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 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, Javier, Havio Bicera, Anthony de Villa Gerasaa, 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 LA 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 depart. Those are 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.

I could go on and on, but when Spencer Pratt tried to mention these things and ask them why you did this or what, they don't want to talk about it.

They don't want to talk about because for 20 years, they've had a super majority in the legislature in both the Senate and the Assembly.

And it's been 20 years, 30 years, 20 years since a Republican governor, so it's all the judiciary, both the federal judiciary under Biden and Obama's nominees, but mostly the state,

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