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    'We will rise to the occasion because there is no one else': California Democrats gat

    'We will rise to the occasion because there is no one else': California Democrats gather to strategize in wake of Trump win


    Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, who is campaigning to be the next Democratic National Committee chair, tells
    California party leaders in San Diego on Saturday that Donald Trump was elected president because of poor
    Democratic turnout. (Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times)

    November 20, 2016 REPORTING FROM SAN DIEGO

    With a gloom hanging over them after the election of Donald Trump, leaders of the California Democratic Party this weekend began plotting how to combat the policies of the incoming Republican president, discussing how to reach out to the millions of disaffected voters who supported the president-elect.

    The two-day strategy session, held by the party’s executive committee near Mission Bay, was part therapy session and part pep rally. Democrats commiserated about the implications of the GOP controlling the White House and Congress, but also celebrated an election that handed the Democrats a near iron grip on California.

    Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, who is campaigning to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told a packed hotel ballroom of hundreds of party loyalists that the grassroots activism that turned California solidly blue needs to be replicated in every county across the nation.
    “We lost this election for three reasons: turnout, turnout and turnout,” Ellison said. “We’re not seeing some sort of electrification of the conservative voter. We are not getting our people out to vote.”

    Some of the state’s most influential Democrats criticized the party for failing to recognize the economic despair felt by Trump supporters across the U.S., including in pockets of inland California. Others insisted the party strayed too far from its liberal base, losing young voters and other progressives who put President Obama into the White House.

    Environmental activist Tom Steyer, a San Francisco hedge fund billionaire who had been thinking about a 2018 run for governor, said he may now forgo that opportunity because of the threats posed by the Trump administration against efforts to combat climate change, protect immigrants and other Democratic policies that reflect “California values.”

    Instead, he said, he may plow his efforts into protecting California laws to reduce carbon emissions and working to expand the state’s progressive policies across the nation.

    “Donald Trump’s election was a shocking mistake of historical proportions. His dangerous ideas and policies threaten the freedom, the safety and the prosperity of every American,” Steyer said. “This is our moment. We will rise to the occasion because there is no one else.”

    Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who announced a bid for governor just after the Nov. 8 election, said many voters in the Rust Belt and America’s heartland — as well as in California’s Central Valley and northern areas — flocked to Trump because they felt bypassed by the new economy and overlooked by leaders in Washington and Sacramento.

    Throughout most of the day, party leaders tried their best to highlight the significant gains made by Democrats in California in the election. Democrats secured a supermajority in the Assembly and are on the verge of doing the same in the state Senate, which would give them the political power to raise taxes and send proposals to the ballot without Republican support.

    Dana Dean, president of the Solano County Board of Education, said Democrats made history this election. Not only did the Democrats select the first woman ever to be the presidential nominee of a major political party, but Hillary Clinton also won the popular vote, she said. .

    “It’s OK to take a moment and say, ‘Whoa, that hurt,’” Dean said. “But we also have to realize all that we accomplished.”

    Among the California Democratic Party leadership, there were strident calls for action to block or undercut Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and set aside environmental protections.

    Eric Bauman, chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, called on Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Legislature to “scrub” the state Constitution, laws and statutes to find any legal means available to “to protect every Californian” against new conservative policies of the Trump administration.

    Bauman, who is running to be the next state party chairman, said that California Democrats must do everything they can to protect abortion rights, same-sex marriage and “healthcare for every child, documented or not.”

    Kimberly Ellis of San Francisco, who also is in the running to be the next party chair, dismissed the concerns that the party did not do enough nationally to appeal to voters won over by Trump, saying “that’s not the solution to our long-term problem.”

    Ellis, executive director of Emerge California, an organization dedicated to increasing the number of Democratic women in elected office, said that instead the party should focus on addressing groups she said are threatened the most by a Trump administration: women, people of color, Muslims, the LGBT community and young voters.

    “The Democratic Party, here in California and across the nation, has a lot of work to do,” Ellis said.

    http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-p...120-story.html

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    Go "rise to the occasion" on YOUR soil with YOUR President!

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    lol they still can't figure it out a lot of democrats voted for Trump. They walk around like a bunch of fools and have no idea what hit them! Just shows us how out of touch they are.

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    But I will add, part of the problem in California besides this poor west coast state of ours being overwhelmed if not taken over by illegal immigration is the Republican Party needs to be more active on our economic issues. If Trump had campaigned in California and held 7 or 8 huge rallies from north to south, I think he would won California. I don't think he even advertised in California.

    As Republicans, we must work every state. For Trump it was a little different because he was largely funding his own campaign and trying to do what he does, score the best win possible at the lowest possible cost. But between now and the midterms we need to market in California so we can do better in all races both in the midterms as well as the next general election.

    Republicans also need to scale back the focus on personal social issues like gay marriage and abortion. These "platforms" don't speak for the whole party, they don't speak for me or my family. Trump lost all votes of my family in Northern Virginia on the abortion and Planned Parenthood issues alone. These are Republicans, lifetime Republicans, from a family of Republicans who have been Republican since there were Republicans. One is pro-life in her personal view but doesn't want to force that on someone else so is pro-choice. Her daughter is pro-choice, her son is pro-choice and her husband who is from an Irish Catholic family is ... pro-choice. Even though I'm pro-choice, I decided to set that aside to stand by Trump on the economic issues. But a lot of people won't do that. My family is thrilled that Trump won now that they see his economic policies already working, stock market, companies reversing relocation decisions, interest rates rising, advertising companies realizing they've had it all wrong, and positive talk about Trump's infrastructure program. But out of 5 Republicans, Trump only got me, Hillary got the other 4, over 1 issue that was decided by the US Supreme Court over 40 years ago.

