The complaint is not that they're leaving for politics but because of the direct results of the politics and bringing the same exact politics which created those results to other places.
> One salvo in Richey’s battle against newcomers was his property tax proposal, which he called Proposition Zero One Two Three. His basic tenet: The longer you live here, the less you pay. Sixty-year residents would pay no property taxes, while newcomers would shoulder the burden.
Amusing that the anti-Californian candidate here basically wants to introduce California's Prop 13 property tax rules which have done so much to discourage housing development and drive young people out of California.