{"id":682431,"date":"2021-08-25T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=682431"},"modified":"2021-08-25T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:51:01","slug":"former-california-democrat-majority-leader-endorses-larry-elder-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-california-democrat-majority-leader-endorses-larry-elder-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Former California Democrat Majority Leader Endorses Larry Elder For Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-california-democrat-majority-leader-endorses-larry-elder-for-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=682431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-471372278-scaled-e1626905195314.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The former California Democrat Majority Leader, Gloria Romero, who&nbsp;served as Democratic Majority Leader in the state senate from 2001 until 2008, has endorsed GOP candidate Larry Elder for governor, saying in a video that California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom \u201cshut our public schools while he sent his kids to private schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elder\u2019s campaign released a video of Romero stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>Our public schools need big change. I\u2019m Gloria Romero; I was the majority leader of Democrats in the state senate. &nbsp;I believe in charter schools and and school choice. So does Larry Elder \u2014 but not Gavin Newsom. He shut our public schools while he sent his kids to private schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes: I\u2019m a Democrat. But the recall of Newsom is not about political party. &nbsp;It\u2019s about Newsom. Larry Elder for governor.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.7583081571\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrat Gloria Romero, a former CA legislator &amp; longtime charter school advocate, cut an ad supporting GOP candidate Larry Elder in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RecallElection?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RecallElection<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Elder&#8217;s campaign tells me this ad will air &#8220;in nearly every major media market in the state&#8221; \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0onLtsMYlb\">https:\/\/t.co\/0onLtsMYlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laurel Rosenhall (@LaurelRosenhall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaurelRosenhall\/status\/1430273048771395585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2008, Romero stepped down as Majority Leader and became chairman of the Education Committee, where she authored a \u201cparent trigger\u201d law that was passed, making California the first state to adopt such a law. It permitted a majority of parents in a failing school to vote as to how to restructure the school.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/02\/q-a-gloria-romero-author-of-californias-parent-trigger-law\/\">stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><em>It\u2019s really interesting, because to me the imagination of the parent trigger law is really to understand that it is parents who are the architects of their childrens\u2019 future. And for year after year, decade after decade quite frankly, parents felt frustrated, because the administrators \u2014 those who run our schools \u2014 quite simply did not sense the need of urgency to turn around especially chronically under-performing schools. Failing schools, quite frankly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So I finally wrote this bill, turned into law, which said quite frankly, if you aren\u2019t going to do it \u2014 meaning the school administrators and the school bureaucrats in charge of the education system \u2014 then basically move out of the way and we the people, we the parents will. It basically asserts rights, it gives real rights to match the responsibility that parents have and feel towards trying to fight for the best education options for their children.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Romero, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Riverside and could not run again for office in 2010 because of term limits, had a strongly liberal voting record, according to Ballotpedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.873333333333\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Capitol_Weekly\">Capitol Weekly<\/a>, California\u2019s major weekly periodical covering the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/California_State_Legislature\">state legislature<\/a>, publishes an annual legislative scorecard to pin down the political or ideological leanings of every member of the legislature based on how they voted on an assortment of bills in the most recent legislative session. The 2009 scores were based on votes on 19 bills, but did not include how legislators voted on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/California_Proposition_1A,_Tax_Increase_Extensions_Amendment_(May_2009)\">Proposition 1A (2009)<\/a>. On the scorecard, \u201c100\u201d is a perfect liberal score and \u201c0\u201d is a perfect conservative score. On the 2009 Capitol Weekly legislative scorecard, Romero ranked as an 89.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Romero was \u201cwas known for trying to clean up the capital\u2019s cronyism and corruption,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10000872396390444443504577601664135014368?mod=opinion_newsreel\">reported<\/a> in 2012, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p id=\"U71204125820UTD\" class=\"U71204125820UTD\"><em>Ms. Romero believes the only way to bring down the public unions\u2014and \u201cthey will be brought down, they must be brought down\u201d\u2014is to go after \u201cwhat feeds the beast.\u201d In other words: payroll deductions.&nbsp;Ms. Romero has thrown her support behind a ballot initiative this fall (Prop. 32) that would bar unions from withholding money from worker paychecks to finance political activities. Unions could still deduct agency-shop fees, which go strictly toward collective bargaining and administrative expenses, but they\u2019d have to ask their members to contribute to the unions\u2019 political action committees\u2014just like any other political-advocacy group.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In January 2010, reacting to government studies showing that in 2009, two million California school children attended public schools ranked as failing and roughly 40% of Latino and African-American students never completed high school, Romero stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>I authored and championed California\u2019s Race to the Top education reforms by declaring that it was time to name names. In countless meetings and hearings I carried a scroll. Not a diploma, but, sadly, a list of hundreds of California schools that are persistently failing\u2026with bipartisan support in the Legislature and the governor\u2019s signature, we created new laws that identify our very worst schools, provide for major turnarounds, improved data systems and high standards. But most importantly, for the first time in the history of California, we gave parents the responsibility for their children\u2019s education. We gave parents real power, allowing them to petition to close or drastically revamp a badly failing school.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former California Democrat Majority Leader, Gloria Romero, who\u00a0served as Democratic Majority Leader in the state senate from 2001 until 2008, has endorsed GOP candidate Larry Elder for governor, saying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}