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01 Apr 2025 Horace Cooper: California Is No Longer Where Dreams Come True, But Where Dreams Go to Die

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“In my lifetime, California has changed from an amazing, remarkable place where people go to to live out their dreams to now a place where dreams go to die,” Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper said on the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.”

In a discussion with guest host Jason Chaffetz and “CaliFailure” author Steve Hilton, Horace said of the once-Golden State:

It can’t get any worse. I mean, every bad choice!  Real estate policy, minimum wage policy, growth policy, government size policy. Every wrong choice appears to have been embraced.

At some point, what keeps going up — these progressive crazy ideas — eventually must come down.

I believe it’s time. And I think Californians are fed up. They’re tired of all of the poor decisions that they’ve watched. And hopefully we’re gonna begin seeing soon — maybe as soon as 2026 — the sort of change that needs to happen.

California is too beautiful and too wonderful of a place to be destroyed the way that it has by progressives.



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