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   A longtime former California Democratic legislative leader announced   
   Wednesday she no longer “recognize[s her] party,” while noting she still   
   considers many of its historical figures, including former President John   
   F. Kennedy, her “heroes.”   
      
   Gloria Romero, who served as the state Senate majority leader for three   
   years of her more than 10-year stint in Sacramento, slammed the current   
   state of her former party.   
      
   Romero said she had been a delegate to the Democratic National Convention   
   for both Jesse Jackson and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., adding that many   
   Latinos and Latinas are leaving the party for similar reasons.   
      
   “Today, I say ‘Goodbye – adios’ — I’ve had enough,” the former San Gabriel   
   Valley lawmaker said in her announcement.   
      
   “I am now another near-lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number   
   of people … who are leaving the Democratic Party.   
      
   “Today, I join the Republican Party to make America great again, and I am   
   ready to do my part as America prepares to vote,” Romero said, adding she   
   has received a warm reception from her onetime political opposition.   
      
   She claimed she could not stand by as Democrats took “a giant leap to   
   authoritarianism [and] censorship,” noting former President Reagan warned   
   that if fascism rose in the US it would come under the guise of   
   liberalism.   
      
   “It is terrifying to see how language has been modified so that, as a   
   feminist and a former professor … I would be condemned for saying that I   
   can define a woman and distinguish between biological sex and gender   
   identity,” Romero said.   
      
   “While I am pro-choice, I will not support a party that advocates for   
   abortion to full term. I am a mother and refuse to call myself a ‘birthing   
   person.'”   
      
   “The Republican Party has become the party of peace while the Democrats   
   have marched towards endless war.”   
      
   She also took aim at the Green movement within the Democratic Party,   
   voicing opposition to regulations on appliances.   
      
   “[A]s a Latina, I will not give up my gas stove; you cannot toast a   
   tortilla on an electric range,” she quipped.   
      
   Standing on the steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento, Romero said she   
   officially aligns with the GOP under former President Trump, who she said   
   is the true champion of working people and the Reaganesque “big tent.”   
      
   “I will vote for Donald Trump this fall,” she said.   
      
   Asked about Romero’s move, Los Angeles Democratic officials dismissed her   
   official announcement as “old news.”   
      
   “We knew then about Gloria what California Republicans know best: the   
   grift is real,” Mark Gonzalez, the former chairman of the county party,   
   told the Los Angeles Daily News.   
      
   Another former party staffer said on X, formerly Twitter, the GOP is   
   “drudg[ing] up old news to stay relevant.”   
      
   State Sen. Brian W. Jones, R-San Diego, the top Republican in the state   
   chamber, welcomed Romero to the party, saying in a statement obtained by   
   Fox News Digital that Romero had unsuccessfully tried to “wake up” her   
   former party to its leftward shift.   
      
   “Her leadership and experience have always been about serving the people,   
   not partisan politics. It takes real courage to step away from the party   
   you’ve led and stand for what is right,” Jones said.   
      
   “The pendulum is swinging in California — Sky-high prices, increasing   
   crime, and record homelessness are the direct results of a broken   
   government…”   
      
   Current state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil of Jackson also switched to the GOP   
   in early August.   
      
   At the time, Alvarado-Gil said her former party is also “unrecognizable”   
   and “lacks the will to fix the problems plaguing the state.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/09/06/us-news/longtime-california-dem-leader-says-   
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