Hello everybody.

As part of my campaign to burn the old playbook of campaigning I would like
to emphasize the fact that I want to advocate job creation. Without job
creation we will not get the tax revenue needed to fund the public services
we value. Unfortunately if we elect Republicans to our state legislature in
Sacramento they will want to focus on red meat issues of undoing LGBT civil
rights laws and having Arizona and Alabama styled laws on illegal
immigrants instead, as demonstrated in various states in our nation.

Even if Democratic Party legislators steal from clothing stores, voters are
not going to trust our party unless we change our tone and bring the real
priorities first of job creation and help our state go from 49th in job
creation to hopefully 25th in job creation.

How will targeting illegals help, when average Americans do not want to
work the agricultural fields even if people were paid nine bucks a hour
plus bonuses for picking more fruits than the hourly quota? We should
target the employers who were violating the law instead.Agricultural fields
are going fallow in Alabama and other states in the south due to their
regulations which cost farmers big money. Immigration policies are a
federal responsibility, but there are implications for the wrong types of
regulation. We need an earned guest worker program where three or four
years on the farms would earn an immigrant a green card and if they serve
an extra two years for a total of five or six years they can bring their
spouse and family over.

2010 led to Republicans gaining power in states such as Michigan and
Minnesota, but instead of fixing budget problems they decided to put a
marriage amendment on the ballot in Minnesota even though their majority
leader was cheating on her spouse, and Michigan decided to eliminate
domestic partner benefits for their public employees which will lead to
many of their best and brightest to flee the state and maybe become
employees in California and New York instead.

I agree with legislators such as Bob Dutton that we need a severe focus on
making California safe to establish a business instead of being the biggest
exporters of employers since California Democrats regulate anything that
moves. However the future minority leader Bob Huff will want to undo the
school safety legislation that was passed almost a decade ago to make
schools less of a mine field for LGBT students and that will expend most of
his energies. Until the state party passes a new platform that is
inclusive, Democrats will own Sacramento until California rusts from its
former golden luster.

Matt


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