An Open Letter to Governor Gavin Newsom 5\/20\/19:
Governor Newsom,
The boxes are filled. The bags are packed. The hearts are breaking.
My family is about to be divided, separated, perhaps forever. I wish you cared.
Our wonderful daughter, along with her husband and their two young children has given up on life in California. The only place they\u2019ve ever called home has become intolerable for them. They\u2019ve found a new home in a southern state, far away from here, in the real America.
I\u2019ve heard the story innumerable times- people leaving, or wanting to leave, what was once the paradise of the West Coast. Not so long ago, kids could walk down to the corner store, or to school, without their parents worrying about their safe return. No more.
You once could visit a neighborhood park, and not fear for your life. No more.
Walking across the street did not require careful examination of the pavement to avoid feces or used hypodermic needles. Now it does.
Illnesses are again being seen in this state that had been rare or non-existent until recently. Typhus, Tuberculosis, Mumps, Measles, Hepatitis A, B, and C are all here again. A worker on the upper floors at L.A. City Hall recently came down with typhus, spread by rats living in the disgusting conditions around the Civic Center.
But you\u2019re concerned that I might ask for a plastic straw.
Your priorities for managing this state are crystal clear, and the middle class is nowhere near the top of the list. I learned in Civics class years ago that the primary job of government is to keep the people safe. What happened? When did our safety and well-being fall off the radar? Not too long ago, my daughter had her new vehicle stolen from her driveway, in the short time it took her to walk the kids to school. Someone was watching, waiting for them to leave. It gives me chills just thinking about it.
You release violent criminals back onto our streets to terrorize our communities, you proudly remove the death-penalty as an option, sending a friendly message to the worst of the worst, and you handcuff our law-enforcement officers, challenging their every move. Officers now must take an extra moment, perhaps just a second, questioning their training and best judgment, before using any amount of force to apprehend a violent criminal. When this results in another dead cop, and it will, the blood will be on your hands, sir.
A few weeks ago, we watched on television as a violent felon led police on a three-hour pursuit, destroying property and narrowly missing pedestrians and other vehicles. We saw him brutally beat his female passenger while driving close to 100 mph. Then last week, a murder suspect shot at police out the window of the car he was being pursued in. It\u2019s a miracle nobody was killed. Turns out, both suspects were free on \u201cearly release\u201d through AB-109, that you and other politicians (who all live behind walls, with armed security) forced upon us in the name of compassion. Where\u2019s your compassion for law-abiding citizens, Mr. Governor?
And don\u2019t get me started on taxes and regulations. The amount of money taken from us by this state is criminal. Just living here is expensive enough, but imagine trying to run a business and stay afloat. We have the highest gas prices\/taxes in the country, and still our roads are a mess. I recently hit a pothole and the damage to my car was over $1000. We pay you enormous sums to manage the state\u2019s affairs, yet people by the thousands sleep on our streets at night. Homeless encampments are everywhere, in neighborhoods we never imagined they\u2019d be. And still, you want more. There\u2019s a move now to weaken Prop. 13. No doubt it will pass. And I just read that you want to tax online sales now, too. Along with proposals to tax water, telephones, dairy products, fertilizers, health care, and more. But taxing those things will not affect the \u201csuper rich 1%\u201d. They\u2019re just more hits on the middle class. You Sacramento politicians have an insatiable addiction to other people\u2019s money. But many citizens have had enough and are walking away.
Which brings me back to my family.
They\u2019re closing their business here. You\u2019ll get no more of their hard-earned money. They\u2019ve purchased a home in their new state, big enough for the four of them and a dog or two. Maybe even a horse. The kids will get a great education. They\u2019ll be able to leave a window open at night, knowing that the criminals are the ones who are afraid- afraid of the police, afraid of the courts, and afraid of the citizens who exercise their right to defend themselves. Oh, and gas there is about $2 a gallon.
Somehow, they\u2019ll have to survive without a Fantasy Train to nowhere, but I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll find a way to get by.
Meanwhile, your tax base shrinks and Atlas shrugs. Soon the only people left here will be the very rich and the very poor. It\u2019s almost as if you planned it that way.
And now, my family is broken. As are countless others. No more school plays, no more little league games. No more weekend breakfasts at IHOP or Thanksgiving dinners. I\u2019ll happily burn a ton of fossil fuel to go visit them at their new home as often as I can. But, I won\u2019t be there as an instant babysitter when needed on short notice, and I\u2019ll actually notice their growth from visit to visit. I\u2019ll pray every night for their safety and happiness in the years to come. And I\u2019ll cry that I can\u2019t hold them tight. I\u2019m angry as hell, and I miss them desperately already.
But they\u2019ll get no going away card from you and no apologies. You simply don\u2019t care.
Name withheld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Open Letter to Governor Gavin Newsom 5\/20\/19:Governor Newsom,The boxes are filled. The bags are packed. The hearts are breaking.My family is about to be divided, separated, perhaps forever. I wish you cared.Our wonderful daughter, along with her husband and their two young children has given up on life in California. The only place they\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24,28,29,30,31,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrat-fraud","category-illegal-immigration","category-left-leaning-california","category-looney-left","category-national-security","category-obama-crap","category-open-border-clinton","category-open-border-idiots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}