[concentric circles]

Just a reminder regarding the referendum response to possible passage of this legislation. If it is passed under urgency provisions, under the guise of national security by way of background checks, it becomes law as soon as it is signed by the governor.

Referendum would not be an option in that case. Last time around, as non-urgency legislation, a period of months intervened between Gray Davis signing the bill and the legislation becoming law. So it was possible to stop it from taking effect.

In the event this came to pass, thousands of licenses could be granted before the law was overthrown and the licenses invalidated. Imagine the momentum this could give to similar movements in other states.

Ron Prince has said he will organize another run at getting an initiative on the ballot to deny illegals taxpayer funded services, including driver licensing. The last effort foundered as an on line only enterprise which was launched hurriedly and without sufficient funds to pay signature gatherers.

For the next try Prince will concentrate on fund raising which will just about guarantee a place on the ballot but it will be a 2006 ballot.

We can take some small consolation in all of these possibilities by imaging how long it will take the Department of Motor Vehicles to get up to speed. That's just the beginning, background checks of any kind will take time. Imagine the Mexican bureaucracy in motion. It will be costly as well. Then there's the rumors that will circulate regarding the licensing being a sham to get illegals' vital information so they can be rounded up and shipped out.

Interesting times in a country that is supposed to be founded on the rule of law. Citizens must bend over backward to fulfill the requirements of the law while those who flout the law need only show up.

[Amerigomag]

If Schwarzenegger signs the proposed legislation I see it as a call to arms. Sooner or later you have to draw a line in the sand and stand tall.

If Schwarzenegger and other liberals keep handing the keys to the asylum to the inmates, the staff will soon become inconsequential. If Schwarzenegger and the other liberals keep giving Mexico's poor the reigns of power through legitimizing their growing swarm soon the rest of us will have to make a difficult decision. Fight or flee.

Why the hell should either I or my family who have resided peacefully and productively in California for over 100 years turn the place over to Mexico's poor? Unlike Texas, Mexico has no great historic claim to California.

[John Jorsett]

Just a reminder regarding the referendum response to possible passage of this legislation. If it is passed under urgency provisions, under the guise of national security by way of background checks, it becomes law as soon as it is signed by the governor.

While that's a theoretical possibility, it requires a two-thirds vote of the legislature, which mean 6 Assembly Republicans and 2 Senate Republicans have to vote for it. KFI radio questioned every single Republican member of both bodies, and every one of them said that they'd never vote for an urgency provision under any circumstances. Maybe Schwarzenegger could influence some of them, but I doubt he'd be able to get enough. The political firestorm that would result would be enormous, and our new governor is a good example of what happens when the people get that upset.