CA: E-mail slip-up is a curious twist in state budget standoff (Gub's office says Ooops!)

LA Times ^ | 8/4/07 | Evan Halper

[NormsRevenge]

A over-zealous junior staffer gets the blame.. Uh huh.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Lying skunks. RINO Schwatzenkennedy siding with the Democrat criminals against a handful of stalwart Republican Statesmen. Sigh. It's like watching the last scene in "The Alamo".

Anyway, don't blame me, I voted for McClintock.

[Enterprise]

Just another disgusting Arnie twick.

[lilylangtree]

I was rooting for McClintock too.

[Amerigomag]

What's puzzling in this sad episode is the behavior of Michael Villines.

Touted as a conservative, with talking points like a conservative, this local clown rushed to lap at the feet of the Austrian when the chips were down in the Assembly vote.

Apparently, Villines is going to turn out to be 100% party with no core values other than political expediency. A Fresno area Kevin McCarthy.

[barnicus]

I voted McClintock

[goldstategop]

His inner circle ARE Democrats and they are Democrat talking points. As for the Governor's promises, every one in California knows precisely what they are worth... nothing. Arnold has NO credibility and NO political capital to spend and the CAGOP is in no mood to do him favors. He chose to side with the Democrats over his own party. Now let him live with the consequences of his choice.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Amerigomag]

I voted McClintock

As did one in every six Californians who bothered to vote in the 2003 Recall and every other voter who participated in the last general election.

Voting for McClintock makes one neither a hero or a martyr but rather a member of a vocal plurality.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Tell me again why they fired Davis and hired Arnold?

[NormsRevenge]

That is the question that some continue to ask to this day. (I think you’ve asked it more than once as I recall. ;-) )

Why the GOP would allow itself to be sabotaged so willingly is another one.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Yep !

[taxesareforever]

backfired this week when an administration e-mail chain was inadvertently shared with the media.

Inadvertently? Yeah, right. And my flight to the moon leaves tonight.

[Amerigomag]

Why the GOP would allow itself to be sabotaged so willingly is another one.

Money.

Orange County wealth (the New Majority), ostensibly Republican, was frustrated. They had been unwillingly greasing Democrat wheels but still no lucrative business contracts were coming out of Sacramento because the green fringe had hijacked the CADEM.

The New Majority was receptive when the Wilson team approached them with the pearl represented by the Recall election. A chance to elect a Republican governor who would line their pockets from the public trough without the filter of the establish primary process which would out their popular, foreign impostor.

The New Majority then approached Sundheim with the scheme and Sundheim saw a chance for the CAGOP to remain relevant with the financial backing of the New Majority. Initially, Sundheim found resistance with the Central Committes but as the Wilsonegger Gang fronted their Trojan horse in the media, the stampede was on.

[NormsRevenge]

Follow the money.

Thanks for filling in the gaps. ;-)

[goldstategop]

You'll recall he DID campaign to have Sacramento live within its means and blow up the boxes, e.g downsize the bloated state bureaucracy. That's a lifetime ago.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Amerigomag]

You mean that politicians will actually lie to get elected?

That's pretty discouraging wouldn't you say?

If a politician will lie to get elected what basis do we have with which to select our representatives?

Can you imagine how much work it takes to study the past actions of a candidate to determine his suitability for public office?

If the electorate is forced to look beyond the image of a candidate and the few words presented each evening, can our democracy survive?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

“...statement was, for the most part, drafted not by the committee member but by the governor’s office.”

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But the huge Amnesty Bill can be practically drafted by La Raza for Congress and that’s okay...

/sarc.

Double standards, anyone?

[goldstategop]

You're right about that. Arnold got re-elected despite his prior promises. And he has done nothing to rein in, let alone roll back the exploding growth of state government, on his watch.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[SierraWasp]

"They need to remember it's always better to bend than to break."

This same phrase was used against me by the local Democrat Incumbent County Supervisor and Whitewater Rafting King of the South fork of the American River who also saw to it that both Pete Wilson and Swortsnayger got free indoctrination trips down through the "eddy pools" just above Folsom Reservoir the minute they were elected!

Although all his militant GANG-GREEN friends were killing the timber industry in our county, he's be quoted in the local paper saying "Bend or break! Change or Die!" I was so pleased that these statements could be attributed to him because they helped get me elected and pretty much halted his budding political career!

His mom and Phil Angelides's mom were good Democrat buddies!!!

[Enterprise]

It's all so simple. We recalled Davis because he was a big government liberal. SOME of us strongly supported McClintock but enough of us VERY STUPIDLY DIDN'T and thus, another big government liberal was elected.