Posted on 09/26/2011 2:55:37 PM PDT by SmithL
Three wealthy Californians have launched a new effort aimed at helping elect state legislators who demonstrate the "courage" to tackle major issues facing the Golden State.
"Govern for California" is backed by Democrat David Crane, who worked as an advisor to former GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican investor Ron Conway, and Greg Penner, a WalMart Board of Directors member who is registered decline-to-state.
The group has created a website website to educate voters about the importance and actions of the state's 120 legislators, arguing that the Golden State's governance woes "will never turn around unless the good people of California start paying attention to the legislators who run our state."
The three founders also plan to form and help fund an independent expenditure committee that will act "in support of courageous candidates regardless of party and from any part of the state" in the upcoming elections.
"In the case of Democrats, courage means the nerve to stand up to government employee unions whose demands take funding from other programs and penalize private-sector job creation. In the case of Republicans, courage means the nerve to stand up to those unions as well as to corporations and no-tax groups who, even when presented with all the reforms they seek, refuse to acknowledge that sometimes more revenue for the government can be a good thing. And in the case of all legislators, courage means an unshakeable dedication to honest budgets, truthful accounting, open government and governing for the general interest," Crane wrote in an letter announcing the group's formation.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.sacbee.com ...
More revenue? Californians are nearly the highest taxed in the nation.
Trying to remember what happened the last time I heard the words “courage” and “Sacramento” used in the same article...hmmm.
Oh yeah! I remember now...
We had our taxes raised by “courageous” Repukes who voted with the RATS!
SPIT!
"Govern for California" is backed by Democrat David Crane... Republican investor Ron Conway, and Greg Penner, a WalMart Board of Directors member who is registered decline-to-state.
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