Introduction

Adam Schiff is the congressman from Burbank. Adam Schiff is now running to represent California in the Senate.  Adam Schiff is an inveterate liar and not fit for public office.  Libertarians must do what we can to prevent him from being our senator. Californians cannot allow this pathological fraud to represent us. 

As Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, he had a particular civic duty to be honest because he had access to classified information that no one else had. Yet, he deliberately chose to deceive the American public. 

When Schiff’s lies were exposed, he doubled down, even when faced with overwhelming evidence.  He contorted reality to promote a feckless case and has refused to acknowledge his mistruths. Quite the opposite.  When he announced his bid to become the next U.S. senator from California, Adam Schiff promoted himself as a fighter against lies and corruption.  “I’ve always believed that right matters, that the truth matters”, Schiff said when he launched his campaign. The impudence of his performance is exceeded only by its absurdity.

Adam Schiff’s trail of distortion, weaponization of the law for political gain, and egregious abuse of government authority makes him unfit to be our senator.


Trump’s Election Stuns Democrats

Former reality TV show star Donald Trump stunned Democrats in 2016 when he became the first person without government or military experience ever to be elected president of the United States.  Democrats hate Trump.  They view him as vulgar, consider his coarseness unpresidential, and think that he makes us look bad to other nations. They consider it a disgrace the way he treated some women, and that he lacked constraint because he is rich - which he revels in and does not feel the need to apologize for. He never learned to keep his opinions to himself because he never had to. They detest that Trump never learned to be embarrassed, and that he has no ideology.  And Democrats completely disagree with his bluntness that America is exceptional, and especially hate his slogan ‘make America great again’.

Democrats viewed Trump as an existential threat to democracy and someone that had to be stopped. They saw it as their moral imperative to oppose Donald Trump and they were going to contest his every effort, at every level, and thus fashioned the resistance movement.

After the 2016 election, ‘Resist’ rallies were held in Democratic strongholds across the nation and ‘Resist’ bumper stickers were everywhere. The Democrat’s goal was to force Trump to step down.  Democrats saw any and all resistance to Trump as acceptable.  If facts were sidestepped, so be it.  The destruction of Trump was worth any means necessary.


The Resistance Strategy

To counter Trump, Democrats needed to develop a strategy wherein the Trump administration would waste their time and resources fighting off Democrat’s accusations - rather than enact legislation that Democrats viewed as evil.  Democrats planned to afflict Trump with a constant barrage of damaging charges and shocking exposés, that he would be forced to defend against.  And thus, Democrats crafted “Russian Collusion” during the 2016 presidential campaign to frighten and alarm, sow division, and toxify civil discourse related to Trump. 


Adam Schiff as Resistance Leader

Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff saw himself as the protector of our democracy and in so doing fabricated himself into the ‘Trump Slayer’.  He played the lead role in the implementation of the narrative that Russians colluded with the Trump campaign. Schiff’s goal was to insure that from day-one, the Trump administration would exhaust their time and resources fighting off his accusations.  Adam Schiff brazenly spread Russian collusion accusations for Trump’s entire term in office. 

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With Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and other California transit districts on the hunt for more tax and toll money to subsidize their losing operations, the Libertarian Party of Contra Costa County organized a public event on June 13 to discuss the situation at BART.

LPCCC member Marc Joffe, who is also a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, opened with observations about ridership patterns, noting that passengers had started to abandon the system well before the March 2020 COVID-19 lockdown. He recommended that BART stop working on unnecessary projects like the proposed second tunnel under San Francisco Bay, switch to driverless trains to allow more frequent service without driving up labor costs and eliminate retiree health benefits to save money without impacting service.

The featured speaker at the LPCCC event was Debora Allen, a politically independent fiscal conservative who is often the only voice of reason on the BART board. Debora discussed problems with BART’s budgeting policies including its failure to consider any operational savings and its decision to pass a two-year budget that was not balanced.

About 20 area residents attended the event, many of whom were connected to the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, and they asked a wide array of questions after Marc and Debora concluded. A video of the two presentations has been posted on the LPC YouTube channel. Click here to watch.