Yep, here's the weasle pictured with Willie Brown.
Horcher on the right.
Posted on 02/07/2008 2:45:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez took responsibility for the failure of the term limits initiative on Tuesday's ballot and for not pairing it with redistricting reform.
The defeat of Proposition 93 has set in motion the process to change leadership in both houses of the Legislature.
Democrats plan to vote March 11 for a new speaker, although Democrats agreed that Nunez will stay on until the end of the legislative session in August.
Proposition 93 would have shaved two years off the maximum amount of time most lawmakers could serve. But it also would have given dozens of lawmakers a chance to extend their stays in Sacramento.
Nunez told reporters Thursday that his inability to reach a redistricting deal with Republicans led to the defeat of the term limits measure.
Hope you Californians vote in a better crop this time.
Leaders with foresight and vision do much better than those with 20/20 hindsight.
I doubt it would have mattered, fwiw.
Nunez and Perata were the new poster children FOR term limits, as Willie Brown was of old. I guess redistricting is a convenient excuse, but hardly and explanation.
For that, we’d need a better crop of Californians.
Nunez will run for mayor of Lost Angeles if and when Villar goes to DC or Sacramento.
Nunez and Peralta tried to pull a fast one and almost got away with it. They tried to get the term limits “reform” and not give the redistricting promised and it blew up in the faces.
I would have voted for Proposition 93 if it affected only those individuals elected to office AFTER it passed, meaning those who were to be term limited out would BE term limited out. This measure insulted our intelligence.
I hope future investigations into the corruption of these two beasts leads to another type of “term limit” for both of them.
That’s what I would suspect as his career path. He can finish the potholes project.. with corks from all the fine wines he has sampled the last couple years on his European soirees..
Well, unfortunately those currently in Sacrament are full of crop. We’ll do the best we can. I’m sure the state GOP leadership is looking for a few good RINOs right about now though.
There is hope that eventually Fabian will get docked for all his dubious expenses on his travels and also that the FBI and a GRand Jury will finally take Perata to town for his family influence peddling enterprise.
I read a story from CA that the initiative had a good chance until Arnold who ran on term limits changed his mind.
we’d need a better crop of Californians.
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Yup.
I’m sure the state GOP leadership is looking for a few good RINOs right about now though.
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well, let’s hope at least some primaries are held where conservative candidates are allowed to run this go around..
It only goes to show how completely out of touch Nunez really is - I didn’t see a single commercial touching on the “redistricting” issue that had originally been tied to the change in term limits - I heard about that because Brian Sussman brought it to my attention and I did the research on my own. I see that Nunez attempts to blame the eeeevil Repubicans.
His real problem, probably, is that the Senate Seat for his district isn’t open this election and he was counting on 93 passing so that he could have a job for the next two years.
And ARNOLD should be effin’ ashamed of himself for supporting this measure without the concommitant redistricting that had been promised.
That would be a good start.
Same here. They tried to pull a fast one.
You’re swinging an awfully broad brush there Norm.....
You know, I thought there was a brief, very brief, two-year period where one or both of our Cali legislative houses went Republican for two years. Or maybe I just dreamed it.
Hey, let’s leave broads out of this OK. ;-)
It was a reply to another’s comment , btw. :-)
Well it did until one of the RINO republicans sided with Willie Brown and blocked the Republican takeover for all but about ten minutes of the two years.
I’m not actually sure if the Republicans ever did get control at all. If so, it was essentially meaningless.
Willie was as slick or slicker a player than the Clintons.
I used to have a co-worker who was connected to politics and insiders in the Capital of Ca. She told one time that Willie actually hit a pedestrian in a cross walk one time, and not a word of it appeared in the press.
That’s a pretty good trick.
Willie was for decades the most powerful politician west of the Mississippi IMO.
He will be the next Mayor of Los Angeles after Antonio goes to D.C. for delivery CA for Hillary.
One of my friend’s husband was a top-level manager at San Francisco International Airport.
He told me that Willie Brown was one of the most corrupt individuals in California politics, but had hidden everything so well no one would ever find it.
Your friend’s husband was right. I don’t think you’ll find too many conservatiives in California who would disagree.
Yes, the Republicans took control of the state assembly, with a 1 vote majority. Then Willie Brown bribed “Republican” Paul Horcher into voting for him. Horcher was promptly recalled and kicked out of offfice, though if I remember correctly Brown did get him a nice paying paying government job for a while.
Then next Democrat trick was to make a deal with a Republican of their choosing (I don’t remember her name right now) to be Assembly leader, and cast all their votes for her, giving her the job over the Republican choice. She shouldn’t have been too surprised when she in turn lost a recall collection, and the Republicans finally controlled the assembly for like 1 year.
Thanks MH. It had been a while and I didn’t remember the nitty gritty.
This was followed by some nice government work in the bay area (despite his being from Diamond Bar), which of course happens to be Willie Brown’s neck of the wood.
Oh, and nowhere does he mention that he was elected as a Republican, and the picture on the page is of him and Willie Brown.
Thanks for that additional information.
I had noticed that heading on the left “Statesman”. Riiiight...
Doris Allen was Willie’s bribe-o-babe.
The big tobacco companies donated more money to him than to any other elected official in the entire country. That includes governors and U.S. Senators from the big tobacco states.
"The Maestro"
Looking at that pic of your beautiful family... I’d say we have some pretty great Californians... we’re just outnumbered!
Compared to him, Jackson and Sharpton are amatures.
Good point Cyropaedia.
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