A long-time veteran Democrat of California The legislative leader announced on Wednesday that she “no longer recognizes”[s her] “gone,” while noting that she still considers many of her historical figures, including former President John F. Kennedy, to be her “heroes.”
Gloria Romero, who served as state Senate majority leader for three years during her more than 10-year tenure in Sacramento, criticized the current state of her former party.
Romero said she served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for Jesse Jackson and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, 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.
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“I am now another lifelong Democrat 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 that she received a warm welcome from her former political opponent.
She said she could not sit idly by. as democrats took “a giant step towards authoritarianism” [and] “censorship,” noting that former President Reagan had warned that if fascism arose in the United States, it would take the guise of liberalism.
“It’s terrifying how the language has been changed 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 abortion up to term. I am a mother and I refuse to define myself as a ‘birthing person.'”
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“The Republican Party has become the party of peace while the Democrats have marched toward endless war.”
She also targeted the Green movement within the Democratic Party, expressing opposition to regulation of household appliances.
“[A]“As a Latina, I’m not giving up my gas stove; you can’t toast a tortilla on an electric stove,” she joked.
Standing on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, Romero said she was officially aligning herself with the GOP under former President Trump, who she said is the true champion of working people and the Reaganite “big tent.”
“I will vote for Donald Trump this fall,” she said.
Asked about Romero’s decision, Los Angeles Democratic officials called his official announcement “old news.”
“We knew then about Gloria what California Republicans know best: The scam is real,” Mark Gonzalez, the former county party chairman, told the Los Angeles Daily News.
Another former party member said on X, formerly Twitter, that the GOP is “a drug.”[ing] old news to stay…
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