I lived in Los Angeles from 2017 until May 2020, two months into the LA shutdown, and by the end I barely recognized it.The city I had moved to for its energy and opportunity was starting to look like Gotham City.
Tent cities spread across Los Angeles.Break-ins and violent crime climbed.
When COVID-19 arrived, the people running California seemed far more interested in policing masks on the beach than policing the streets.So, I left for Miami because Florida Republican Gov.
Ron DeSantis governed his state with sanity.I was blessed.I could leave.
Millions of Californians can't, and they shouldn't have to.Six years later, California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is giving Californians a reason to stay.CA POST EDITORIAL BOARD: VOTE HILTON FOR CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR OVER ESTABLISHMENT HACK BECERRA FOR REAL CHANGEWhat was once a great state has turned into a hellhole for too many of its own citizens.Working families pay some of the highest gas prices in America, and have for over a decade, along with some of the highest housing costs anywhere.
Small businesses are drowning in fees and regulation.Homeless encampments, open drug use and crime have become normal in a state that used to draw people from around the world.
After 16 years of one-party rule in Sacramento, Californians deserve to ask a simple question: What are the results? Unfortunately, a state in decline.Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton speaks to supporters at his primary night watch party, in Huntington Beach, Calif., on June 2, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)Hilton has proven over and over again that he is the person voters should entrust to succeed Democrat Gavin Newsom as governor of California.
I must admit, I am impressed by what he has done as a candidate.I've known Steve since our days together at Fox News.
Even then, he wasn't interested in cable-news shouting matches.He wanted to talk about solutions, and that's exactly the candidate he has become.NEWSOM UNDER ...