Campaigning in California
Hello, I hope that your summer is going great!
I’ve spent the past month or so campaigning in California. People love it here. But there are consistent concerns. Some have left the state because of housing costs. Folks have to commute for hours to get to work. Families are afraid to go to certain neighborhoods because of homeless people struggling with drug addiction. Cars are routinely broken into in San Francisco. Public schools are underperforming. It’s expensive and getting harder to justify.
How will these problems turn around? One thing that could help is real competition and choice in our politics.
California is a state where Democrats run just about everything – 75% of state legislators are Democrats. In most of the state, there isn’t any question as to which party is going to win. Special interests know what they need to do.
Yet even Democrats I talk to are getting fed up and frustrated, much less Independents and Republicans. It’s more and more the people vs. the machine.
If this sounds like you, here is our way forward – change your party registration to Common Sense Party of California, who we are partnered with here in CA.
It’s easy to do, and thanks to the California top two primary system it doesn’t affect your ability to vote in anything but the presidential primaries (which are unlikely to be meaningful in CA).
After we get to 73,000 registrants, Common Sense will be a recognized party in California and will be able to support candidates at every level. You even get a membership card from the Secretary of State. It’s the pragmatic party most Californians want to see in office and a break from the machine.
This is how to make it clear to the political class that you want real change, and that you’re not going to settle for politics as usual where the money keeps flowing but the problems don’t get solved.
Common Sense in politics in CA? It’s within our grasp if enough of us simply choose it. Register today and let’s make it happen!
I’ll be in San Diego on Saturday if you or friends are in the area. Let’s move CA Forward with Common Sense! See you soon,
