Anti-Union Charter School Shill Jumps The Fence
Gloria Romero was a California state Senator from 2001 to 2010 when the San Gabriel Valley was a much more conservative place than it is now. She’s best remembered for a brief stint as Senate majority leader and as a charter school shill. In fact after she was termed out of the Senate she ran for state superintendent of public instruction as the charter school, anti-union candidate and came in third with just 17% of the vote. She then went to work full time for the charter school movement within the Democratic Party and as a right-wing anti-union fanatic, turning herself into one of the most hated Democrats in the state and largely eschewed by the whole party. In 2021 she endorsed Republican Larry Elder in the failed Gavin Newsom recall election.
Now a full on embarrassing grifter, the Democrats were relieved on Wednesday when she made it official and formally joined the Republican Party and endorsed Trump. In her largely ignored press release— except by every single Fox anchor— written for her by a Republican Party PR firm and filled with idiotic GOP buzzwords and talking points, she is quoted saying “Today, I say Goodbye, adios, I’ve had enough. I am now another near lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number of people—including key groups, Latinos— who are leaving the Democratic Party. This is not the Democratic Party that I once championed, I don’t recognize it anymore and I cannot continue. I changed my voting registration today to Republican which has, under Donald Trump, become the champion of working people, the big tent. I will vote for Donald Trump this fall.”
You think a Democrat wrote this Republican Party claptrap? “The so-called Party of Democracy eradicated 14 million votes, including mine, in order to install its preferred candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris. But even before that, the Democratic primaries were rigged so as to prevent viable candidates from jumping in to even campaign. Lawfare was utilized. At the end, similar to Latin American dictatorships, the dedazo was used to tap who the political elite and big donors wanted to run; a political coup was, essentially, executed. I have run for office in the past— what message does this send that if the donors and elites don’t like you, they can simply replace you with the candidate of their choice at any moment— undermining any semblance of the voters’ will? The Democratic Party has taken a giant Leap to authoritarianism, censorship: It was President Reagan who warned that if fascism comes to America it will come as liberalism… I am a mother and refuse to call myself a ‘birthing person.’ The Democratic Party has become the party of censorship, authoritarianism, and locking people up for free speech. The Democratic Party has abandoned veterans at home to send millions and millions oversees.”
And it just goes on and on with every nonsensical Republican grievance that only a Fox-brainwashed MAGAt could ever take seriously: “The Republican Party has become the party of peace while the Democrats have marched towards endless war. Today’s Democratic Party and VP Harris, specifically, have refused to speak the names of the 13 American soldiers whose lives were sacrificed for a photo-op in the horrific, botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Anyone who has ever buried a young soldier in war can feel the pain of that.”
And how about a little GOP-style projection? “The Democratic Party has turned its back on the working class, becoming the party of the elites and big buck donors. We see, daily, Democratic leaders lecture the people as to how to live their lives under the burden of COVID-19, climate change, a crime crisis, and rampant inflation while they, out of touch with Californians, feast at the French Laundry… At our universities, I’ve seen Jewish students threatened. I watched with horror women being kidnapped, blood dripping on Oct 7th—and Democratic Party has forsaken Israel to capture the Hamas Caucus of Congress and a swing state. Today, I join the Republican Party to Make America Great Again and I am ready to do my part as America prepares to vote.”
She also suported Larry Elder in 2021. Good riddance, I say.