By MATT MCNULTY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
A woman wearing a gorilla mask follows conservative talk show host and gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder as he walks along streets lined with tents of unhoused people, in Venice
California governor
hopeful Larry Elder had an egg thrown at him by a woman in a gorilla mask as he
toured a homeless encampment on Venice Beach.
The unidentified woman - whose
choice of headwear has been branded racist by some commentators online - was
also filmed punching a man who told her to calm down.
Wednesday's incident, which was
captured on video by Spectrum News reporter Kate Cagle and posted to Twitter, shows the leading GOP candidate
in the gubernatorial recall race as he arrives in his new 'Recall Express'
campaign bus after casting his ballot earlier in the morning.
The conservative talk show
host-turned-politician made it only 12 minutes at the encampment on 3rd Avenue
before being chased by angry homeless people and the woman in the gorilla mask,
who was traveling on a smart black bike.
'Get the hell out of here!' the
group yelled as an unidentified, gorilla mask-wearing woman throws the egg in
Elder's direction from a bicycle.
'It kind of glanced his head,'
an Elder campaign staffer told the Los Angeles Times of the egg.
Elder quickly got into a
waiting Chevrolet Suburban and exited the tense scene.
He later tweeted about the
incident, writing: 'Today I kicked off the Recall Express bus tour. Before we
even left Los Angeles, my security detail was physically assaulted, shot with a
pellet gun, and hit with projectiles. The intolerant left will not stop us. We
will recall Gavin Newsom. We will save California.'
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Recall Election Could Reverse the California
Ideology
By Victor Davis Hanson
| Townhall.com
California once was run by conservatives and mostly centrist Democrats.
True paleo-liberal governors like Pat Brown greatly
expanded the welfare state. But they also believed in pushing integration and
building freeways, dams, aqueducts and power plants, while preventing forest
fires, directing the mentally ill into state hospitals, and ensuring that the
state enhanced the housing, timber, oil and gas, nuclear and agricultural
industries.
So, why would anyone deliberately destroy that heritage?
Why allow California to have the highest aggregate basket
of income, sales, property and capital gains taxes in the nation, the highest
gas and power prices in the continental United States, and nearly the worst
schools and infrastructure? California also has the country's largest
populations of homeless, welfare recipients and undocumented immigrants
Remember that the left wing of the Democratic
Party became hyper-wealthy through globalization and the tech revolution.
Coastal universities such as Caltech, Stanford, UC Berkeley, USC, and UCLA
became global nexuses of millions who flocked to California to learn business,
engineering, science, math and the professions.
University endowments were no longer measured in the
hundreds of millions of dollars but in the billions.
Hollywood and professional sports now had a lucrative
worldwide audience of billions.
The market capitalization of Silicon Valley was to be
measured in the trillions of dollars, as the world bought iPhones, iPads and
MacBooks to do Google searches, tweet and use Facebook. The result was the
greatest concentration of wealth in such a small space in the history of
civilization.
Within 40 years, California had created a new plutocracy
of Eloi, whose wealth exempted them from all worries about the mundane problems
of the distant and despised Morlock others.
The wealthier the long thin line from San Diego to
Berkeley grew, the more the overseers felt they were nearing Utopia, at least
in their own lives.
The new Democratic Party liked to redistribute money for
the poor and so obeyed the orders from the rich. But they ignored old-fashioned
infrastructure that once had allowed the middle class to drive quickly and
safely, ensured them water during droughts, curbed their forest fires, and
allowed their children to leave school competitively educated.
Reaction, not prevention, was the new mantra. Govs.
Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom failed to thin out forests, build water storage
and allow affordable housing.
When those problems exploded, they reacted by
citing climate change or some other bogeyman as the culprit rather than
government dereliction. They preferred utopian high-speed rail
solutions to pragmatic problem solving. And they ensured that none of their
crackpot ideas ever affected themselves.
Why worry about affordable housing and electricity for
the masses when all the right people had the means to live in the right ZIP
codes without much worry about turning on the air conditioning or heat, since
there were rarely any scorching days or frigid nights in coastal paradise?
Why worry about immigration when labor became even
cheaper?
Why worry that California public schools had
sunk near the bottom of state ranks, when there were more prestigious prep
schools than ever on the coast?
And why worry about producing lumber for houses,
irrigated crops for food, or oil for gasoline, when the right Californians
would always have the money to import their hardwood floors, arugula and fuel
from grubby others far away who would make or grow what was needed?
Yet ideas eventually have consequences. Soon, even the
left-wing paradise on the coast would be infected by the anarchy the rich had
created for less important people elsewhere.
The homeless did not just camp on the streets of Fresno, but
in Venice Beach and on Market Street in San Francisco.
Fires began to smoke out not just the brush of the inland
foothills, but near-saintly Lake Tahoe, home to the right skiers and the
chosen shore owners.
Thieves even smashed the windows of Bay Area
BMWs and Volvos.
The current California recall election is a choice
between Gavin Newsom, who embodies the woke, old-boy privilege of the Bay
Area, and an alternative direction. Newsom is the epitome of the
virtue-signaling elite who patronize the poor and drive out the despised middle
class.
Gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder did not give us the
current California. Indeed, he spent most of his life warning us where Jerry
Brown, Gavin Newsom and the rarified society of the coastal corridor was taking
the state.
A careening California is heading for a colossal train
wreck. Voters will have to pick between the incompetent engineer snoring at the
wheel or the private passenger who rushes into cab to get the engine back on
track.
