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CA: The ugly truth about Sacramento
The Orange County Register ^ | September 12, 2005 | Steven Greenhut

Posted on 09/12/2005 10:00:07 AM PDT by calcowgirl

... Those who control the legislative process (i.e., Sacramento Democrats) seem to have no concept of the nation's founding principles, such as limited government, personal responsibility, the rule of law, free enterprise. Even when they quote the founding fathers, they know only the words and not the meanings.

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Approximately 400 bills reached the floor of the Assembly in the final four-day frenzy, with only about 45 of them authored by Republicans. One bill after another ... tax, spend, regulate and impose the liberal Democratic social vision on the state.

There's the plan to raise the state's minimum wage, with the sponsors oblivious to how such increases actually reduce the number of lower-paying jobs. There's a proposal mandating gender-equity in the workplace, which would allow anyone with a grievance, real or perceived, to sue his or her employer. Enabling more lawsuits, actually, seems to be a big Democratic priority. There are the bills to let workers sue their employers over labor concerns or over environmental concerns. There are the bills that let consumers sue businesses.

There are the curriculum mandates - e.g., requiring students to be taught in their native language, in apparent violation of Proposition 227, or mandating the teaching of tolerance. There's a bill that would trigger a tax audit of companies that have labor violations. There are bans on junk faxes and on certain kinds of car loans. There is a bill that creates a reparations fund for Mexican-Americans unfairly repatriated to Mexico decades ago. And don't forget the attempt to provide driver's licenses to those in the state illegally, and the endless proposals to add more regulations on every known activity.

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: callegislation; calveto; greenhut
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As one crazy Democratic proposal passed the Assembly floor, some one in the back of the room said out loud: "What's another veto between friends?" I can only hope the governor wields that veto pen often.
1 posted on 09/12/2005 10:00:15 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: kellynla; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; tubebender; Czar; SierraWasp; FOG724

Greenhut Ping


2 posted on 09/12/2005 10:02:11 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl

3 posted on 09/12/2005 10:07:48 AM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: calcowgirl

California is such a wasteland.


4 posted on 09/12/2005 10:13:56 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: calcowgirl

We may be headed the way of Louisiana. Our own bozos failed to pass levee upgrades but apparently fell over each other to approve gay marriage and licenses for illegals. Thank God for Arnie's veto pen. But still, the levees are crumbling. I can see one from where I am sitting right now (e.g. along SF Bay) and it is not long for this world.


5 posted on 09/12/2005 10:17:24 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: yldstrk

Hey, hey. We are not. We have an out of control government but we are not a wasteland.


6 posted on 09/12/2005 10:18:19 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: doug from upland

More tales of legislative meltdown in the once Golden State.


7 posted on 09/12/2005 10:20:35 AM PDT by defenderSD (At half past midnight, the ghost of Vince Foster wanders through the West Wing.)
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To: calcowgirl
Those who control the legislative process (i.e., Sacramento Democrats) seem to have no concept of the nation's founding principles,...

Of course they don't...they are all socialists.

8 posted on 09/12/2005 10:20:37 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (God bless America...land that I love...stand beside her and guide her...)
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To: calcowgirl
Greenhut is one of the few reasons I continue to subscribe to the OC Register. While it remains a right of center paper, it no longer reflects the hard right rudder policy of days gone by (when old man Hoiles ran things). Moreover, the hispandering factor has gone up, to the point that I would probably drop the paper altogether if my wife would let me.

Of course, the LA Times is always an option (yeah...).

9 posted on 09/12/2005 10:24:39 AM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: yldstrk
You may consider California to be a wasteland, but please know that many moral and conservative folks live here including JimRob who owns this site. We're doing everything we can to turn the political tide.

I'm sure Kansas has problems all its own. But I'll never call it a 'wasteland'.

10 posted on 09/12/2005 10:25:07 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: ElkGroveDan; Brad's Gramma

California ping


11 posted on 09/12/2005 10:26:34 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

TIGGY!!!!

Let me back up & read the troll's remarks.

BRB!


12 posted on 09/12/2005 10:28:59 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: Brad's Gramma

not a troll really...just misguided.


13 posted on 09/12/2005 10:30:55 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: yldstrk
You say this.....California is such a wasteland.

And then have THIS in your TAGLINE? ....My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush

Um. Methinks you've been around corn and wheat (or whatever the heck you people grow there...) too long.

14 posted on 09/12/2005 10:35:09 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

Not misguided. Small minded. :)


15 posted on 09/12/2005 10:36:43 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: yldstrk
California is such a wasteland.

What a dumb-ass thing to say. California is a gorgeous prosperous state, that people are tripping over each other to live in. One out of every six Americans lives here.

I've been to Kansas. I believe the tourist first sight I saw was an 18-wheel-truck propped up vertically. Are there any more sights that I missed?

California is presently in the grip of the extreme liberals who control the Democrat Party. Our state has been subject to wild swings in partisan control for many decades. Republicans have been in charge before and we will be again.

16 posted on 09/12/2005 10:37:53 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!)
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To: yldstrk
California is such a wasteland.

Yeah, it isn't Kansas anymore. Airheaded posts like yours with drivel about the home state of Free Republic don't do much to help the problem. California is a huge state with huge challenges. It's dominated by Flower Children liberals from San Francisco and Los Angeles who've gerrymandered election districts so they can't be voted out. Sadly, Pubbies have contributed to the process.

If you want to do something positive instead of name-call, send money to Gov. Schwarzennegger to help publicize the special election measure to take redistricting responsibility away from the legislature. Maybe his solution isn't perfect but it would go a long way toward resolving the problems mentioned in the article above.

17 posted on 09/12/2005 10:42:30 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: Brad's Gramma

I noticed that the San Fernando Valley's Number One project, the 405/101 interchange, was left hanging as the Sacramento Group of Subcultures pushed forward Gay Marriage, Illegal Alien Drivers Licenses, Health Care for 800,000 Illeal Aliens, Payment to those deported under a Federal Program over 70 years ago...

This state is F*#&*D up!


18 posted on 09/12/2005 10:42:56 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: yldstrk
California is such a wasteland.

From the wasteland: One of your tag line heros was OUR GOVERNOR. HaHaHa

19 posted on 09/12/2005 10:44:24 AM PDT by tertiary01 (It took 21 years but 1984 finally arrived.)
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To: calcowgirl
A particularly nasty incident has been reported in the Sacramento Bee. Earlier this month the state Senate's dictatorial Appropriations Committee chairwoman, Democrat Carole Migden of San Francisco, marched over to the Assembly floor to watch a vote on her bill to add new regulatory requirements for cosmetic manufacturers.

With the bill one vote shy of passage, she went to Republican Guy Houston's desk and pushed the "yes" button so that a vote would be electronically recorded. The normally mild-mannered Assemblyman Bob Huff, the Diamond Bar Republican who sits next to Houston, saw this and had to push Migden's arm away, then undo the vote. Huff told me that Migden's excuse - that she thought the desk was a Democrat's - is bogus. She has a reputation for doing this, he said, and even if it had been a Democrat's desk, a senator has no right to cast a vote in the Assembly chambers. Assemblyman Todd Spitzer said Migden might have committed a felony, although he argued for a reprimand rather than prosecution. Even that's unlikely, since Midgen is chairwoman of the committee that dispenses the cash.

Lovely.

20 posted on 09/12/2005 10:46:59 AM PDT by lowbridge
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