Posted on 12/16/2001 7:29:02 AM PST by ElkGroveDan
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was the night of Jan. 10, and California's energy crisis was heading into meltdown.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was going bankrupt, a harried Gov. Gray Davis was told. White House talks aimed at guaranteeing the state enough energy to ease the crisis had broken down. A Stage 3 power alert loomed.
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Clearly all Riordan cares about is Los Angeles. The secret is out. Well the rest of us in California aren't going to sit by and let him turn Sacramento into a special interest power base for his pet city.
This whole energy fiasco has certainly shown us who the scoundrels are. Davis has to go, and Riordan would be as bad or worse. I'm supporting Bill Simon for governor.
Nice try, but LA is surrounded by the decent people who escaped it's bonds of excess government. When it comes to communists they are IN L.A. You have to go 350 miles to San Francisco before you find a worse bunch of socialists.
The simple fact is that the people of Northern and Central California were facing rolling blackouts thanks to that idiot Gray Davis and his DemoRAT colleagues who knew about the problem and chose to do nothing nearly a year before.
Riordan was acting like a third-world dictator looking to extort payment from his neighbors. Believe me LA's is never going to suffer for a lack of anything -- especially money -- while it's vast contingent of legislative leftists controls the purse strings in Sacramento.
I suppose Riordan had the right to flip the bird to families across California in their cold and darkened homes, but when he did that he sort of gave up the right to ask to be governor of ALL of California.
riordan does have name recognition + political experience. so, he has a better chance.
gov grey is dead meat.
riordan is a liberal republican, catholic. he's best buds with bishop mcphony. indeed, riordan + his millionaire friends bought the church leader his own helicopter in the mid-80's. the only catholic leader piloting his own helicopter, imagine that! (/sar)
apparently you don't like los angeles.
As for "experience" Simon has the kind of experience a fellow named Ronald Reagan had when he was elected governor -- experience in the real world. Another guy named George W. Bush had a similar amount of experience when he was elected governor of Texas
You want government "experience," then Gray Davis is your man. Davis is a lifetime career politician and that's what you get with that kind of experience. Al Gore has lots and lots of "experience" so does Bill Clinton. Rudy Giuliani had none of that experience when he came in and turned NY City around.
Not only is Bill Simon the man for the job. He is going to win. Period. It won't even be close.
What this means is, L.A. could buy and sell power on its terms, engage in long-term contracts to keep the price of energy stable, and not abide by the strict rules that everyone else had to abide by.
While a mayor does have the obligation to protect his people, he also has the obligation of protecting his taxpayers. The people of L.A. are going to have to pay in the form of higher taxes for the Davis fiasco, partially caused by Riordan. And, California has never renigged on it's obligations to pay, so not extending the credit as had been done in the past is just b.s.
Riordan has, time and time again, proven that he loves Los Angeles, but hates the rest of California.
And, to the person who said Riordan is Catholic, he's sure not practicing ... he opposed Prop. 22, he is pro-abortion, and he supported the homosexual rights bill AB 25.
Not at all -- there's plenty of blame to go around on the energy crisis, Davis deserves the lions share. Believe me, I can go in depth into everything Davis has done ... and not done ... since the energy problem started nearly two years ago. He's a whiny, obnoxious, blame everyone-but-yourself politician who shakes down people and businesses for campaign contributions and is so far to the left that he makes Barbara Boxer look moderate. He just SOUNDS moderate ... you have to look at his record to know what a liberal nutcase he is.
That's a little comical. I don't recall sales tax being raised throughout the state following any earthquake in southern California, though do remember it twice for cities in the north.
Riordan is a southern California businessman who's not too apt to take worthless socialistic promises for goods and services, in this case, electrical power.
He did let the DNC shake us down here in LA during that...party's convention, for $2 million that he didn't want to spring for with his own dough. But at that, he was only serving as mayor for one dollar per year. So it's hard to see how we might've come out behind.
Somehow, at the end of the day, I think we could a lot worse here in CA than electing Riordon governor.
Well you are one of the few here on FreeRepublic who feels that way. Most of us think that liberals and Democrats don't help things, and in fact make them worse. If you like Riordan fine, that's your right. But why waste your energy swapping one liberal for another. There is very little that is different between the two, and in some cases Davis is more conservative than liberal Dick.
Meanwhile conservative leaders up and down the state and across the country are backing Simon.
If you like liberal statists, you must be a very happy person right now. The silently suffering patriots in Claifornia on the other hand, have had enough of the social decay that Davis and Riordan and their ilk have heaped upon us. Change is in the wind.
Rioradan wants us to forgive him for contributing millions of dollars to liberal Democrats because he was looking out for LA.
Riordan was endorsing Democrats for public office because he was looking out for LA.
I think he has convinced us that he is looking out for LA, but what about all of the Republicans who want a very different agenda than put forth by Mr. Riordan?
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