W-T-H, DUDE?
We are tired of the control.
We are tired of watching our elections manipulated and stolen from us. Nearly 70 percent of Californians passed Proposition 36, carrying all 58 counties, and Sacramento still refuses to fund it properly.
We are tired of our children’s virtue, innocence and understanding of right and wrong being manipulated for a political agenda.
We are taxed from cradle to grave to fund whatever stupid idea you guys cook up. Then, when your policies are challenged in court, we are forced to pay the government lawyers you hire to justify them.
We pay for the stupid idea—and then we pay for the legal battle to defend it.
We are taxed on every gallon of gas—and now Sacramento wants to tax every mile we drive.
Government decides which tires we can buy, which cars and appliances we can use, when we must wear masks and whether we can plant flowers beside our own homes.
Housing is unaffordable. Insurance is disappearing. Utility bills are outrageous. Our schools are failing our children.
We are tired of nearly $24 billion being poured into homelessness programs without the state consistently tracking the results—while the tents remain on our streets.
We are tired of watching people get punished for calling out a creep in a girls’ bathroom or exposing fraud involving taxpayer money.
Terry Schanz’s stupid little stunt brought everything to a head: an overpaid clown in a penguin suit waving an insult at an independent journalist.
It was more than vulgar. It was an insult to every Californian forced to pay his salary—and proof that the people running Sacramento see us as servants to be stepped on and used for their political agenda.
Then Newsom signed AB 2624—the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”
And what are you pushing? Fluff.
Little Tokyo and Japanese culture are not the problem. Promoting them belongs in an advertisement from the visitors bureau or Chamber of Commerce. You’re running for governor.
You aren’t an innocent bystander. You spent decades in government helping sponsor, pass, enforce and defend the machinery of control we are sick of.
Knock it off with the pandering and cheap diversity tricks.
We are tired of the control. We are tired of the lectures. We are tired of the arrogance.
Read the room. People are pissed.
Or don’t. Keep pushing more crap.
You are part of the problem—not the solution.
Oh, and Xavier:
WHERE ARE THE MISSING KIDS?
Little Tokyo is a beautiful reminder of what it means to be American: sharing our food, culture, traditions and stories with one another.
As Tamlyn Tomita said, America is about sharing our part of the world with each other. We are so grateful that we get to share California’s diversity.