Ben Shapiro hosts a radio show that you would be able to hear on WLS-AM in the afternoons after Rush Limbaugh. He also owns the conservative website the Daily Wire, which he plans to move himself and his family and the 75 employees of Daily Wire to Nashville, Tennessee. [VIDEO]
As far as his five reasons lets go in order as Shapiro mentions them
- Quality of Life - he mentions specifically the issues of homelessness in Los Angeles and the city's unwillingness to address the issues.
- Taxes - paying high taxes to live in California a state that can't keep their streets clean or their parks safe. And here's a kicker a wealth tax that follows you for 10 years even if you left the state.
- Crime - could be related to homelessness, however, Shapiro makes reference to the unrest that occurred in his native Los Angeles and authorities lack of interesting in prosecuting anyone broke the law during that period.
- Bad policy making - while he makes note of how California is a horrible state to do business and the insanity of the school system in addition to the coronavirus lockdowns, I'm also just going to add this although he doesn't mention this.
- It's not getting better - To justify this vague reason, he notes that California is a one-party state. The Republican Party there hasn't held a majority in the state senate there since 1996. The current composition as of this video is 61 Dems to 17 Republicans. Also Shapiro notes out migration has been rising for seven consecutive years before the pandemic before the unrest.
To that past point, I probably should ask the question how did voting for an opposing party become so reprehensible that you'd be willing to vote for a party that consistently fails to really govern? Fail to address any issues that have proven to be very critical such as homelessness or crime.
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Most of Chicago and some (or most) suburbs (all within Cook County) have these same issues too. w(°ｏ°)w ☹️
As most conservatives would state, the blue states and cities of America have similar issues.
Until the Great Depression (1929-1933), competition existed locally, between between the Democratic and Republican parties. ಠಿ_ಠ
President Herbert Hoover (R, 1929-1933) ignored The Great Depression and Civil Rights. ತ_ತ
Thus, President Franklin Roosevelt (D, 1933-1945) won, but wasn't much better on Civil Rights. At the very least, people were eating and working again. ತ_ತ
Competition needs to return. The Democrats as represented by FDR and others exhibited strong leadership that's now missing these days. Especially in our major cities. Bad policies reign supreme unfortunately.
I'd like to see political competition return. ಠ_ಠ
North of Interstate 80, Republicans are disadvantaged because:
Mike Madigan draws the congressional maps,
Mike Madigan draws the state representatives' map (, which draws the state senators' map, because 2 state representatives' district = 1 state senator's district),
Pat Quinn's Cutback Amendment (1982)
Before 1982, a state house district contained 3 state representatives, either 2Ds and 1R *OR* 2Rs and 1D.
Starting in 1982, a state house district is 1 state representative.
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We had one good opportunity to change that in 2008 and the Unions didn't want voters to possibly fool with their public employee pensions. A constitutional convention in this state to do something about the cutback amendment. I feel if the time to swing back the pendulum is right that time is now!
Hi Levois. ��⊙﹏⊙
I don't think, the Cutback Amendment (1982) will ever be repealed. ☹️
Illinois' population loss is another factor, in Mike Madigan's maps. More population loss results in much bigger congressional, state representative and state senate districts. ☹️
Eddie, you may well be correct about the population loss. We'll see how that census turns out once it's completed. This state may well lose another congressional district.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners is another Democratic stronghold, obviously because Cook County has many Democrats. ಠ ೧ ಠ
Prior to 1994, Chicago elected 10 at large members (usually Democrat) and the suburbs elected 7 at large members (about 3 to 5 Republications). ಠ,_｣ಠ
Since 1994, we have 17 districts: Some suburban, some Chicago, some a blend of both. Democrats are majority with 15 seats, while Republicans have 2. ಠ﹏ಠ
I sense with that there was some court ruling that mandated that. Districts mainifest the idea of one person one vote. You're right about Cook County it's definitely a Dem stronghold that will be very difficult to break.
The Cook County
State's Attorney *,
Clerk,
Clerk of the Circuit Court,
Chief Judge
(elected by judges) *,
Sheriff *,
Treasurer,
Assessor
Board of Review
and ????
are all elected by us and (mostly) independent of the Cook County Board, with their own budgets.
* controlled by Toni Preckwinkle
The Cook County Commissioners and President control Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Botanic Garden, forest preserves andbthree hospitals: Stroger, Provident and Oak Forest. I'm not sure what else Cook County has jurisdiction over.
Yes, there was a court ruling.
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I think the Water Reclamation district is technically county not entirely sure about them though. I don't know if they have much jurisdiction beyond Cook County.
Water Reclamation District of Chicago is Cook County. You're correct. ಠಿ_ಠಿ
North Shore Reclamation District is Lake County, IL. ರ_ರ
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