Gloria Romero, a former Democratic politician from California, has left the Democratic Party, citing dissatisfaction with its current direction and taking aim at Vice President Kamala Harris’ handling of education issues during her tenure as the state’s attorney general.
Romero, who served as the California Senate Majority Leader, announced on Wednesday that she has officially changed her voter registration to Republican, stating she has “had enough.”
“There are so many more like me, who have been disaffected Democrats, and we do not recognize this so-called party of democracy any longer,” Romero said during an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday.
Romero criticized Harris’ educational policies, particularly her attempts to “pass a bill that looked to jail mothers of students who were truant and not going to school.” She added, “I have tried championing school choice, education freedom in California. Her record as attorney general showed that she did nothing to change the schools, to provide for school choice. In her hometown of Oakland, Calif., today, 75% of both African-American and Latino children are not reading or doing math at basic levels of proficiency, and yet, she went to court with the teachers union — very powerful big donors — to block education reforms that these families had had the courage to go to court and sue over. That is the record of the attorney general of California.”
Romero claims that many Democrats are rethinking their party affiliation, with some choosing to vote for former President Donald Trump. She attributed this shift to issues like “the absence of school choice, education freedom, open borders, crime rampant — a mockery of citizenship itself.”
She also noted a trend within the Hispanic community, many of whom have announced plans to vote Republican in the upcoming election. “Blue California may be blue, but people are ready to vote for change, to make America great again, and I take pride in saying that today,” Romero stated.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now the Democratic presidential nominee, has given few interviews and has not held a formal news conference in over 50 days. Her record is expected to be closely examined during the ABC News presidential debate on September 10.
