Former California state senator Gloria Romero has defected to the Republican Party, telling reporters, “In this Capitol behind me, I served as both Senate Democratic Caucus chair and the Senate majority leader. But today I say goodbye. Adios! I’ve had enough.” The move follows Romero’s memo to her party in 2021.

“I’ll just be blunt,” Romero wrote. “I’ll call it the abject stupidity of the Party elites who have embraced the vilest expressions of woke-ism and an abdication to the promise of education as the key to the American Dream that still matters to so many, particularly Latinos and African Americans, and the commitment to ensuring the public safety for all.” Despite the rhetoric, Romero’s recent defection is more about education than politics.

In 2022, Romero joined Ric Grenell of Fix California to endorse the Education Savings Accounts Act of 2022. “As a proud Democrat who has dedicated my life to fighting against an entrenched education bureaucracy so that all California children can........

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