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Paul Chabot is a native Californian who stood for Congress last year as a Republican, in a district near Los Angeles. After his defeat, he decided the only option was to move to Texas.

“California’s become a lost cause,” he said. “I was born and raised there when it was a Republican state. Ronald Reagan was from there, Nixon was from there, we had great schools back in the 70s and 80s, low crime, great paying jobs. Now it’s a 180, it’s a complete opposite of that.

“I lost to a very liberal Democrat that the people elected and I came to the conclusion that you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves. That really was the end of it for us in California. We realised then that the majority of the people around us no longer shared the same values that my wife and I believe in.”

Chabot, his wife Brenda and their four young children relocated to Collin County, which covers some of the most affluent and manicured suburbs of Dallas and where a four-bed home can be yours for under $350,000. And all 38 elected officials, from the sheriff to the district attorney to the tax assessor-collector, are Republicans.

“In California we always jokingly said, ‘If this state goes to hell we’ll end up moving to Texas.’ And a lot of people say it and some people actually do it,” Chabot said.

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Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Not bad as long as the CA refugees vote like conservatives.
 
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And if we actually trade off our liberals on at least a one for one basis. I'm a generous person and would be willing to give them 100 of our GDCs for each of their conservatives.
 
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“California’s become a lost cause,” he said. “I was born and raised there when it was a Republican state. Ronald Reagan was from there, Nixon was from there, we had great schools back in the 70s and 80s, low crime, great paying jobs. Now it’s a 180, it’s a complete opposite of that.


Pretty my view of my home state. Also like Chabot, Texas here we come.



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He should thank God he lost.
 
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The trouble with Leftism is the same as the trouble with zombies. It's nearly impossible to isolate yourself from them and their consequences. They just will not stay put and the ramifications of their activities affect all of us. Would be great if we could confine them to one or several spots, but when their choices make life sucky around them, they migrate and start over. That and federalism kind of dictates that we all bail out the infected.



You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
 
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And if we actually trade off our liberals on at least a one for one basis. I'm a generous person and would be willing to give them 100 of our GDCs for each of their conservatives.


Bon Mot!


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you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves. ]


That's the truth.



"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
 
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"You may all stay in California...."
 
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Left Cali for here.

If need be TX is the only next stop.




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Well, the description of Collin County is pretty much on target. Conservative Republicans for the most part, which is a little surprising considering there are a lot of transplanted Indian and Oriental families living there too.


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The trouble with Leftism is the same as the trouble with zombies. It's nearly impossible to isolate yourself from them and their consequences. They just will not stay put and the ramifications of their activities affect all of us. Would be great if we could confine them to one or several spots, but when their choices make life sucky around them, they migrate and start over. That and federalism kind of dictates that we all bail out the infected.


Yep, the Jersey and Yorker Libs are migrating to and have already made some progress in fucking up my beloved PA. My home county, which has never voted for a Presidential Democratic candidate since the founding of the GOP, went to Hillary Mad

GTFO!!!
 
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He should thank God he lost.


That's the first thing I thought of too.

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