Joseph Farah sounds off on ‘genuinely insane’ move in Golden State.
State Sen. Leland Yee
Ronald Reagan once quipped: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. It left me.”
The same is true for me about California.
I did leave, of course, after more than 20 years of living and working there. But only because California had already left me – me and my values, me and my common sense, me and my sense of right and wrong.
I’ve never really looked back or second-guessed that decision. It was one of the best choices I made in life. Don’t get me wrong. I loved California. Many of my friends still think I live there. I run into people all the time who still think I live there – 15 years after my exodus.
Here’s a vivid illustration of how crazy, genuinely insane, California has become.
In last Tuesday’s primary election, 287,000 Californians cast votes for suspended Sen. Leland Yee to become the state’s chief elections officer. Yee was indicted earlier this year on federal charges of political corruption, gun-running, money-laundering and other crimes financed by payoffs from undercover agents.
I know, California is a big state. So what’s a mere 287,000 votes? It represents 10 percent of the votes cast for that office and more than five other secretary of state candidates who had not been indicted – yet anyway.
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