Posted on 06/18/2003 10:22:15 PM PDT by Impeach98
EDITORIAL OBSERVER
Lights Out Again for Gray Davis?
By CUAUHTEMOC ORTEGA
LOS ANGELES - Feeding off frustration with California's economic crisis, a Republican-backed effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis has gained steam in recent weeks. One poll indicates 51 percent of Californians want to get rid of Mr. Davis, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 21 percent.
Although the dour Mr. Davis has never been particularly loved, the key to the dissatisfaction is the state's fiscal problems, which have led to a projected $38 billion in budget cuts. Among the most painful possibilities are a billion dollars less for public schools, increases in university student fees, layoffs and tons of new taxes.
During his campaign for re-election, Mr. Davis failed to warn voters about the breadth of the budget problems around the corner. Now many people want to hold him accountable. They are justified in their criticism, but wrong in their proposed solution. The recall effort is disturbingly dishonest. It is not oriented in favor of healing California's crisis, but is driven by wealthy individuals seeking to advance their own careers by exploiting a political disaster.
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Disturbing dishonesty? Isn't that what comes out of The NY Tines newsroom?
They're familiar with "disturbing dishonesty" these days.
First, listen to the Recall Gray Davis campaign song!
Then go listen to the Recall Ads and make a contribution to support their airplay throughout next week too!
And in Washington, Republicans have been very reluctant to help bail out floundering state governments. When President Bush was busy planning for tax cuts, Democrats proposed an alternative economic plan that included large amounts of financial aid to troubled states. Mr. Issa should have been lobbying for that plan rather than collecting signatures for a recall.
Yeah, Issa should be lobbying for the feds to bail out California. What a moron this writer is....
I see that the socialists at the NY Times are having a hissy-fit watching the Democrats lose their last major state governorship.Soon you can add California to the list of major states such as New York, Florida, Texas, and Georgia that all have Republican governors.
The Democrats have already lost the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Presidency, most state governorships, and most state legislatures.
But isn't it funny that you never hear the NY Times note that the Democratic Party has lost touch with the American people, or that the Democratic Party is in real trouble?!
...And Alterman has the nerve to claim that the media is too Conservative!
The recall effort is disturbingly dishonest.
failed to warn=lie
disturbingly dishonest=we really like this commie so we will slant our news
Hey, genius, the precedent has already been set!
Money talks in California? Wow, another New York Times scoop! I don't remember the Times getting its collective panties in a bunch when George Soros and the guy from the University of Phoenix spent millions to deceive the public about the dispensing of medical marijuana. Or the unsuccessful attempts to defeat measures on affirmative action reform, limiting bilingual education, or defining marriage as exclusively man/woman -- each of which passed by large margins despite leftists' deep pockets.
Darrell Issa's money was necessary to keep things rolling long enough for you media wonks to take it seriously. If the recall campaign ran out of dough, people like you would be saying, "Well, it looks like most people in California don't mind Davis enough to kick him out" when that probably isn't the case.
You jokers at the Times never cease to amaze. You had fainting spells about the Supreme Court's decision in Bush vs. Gore, but when a Demo-dominated New Jersey Supreme Court clearly ignored campaign law to keep an electable Democrat on the ballot this past November, you didn't care, and recently you applauded the outrageous actions of the Texas legislature's Democrats' leaving the state to avoid a quorum on a redistricting vote.
"Coup d'état à l'argent", huh? Is that any better than a re-election bought by money raised nonstop by the Governor since his inauguration?
This kind of editorial is expected of someone named after an Aztec emperor. Californians understand what I mean by that.
What the hell is this? "Pinch" Sulzberger replacing Blair, Raines and Boyle with Aztec Emperors? The boy has diversity on his brain.
I wish that the head goons of the ethically-stained New York Times could read it!!
The author of this hit piece has it backwards, Gray Davis is disturbingly dishonest!
The leftists in NYC can have their views, and WE THE PEOPLE of California have ours. Davis: begone, fool.
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