CA: Secretary of state in hot seat as recall gains steam

Mercury News ^ | 7/7/03 | Phil Yost - Op/Ed

[SierraWasp]

"the institutions are on the sidelines"

That sure doesn't jibe with this!

1:38PM Marder expects stocks to make additional progress by Julie Rannazzisi

Kevin Marder, chief market strategist at Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management, said the stand-up behavior of the major averages reveals that institutional investors are showing "very little propensity" to sell stocks in the wake of its recent advance. "The market has had a number of opportunities to sell off, the latest of which was Thursday's release of a soggy employment report, but has yet to do so in a convincing manner," Marder noted. "We expect the market to make further progress as leading issues move out of their short-term consolidation patterns."

[CyberAnt]

"but with a hot race among the Democrats, the conventional wisdom is that more Democrats will show up to vote in March"

Hmmmm? I was wondering why they wanted to postpone the election until March ... what a bunch of schemers!

[CyberAnt]

"History is being changed here. Harris never made a ruling on ballots. That was left to county canvassing boards. Furthermore, Harris never made a ruling on a deadline. The deadlines were statutory, created by the legislature"

Hmmmm? Sounds like LETTER TO THE EDITOR time!! And these people deserve it - Mercury News is a Bay Area paper and totally left-wing!!