CA: In the recall, are we revolting against ourselves?

Sac Bee ^ | 9/10/03 | Peter Schrag

[NormsRevenge]

Gray Davis has been a fixture in California politics for more than a quarter-century. He's been elected five times to statewide office -- twice as controller, once as lieutenant governor, twice as governor.

He was Gov. Jerry Brown's chief of staff in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was elected twice to the Assembly and ran an unsuccessful -- and famously vile -- campaign against Dianne Feinstein in the 1992 Democratic Senate primary.

[NormsRevenge]

Some good chuckles mixed some real head-scratchers.. He hits his thumb as much as he hits the nail, but.. that's par for the course in politics these days, too. imo. ;-\

[NormsRevenge]

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[Bob]

Late last September, Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill estimated it at $10 billion. GOP candidate Bill Simon predicted $20 billion.

Sheesh. Wouldn't you expect that someone inside the administration would have a better estimate than the opposition party candidate would?

[Reeses]

The benefit of playing leftist victim is you get to be a cry baby.

[Political Junkie Too]

California's hyper-democracy, with its orgy of initiatives, can hardly be said to be unreflective of what the voters wanted...

Perhaps part of the anger, and hence the message of the recall, is that voters are angry that a super-majority of voters (over 60%) can vote for an initiative only to have the politicians judge-shop for one individual to overturn the election. Perhaps the voters themselves now want to be the ones to overturn an election.

-PJ

[zchip]

. . .and Gov. Pete Wilson, who promoted deregulation and signed the state's flawed electricity restructuring scheme.

Peter Schrag is typical of the bozos that insist on using the "deregulation" term. There never was, and never has been, deregulation or anything even remotely resembling it in California Public Utilities policy.

chuckles and head-scratchers for sure NormsRevenge.

[GSWarrior]

He's been elected five times to statewide office -- twice as controller, once as lieutenant governor, twice as governor.

The campaign itself is a diversion from California's problems.

No, I think the recall campaign is tackling the problem head on--politicans who (think they) are answerable to no one.

[Weimdog]

The bad legislation dogpile...

[John Campbell] 09/10/03

More examples of what Democrats stand for these days that have passed the legislature in the last couple of days:

AB 1742 (Committee on Revenue and Taxation ) - This bill requires taxpayers to "e-file" their state tax returns with the Franchise Tax Board if their tax preparer prepares more than 100 tax returns a year. This is supposed to save the state about $1 million per year in paperwork handling, but it will cost you millions more than that because of the additional costs your CPA must incur to comply. It also means that your most sensitive private information will be flying through the Internet and will be available on state computers for easy access. So, although we just passed a bill to increase the privacy of our financial data with private companies, apparently we can trust the government with way more information that is less secure. Yeah right. STATUS: Passed both houses and on the Governor's desk.

AB 1309 (Goldberg-D) - Under this bill, if a school district eliminates existing housing in order to expand or build a school, they can seize yours or anyone else's house to replace the housing they displaced. This is another assault on property rights and really dumb. STATUS: Passed both houses and on the Governor's desk.

AB 1144 (Pavley-D) - A bill that moves employees of the California State University System closer to "civil service" status so that it is harder to fire them for any reason. STATUS: Passed both houses and on the Governor's desk.

SB 179 (Alarcon -D) - This makes anyone liable for the payment of wages to a contractor's employees if you "knew or should have known" that the price that contractor bid on your job was too low to get it done. More "deep pocket" legislation that will ensure that more trial lawyers move to California and more productive businesses move out. STATUS: Passed bothhouses and on the Governor's desk.

SB 640 (Burton-D) - A bill which prohibits companies from bidding on state contracts if they use offshore tax shelters. This bill will have the affect of reducing the number of bidders on state projects and thereby further increasing costs (and budget deficits) while having no affect on these corporate practices which are under federal jurisdiction anyway. STATUS: Passed Assembly. Headed back to Senate for Concurrence.

Worker's Compensation Insurance - Gee. There is no bill yet. And the bill that is being discussed will only be a band-aid on the problem. Real reform will require a new Governor who will advocate it and sign a bill that will be supported by all Republicans and a few Democrats willing to stand up to the unions ands trial lawyers (if there are any such Democrats).

http://californiarepublic.org/archives/Columns/CampbellJ/20030910CampbellBadBeat.html

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