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Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for The Daily Signal.

We've had a series of debates on the future of California, at least in venues for the mayorial race in Los Angeles,

in which the outsider Spencer Pr Pratt, challenged Karen Bass, the mayor, and councilman Rahman, both hard leftists.

And then we had a series of gubernatorial debates in which we had just two conservatives,

Chad Bianco, the sheriff from Southern California,

and Steve Hilton, Fox commentator, and they were arrayed against Kathleen Porter, Havio Bicera,

Anthony Villa Gerasa, and in addition, Tom Steyer.

Now, there's a common thread to all of this.

None of the people on the Democratic side want to talk about any issues.

In the mayoral race, neither Bass nor Rahman wanted to talk about what happened in the L fire, or why Karen Bass was in Uganda, Ghana.

Or we don't want to talk about why the reservoirs were empty, or the hydrants not working, or it was against the law to remove brush, or the conduct of the fire department,

or the vice mayor phoning in a

bomb threat. So when the mayor was gone, the vice mayor was under arrest. There was nobody in

control of the city. Nobody wants to talk about the highest taxes on gas in the nation, the highest

income tax. Nobody wants to talk about one third of all the

welfare recipients here. Almost half the nation's homeless are here. The high-speed rail,

$250 billion boondoggle without a foot of track laid, probably $250 billion wasted in various

government entitlement frauds administered by the state.

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