Posted on 11/08/2005 8:20:03 PM PST by ajolympian2004
It looks like about 1,000,000 other Californians felt the same way you do. Forgive me for being blunt, but if you didn't vote, you have surrendered your right to criticize anything that happens in your state. Not voting is the same as voting for the winner.
The reddest of the red states can't generally boast that percentage.
Redlands is in San Bernardino county. Have you heard if it passed (cross on city seal)?
If I were a Californian I'd almost want to split the state up:
West California, which would be basically the entire coastal area to 40 miles inland, but leaving out San Diego, which would go to the new East California along with the rest of the state. So basically West California would be the LA to San Jose to San Francisco corridor, and East California would encompass Sacramento, Stockton, San Diego, etc.
Wrong. The correct answer is a good Conservative Republican. And if all you've got are a bunch of Liberal RINOs, then you are offering nothing but Hillary Lite. This ABH campaign is nothing but a not-so-thinly-veiled attempt to turn the Republican Party into the GOP wing of the Democrats. I won't have anything to do with such an abomination.
The 'ilk' are being exceptionally quiet. Their mission accomplished, for now?
Proposition 76. Would've allowed the governor to cut state spending including emergency cuts in education spending (which are mandated by state law)when the legislature cannot present a balanced budget. It was attacked as a measure that would "hurt the schools" -- crowded classrooms, no immunizations, etc. Very strongly attacked by the teacher's unions.
That's a distinct departure from his fliers. What you're seeing there is Arnold on a right-of-center program throwing Conservatives a very small bone in hopes that it will entice them to support his measures. But you look at any mailer from the Arnold camp and the only thing you see on th efront cover is VOTE FOR 74, 75, 76, 77. No mention at all of Prop 73. NONE.
And ads by the CA GOP supporting 73? If they were made, they were never printed or broadcast in my area. But there was mondo saturation of the airwaves claiming that 73 "put our daughters lives in danger."
And people wonder why 73 went down in flames? *snerk*
I really believe that the reason they beat us over the head with polls is to convince conservatives to not bother to vote. It's easy to discourage some voters apparently. It happened in the Bush Gore vote when Republicans didn't vote when they heard Gore already won Florida. It's a shame that so many people fall for it.
In the eyes of the Leftists, any speedbump to killing an unborn child is "anti-choice." And they pitched their opposition precisely as that.
Leftists love the idea of government trumping parents. This helps fulfill their creeping socialist nightmare.
Shameful, imo.
Another thing to be thankful for this morning, that I left California.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
My thoughts exactly.
Just damn.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
You have NO room to criticize how the props turned out then.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Yep. You go anywhere else in the state besides San Francisco?
Okay, FRiend. Have a look at this map and tell me where these "conservative" bastions are. I'd like to know because, looking at the percentages, there was a resounding lack of response from them.
Hell, looking at the results here, they may as well have all been San Francisco!
...or worse, Berkeley.
(From Message #1251 on this thread.)
Amazing. So Californians want the government to spend as much as they want, allow minors to have as many abortions as they want without their parents knowing about it, allow crappy teachers to work for just 24 months, after which time they can never be fired for doing a crappy job, and allow unions to spend their members' dues for political purposes without asking its members if it's ok.
I can't imagine being of the mindset where that line of thinking is rational or even the least bit ethical. I'm speechless.
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