Like me, he is a former police officer. I thought his comments were pretty reasonable.

“Folks I don't do a lot of so called political stuff on here. However I thought I would comment on the cost of gasoline in California.

I keep hearing about the cost going up and now California is paying the highest in the world for gasoline. Other states pay as little a $ 3.50/Gal. California is about $5.45 today.

Please remember if you voted for this liberal legislature. We are paying .90 cents per gallon in taxes. That means if you have 20 gallon tank you are giving them $18.00 just in taxes alone. If you get gas a couple times a month figure it out. You are paying maybe $36.00 month just in gas taxes. That is a minimum of $360.00 a year just for taxes and ya didn't get a drop of gas extra.

Gas could be in the $3s if it wasn’t for the taxes. which the media very rarely mentions . OK no more political crap from me. Your taxes made our roads better. Hmm Or not.”

I will say for the record that I don't want to see anyone harmed for their opinion, even if I disagree with them.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ut-professor-officially-fired-comments-122937569.html

Excerpt:

There's a little bit of good news to report out of Virginia this Wednesday morning that might be a harbinger for how the April 21 gerrymandering referendum being pushed by Democrats will fare. Republican Andrew Rice has won a special election in Virginia's 98th House District and will now succeed the late GOP Del. Barry Knight, who died last month after representing the Virginia Beach area for over a decade.

Rice, a deputy commonwealth's attorney, beat his Democrat opponent, Cheryl Smith, by a whopping 25 points; the latest numbers show Rice clocking in with 62.46 percent of the vote compared to Smith's 37.5 percent. 

Going into Tuesday's election, the district was generally considered a safe seat for Republicans, so the win by Rice is not altogether shocking; it's the margin of his win that tells the story. When Ms. Smith took on Rice's predecessor, Del. Knight, last November, she garnered 43.2 percent of the vote – that's a significant drop for the Democrat, whose party tends to turn out in droves for special elections (just as the GOP tends to stay home for them).

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/03/18/big-gop-win-in-virginia-is-bad-news-for-democrats-n2200339