, reimagine the psychiatric hospitals and make them larger. Reach out to other states because the homeless, mentally ill are often originally from elsewhere.
Michael, I am with you brother. I live in San Francisco. When do we get together for coffee with the rest of this crowd?
As a conservative latino person I hope you win.
How did Newsom "win"? he gave himself the win when he decreed that all voters could print ballots at home. How would this work? all an unscrupulous politician and his people would have to do is scout the voter data (readily available from the ROVs) for people that are registered but rarely or never vote. The campaign would print ballots in the Voter's names, fill them in and, with the *magic* of ballot harvesting, drop the printed ballots into the system. Lets be honest, with the current state of California there is no way Newsom won the recall election...and certainly not by the huge margin he did. They will leverage this fraud against your campaign, how you and other candidates fight this will tell the tale of CA's future. If it were me i'd have my campaign's digital team run some forensic analysis on the recall election to see if this happened and publicly make the case against the practice of printing ballots.
Little that I know of you, I think you would be a great change for Cali. I've never lived there, but did lots of work as a lawyer for a global entity with presence there.
My gut says you are trying hard to please all significant CA constituencies to get elected. Probably trying too hard, unless you just want to say "I ran, I tried". Have you thought about identifying the positions that would turn enough voters your way? That is, taking on a posture that is not waffling, not weaseling, but that speaks to the needs, interests, of ordinary folks who will vote?
Here is an example: "We need cheap and reliable energy, but we also need to make progress on climate change." Really? If you put yourself into the shoes of a voter, that sounds like electoral BS. Please the folks who just want to drive their IC vehicles, but stroke the folks who just want to move to windmills and solar. That is unlikely to work.
You face an Everest of stasis in California politics. And the Governorship is the least of it. Even i9f you succeeded here, you'd face an intransigent legislature.
Good luck. you will need lots of it, even if you were to succeed this Fall.
Yes!!!! This makes me so happy!!!! So glad you are running and praying you will win!!!
I see no mention of the current governor's impending mandate that your children receive experimental mRNA shots to attend school. California removed nearly all -medical- exemptions to vaccines. That's insane! Frankly, I am a bit more concerned about my childrens' health than that of SF drug addicts and homeless. You should consider staking out a position on medical freedom. I think you may find that there is a growing and vocal part of the population that is against mandated medical treatments. I think there may be an explosive growth in support for medical freedom as the carnage wreaked by covid vaccines becomes increasingly difficult to hide.
We're leaving this summer. I'm one of a lot of knowledge workers that have the option to work remotely now. Don't get me wrong, the bay area is nice in many ways. But there are lots of equally nice places that don't have the Bay Area's many problems. And above all I am uncomfortable with the child Covid vaccine mandates. It's okay for them to be encouraged but choice in medical procedure must be allowed. Who knows what they will mandate next if this is accepted. Good luck with your gubernatorial campaign, we won't be here to vote for you, we are off to Utah.
I wish you the best Michael and I hope you win. I will pray for God to bless California with your leadership.
Leftists finally cracking under the strain of their absurd, hypocritical contradictions.
You can take one look at that greaseball Newsom and you know that he doesn't give two shits about anyone but himself.