Young Familiar Face on Social Media Makes It Official - C.J. Pearson to Run for State Rep. in Georgia

I give you, C.J. Pearson. If his name and face look and sound familiar, it is because he has been a social media fixture for quite a while, since the Obama administration to be exact. But now, he is all grown up and is running for office as a Republican in his home state of Georgia.

Pearson announced this week that he will be running in a special election to fill the vacated seat of Rep. Barry Fleming, a Republican who is leaving his seat to accept a judgeship.

C.J. Pearson cut his political teeth very early, being involved with various conservative groups, including being a commentator for "PragerU." He attended the University of Alabama but left just three semesters short of graduation. In an interview with Fox News, he stated that, while there, he was "force-fed indoctrination."

Now, he is back home in Georgia to run in the State Rep. race, where if elected, his district will include the suburbs of Augusta. There are five candidates including Pearson, four Republicans, and one Democrat vying for the seat. But that doesn't seem to scare off C.J. Pearson one bit. He said, “The people of my district don’t want to elect just another Republican to this seat; they want to elect a conservative who knows how to fight like the future of our country is on the line. Because it is — make no qualms about it."

C.J. Pearson is a Trump supporter and in the era of Trump, support among black voters for the Democrat party has been waning. Most of C.J. Pearson's opponents for the Georgia State Rep. race are older with perhaps more political experience. But the one advantage he may have over those opponents, at age 21; he hasn't had time to have much of a past or dirt for any of those opponents to dig up on him.

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CA Doctor Says Newsom's Plan to Raid State's Rainy Day Fund For His 'Budget Emergency' Is Bad Medicine

California Governor Gavin Newsom presented his proposed 2024-2025 budget Wednesday and started off by claiming that the state's not actually facing a $68 billion shortfall, that according to his office the state faces a $37.9 billion shortfall, and tsk-tsk'ing journalists who cited the December number from the Legislative Analyst's Office.

During his presentation Newsom announced that he plans to use $10.4 billion from the state's rainy-day fund and $2.7 billion from other reserves to partially close that gap, but in order to use the rainy-day fund Newsom has to declare a budget emergency.

Now, the term "emergency" implies something unforeseen; California had large surpluses in 2021-22 and 2022-23, but Newsom and the Democrat supermajority didn't choose to pay off debt with that surplus and now are in a big hole. And Newsom doesn't want to nix his "signature" programs (a/k/a constituency payoffs), so he just wants to call it an emergency and do some other creative accounting.

In a very long post on X, Hemmati gave Newsom very specific and effective advice on how to actually balance the budget instead of using some "voodoo economics." He wrote:

It’s utterly irresponsible of @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom - bordering on criminal - to declare a “budget emergency” so that he could artificially balance the budget (and take credit for it) using our rainy day fund. Gavin: YOU and your excess spending are the emergency.

If you’re having trouble cutting spending, talk to me. Talk to others who have common sense. Talk to regular citizens. Let’s work together to cut spending, shore up the tax code, and make life easier for businesses & taxpayers, so we can get out of your mess. Otherwise, you’re only making it much harder for your successor to undo your damage. Thanks.

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