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Fantasy Land vs. Reality: California Debate Exposes One-Party Failure

Wednesday’s California gubernatorial debate in San Francisco laid bare the results of 16 years of one-party Democrat rule: sky-high gas prices, tent cities, crumbling roads, and declining public safety, paired with little more than excuses and fantasies from the candidates.

The four Democrats—Tom Steyer, the self-styled “anti-billionaire” billionaire; Katie Porter, the climate alarmist; Matt Mahan, the eternal “San Jose success” salesman; and Xavier Becerra, the “experience candidate”—offered the same tired script of blame, subsidies, and government expansion. Only Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton brought reality to the stage.

Moderators opened with the question every California family feels in their wallet: Should we cut the gas tax?

Steyer blamed the war in Iran and demanded new taxes on oil company profits—ironic from a man who built his initial fortune at Farallon Capital investing heavily in fossil fuels before pivoting to green activism.

Porter delivered a climate sermon, claiming “we don’t breathe clean air,” and called for replacing the gas tax with a vague general-fund tax while pushing harder to eliminate fossil fuels.

Mahan acknowledged the gas tax is regressive and said he would suspend it for relief to working families, but quickly pivoted to class warfare—making corporations and the wealthy pay more.

Becerra fixated on potholes, blamed President Donald Trump (and mistakenly cited the war in Iraq), offered no........

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