This doesn’t pass the smell test. With $35,000, he almost managed to get Ready Return in CA? We could raise that much just in this thread. If money was the sticking point, it would’ve happened already.

And California may lean blue on the federal level, but it is a very anti-tax state (Prop 13, etc.).

> California [...] a Democratic state, not swayed by Grover Norquist

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is one of the most powerful political groups in the state and has been doing the same schtick as Norquist (though, when Jarvis was alive, under a different name), since Norquist was still in college.

California wasn't always pure blue. But the effort the parent described is from 2004, so what matters are the politics of modern CA.

> California wasn't always pure blue.

It's not pure blue, now, either, and more to the point, the Democrats in the California electorate are not a hive mind of stereotypes.

> But the effort the parent described is from 2004, so what matters are the politics of modern CA.

The Norquist-before-Norquist Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is one of the most powerful political forces in modern California, too.

(Also, in 2004, California was less bright blue than modern CA; it had just recalled the Democratic governor and elected a Republican replacement, after all.)