Richard Grenell Group Looking to Reshape California Politics

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JACOB BLISS

8 Apr 202128

4:10

The former acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, is looking to reshape California’s political landscape and implement “permanent change” with his “Fix California” group.

Grenell’s group, “Fix California,” is said to be modeled after Stacey Abrams’ group “Fair Fight.” Which was proven to be highly successful in their voter registration and advocacy efforts leading up to the general election and the Senate runoff a few months ago. Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) also announced in February she will be starting a group to serve as a response to Abrams’ Fair Fight organization.

Grenell told Fox News his group’s efforts see beyond Newsom’s current recall effort. “What I’m consistently hearing from activists and donors is that after a year of our economy being shut down for political reasons and Zoom school, that people in California want permanent change,” he told Fox News.

Since the effort to recall Newsom is still ongoing, it is still uncertain if it will succeed and how long the overall process will take. If the recall for California’s current Governor is successful and a new Governor is elected, the person will only be in office briefly before the 2022 midterm elections.

Last month, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) took a poll of the school district’s parents, which showed over half of the parents want to send students back to school for hybrid in-school learning starting mid-April, based on early polling.

Grenell went on to tell Fox News the three main focuses of “Fix California” will be “suing counties in California to clean up their voter rolls, registering voters, and researching paths to expand school choice in the state.” He added, they will be going after the voters who are “frustrated ‘decline-to-state.'”

Grenell thinks one of the main ways that “Fix California” can drive the turnout in the polls for the midterm is using school choice as a significant issue. One of the major problems in California is the schools reopening. Teacher unions have been fighting to keep having online schools.

“Conservatives in California had largely stopped focusing on Democrats’ efforts to move the state far to the left about a decade ago, realizing they did not have the political capital to stop them,” Grenell said.

H added that “California Republicans would help GOP candidates in other states.” Now that the Democrats’ policies moved the future left and have made California “disastrous,” it could be possible that “Republicans would have a chance to win back California voters.”

The last time a Republican was Governor of California and won a statewide election was in 2006 when Arnold Schwarzenegger won his second term as Governor. Registering voters and moving to California would be a challenge today for anyone. In the 2020 election, voters in California overwhelmingly voted for President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump.

The coronavirus has played a huge role in California, showing voters what a “disastrous” job the Democrats have done in the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has closed the state for the last year, spelling the ruin of businesses that have been unable to survive.

“We’ve been waiting for the last 10 years for that moment to show the electorate that progressive policies are bad for the largest state in the union,” said Grenell. Coronavirus has turned up their timeline, leading “Republicans to point to the disastrous policies and blame the one-party control of the state – the Democrats.”

Grenell refused to tell Fox News whether he would run for Governor. According to Breitbart News’s Matthew Boyle, “sources familiar with the matter say Grenell is definitely considering a run for the governor’s mansion if a recall election is triggered.”

“I’m telling our donors when I meet with them that this is not a sexy, quick fix like one hyped-up statewide race,” Grenell said, looking for this process to be a long process that will, in the end, be a success. “This is a four-year campaign to fix California and to do the long-term reforms that we know we need.”

 

Caitlyn Jenner Explores Run for Governor of California

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WARNER TODD HUSTON

6 Apr 20216,312

2:36

Former TV reality star Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly exploring a run for California governor as sitting Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is buffeted by a recall effort.

Jenner has reportedly retained the services of Caroline Wren, a Republican fundraiser. According to Axios, Wren first met Jenner during their work with the American Unity Fund, a GOP nonprofit focusing on LGBT issues.

Wren also worked with President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.

While it isn’t clear who Republican voters and party bigwigs may gravitate toward if Newsom is successfully recalled, some reports have noted that Trump allies are looking to former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell to replace Newsom.

According to Breitbart News’s Matthew Boyle, “sources familiar with the matter say Grenell is definitely considering a run for the governor’s mansion if a recall election is triggered.”

Republicans are obviously hopeful as they have historical evidence that they could replace a recalled Democrat governor. In 2003, upset voters successfully recalled Democrat Gov. Gray Davis, who was later replaced by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger who ran for and won the office as a Republican.

Jenner first became a national figure during the 1976 Olympics by winning the decathlon. Under the birth name Bruce Jenner, the Olympian, ended up all over television and Wheaties boxes nationwide. Jenner won the gold in the 1975 Pan American Games as well as the 1976 Olympics.

But in 2015, Jenner made more news by transitioning to a woman and adopting the new name Caitlyn. In the meantime, though, Jenner was also a member of the TV reality show Keeping up with the Kardashians after having married family matriarch Kris Kardashian in 1991. Jenner and Kardashian had two daughters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

At least one big name Democrat has bowed out of challenging Newsom in any potential recall election. Billionaire left-wing mega-donor and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer decided last week against challenging Newsom in a likely upcoming recall election.

It is likely that Steyer decided against a run after a recent poll found that Newsom still has strong support among voters. Still, leaders of the recall petition effort say they have the necessary number of signatures to start the recall process.

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: facebook.com/Warner.Todd.Huston.

With Biden in the White House, President Trump predicted, China would “own the United States.” There’s also something to Trump’s charge that the Bidens are an “organized crime family.”

This is because despite all its declarations, the Democratic Party is not a party of workers. It, as Biden’s transition team attests, is a party of Wall Street, big banks, Amazon, and the military-industrial complex.

PERKS FOR PRICKS: Democratic Governors Embroiled in Monumental Vaccine Bribery Scandal, Journalism Reveals

Announced partnerships with CVS after pharmacy giant donated massive sums to Democrats

Andrew Stiles • April 6, 2021 2:15 pm

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Some of the most prominent Democratic governors in the country have partnered with CVS Pharmacy to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to their constituents, raising questions about political corruption and bribery at the top levels of the Democratic Party.

Why did these governors—Gavin Newsom of California, Andrew Cuomo of New York, and Ralph Northam of Virginia—choose CVS?

Campaign finance reports skillfully obtained and extensively reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that CVS donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party during the 2020 election cycle. CVS cofounder Stanley Goldstein, meanwhile, donated $3,000 to federal candidates—all Democrats—before retiring in 2006.

Why does it matter? According to CBS News: "Distributing vaccines is lucrative. Under federal guidelines, Publix, like any other private company, can charge Medicare $40 a shot to administer the vaccine."

A journalistic analysis of the finance reports conclusively demonstrated that CVS donated $31,000 to Newsom's campaign on Oct. 14, 2020, less than four months before the pharmacy announced a partnership with the California Department of Health. The pharmacy giant also donated $10,000 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of the most influential Democrats in Congress, who just happens to represent a district in California.

The analysis also determined that CVS donated $12,000 to Northam between 2017 and 2018, and contributed $20,000 to the Commonwealth Victory Fund on Dec. 17, 2020, just weeks before Northam announced the vaccine partnership with the pharmacy. A subsequent Google search revealed that the Commonwealth Victory Fund is the primary fundraising arm of the Virginia General Assembly's Democratic Caucus.

Additional analysis concluded that CVS donated a whopping $170,000 in 2020 to the Democratic Party in New York, the same state where Cuomo serves as governor. The corporation donated $10,000 to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, and gave an additional $10,000 to Schumer's political action committee.

The CVS influence campaign did not stop there. The company sought to curry favor at the national level by contributing $30,000 each to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Most disturbingly of all, CVS employees donated a staggering $450,595 to Joe Biden's presidential campaign, according to federal documents extracted and decoded by the Free Beacon.

CVS did not respond to our request for comment about its deplorable campaign to boost its profits by bribing Democrats.