California is America’s most populous state at 39.5 million residents, and it has America’s greatest GDP—the fourth largest in the world. Yet, somehow, among all of those millions, there is not one who is fit to lead our state? Do we really need a failed political hack who left Great Britain in 2012, who only became a citizen of the United States in 2021, to lead the Golden State? Whatever happened to “America First”? What about “California First”? Californians do not need yet another outsider telling us that they know what’s best for us! Political failure in Britain and a spot on Fox News does not qualify someone to lead California. Two hundred and fifty years after severing ties with the British, we don’t need one of their lackeys coming here to establish his own little fiefdom.
Stephen Siemsen
Orcutt
This article appears in Summer Guide 2026.
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