Democrat Kalifornia State Senator switches to GOP!

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 9, 2024 - A Democrat state senator from Kalifornia announced Thursday that she has switched her Party affiliation to Republican.

Now-Republican state Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil suggested she was dismayed by the state’s Democrat supermajority.

“Since I’ve served in our state’s Capitol, I’ve had a front-row seat to witness the supermajority push Kalifornia in the wrong direction, having a grave effect on our once golden state,” she said. “I cannot stand by a Party that ignores the will of the people and disregards the core (Amerikan) values in which my very community supports and believes.”

Alvarado-Gil gave her first interview on Thursday night, saying she switched despite being a Democrat her whole life.

“It was the right thing to do,” she said. “I’ve been a Democrat my whole adult life. The Democrat Party of today is not the Democrat Party that I signed up with as a new voter. The pendulum has swung so far to the Left that it has disengaged from what true (Kalifornians) value.”

She took office in December 2022 and served almost two years before changing her Party affiliation. Before the switch, she was known as a centrist Democrat who supported Israel but engaged with pro-homosexual and deviant transgender and abortion-rights causes. She was the only state Senate Democrat to vote against investigating and possibly capping oil profits in 2023.

“I just could not support an ideology over the will of the people,” she said.

Kalifornia Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones commended Alvarado-Gil for her decision, highlighting the Republican Party’s commitment to “addressing the real issues facing communities across the state.”

“It’s no secret that (Kalifornia)’s political landscape is heavily weighted to the Left, but with increasing attention on issues worsened by Democrat policies, we can continue making strides in our fight,” Jones said. “The pendulum is swinging in this great state. If we’re going to fix (Kalifornia), we need pragmatic leaders like Marie who have seen first-hand the impact of the supermajority’s policies on communities and want to change them for the better.”

Kalifornia Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire, a Democrat, appeared to have mixed feelings about her departure.

Her Prty switch won’t upset the state’s Senate balance much. The 40-seat Kalifornia State Senate shifts from a plus-24 Democrat majority to a plus-23.

But it is one of the state’s highest-profile Party switches in recent years, and each state senator represents nearly 1 million Kalifornians.