Al Muratsuchi, bought and paid for by union interests, carried a district where his left-leaning policies are more extreme than "perennial" Republican candidate Craig Huey's views on free markets and individual liberty. The Republican Party has been playing from the old "Mad Men" playbook, using old means to reach an older population. That stops from this time forward. I spoke with many Democratic voters who supported Huey because they like not paying high taxes and doling out tax payer dollars to public sector unions who have created a colluded cartel with the political class at the expense of the voters, the workers, the youth, and even the poor in our communities. The poor suffer considerably under union policies, which favor minimum wage increases, which automatically shuts out poor and minorities looking for entry level work.
The GOP consultants failed to reach out to the eastern sections of the South Bay. One Sacramento pol claimed that Bloomfield did not have a chance of taking the 33rd, yet he only lost by six points. Quite impressive. Recriminations from Establishment types about Democratic voters never stopped me from visiting Venice and Santa Monica, where I surprisingly ran into Republicans, along with disaffected Democrats and independents who are tired of everyone, including Big Government, not respecting the "Little Guy." The Old Guard have to throw out the old ideas for outreach. Free markets work. More government does not. Make the case, and the Harbor Area will be red with life once again.
Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1 right now, but what about the growing number of independents who are dissatisfied with both parties? I understand the upset that many voters have with the Republican Brand -- George W. Bush contributed to that, running a Democrat-lite administration of "compassionate conservatism" which was neither.
No one should count their chickens before they are hatched. After two years of pushing tax increases and spending more money that the state coffers do not have, the Democratic supermajority may endure the same shellacking that shook Obama off his roost for two years and bring back to our state a real Golden gleam based on individual liberty and free enterprise, as opposed to the "soft bigotry of low expectations and dependence".
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