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  1. Shellenberger is intelligent, articulate, and well-informed about the important issues, while Newsom is unspeakably disastrous. Boudin (if anything, even more odious than Gavin himself) is likelier than not to survive, as is LA’s Gascon (who will perhaps be on the ballot to be recalled in November); meanwhile, a supporter of BLM (Richardson) is running for mayor of Long Beach. No rational person should expect any good results from the no-longer-Golden-State.

  2. I like Shellenberger. His views on climate change are very close to mine. He ought to win since he’s being very thoughtful and understands the complaints/problems of the people of California. Sadly, I don’t think he has a chance. I’m convinced the elections in California are rigged. It’s an authoritarian state and has been for some time now. I hope the voters in California prove me wrong. We’ll see.

  3. I’ve heard Shellenberger several times on Tucker Carlson. He does not sound at all like a Democrat. At best, (or worst, depending on your point of view) he sounds red-pilled. All of which is to say California should be so lucky as to elect him to replace Gavin Newsom. I expect Newsom will have an unliminted war chest and lots of other “grey” support. Which makes me wonder, short of him being elected President, how CA will get rid of him.

  4. The dems have CA all locked up; no matter how poorly they run that ship, they will get re-elected.
    Think NYC or Baltimore or Chicago; there is no level of incompetence and ineptitude that will cause the voters to toss out the incumbents , or at best, just replace them with others equally inept and equally of the left.

    When you have the billionaires of Silicon Valley tossing out gigantic sums of money for their favorite liberal progressive candidates, they could literally have one of their pet dogs elected as gov or for any elected position in CA

    The ONLY hope for CA is for several / most of the counties in CA to separate themselves from the coastal counties and form a new state.
    Of course, this will never happen so the status quo in CA will be retained.

  5. Two conservative friends will vote for Shellenberger. And me too, so that’s three.
    (Mr Dahle seems a decent guy and blessings on him for running this hopeless race.)
    I was surprised that the 3 of us independently came to the same conclusion.
    Perhaps there are hidden, not necessarily benign, forces at work …

  6. I also voted for Shellenberger even though I’m still somewhat skeptical of him. I’m all in favor of changers being one myself but his conversion seems awfully recent. However the CA Republican Party is virtually a zombie entity at this point so it may take an outside-the-box candidate like Shellenberger to upset the narrative. He would definitely be more of a curveball to Newsom.

  7. Those voting for Newsome, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and the rest of the democrats on the ballot think themselves in the right.

    “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” Proverbs 14:12

    In refusing to acknowledge their thinking to be responsible for the grim results is where they condemn themselves.

  8. I voted for Shellenberger because, as far as I can tell, he is to the right of Newsom and, of those to the right of Newsom, I think he has the best chance of beating him.

    If some actual Republican running for California governor had appeared to be both (i) DeSantisian or Trumpian, and (ii) publicly known, I would have voted for that person.

    Two of my friends also voted for Shellenberger. So, counting JimNorCal and his 2 friends, Shellenberger has SIX votes.

  9. Shellenberger has/had no chance – it’s a two party system. (notwithstanding Perot & Ventura)
    The Libertarian Party seems to have disappeared for this primary. (I’ve given up on Third Parties, despite better ideas.)

    BUT, he could pull a Trump and become a (bigger hearted?) Republican and run for US Senate in 2024, or again for governor next time (2026; 4 years is not that far away) or both. Maybe Elon Musk is also prepping for something like this.

    The political tribes are getting more polarized, and tribal, by design.

  10. Knew several Weathermen sympathizers in high school and college. Rats, the lot of them. The USA would be a better place if Nixon did what the leftists claimed he was going to do to Chesa’s parents and foster parents in the 60s or 70s.

    Harsh judgement, but that is my conclusion.

  11. More like what the argentines did in the 70s some of them got away like gelman* the kirshners were associates shes back like a rash like hillary on hgh as vp

    *counterpart to mark rudd

  12. THE REAL SOLUTION is to contain the corrupt California Plan by Democrats to spread the State Unions Californication elsewhere. Stanch the infection and FORCE people to vote with their feet: MX buys her back by paying her federal welfare claims for the next 80 years, miunus US payments for certain naval and Air Force bases to use through the same period

    The next President (Trump or DeSantis) must offer California to Mexico. START this debate in plain, honest terms.

    Then the rest of the US will be forced to confront the Corruptocrats One-Party future, forever — and reject Californication tout court, or else embrace its piecemeal advance, abolishing any pro-capitalist and individualist American future.

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