If you think your vote doesn’t matter, take a look at the tragic results in the Montgomery County Democratic primary for County Executive after the third and final recount last week:
David Blair: 55,472
Marc Elrich: 55,504.
A 32 vote difference out of 100,000 votes.
If the name Marc Elrich, by the way, sounds familiar, it may be because he is the county executive who refused to give police protection to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he and his family received death threats from abortion protesters gathered outside his home. Here was the WSJ headline:
Why Marc Elrich Won’t Protect Supreme Court Justices
2) New Rules In California: You Can Charge Your EV, But You Can’t Use Air Conditioning Or Appliances
The government-induced energy crisis persists and is even getting worse. More brownouts reported in San Diego in recent days.
Here’s where the story gets interesting. Last week poor Gavin Newsom – California’s Governor – became a national laughing stock when only a few days after he announced all cars bought and sold in CA after 2035 must be electric battery cars, he had to issue an order rationing electricity and asking residents “to avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles” from 4-9 pm.
But now all of a sudden in this week’s dictates from the Clean Power Alliance, the government-run utility in Los Angeles County, the rules have mysteriously changed. You can see from the notice to LA customers below there is no mention of cutting back on charging EVs!
So California power regulators don’t want you to air-condition your home, use washers and dryers, or vacuum cleaners, but no restrictions on electric car charging. We don’t have evidence of this, but we suspect that this order came down from the governor’s high command so that Greg Guttfeld and other late-night comics would stop making fun of him.
But Newsom just can’t help stop with the unforced errors.
In this video, Newsom seems to be breaking his own rules on setting the thermostat at 80 during the heat wave. Notice he’s wearing a fleece jacket while urging residents to conserve energy.
3) And Yet The Biden Administration Is Praising The California Energy Policies As A Model For The Nation
This is not a joke. We promise.
The Biden administration actually sent its energy secretary Jennifer Granholm to California last week for a media tour during the state's acute energy crisis. Some of Granholm's remarkable comments:
"California is in the lead and can show the rest of the nation how it is done."
"I love the fact that California is unabashedly bold about energy policy … it's the canary in the coal mine.”
Apparently, nobody told Jennifer that the canary died.
First, ultra-liberal San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly in June to recall Chesa Boudin. Now deep-blue Boston, a city where Biden won 81% of the vote, has done the same.
Kevin Hayden was appointed by Republican Governor Baker to fill the vacant district attorney’s office. While a Democrat, Hayden moved against violent crime, especially unsolved shootings that he calls “drive cycles of violence.”
Progressives tapped Ricardo Arroyo to run against Hayden. Arroyo was endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on a platform that included a “do not charge” list of offenses, an end to mandatory minimum sentences, and the elimination of cash bail for nonviolent offenses.
Hayden won a clear eight-point victory proving that even in liberal Bean Town, residents want a return to old-fashioned crime fighting.
