Snerk…
The University of Southern California cancelled a planned California primary gubernatorial debate because all of the candidates invited were white, multiple media outlets reported.
USC and KABC-TV invited Republicans Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton as well as Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer to the debate based on a formula that combined poll standings and campaign funds, the New York Times reported. The decision drew complaints from excluded Democratic candidates, including former Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former California State Controller Betty Yee, according to NBC Los Angeles.
Full article, HERE from Daily Caller. And the NBC report, HERE.
This…sigh… I literally have no words, but then it IS California…
They passed this ‘thing’ called the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, which means only the top two vote-getters in the primary election – regardless of party preference – move on to the general election.
This was done to ensure that Dems got the two top slots, based on their base voting for them. However, this time the top two are BOTH Republicans, Steve Hilton (former Brit, and director of strategy for prime minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012, he became a US citizen in 2021) and Chad Bianco (sheriff of Riverside County). So it is very possible that the November election ‘may’ be for which Republican will be the next governor!
Not that I’d want anything to do with that CF…
But I do think it is ‘funny’ that California is so wrapped up in the whole DEI BS that ‘whiteness’ was a reason to cancel a debate…
Unless one can consistently fraud at least thirty percent of votes, jungle primaries are vulnerable to preference cascades if and when the party in power angers enough people.
Califukya’s ledgeslature has a communist( dem) super majority so it won’t make much of a difference.
In California’s case (among others), stupidity provides its own reward. And it’s often quite entertaining to the rest of us.
Larry Elder ran last time to give the state a black option, but they complained that he wasn’t black enough.
Always amusing watching the Democrats start eating their own because of ideological “purity”.
😂
“We have to feature a debate where the two front-runners are Republican?! We need to cancel, but with plausible deniability…”
— The University of Southern California (maybe)
News flash from this here Kalifornia expat.
The Dems/Communists in Kalifornia care about DEI and “whiteness” just as much as Marx and Lenin did, and for the same reasons. They lie to your face, knowing that you know that they are lying to your face. “Heads we win, tails you lose”.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying”
X2
I highly doubt the next Kali governor will be Republican. The DNC still has a huge number tricks up their sleeves to insure they stay in power. And being commie Kali they don’t have to worry about legal accountability.
Sigh…y’all are right, and yes, LL, I remember that! RHT- Good point!
Even if one were to win, their hands would be tied.
Trent Telenko had some interesting tweets on instapundit about irrational ruling factions in regimes.
California is some of the spots that the Democrats have on the board, and represents their mindset and playing strategy.
Colorado, New York and Illinois are also a set of locations that they are playing from.
Age Verification (OS) law in California and Colorado? Democrat play, and Brazil argues also a CCP play.
These plays may or may not be for actual consequences, but are at least as much for what those paths represent in the minds of the leadership factions.
We are in a game with many players, and we have limited information about intentions, and limited information about the success of the options pursued.
The Democrats have goals, but the situation is unusual enough that past performance may only weakly predict future results.
Tested tactics may fail, novel tactics may be based on delusion.