Dan Walters: As recall vote looms, liberals vigorously push agendas

Sacramento Bee ^ | Sept.4, 2003 | Dan Walters

[jwalburg]

California's politicians and pundits are totally consumed by the historic recall election that's looming just five weeks hence -- with good reason. But the Legislature will be in session for nine more days, and it's becoming evident that those final days will be among the most hectic ever recorded.

[Cultural Jihad]

BTTT.

[WOSG]

Last Thursday, for example, Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson took a minor bill dealing with the makeup of the state Veterans Board, stripped out its contents and inserted into it a completely new measure that would allow termed-out officeholders, such as himself, to continue to collect campaign funds even though they face no more elections. The money could be used for a variety of purposes, some of them quasi-personal. The word "CREEP" just positively jumps out at ya!!! Geez, that is *so* tacky and corrupt!

[WOSG]

If there is one measure that encapsulates how recall angst is affecting the last days of the session, it is SB 60, the much-debated bill that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain state driver's licenses. Davis vetoed earlier versions of the measure, clearly unwilling to risk the wrath of conservative and moderate voters -- but in doing so he angered Latino rights advocates, who consider it their highest political priority. Davis now is publicly eager to sign the measure, even though it contains fewer of the security safeguards that he had said were vital in the past.

That act alone makes him unfit for dogcatcher let alone Governor!!