Posted on 06/03/2010 5:54:53 PM PDT by Randy Larsen
I need local input from California!
. No, write in Micky Mouse or Donald Duck. Leaving the vote blank only expresses confusion. Writing in a cartoon character expresses contempt for the incumbent.
This is definitely the year to express contempt for incumbents and keep them worried.
If Poizner doesn’t stop robo-calling me I’m gonna hunt him down and skin him alive.
We are going with Poizner and De’Vore!!
You have to look at Whitman’s financials.
Do you think for one minute, once she gets in office, that she would do anything that would harm the profits of the companies she owns? Even if it was best for the state?
If it was one guy with one company it’d be obvious, but she has so many ‘partners’ the corruption can come heavy and fast and no one will be able to keep up.
We’ve seen how Diane Feinstin uses her office to enhance her personal wealth with globalist antiamerican legislation, I have no doubt that Whitman is cut from the same cloth.
Ad’s? I don’t believe half of them any more....sigh
Half?
I don’t believe any of them including Tom McClintock’s!
Must be many Al Gore supporters on this thread since they like Poizner who voted for him.
Where are you placing your buck!
No fan of Meg but will vote for her rather than hve Left Wing Democrat Jerry Brown again.
Will also vote for Fiorina
Thanks but I’m still confused.
This is hard to figure out.
5 DTG and confusion runs deep!
Fiorina the globalist? Her heart isn’t in California, she prefers the serf like society that the communist/globalists have created in China.
You must hate your fellow citizens to vote for a candidate like her!
Your Barbara Boxer is a disaster.
Since one or the other will win, I will not make a Boxer victory possible
What you said makes no sense.
That contest is a “lose-lose” situation.
My guess - - strictly a guess, based on perusing threads here at FR - - is that Poizner is the bigger liar and scumbag of the two.
Good luck.
I posted this on another thread, might as well put it here too:
The Poizner campaign is to a very great extent a referendum on illegal immigration as an issue.
If he loses, those who want to profit from illegal activity in one way or another won’t shut up about it. And, that will have an impact on you whether you know it or not.
Whatever your other issues, this one is more important.
What has happened in the mean time is that the vast majority of the benefits of Prop 13 now go to businesses who turnover their property even less often than seniors. Especially since they have come up with clever loopholes that allow them to transfer the property to new owners without it being registered as a property transfer requiring a reappraisal.
Also, in the mean time the Democrats have been busy rewriting the tax laws so that state taxes go to localities and local taxes go to the state. Likewise for fees. It has become a total fustercluck.
It is no coincidence that 1/3 + 1 of the legislators are Republican. If the 2/3rd's requirement hadn't been stuck in with the rest of Prop 13 then 1/2 + 1 of the legislators would be Republican. That is because as soon as the Democrats had started raising taxes as much as they wanted, they would have been ousted by sensible citizens.
The 2/3rd requirement sounds like a good idea in the short run, but how has it helped over the long run?
Do you really believe that our state taxes would have been raised to 20-30% to pay for all the bloated government salaries and pensions with no response from the electorate?
Some Californians are truly stupid and/or selfish, but the majority are still reasonable.
California is going down the tube partly because of all of the Propositions that require certain funds be spent on certain programs, and tie the hands of the legislators so they can't respond, and don't have to take responsibility for, what's going on.
We pass laws to put more people in jail, but don't spend the money necessary to build sufficient space.
We get all gooey-eyed over police and firemen and give them a blank check, then wonder why we're billions in debt.
We have relatively lower property taxes, but our sales tax is now at or above 10%.
Republicans may think they're being smart by opposing this tax increase over here, or that bond issue over there. In the end its just a pointless game of whack-a-mole as the bureaucrats and Democrats find more ways to increase fees and adjust our taxes upwards.
And over time as Republicans lower taxes and regulations for particular cities, more and more power is ceded to the state. Good going!
The only solution is good government where we pay our bills as we go. Hike my taxes to 50% to fully fund all the promises we made, or break those promises now. The people need to feel the pain if they are ever going to be disabused of the notion that government services can be had for free.
I rarely disagree with Tom, but I think he's done this endorsing for personal reasons involving a bitter feud he's had with Pete "World Champion RINO" Wilson who is backing the shallow Whitman person.
Jerry Brown is either gonna be a total laughingstock and a push-over, or will LBJ his opponent. His opponent had better remind voters that Moonbeam is a step backward into a Carteresque past of the mid 1970's. I'm betting a long shot that the Tea Party movement will build a huge thirst for new blood in such a vital position!!!
I'm probably wrong, but it's my vote and people have died to guarantee that I can work my will with it in secret, unless I tell you as I just did.
You're on your own as with everything else in a free world!!!
You call your own shots and don't follow anybody and stay FREE!!!
If you don't like the choices on the ballot, then you must start your involvement in the Party's sellection process right now for the NEXT election. Get in the trenches and kick ass till you git what you want from the git-go!!!
Prop 13 was passed for every property owner, not just seniors. Or it would have been written for just seniors.
My father was a personal friend with Howard Jarvis. Jarvis wasn’t a politician, just a businessman who realized the ONLY way to constrain government was by cutting off their ability to raise more and more money.
Without the 2/3 requirement, by now who knows what would have occured.
It benefits every property owner to be able to predict their property taxes, and not to have them jacked up 30 or 40 percent on a whim, like some other states.
Has Jarvis’ measure done everything it intended. Not by a long shot.
But his premise was dead on the money, and it would be beyond foolhardy to give up the 2/3 requirement.
The last thing Sacramento needs is for it to become easier to raise taxes.
Sacramento needs to cut, cut, cut. Cut some more. Cut headcounts, cut base pay, cut pensions, cut benefits, and then cut some more.
Cities and school districts likewise.
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