California Levin’— Part 3 of 3 parts

Republicans Vote Themselves a Raise

By Robin Itzler, Part I, Part II

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In this three-part series, we share examples of California Republican “leaders” failing the America First agenda. Part one was about the California Republican Party’s recently elected chairwoman Corrin Rankin approving without board approval hiring her opera singer friend to sing The Star-Spangled Banner for an outrageous $10,000 at the September convention.

Part 2 focused on six GOP lawmakers from around the state who don’t know the difference between legal and illegal immigrants. Part 3 takes place in Orange County (once the most conservative county in the country and today purple thanks to Republicans moving out and many remaining elected Republicans having jellyfish spines). The Orange County Board of Supervisors (OCBOS) discreetly voted itself a hefty 25 percent salary increase. The five-member OCBOS has three Democrats and two Republicans. Democrat Katrinia Foley is up for re-election this year, so it made “cents” for her to vote “no” to avoid giving her opponents another talking point about her radical leftist views.

With Democrat Foley voting it down, the two Republican supervisors had an outstanding opportunity to stop this wasteful $49,000 per supervisor expenditure. To quote John Belushi from Saturday Night Live (when the show was funny), “But Nooooo!” Instead, Republican Supervisors Janet Nguyen and Donald Wagner voted yes to give themselves an enormous raise!

Following the public outcry the two Democrats who voted yes promised to donate their raise, which really means that Democrat Supervisors Vicente Sarmiento and Doug Chaffee are donating OUR tax dollars. Sarmiento plans to donate his entire $49,000 raise (OUR tax dollars) to help illegal aliens pay legal fees in immigration courts. What joy! Chaffee will give his raise (OUR tax dollars) to a University of Redlands scholarship fund for students studying environmental studies. More joy!

Democrat policies in California provide the hammers that are building a third-world state with some Republican “leaders” providing the nails.

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