DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists
GO SIMON
Posted on 07/23/2002 3:03:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:41:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It has become almost a tradition for Republican candidates in California to swoop through some impoverished community, typically a Latino community, and declare that they intend to fight for every last vote in the coming election.
Having shown the flag, they then return for the remainder of the campaign to the real task at hand: mining votes in the mostly white, middle-class suburbs that typically decide the outcome of statewide elections.
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Looks to me like the poor would be better off under Simon; at least he cares about something other than campaign contributions.
(If you poke through the archives, you'll find it since I posted it when it came out).
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In Chicagoland, appearing friendly to minorities, and making sure this friendliness is visible to the soccer moms, is essential to getting the soccer mom vote. Here soccer moms are turned off by the mean spirited image of the Jim Ryan-Tancredo-Buchanan-Dornan-Pete Wilson leaders of the Republican party. In Chicagoland Jim Ryan will lose more soccer mom votes than minority votes for his framing of innocent Rolando Cruz.
Of course, they painted it as an accident, but it sure seems like political timing to me. If you're not aware of the story, it was on the AP wires either early today or yesterday.
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Gray's strategy is a good one. The fact is that Latino voters don't nearly vote in the numbers that whites do or even blacks. While Latino voters are growing in numbers, they pale in comparision to whites when it comes to:
A. Registered voters.
B. Actual voters (very few registered voters actually vote in the off year elections.)
To give you an idea of how poorly minority vote turn out is just look at the last election in Los Angeles, April 2001. 78% of the Los Angeles City voters were whites. Let me remind you, L.A. is about 39% white by the census figures!
If Davis is going after the White woman vote he is playing his cards quite well.
Horse hockey. Simon is playing the race card right here, in a very offensive way. Why not just eliminate the State Capital gains tax altogether? The politics of division is sickening. He also wants to encourage the clean-up of urban toxic waste sites.
"encourage"? What does that mean? Spend what few dollars we have already to pick up after the corporate polluters? HOw about throwing these polluters in jail and seizing their finances instead of making me, the taxpayer, pay for it?
He wants to build more urban parks and encourage police to establish links with the communities they serve.
Note to Simon: Community policing doesn't work. Crime is SKYROCKETING in Los Angeles and Community policing is all the rage down here. Also, we don't have the money for "more urban parks". It isn't the role of government to spend my tax dollars to build parks in the Ghetto or bario, which inevitably turn into drug dealing locations.
And he proposes to increase access to health care by giving vouchers instead of program applications to the working poor, and by giving tax credits to doctors who provide care that would otherwise go uncompensated.
More "big government" direction and regulation from a "conservative" Republican.
If Simon had juevos, and he doesn't, he could win outright in November just by promising to enforce Proposition 187 and defund the left. If 187 had been enforced we wouldn't be in this mess that we are in today. California's health care system is crashing due to all the illegal aliens that are flooding across the border to get GOVERNMENT MANDATED MEDICAL CARE. All on the backs of the taxpayers.
That is probably the dumbest thing I have heard this entire month!
1) Be principled and right of center; andConservatives tend to talk facts and figures, statistics and probabilities. We talk about failing schools by quoting cold facts, instead of highlighting Sally Smith who is trapped in a failing school, had a rat eat her lunch, or is handed a condom before she can read the directions on how to use it.2) Think with their head, but speak from their heart.
Conservatives need to embrace the feelings of the voters, clothing our right and just ideas with compassion and mercy, hope and opportunity. We can't continue to talk about billions of dollars and a 50% illiteracy rate without talking about $2,000 for every child and Johnny Jones (picture) not learning how to read.
Democrats' ideas are failed socialist re-tread, but they have won (so far) the battles because they talk to the voter's hearts.
Bill Simon is the exact mold we need for the Republican Party. He is cut from the same cloth as George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. We need to reach out to ALL groups. We're not going to win the Latino vote, I think it's foolish to think we can right now. But we can make inroads. And, if we make inroads, we'll on the natural bring in the squishy Republican women and the independents who like the fact that Bill Simon is personable, talks with heart, and sounds like a real person who you'd like to have a beer with.
Who wanted a beer with Dan Lungren? Not me, and I voted for him!
Republicans can not win by selling out on important issues like abortion and gun rights and character education. Republicans CAN win by softening the "hard" image with compassion for our fellow man.
It's not that hard. Read the Gospels. Jesus Christ has the winning message, and Republicans who embrace His compassion and tone and justice will win.
God bless Bill Simon!
When class sizes were reduced there were new openings where there had been none for years: in wealthy districts that are highly desirable to teachers. EXPERIENCED TEACHERS LEFT THE POOR DISTRICTS FOR THE WEALTHY DISTRICTS all across the state. The poor districts were left with the need to replace large fractions of their staffs with inexperienced and unqualified teachers. Test scores improved 4% statewide at a 35% marginal increase in funding. Most of that increase in test scores was related to the continuing effects of the end of bilingual education.
Poor kids got screwed by class size reduction. It was even predicted. Class size reduction in no way improves student performance nearly as much as does teacher quality. There were far better ways to improve education at far lower cost, but that was not the goal. The goal was to increase the political clout of the CTA, which it did.
The problems with education in this state may be difficult, but they are very simple. The solutions start with flushing the NEA monopoly by enforcing the Beck decision. I promise you, with the $9,200 we spend per student in California, there is plenty of money to fix the problem. If you would like the citations to both the predictions and the outcome studies from the Pacific Research Institute I can provide them to you, but then you are so obviously imbued with superior knowledge that I may not bother.
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