Florida Ad Campaign

 I sat and watched the 30-second AD that Governor Newsom (Cal, D) put up in Florida....slamming the Republicans and Governor DeSantis.  You can do a review over at this site.  

His basic statement?  California has freedom, energy, no banning of books, and Florida is made it hard to have an abortion.  Yes, come to California.

I paused over this for a while (watching it at least five times).

There's probably around forty reasons I can think....NOT to relocate to California.  

There is the taxation rate, the over-abundance of homelessness, open drug policy (for fentanyl, crack, and meth), and a crazy rate of pay for police and firemen.  Odds of the state being bankrupt in the next decade?  Probably over 50-percent chance.

Why waste funds on this ad?  I'd say he wants to interest some people in Florida to flip to the Democrats, and moving to California....but out of a thousand potential people.....I doubt if you can cite a single case occurring. 

If you review the numbers.....Californians in the mindset to move?  I would imagine one out of every ten is considering the move presently.  If you just go into SF alone....there's probably 20,000 who are openly discussing the idea of leaving the city as a minimum, and the state possibly.

Here's the thing....he needs to convince people outside of California that it's not that bad....if he wants a legit run in 2024.  We aren't talking Republicans here.....it's independents that he's aiming the ad at mostly.

If I were DeSantis....I'd line up three actors to be 'dopers' and do some 30-second ads about life in California and living under bridges.