Open Letter to CA Gov. Newson from a Parent Whose Kids Are Leaving the State

[boedicca]

I'm heartbroken over what has happened to CA. I've lived here since I was a baby. My siblings live nearby, as did my folks until they passed away. Family is what has kept mr. boe and me here, but we're working on our exit plan to leave now that Mom and Dad are gone. The LW totalitarian intolerance, the homelessness disease vectors, decaying infrastructure, high taxes, crushing state debt to pay for public employee pensions, lack of crime enforcement...all have snowballed to the point where the state is unlivable for normal people who just want to live their private lives in peace.

...and don’t forget a dwindling water supply

Actually, we have a lot of water - the snowpack is over 180% of normal. The problem is that Jerry Brown cancelled the CA water project his father initiated. The CA water project would have expanded storage and canal capacity. We always has cycles of drought and wet. We'd have plenty of water if we saved it from wet times instead of allowing it to flush into the ocean. It also doesn't help when inane policies are allowed to happen - such as the Greenies causing the state to dump stored water into the Sacramento River in order to save a bait fish.

California has no water.

My monthly water bill is less than 10% of what I was paying in California, and you don’t need to filter all the crap (literally) out.

We have plenty of water, thank you.

 

[beautress]

If we had the state fenced off no problem, but them letting in illegal rapist killer Mexicans, they wander to other states.

You dumb right wingers need to get together and get your story straight. Just a few posts back somebody said businesses were leaving California in droves. Now you say the problem is illegal aliens leaving the state. Are all those leaving businesses owned by illegal aliens? Please clarify.

Huh? I am posting about California being a sanctuary state and allowing in illegal killer rapist Mexicans who wander to other states.

Except...California isn't a sanctuary state. Either you are ignorant of the truth or you lied. Which is it?

I don't like to disagree with a wonderful soldier who served this nation, bodecea, but here's the truth about California's many sanctuary cities who are as follows:

SANCTUARY CITIES AND STATES
INFORMATION RESOURCE
CALIFORNIA HAS ONE OR MORE CITIES OFFERING
ILLEGAL SANCTUARY

• Bell Gardens, California

• Berkeley, California (reported 6/23/09)

• City of Industry, California

• City of Commerce, California

• Coachella, California (considering)

• Concord, California (reported 8/18/12)

• Costa Mesa, California (reported 6/14/14)

• Cypress, California (disputed 7/10/15 by Cyrpress City Manager - see below)

• Davis, California

• Diamond Bar, California

• Downey, California

• Fresno, California (disputed 7/6/10 - see below)

• Lakewood, California (7/27/15 -sanctuary status disputed by Bill Grady, Public Information Officer of the City Manager's office)

• Long Beach, California

• Los Angeles, California

• Lynwood, California

• Maywood, California

• Montebello, California (disputed 6/28/10, see below)

• National City, California

• Norwalk, California

• Oakland, California

• Paramount, California

• Pico Rivera, California

• Salinas, California

• San Bernardino California

• San Diego, California

• San Francisco, California (1989)

• San Jose, California

• Santa Ana, California (reported 6/14/14)

• Santa Cruz, California

• Sonoma County, California (2006)

• South Gate, California

• Vernon, California

• Watsonville, California

• Wilmington, California

More details here than you'd ever care to know: California is a state with many sanctuary cities and basically the entire state is one large sanctuary

Oh, and on the page shows a pending list of cities whose citizens have proposals on the table at the time the list was formulated, just scroll down.

It's not dumb and dumber, it's long and longer. ​

Salinas is a shit hole. Went to the mall there once and it was like being in Tijuana.

Never been there that I can recollect. I'm so old, my only time visiting a Mexican marketplace was around 1957. Daddy took us over the border to Nuevo Laredo, and the marketplace there was something beautiful to see for a child whose eyes took in all those beautiful colors, the smell of newly-tooled leather, not to mention how luxurious all those sights and smells were to a naive all-American girl who'd never seen such a sight. It's too bad what happened to Mexico throwing away all their pisanos and incarcerated felons so they wouldn't have to pay for their upkeep, dumping them over an all-too-open border.
Here's to bein' a kid: The no-problems border back then was great, too.

 

[Fueri]

Same thing is happening in Illinois. Negative net population growth, primarily due to taxes. Businesses are leaving and people are leaving as well.

Since we bought our new home 6 years ago our mortgage payment has increased over 50% relative to when we moved in. The primary driver of that is taxes, and they just keep going up here. We now pay more in property taxes than we do to the mortgage component of the payment each month and that gap is growing. I don't know how that makes sense to anyone, but it doesn't to us any longer. That money just blows out the window to pay bills the state cannot keep up with.

Our plan is to leave also in the next 2 years. We've shopped other states, cost of living is sharply lower, wages are comparable and we'd be paying around 20% of the property taxes we are now on a larger home.

We'll be just like a lot of people leaving. 2 good incomes. Good careers. Just sick of getting fucked with no real solution on the horizon except raising of taxes by a state government that doesn't seem to have any other solution to the problem they created.

Go east one state.

