Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson died from a treatable illness, despite living just three houses down from an emergency room.Ī Kansas man dies from a treatable illness while waiting three days for an ICU bed.īut Fox is going to tell us that none of this is happening. Louisiana with patients lined up in the hallways because of a lack of beds, and the chief medical officer at one of their hospitals saying non-covid patients are being severely impacted.ĭallas county with 0 ICU beds for children: "Your child will wait for another child to die." Mississippi putting COVID patients in a field hospital in a parking garage because they don't have any more ICU space. Idaho hospitals on the verge of collapse from COVID cases as covered by Rachel Maddow.
Here are just a few of the incidents of this very thing happening across the country that we've covered here at C&L. There's really no reason for - or there's no real practical public health reason at this point to mandate that all American get vaccinated, or all American workers get vaccinated. The delta may retreat, you know, just as it exhausts, you know, the potential targets. But using the state’s systemic problems to make a point about inept legislators - and Democratic ones only, please - doesn’t advance the conversation already underway in California about meaningfully addressing our deep problems.Īnd a joke about Birkenstocks in the biography? Only the most curmudgeonly of California’s conservatives would laugh at that one.But for the most part, 75 percent of Americans or who are eligible have already decided voluntarily to get vaccinated. In a year conservatives started out ahead, Republicans offered two candidates who had little more going for them than personal wealth.įinley touches on several worthy points, including California’s crushing unfunded pension liability and the state’s byzantine system of regulatory boards and commissions. Whitman’s prodigious spending stood in stark contrast to Brown’s more humble operation, and Fiorina couldn’t shake her reputation as a failed Silicon Valley CEO who fired thousands of employees. Finley serves as a member of the Journal's Editorial Board, and she began her journey with the newspaper in 2009 it has been more than a decade since Allysia became a part of The Wall Street Journal. But you gave us Whitman and Carly Fiorina, each of whom ran against more seasoned (and arguably more electable) Republican opponents in their respective primaries. Allysia Finley is an editorial board member of The Wall Street Journal, an international daily newspaper based in New York City. We have no problem electing Republicans to high posts, even privately wealthy ones with almost no government experience. Which brings me to my larger point, one that I’ll relate as a note to Finley, just as she does with us Californians: It isn’t us it’s you. You could say Oropeza’s reelection says less about the Democrats who elected her and more about the Republican she was up against. Oropeza represented an overwhelmingly Democratic district, one in which, like almost all in California, the challenging party almost never has a chance. Jenny Oropeza, who passed away two weeks before the election, is shamelessly glib. And her dead legislator point about state Sen. But Californians also passed Proposition 20, the redistricting measure that promises to make incumbent victories rarer in the future. Regarding Finley’s point about incumbent state legislators, she’s right as far as she goes. The point has been brought up enough times - mainly in response to Meg Whitman’s and other conservatives’ efforts to misrepresent Brown’s record - that you’d figure his critics would have quit typecasting him as the liberal pariah who brought down the California empire.įinley’s Newsom dig is even more off-base, considering his largely ceremonial role as lieutenant governor involves infinitely less than ‘helping enforce wacky laws.’ In Miami and the rest of Florida, Farmers is pulling back on some policy sales because of high inflation, severe weather and reconstruction costs. But to trump up this fact as indicative of California’s collective insanity ignores Brown’s more mixed record as governor, including his enthusiastic implementation of Proposition 13, which won him the support of anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis. Yes, he signed legislation giving public employees the right to unionize.
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On the plus side, he has nice hair and loves you just the way you are. Gov-elect Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco mayor who flouted state law by allowing same-sex marriage.
Helping enforce your wacky laws will be Lt. This is the man who acted as a gateway drug to your spending addiction three decades ago when he gave public-sector employees collective bargaining rights. Jerry Brown will be your new (old) governor.
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