Posted on 09/26/2005 1:24:26 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Elementary schools start with the fundamentals, the building blocks, the three R's: reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic. The California Comeback starts with its fundamentals, its building blocks, too. They are a different three R's: recovery, reform, rebuild.
When I took office 22 months ago, I had no illusions about how difficult the job would be, no illusions about what it would take to turn around a state $22 billion in debt. But in that time, we have accomplished the first R - recovery. We saved the state from bankruptcy, increasing state revenues $6 billion without raising taxes. We rolled back the unfair car tax increase, reduced workers' compensation insurance premiums 30 percent, created a positive business environment and brought huge numbers of jobs back to the state - more than 400,000.
You put your full faith and trust in me when you sent me to Sacramento to fix a broken political system. I was - and remain - determined to reach your goal. I knew there would be challenges, but I believed I could get Democrats and Republicans to work together. Initially, we did. We got a lot done, and we did it quickly.
I am proud of the economic recovery, just as I am proud of our other accomplishments: supporting stem cell research, victims' rights, the three-strikes law and environmental initiatives such as the hydrogen highway. I'm proud I set aside more land for public parks than any governor in California's history.
I also know that while meeting those challenges, I made some mistakes and learned many vital lessons along the way that make me a better governor.
I've learned that it is a good idea as governor to listen more and talk less, especially lines best left for "Saturday Night Live." ...
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Law and Order Criminal Intent. I love it. But it looks like they're going to ruin the entire format by bringing in Chris Noth! Yuck!
You just gave me the best full bore belly laugh I've had all week!!! Thank you!!!
"My, my, Sierra. You're in rare form tonight."
I didn't realize I had stirred up a wasp's . . . Oh never mind. Bad joke alert.
Well OK. Now that we're down, what was all this about ISSUES? Mind you now, it's the 30th so I'm reconciling my bank statements and paying bills. I could go berserk at any time.
No! No!! Carry On!!!
I like the way you were headed!!! (The exclamation marks are pseudo "stingers," don'tcha know?)
This is great! Now you're gittin in the spirit of things!!!
By the way, my "form" is not to have a wasp's waist anylonger. Quiting 42 years of cigarettes and switching to candy is what has put me in very poor form, fer sure!!!
GVgirl! That danged TV will do the same thing to yer brane what these candies have done to my formerly waspish waistline!!!
Naw... Let's don't go there, then! You got that all in Quicken, don'tcha? You cain't fool me!!!
"Quiting 42 years of cigarettes"
Now that's an area we definitely have common ground on. I can only claim 21. But it might as well as have been 42. I never thought I'd be able to. Then there was just a period of time when the time was right. 2 1/2 years now.
Enjoy your candies, my FRiend.
Oh well... I'm gonna die of somethin someday... I'm comin up on my first year. I quit the day before Christmas Eve last year. The urges are still strong, but the will is stronger!!!
BTW I'm reconciled now, so you can save me from writing checks if you want!
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