And also note she was a..... drum roll please.....
community activist!
Posted on 06/28/2009 12:48:11 AM PDT by blueplum
interview exerpt:
QUESTION: How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature's work?
BASS: "The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: "You vote for revenue and your career is over." I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it's about free speech, but it's extremely unfair."
QUESTION: Do you get especially exasperated when your own people -- Democrats -- don't agree with you?
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. It's only been five years since I've been on the other side. I get frustrated when we're in the middle of the deepest recession since the Depression and people say, "You really shouldn't cut." This is very, very painful. I'm doing the exact opposite of what I ran for office for. But I do have to be an adult in this situation. My job is to protect [programs]....
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That an ignorant Dem considers the exercise of Democracy terrorism is hardly news.
I wonder if Zero intends to imprison republicans indefinitely for being terrorists?
As opposed to the fair and equitable treatment of Joe Lieberman by the Democrats.
well, exercise of Democracy by Republicans anyway ;)
I have to say I’ve looked at Dems as a group as complete dingbats, but I’ve never considered my fellow citizens ‘terrorists’. How Rude! Crude! and Socially Unacceptable!
Were it not for Napolitano’s redacted (but still out there propaganda wise) ‘terrorist’ report, and Iran’s mullahs categorizing their own protestors as ‘terrorists’ maybe it would just have gone over my head and I wouldn’t have noticed the comment at all, but it makes me wonder....what’s going on!?
ask her what would happen if she voted against anything pro-homo.
my guess, she would be out. she seems to be operating under a terrorist threat herself... one that desecrates churches and mugs old ladies holding signs
She needs to be sued for defamation of character. This can not stand.
It died a premature death at the hands and lips of democrat party demagogues and ideologues.
TERRORIST now joins other words like GAY, FAIR, EQUAL, ILLEGAL, NIGGARDLY, FETUS and terms like PRO-CHOICE, FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, and TAX REBATE on the fast growing Double-Speak rubble pile.
These are words and terms that have intentionally been so twisted, distorted, misused and inverted by democrats that they now have lost most, or all, of their original meaning and are practically useless in their original context.
The use of the word "career" is part of the problem. Politics is not meant to be a source of "this is what I do for a living to support my family and make ends meet". At that point it has become selfish ambition.
The concept of "service" is gone.
The two worst decisions in California history. 1. Ronald Reagon pushing for a full time legislature. Prior to this we had a part time group that tended to be from business and farming that could afford to serve. The fact that it did not pay well kept the hippy liberal trash and real estate agents out. 2. Term limits which have allowed hippy liberal trash of low mental standing to get the power necessary to push through union and special interest legislation that is destroying the state.
"The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: "You vote for revenue and your career is over." I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it's about free speech, but it's extremely unfair."
Lemme get this straight - California has term limits, and still a legislator can characterize "petition[ing] the government for a redress of grievances" as a "terrorist threat" (comparable to ACORN's bussing in people to openly case your house and neighborhood if Obama fingers you as "greedy") to the "career" of a legislator!I think the next step after term limits is a minimum age requirement for politicians - say, about 45 years. That way nobody could get into office without having already had a career.
They love to call it "public service," while they actually treat it as a business opportunity.
Bass is a former community organizer.
“I wonder if Zero intends to imprison republicans indefinitely for being terrorists?”
You may be closer to the truth than you realize.
The politicians are afraid to cut where they can and she makes the point that people want other areas of government cut but, not the ones that affect them.
She also and in my opinion accurately describes the mentality of people who are dependent on government services and that the typical voter doesn't want to pay for service.
I think what she is saying is that most people don't understand the government of California does not produce money out of thin air. They derive their funds from taxation and fees. They have no decision in monetary policy and are dependent on the American Dollar.
With this basic lack of understanding most people say “let the government pay for it”. Never realizing that taxes on property, gas, food, computers, etc are where the government get its money.
That's right, you are paying certain state taxes so essentially you are funding these services. However, when revenue is reduced through tax collection do to a downturn in the economy and a reduction in spending, there necessarily needs to be a reduction in services.
As I said before the government doesn't manufacture money they tax you to acquire it.
As Californians, we should be adults in this process, as Ms. Bass has declared. That means saying to your representatives “Cut services and we accept that you will also cut services we are dependent on”. An adult would come to that logical conclusion.
Finally, it can be reasoned that since we are cutting services, including those directly affecting us, we should absolutely gut many of the other programs while looking for new resources that will deliver resources.
Cut programs that we simply cannot afford. Here I am talking about the marine biology programs, coastal commission, guards for so called state parks, etc. For new sources of revenue we must develop our natural resources such as oil, offshore and land based, natural gas and provide tax incentives that are friendly to business, while reducing the onerous paperwork required to operate in California.
Well you can sure tell where this person's heart is, coveting other peoples money. This race to a 'new world order' seems to have the liberals taking charge and receiving mass applause for the break neck speed in which they are reenacting the 'French' revolution.
These are words and terms that have intentionally been so twisted, distorted, misused and inverted by democrats that they now have lost most, or all, of their original meaning and are practically useless in their original context.
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You forgot racist.
You vote for revenue and your career is over.” I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech,
Read vote for revenue in ENGLISH, as TAXERS..
She guesses that it is about free speech?
How about we get a law passed that says pnly people that have actually read the US Constitution can be elected to office? The idiots like this women would not matter..
Oh and lady. George Washington was a terrorist as was Adams, Jefferson etc......
Orwell was so right. We have become a nation of bastardized language. We allow the MSM and communist pukes to dominate, define and dictate. Of course the real problem is that "we" also start using the very same language.
"Activist" my ass. She a white hating, anti-Western, anti-Libery POS.
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