Posted on 09/05/2012 1:19:27 PM PDT by Osage Orange
Former Los Angeles Lakers Coach Phil Jackson once referred to Sacramento as a "cowtown," but Gloria Romero, a pro-labor Democrat who served as California's Senate majority leader from 2001 to 2008, takes exception to the belittling description. The capitol building in Sacramento, she says, has "the eighth most powerful economy in the world under that dome," and it operates not unlike other wealthy kleptocracies. "There's no other way to say it politely. It's owned."
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Who is this Gloria lady?
I want to like her. Great article! She deserves some sort of award. And she should switch parties.
A Dim that get's it.
Smart woman.
I'd like to meet her.
We agree with her on THIS issue. She’s a leftist loon on nearly every other issue, including overtaxation, over-regulation, selling out to the trial lawyers, etc. But for some reason she’s seen the light on THIS issue. I’ll take what I can get!
All I know is what I've read here.
It is precisely her lifelong far-left record that makes her embrace of this reform measure so unusual, and so welcome.
There is a glimmer of hope for a person who, with the best of intentions and an open mind approaches a problem with an obsessive ambition to resolve it.
If she is principled enough to punch through her own ideological bubble to get to a revelation that goes against everything she has been taught to believe, she may be principled enough to learn some other truths also.
I think she can be turned - Luke Skywalker :o)
All I know is what I've read here.
Anyway....I agree with everyone here. If she's seeing this....maybe she will come to grips with the big picture.
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