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The California Post endorses Steve Hilton for governor

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Steve Hilton has the ideas, the energy, and the optimism to turn California around. 

That is why The California Post is endorsing him for governor.

Hilton has spent years analyzing California’s challenges and coming up with solutions. 

Years ago, he launched an organization, Golden Together, to push for change.

And today, Hilton is running a campaign on common sense.

For too long, the world’s fourth-largest economy has been governed like a Third World basket case.

One-party rule has been a disaster for California — for 16 years. 

Endless rules. Transgender madness. Unions controlling everything.

And then there’s our finances.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last budget in 2010 was $122 billion. 

Gavin Newsom’s last budget: $349 billion, almost three times higher.

Does our state feel three times better? Cleaner? Happier? No.

Newsom likes to attack Republicans. But when he runs for president, he won’t run on his record.

When Newsom took office, the state counted over 151,000 homeless people.

Seven and-a-half years and billions of dollars later, there are over 187,000 homeless, even after a drop last year.

And the state continues to pour billions into a high-speed rail project that has not laid an inch of track.

California used to be a place people came to chase their dreams. Now, it is a place people leave to start over........

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