    We need to change the platform and go neutral on abortion and gay rights issues, because they've been decided, they're settled law of the United States. We don't want to win just by the Electoral College, we want to win both the EC and the popular vote. That needs to be our goal and we need to achieve that goal, and that means winning California and New York.
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    We just need to enforce our immigration laws!

    It's the illegals that keep the Democrats in control of the state.

    That's why every thing they do is pandering to the illegal aliens as they know without this voting bloc
    they will lose power.

    Jerry Brown issued licenses to the illegals specifically so they can vote.

    And yes all the illegals vote in California

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    California Allows Non-Citizens to Vote, Which is Illegal, So Every California Vote should be Disqualified



    8 months ago

    The official number of illegal aliens in the state of California is nearly 3 million. We can estimate the number to be more than double this amount in reality.
    Over half of all drivers license issued in California were given to individuals who are here illegally and the state automatically registers those with a driver’s license to vote.

    In 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) signed a bill giving full voting rights to illegal aliens. This gives them the right to vote in all elections from a local level to national elections, including that of choosing who will become President.

    The biggest problem with this is it is against Federal law for non-citizens to vote in any national election. This in itself negates the votes made by illegal aliens in California and any other state which allows them to vote.

    According to the law in California, which gives Illegal aliens the right to vote along with the Federal law that prohibits them from participating in national elections, we must conclude that all votes cast in California for President of the United States be considered null and void. What this means is the state of California’s votes, both in the upcoming primaries and the general election, have to be disqualified.

    In all fairness to the candidates running for president, and abiding by Federal law, the Federal government simply must prohibit California votes from counting until which time the state can prove that no illegal alien vote was cast in national elections.

    The state has the right to permit them to vote in local and state elections if they choose, but not in national elections. Since the sheer number of illegal aliens voting in California is astounding and is more than likely double that of legal citizens voting, the tally from the primaries must be held up and no delegates awarded.

    What we have here in disqualifying California from national elections is, aside from it being against Federal law to allow non citizens to vote, would be keeping people who have no right to be here in the first place from influencing the outcome of elections nationally. The simple fact that they are here in this country illegally supersedes them from having any rights as legal citizens in making decisions as to who runs our country.

    No country in the world allows individuals who are non citizens to vote in any election.
    It is time the US abides by the constitutional laws of the land or become a nation of chaos where we pick and choose what laws we will obey and disregard the ones we happen not to agree with.

    The moral issue is we must stand as a nation of values based on what makes us unique to the rest of the world and refuse to degrade our country to the substandard level socialist politicians wish to sink us to.

    If the law is adhered to, the California votes must be ignored.

    http://eaglerising.com/31596/califor...-disqualified/

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    Jerry Brown Signs Bill That Could Let Illegal Aliens Vote

    Jerry Brown Signs Bill That Could Let Illegal Aliens Vote



    12 Oct 2015


    On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1461, the New Motor Voter Act, which will automatically register people to vote through the DMV, and could result in illegal aliens voting.

    Any person who renewed or secured a driver’s license through the DMV may now register to vote, or choose to opt out of doing so. Because illegal immigrants are now eligible for obtaining driver’s licenses, they could be allowed to vote in elections if the Secretary of State’s office fails to verify their eligibility properly.

    Brown and the California Democratic party know exactly what they are doing; as a Public Policy Institute survey showed, among unregistered adults, 49% lean toward the Democratic Party and 22% toward the Republican Party. Any bill permitting illegal immigrants to vote would cement the Democratic Party’s hold on California.

    True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht stated, “This bill is terrible. It makes an already bad situation much, much worse,” adding that California’s registration databases “lack the necessary safeguards to keep noncitizens off the voter rolls.”

    Election Integrity Project of California President Linda Paine echoed that AB 1461 “will effectively change the form of governance in California from a Republic whose elected officials are determined by United States citizens and will guarantee that noncitizens will participate in all California elections going forward.” The

    Election Integrity Project of California had joined True the Vote to demand that brown veto the bill, calling it a path to “‘state sanctioned’ voter fraud.”

    Although noncitizens’ driver’s licenses in California feature the phrases “Federal Limits Apply” and “not valid for official federal purposes,” True the Vote spokesman Logan Churchwell pointed out that state officials “specifically chose not to make noncitizen license holders searchable in their DMV database.”

    California Secretary of State Alex Padilla countered that the increase in voters will benefit the state, arguing, “The New Motor Voter Act will make our democracy stronger by removing a key barrier to voting for millions of California citizens. Citizens should not be required to opt in to their fundamental right to vote. We do not have to opt in to other rights, such as free speech or due process.”

    California follows Oregon, where Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill in March allowing the automatic registration of all eligible Oregonians to vote when they obtain or renew a driver’s license or state identification card.

    But Stephen Frank of California Political Review bluntly asserted that the bill will reduce voter turnout because voters will sniff fraud in the polls: “AB 1461 assures corruption of our elections–our elections will look like those of Mexico and other corrupt nations–and honest people will stop voting since illegal aliens will out vote them.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/california/...l-aliens-vote/

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    Disgusting. Our ancestors are rolling over in their graves. It's treason is what it is.
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