{"id":71379,"date":"2017-04-10T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71379"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:53:00","slug":"because-california-isnt-liberal-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71379","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;because California isn&#8217;t liberal enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-ca-republican-orange-county-targets-20170409-story.html\">LA Times<\/a> reports that Democrats are encouraging other liberals to move to Orange County, so that they can take over representation of the bastion of conservatism, you know, because California doesn&#8217;t have enough Democrat-controlled areas;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is aiming to defeat seven California Republicans who represent congressional districts where Hillary Clinton beat President Donald Trump \u2014 including a cluster of seats in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will send staffers in charge of overseeing House races in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington to work out of an Irvine office in an effort to make inroads in Republican strongholds that have traditionally been sure bets for the GOP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess they figure that actually representing the opinions of the constituency takes a back seat to power.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Fred Smoller, a political science professor at Chapman University in Orange County] said the staffing move to California also has the benefit of showing potential donors and supporters, including a newly energized base that has been protesting several GOP members of Congress, that Democrats are being aggressive as 2018 approaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are trying to convince people that they can win,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Winning is more important than the voice of the People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times reports that Democrats are encouraging other liberals to move to Orange County, so &hellip; <a title=\"&#8230;because California isn&#8217;t liberal enough\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71379\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;because California isn&#8217;t liberal enough<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}