We're looking at TN, actually. House on a lake for under 300. We have some friends there right outside Gatlinburg.

Or Portland. We have a lot of friends out there.

Illinois is in a death spiral it seems to me. Raise taxes. People leave. Revenue lags. Raise taxes. More people leave. Revenue continues to lag. lather, rinse, repeat.

They cannot just tax their way out of this, but it's the only method they seem to know. They created this mess and are now unwilling to take the steps necessary to apply any meaningful solution, as doing so would anger their base, so this is, of course, about them, their jobs, their fortunes etc., It's utterly insane.

If by Portland I hope you're not talking about Portland Oregon because they're flushing themselves down the same California toilet.

Yeah, I see some of that going on and it has me leaning towards TN. That and the fact that we can live on a lake with the mountains in the back for probably 1/3 of what that would cost here and half of what it would cost in Portland.

It is Oregon. The wife worked/lived there for many years, has a ton of great friends there and we both love the Pacific NW, which is the other side of the coin.

tough call, although either beats the snot out of Illinois at this point...

 

[emilynghiem]

An Open Letter to Governor Gavin Newsom 5/20/19:

Governor Newsom,

The boxes are filled. The bags are packed. The hearts are breaking.
My family is about to be divided, separated, perhaps forever. I wish you cared.

Our wonderful daughter, along with her husband and their two young children has given up on life in California. The only place they’ve ever called home has become intolerable for them. They’ve found a new home in a southern state, far away from here, in the real America.

I’ve heard the story innumerable times- people leaving, or wanting to leave, what was once the paradise of the West Coast. Not so long ago, kids could walk down to the corner store, or to school, without their parents worrying about their safe return. No more.
You once could visit a neighborhood park, and not fear for your life. No more.
Walking across the street did not require careful examination of the pavement to avoid feces or used hypodermic needles. Now it does.

Illnesses are again being seen in this state that had been rare or non-existent until recently. Typhus, Tuberculosis, Mumps, Measles, Hepatitis A, B, and C are all here again. A worker on the upper floors at L.A. City Hall recently came down with typhus, spread by rats living in the disgusting conditions around the Civic Center.

But you’re concerned that I might ask for a plastic straw.

Your priorities for managing this state are crystal clear, and the middle class is nowhere near the top of the list. I learned in Civics class years ago that the primary job of government is to keep the people safe. What happened? When did our safety and well-being fall off the radar? Not too long ago, my daughter had her new vehicle stolen from her driveway, in the short time it took her to walk the kids to school. Someone was watching, waiting for them to leave. It gives me chills just thinking about it.

You release violent criminals back onto our streets to terrorize our communities, you proudly remove the death-penalty as an option, sending a friendly message to the worst of the worst, and you handcuff our law-enforcement officers, challenging their every move. Officers now must take an extra moment, perhaps just a second, questioning their training and best judgment, before using any amount of force to apprehend a violent criminal. When this results in another dead cop, and it will, the blood will be on your hands, sir.

A few weeks ago, we watched on television as a violent felon led police on a three-hour pursuit, destroying property and narrowly missing pedestrians and other vehicles. We saw him brutally beat his female passenger while driving close to 100 mph. Then last week, a murder suspect shot at police out the window of the car he was being pursued in. It’s a miracle nobody was killed. Turns out, both suspects were free on “early release” through AB-109, that you and other politicians (who all live behind walls, with armed security) forced upon us in the name of compassion. Where’s your compassion for law-abiding citizens, Mr. Governor?

And don’t get me started on taxes and regulations. The amount of money taken from us by this state is criminal. Just living here is expensive enough, but imagine trying to run a business and stay afloat. We have the highest gas prices/taxes in the country, and still our roads are a mess. I recently hit a pothole and the damage to my car was over $1000. We pay you enormous sums to manage the state’s affairs, yet people by the thousands sleep on our streets at night. Homeless encampments are everywhere, in neighborhoods we never imagined they’d be. And still, you want more. There’s a move now to weaken Prop. 13. No doubt it will pass. And I just read that you want to tax online sales now, too. Along with proposals to tax water, telephones, dairy products, fertilizers, health care, and more. But taxing those things will not affect the “super rich 1%”. They’re just more hits on the middle class. You Sacramento politicians have an insatiable addiction to other people’s money. But many citizens have had enough and are walking away.

Which brings me back to my family.

They’re closing their business here. You’ll get no more of their hard-earned money. They’ve purchased a home in their new state, big enough for the four of them and a dog or two. Maybe even a horse. The kids will get a great education. They’ll be able to leave a window open at night, knowing that the criminals are the ones who are afraid- afraid of the police, afraid of the courts, and afraid of the citizens who exercise their right to defend themselves. Oh, and gas there is about $2 a gallon.

Somehow, they’ll have to survive without a Fantasy Train to nowhere, but I’m sure they’ll find a way to get by.

Meanwhile, your tax base shrinks and Atlas shrugs. Soon the only people left here will be the very rich and the very poor. It’s almost as if you planned it that way.

