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Posted on 09/21/2003 9:14:53 AM PDT by Trailer Trash
Locke will campaign against California recall By David Ammons
OLYMPIA ? Gov. Gary Locke will campaign for embattled colleague Gray Davis in California tomorrow. Locke, head of the nation's Democratic governors and a longtime ally of his fellow West Coast governor, will attend campaign events and news conferences with Asian journalists in Los Angeles and San Francisco. "The governor is specifically targeting the Asian-American community," spokesman Roger Nyhus said yesterday. "He strongly believes that recall is wrong for California, wrong for Washington, wrong for the nation. "All of the uncertainty in such a large state is bad for the American economy." Locke is part of a parade of Democratic luminaries going to bat for Davis. Al Gore campaigned with Davis on Friday, and Bill Clinton stumped for Davis last weekend. Howard Dean and other presidential candidates are campaigning with Davis. Other visitors lined up include Jesse Jackson, Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards. Davis is getting a bad rap, Locke thinks. "Gov. Locke has made it clear that there are 47 other states with major budget problems in this country and they were not caused by the actions of the governors," Nyhus said. "They were caused by Sept. 11 and the national recession and so many other factors. "Most governors are really limited in terms of what they can do, because so much of their budgets are taken up with paying for educating, medicating and incarcerating their citizens."
The Associated Press
Note to Arnold........ Think Reagan... Don't blink..........
Well let's follow the logic here. "We governors really are impotent to solve the problems in our state."
"Our states are spending so much money to educate, medicate and incarcerate our citizens, we can't spend any money on anything else."
How about demanding results for the enormous outlays for public education? How about demanding teacher competency and demanding students pass tests proving basic literacy.?
How about letting the people spend their own money to medicate themselves?
How about stopping illegal immigration which accounts for the presence of at least one-fourth of the felons in the prisons of California?
How about hospitals refusing to treat people who are trespassers into the country and thus avoiding hospital bankruptcies and skyrocketing medical costs to legal residents?
--Boris
This article hardly needs any such tweaking. I can't believe any politician would utter a sentence like this, indicating that he regards his constituents much as a herdsman might regard a herd of cattle being raised up, processed, and led to the slaughterhouse:
"Most governors are really limited in terms of what they can do, because so much of their budgets are taken up with paying for educating, medicating and incarcerating their citizens."
P.S. We didn't have a single request for a Chinese ballot (which is not surprising, since there are very few Chinese in the entire state. I do intend to follow up with the Election Dept. though and find out how many were used, and WHY we catered to this small minority.)
That statement is just about the most idiotic statement I have seen coming from a politician!
Who the he!! submit's the budget? The Manager of the nearest Pizza Hut?
Here's the top story in the Seattle P-I today.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/140869_boeing23.html
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Condit sees 'real progress' in state
Business climate improved with 7E7 on line, Boeing chief says
Boeing Chairman Phil Condit said in Seattle yesterday that the state has done "important things" to improve the business climate here and address issues of concern for the aerospace giant.
"Some real progress has been made, no question about it," said Condit, who in the past has been publicly critical of the state for a lack of progress.
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But faced with the very real prospect that an unhappy Boeing Co. might build its new 7E7 jetliner elsewhere, the Legislature this year offered Boeing huge tax breaks and moved to reform the state unemployment and workers compensation systems.
Condit would not say whether the state did enough to win the 7E7 sweepstakes.
"It's going to be a very fact-based, careful analysis of what's best for the long term," Condit said of the closely watched but highly secretive site-selection process that is now under way. "But certainly the state has done some important things."
The 7E7 will be a superefficient jet a little bigger than the 767. It will be the first all-new plane that Boeing has developed since the 777 in the early 1990s.
Boeing has built all its jetliners in the Puget Sound region with the exception of the 717, a former McDonnell Douglas product that is assembled in Long Beach, Calif. Should Boeing pick another state as the home of its 7E7, aviation experts believe that would be the beginning of the end of Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the Puget Sound area.
Washington Gov. Gary Locke has said as much in pushing the state to do all it could to help win the 7E7 competition while also improving the climate for big business.
In addition to Washington, several states in the South, including Texas, Georgia and South Carolina, are believed to be on Boeing's short list of finalists for the 7E7 site.
Many of the incentives that the state offered Boeing -- such as $3 billion in tax breaks over 20 years -- are contingent on the company locating the 7E7 final assembly site in either Everett or Moses Lake.
Boeing moved its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago two years ago. Condit was in Seattle for an event at the University of Washington, where Richard Nolan, a professor emeritus from Harvard Business School, was named the first professor to an endowed chair named in honor of Condit at the UW's business school.
Condit and other Boeing executives have long complained about the high cost of doing business in Washington, and Condit tempered his comments about the progress the state has made by saying there are still areas that need attention.
"We still have a serious transportation issue in this state and there is a lot of room to make improvements," Condit said.
"Whether it is inside Boeing or inside the state," Condit added, "I'm never totally satisfied. You keep looking for what do you need to do, where do you need to go, how do you make the climate better. Those are important questions that always need to be asked."
One place to look further, Condit said, is the state's permitting process. It still needs work, he said.
"That doesn't mean you go out and approve everything," Condit said. "But how do you make the process efficient?"
Boeing's decision on where to locate the final assembly site for the new jet is expected by the end of the year.
Condit said he would not play a "direct" role in that decision.
That is the responsibility of Alan Mulally, Boeing's commercial airplanes boss, and his 7E7 team, Condit said.
About the same time as the assembly site is selected, Condit will go to the Boeing board seeking authority to offer the 7E7 to launch customers. Condit said he is optimistic that the board will approve.
"This looks like the right airplane for the market," Condit said. "The market response has been very good. They (the 7E7 team) have made tremendous progress on technology and costs. Both of those are absolutely critical parameters. All of that, to me, looks positive. Obviously the last piece is making sure the business case really looks good."
And part of that is deciding the best place to assemble the plane.
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