Repuke Leader- God is punishing liberal California

[packman]

“California has been overtaken by liberals who have taxed and over-regulated the state,” said Dave Johnson, chair of the Columbiana County GOP.

An Ohio county chairman for the Republican Party provoked outrage after posting a Facebook message declaring that the fires devastating parts of California are “God’s punishment” for the “liberal” state.

David Johnson, chairman of the Columbiana County GOP, posted images of the inferno Sunday with the message: “God’s Punishment to Liberal California.” Another message superimposed over a photo read: “Hell on Earth, brought to you by the liberals in California.”

After some Facebook comments urged boycotting Johnson’s businesses, he took down his post, but doubled down on the message in a statement to WFMJ-TV.

“California has been overtaken by liberals who have taxed and over-regulated the state,” he said. “There are changes that could have been made which would have helped prevent the deadly fires had there been proper management of forests, but the timber industry is not allowed.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ohio-gop-leader-california-fires-gods-punishment_us_5bf36356e4b0d9e7283c5f06

[JonLP24]

1. I don't remember seeing tax cuts and deregulation in the bible

[ProfessorGAC]

4. It's In The White Ink

On the white pages. Perhaps it's easier to see with a black light!

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Obviously this was written by

someone jealous of the California economy. Petty, overblown verbal attacks is all they have left in their quiver.

I would have to check stats on this: why do so many people dream of or make a move to California?

[RockRaven]

3. Weird how God enacts his vengeance on librul blue CA by smiting the red parts of the state.

I thought his God was omnipotent and omniscient. The results seem more like impotent and incontinent.

[packman]

5. I don't know about God and His vengeance

After all, didn't he smite Florida with a hurricane - and all those Red Southern states with stupidity?

[SoCalNative]

8. Only one of the fires

was in a red part of the state

[DontBooVote]

11. I believe RockRaven was referring to the electoral devestation that was delivered to the formerly...

...red parts of California.

[RockRaven]

14. If you mean between Camp & Woolsey, yeah - the deadlier, larger, more destructive (structurally) one

was in a red congressional district and the other was in a blue district.

If one wants to look at all the wildfires in CA, they also trend to red areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_wildfires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires

Of course nothing is absolute.

[vlyons]

6. I dislike knowing about such ignorant comments

as the Ohio GOP chair made. It's distresses me, makes me very very sad that there are such mean-spirited and thoughtless people.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. It seems that Republicans won't let a natural disaster go to waste if they can lay blame

on liberals, LGBT, non-believers . . . .

[appleannie1943]

9. Was he also punishing Florida and Texas with hurricanes and floods?

[hatrack]

10. As opposed to the paradise that is Columbiana County, Ohio?

The median income for a household in the county was $34,226, and the median income for a family was $40,486. Males had a median income of $32,134 versus $20,331 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,655. About 9.00% of families and 11.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.20% of those under age 18 and 8.40% of those age 65 or over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbiana_County,_Ohio


Oh, and population went from 113k in 1980 to 103k in 2017. Economic and demographic disasters are less conspicuous than climate-juiced deadly wildfires, and they take longer, but the results are similarly unpleasant for those involved.

[struggle4progress]

12. "That was Dave Johnson, the Official Voice of God in Ohio,

bringing you God's Official Opinion of California! And now stay tuned as the Official Voice of God in Michigan delivers God's Official Opinion of Ohio!"

[borgesian]

13. Nonsense. Everybody knows these fires wouldn't happen if we just raked the leaves off the "floor".

[lunatica]

15. So why is god burning the Trump supporting communities in the red parts of California?

The big metropolitan and education centers are the blue parts. Outside of that California is red. There just happen to be more Democrats than Republicans in the big cities

[Initech]

16. This Californian has a message for this POS: