Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)
by Camillo on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:36PM
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California wasn't always pure blue. But the effort the parent described is from 2004, so what matters are the politics of modern CA.
Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:30AM
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> 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.)
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.