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CA: Aiming to clean up the mess in Sacramento [Barf Alert]
Los Angeles Times ^ | 3/24/08 | George Skelton

Posted on 03/24/2008 9:32:57 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim

Leon Panetta should have been governor. But at least his talent will be used trying to straighten out Sacramento.

Panetta and a new team of Capitol outsiders and periphery players have been staked with nearly $16 million by five foundations that are frustrated with the pathetic performance of Sacramento politicians.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: californiaforward; corruption; mckernan; newmajority; panetta; politics
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1 posted on 03/24/2008 9:32:57 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

“at least his talent will be used trying to straighten out Sacramento.”

Fat chance of that.


2 posted on 03/24/2008 9:36:52 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: kiriath_jearim

Panetta is so far left Arnold will look conservative to him.


3 posted on 03/24/2008 9:38:10 AM PDT by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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To: Brilliant

“Fat chance of that.”

The “King of Pork” to the rescue. Riight.


4 posted on 03/24/2008 9:40:50 AM PDT by Bobibutu
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To: edcoil

And that “Republican” stands a good chance of it as well. These guys can find $16 million for this, but when good conservatives are running to be the governor, they can’t raise a dime for them.

Didn’t that same group of Republicans raise money or support some other brain dead move in the last few years? I rememeber some negative story about them.


5 posted on 03/24/2008 9:41:57 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some think McCain should pick his No 2 now. I thought the nominee was No 2. And that No 1s me off!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

The democrats have screwsd up california so much that the state has become ungovernable,illegals smile.


6 posted on 03/24/2008 10:07:43 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

The laZYtimes ran this article? To them, Panetta IS a conservative!


7 posted on 03/24/2008 10:13:44 AM PDT by ssaftler (Campaign 2008 slogan: DRIP [Don't Return Incumbent Politicians] on Congress)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Ca is totally controlled by unions and special interest groups that happily support self serving and corrupt politicians who have succeeded in entrenching themselves so well it is impossible to dethrone them. They will not be gone until the state is bankrupt and there is no more for them to take
8 posted on 03/24/2008 10:16:10 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; Amerigomag; tubebender; ElkGroveDan; Carry_Okie

Leon Panetta, the New Majority, and a bunch of lefty foundations.
Can’t wait to see the “solutions” they have in store for us.


9 posted on 03/24/2008 10:19:12 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: DoughtyOne
These guys can find $16 million for this, but when good conservatives are running to be the governor, they can’t raise a dime for them.

You know that's a damn good point. For just a half million they could have guaranteed Tom McClintock in the Controller's office (twice - 94 and 02) holding the purse strings. That alone would have brought to a screeching halt most of the fiscal idiocy of the past decade.

10 posted on 03/24/2008 10:26:04 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When you choose the lesser of two evils, you still have evil.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

And more money for Simon would have prevented Gray Davis second term and the recall.

That’s why I don’t trust this ‘republican’ any farther than I can drop kick him.

Thanks for your supportive comments.


11 posted on 03/24/2008 10:28:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some think McCain should pick his No 2 now. I thought the nominee was No 2. And that No 1s me off!)
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To: calcowgirl

Leon Pinata could not clean up the mess in the Oval Office so fat chance in Sacramento...


12 posted on 03/24/2008 10:32:56 AM PDT by tubebender
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To: paul51

Yep — everything you said.


13 posted on 03/24/2008 10:35:56 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: kiriath_jearim

(”Most Californians are in the center.”)

That’s news to me. It’s now a one-party state with far-leftists rampaging from San Francisco to Sacramento. I say they got the government they deserve. After all, they defeated Arnold’s referendums before he turned left to survive.


14 posted on 03/24/2008 10:54:58 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: tubebender
Leon Pinata could not clean up the mess in the Oval Office so fat chance in Sacramento...

He's been working in Sacramento the last few years as a consultant to Arnie. He is part of the group screwing things up today.

15 posted on 03/24/2008 11:20:01 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: winner3000
I say they got the government they deserve. After all, they defeated Arnold’s referendums before he turned left to survive.

More myths.

Arnold's referendums were garbage--and he turned left far before he launched that totally inept campaign.

Perhaps you missed the multi-million acre landgrabs Arnold pushed, the RFK jr. environmental platform he set out, or the massive borrowing and increased spending he promoted --all long before any referendums (which many conservatives voted against, anyway).

16 posted on 03/24/2008 11:24:26 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl; Grampa Dave; ElkGroveDan; DoughtyOne; marsh2
"...everything will be considered: Tax restructuring, including Proposition 13. School financing, including Proposition 98 guarantees. The two-thirds vote requirement for budget passage. (Why not at least return to how it was before 1962 when a budget that didn't increase spending by more than 5% could be passed on a majority vote?)"

This going to be way worse than Pete Wilson's aborted "Constitutional Revision Commission" for CA's state constitution!!!

I get so sick and tired of these putrid pissants piddlin with all their liberalized foundations, trusts and sanctimoniusly sanctified devious schemes to further ruin everything while pretending to actually "fix" something!!!

None of the morons involved in this, including Minetta (especially Minutta) have any touch with the real world in CA, especially how local governments either affect this, or are affected by it!!!

17 posted on 03/24/2008 11:32:13 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Out of the dung of adversity, spring the seeds of opportunity! America will always be exceptional!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

Wish I could disagree with you, but I think you’ve got it right. This process stands to be very destructive.


18 posted on 03/24/2008 11:41:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some think McCain should pick his No 2 now. I thought the nominee was No 2. And that No 1s me off!)
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To: winner3000
That’s news to me. It’s now a one-party state with far-leftists rampaging from San Francisco to Sacramento

Is there any truth to the rumor that the section of I-80 that runs from San Francisco to Sacramento is going to be named the "Che Guevara Freeway"?

19 posted on 03/24/2008 12:27:39 PM PDT by ssaftler (Campaign 2008 slogan: DRIP [Don't Return Incumbent Politicians] on Congress)
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To: SierraWasp
I get so sick and tired of these putrid pissants piddlin with all their liberalized foundations, trusts and sanctimoniusly sanctified devious schemes to further ruin everything while pretending to actually "fix" something!!!

Yell it from the rooftops, SW. I'm with ya!

(I assume ya meant Pinutta, not Minutta?)

20 posted on 03/24/2008 1:53:55 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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