And now, my family is broken. As are countless others. No more school plays, no more little league games. No more weekend breakfasts at IHOP or Thanksgiving dinners. I’ll happily burn a ton of fossil fuel to go visit them at their new home as often as I can. But, I won’t be there as an instant babysitter when needed on short notice, and I’ll actually notice their growth from visit to visit. I’ll pray every night for their safety and happiness in the years to come. And I’ll cry that I can’t hold them tight. I’m angry as hell, and I miss them desperately already.

But they’ll get no going away card from you and no apologies. You simply don’t care.

Open Letter to CA Gov. Newson from a Parent Whose Kids Are Leaving the State » Politichicks.com

I looked online and found this letter linked to redstate,
and posted it on facebook to share with others.

Thank you Weatherman2020
but I am more aggrieved than anger for this family.

I think we need a HEARTBREAK button to rate a post like this!!!

 

[emilynghiem]

Good letter.

Newsom will never read it.

Even if he did he couldn’t understand it.

Dear Weatherman2020 and Billy_Kinetta
If he can't accept the problems
maybe the SOLUTIONS to Sanctuary Cities
might be within ability to grasp understand and embrace.

www.earnedamnesty.org
I took the plans for Sustainable Community Campus Development
that came out of Historic Freedmen's Town, and the APV site that is
a Civil Rights landmark within this district www.campusplan.org,
and expanded on the concept to propose building Campus Towns
along the Border to accommodate immigrant and working families.

I have also proposed refinancing the state budget of California
by assessing the full value and cost of the land, wilderness and wildlife
based on the labor and time it would take to restore these riches from
damage and destruction at taxpayer expense.

By holding the land as collateral on the debts accumulated by
crime, corruption and abuse of taxpayer resources,
investors can buy out control of the state and manage
loans against the value of restoration to finance the
reforms and "green jobs" it will take to make the state sustainable.

Maybe the Governor cannot handle hearing any more about the problems.

But SOLUTIONS should be welcome news at this point!

Pacifica public radio based in Berkely with a sister station in
LA could help organize the resources to take back control
of refinancing the state to support jobs in reforms and corrections,
until restitution for past abuses is paid back to cover the loans.

www.10million.net

 

[Preacher]

Same thing is happening in Illinois. Negative net population growth, primarily due to taxes. Businesses are leaving and people are leaving as well.

Since we bought our new home 6 years ago our mortgage payment has increased over 50% relative to when we moved in. The primary driver of that is taxes, and they just keep going up here. We now pay more in property taxes than we do to the mortgage component of the payment each month and that gap is growing. I don't know how that makes sense to anyone, but it doesn't to us any longer. That money just blows out the window to pay bills the state cannot keep up with.

Our plan is to leave also in the next 2 years. We've shopped other states, cost of living is sharply lower, wages are comparable and we'd be paying around 20% of the property taxes we are now on a larger home.

We'll be just like a lot of people leaving. 2 good incomes. Good careers. Just sick of getting fucked with no real solution on the horizon except raising of taxes by a state government that doesn't seem to have any other solution to the problem they created.

Go east one state.

We're looking at TN, actually. House on a lake for under 300. We have some friends there right outside Gatlinburg.

Or Portland. We have a lot of friends out there.

Illinois is in a death spiral it seems to me. Raise taxes. People leave. Revenue lags. Raise taxes. More people leave. Revenue continues to lag. lather, rinse, repeat.

They cannot just tax their way out of this, but it's the only method they seem to know. They created this mess and are now unwilling to take the steps necessary to apply any meaningful solution, as doing so would anger their base, so this is, of course, about them, their jobs, their fortunes etc., It's utterly insane.

That area you are talking about is BEAUTIFUL! Me and the wife go there constantly for mini vacations. Was just up there last April for our anniversary. North Carolina is beautiful as well not as crowded in the western part as Tn is but taxes are slightly higher and gas tax is higher as well than Tn's.

 

[badbob85037]

Good letter.

Newsom will never read it.

In 76 when I discharged from the army I returned to my home town Vallejo, California. Two weeks latter I rounded a corner in a residential area into a bunch of California Highway Patrol. At this time it was already the law to have a car safety inspection every year at registration. The law was everything works and when passed you were given a color coded sticker that you put on your windshields. My car was legal and had the sticker. After being forced off the road by the CHP I was told it was a 'SAFETY INSPECTION' but it only took a few seconds before I realized it was a search for drugs and had nothing to do with safety. There is no need to look under my seats or through the trunk for safety. Two weeks later I left the state and moved to Arizona where I made a good life. My wife and daughter like the beach and still go back to California. To the abuse the state gives out of state drivers I won't enter the state. The last time a cop gave my daughter a ticket for smoking. She was holding an unlit cigarette but even if it wasn't lit the cop said he smelled it. So gave her a ticket that cost over $100. Smell police, only in Kalifornia. Why anyone would stay in a shit hole that has it's school kids tripping over hypodermic needles on their way to school is out right crazy, the reason California is the way it is and why genocide is right for the state.

 

[Ivan88]

Like the Zoning commissars say, "It is better for you to live in your car or under a bridge that live in a house we do not approve of."

 

[Ame®icano]

Leftists leaving leftist state and taking their leftist view with them.