I call on my fellow Californians to come to the aid of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

[wasupaloopa]

7. When I lived there it was very red. That was in 2001 to 2006. I use to write letters to the editor

in the Bakersfield Californian. My letters and a weekly Democratic news paper that you could find in the library were about the only progressive words in print there.

I lived in the boonies in the mountains east of Bakersfield. There were about 1,200 people in 12 square miles. All my neighbors were cattle ranchers who supported the Iraq war. It was open range territory. We all had horses and some goats. We actually had cattle round ups to drive the cattle to the trucks that took them away.

We had a weekly news paper in our area called the Twin Oaks Fence Post. Every letter in it was anti Muslim and pro war. The editor of that paper lost his son in the Iraq war. We had a memorial service for him.

My wife and I went to the Unitarian church in Bakersfield to see if we wanted to join. When I introduced myself they recognized me by my letters to the editor. The posted them on their bulletin board.