Posted on 11/03/2010 8:36:58 AM PDT by SmithL
California voters have spoken -- and for the most part, they decided to stop the wave of anti-Democratic voting that swept the nation at the Sierras.
Now California will have a Democratic governor, Democratic Legislature and with the passage of Prop. 25, Democratic budgeting process. For years now, the Dems have been blaming the Republican minority for the state's budget woes. That's over for the next two years. Whatever happens next with California -- it will be on Jerry Brown and his party. I sure hope Brown will prove to be the maverick he hinted he would be.
Talk to your average California Republican voter and you heard little enthusiasm for Meg Whitman. Conservatives voted for Whitman because she wasn't Jerry Brown. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
“Prop 13 is the last bit of fiscal sanity left there. Lots of hardworking people were able to stay because their houses were grandfathered in to low taxes. If they raise those, everybody but the welfare class will leave.”
Absolutely! I fought hard to get Prop 13 passed and have been like the Angel of Death on anyone even hinting that we need to weaken or do away with it.
Rape/tax/spend liberals have been waiting for decades to weaken and destroy Prop 13. Now their wait is about over.
I do think the drawback to Prop 13, is that it created an excuse for the State to step in with more funding for things that should have been funded at the local level.
I am all for cutting taxes, but more at the State and Federal level. I believe that most of the taxes we pay should be for local taxes and the local municipalities controlling that spending, where there is more control over what that money is spent on. The money has to come from somewhere, and where that money comes from will determine who has the power over that money. All Prop 13 did was pass the burden onto the State, and even the Federal level, and the liberals will use any excuse to expand their power.
“My wife is close to retirement. It is time to begin looking for a new home (any where outside California)”
My wife still works one day a week, and we have grown sons, a great DIL and grandkids plus a good core of friends here in close to where we live.
I would like to sell our home on a reverse mortgage and stay in it from June-September, and move to the Florida Keys for the rest of the year. My wife is against that at this time.
We don’t do well with high humidity and heat and have DNA’s which love oceans/beaches/kayaking and eating good seafood.
If we weren’t in a culture/survival war with Mexico, we would live on the Mexican coast 6 months or more.
Actually Gerry Brown and his henchman Gray Davis before prop 13 had passed the taxes down to the local level, and that was started the revolt.
The tax and spenders at both levels had cash printing presses in each home in California. All they had to do was increase our property taxes to pay for their voting scum and to line their pockets.
The reversal caused by Prop 13 caused the deficit in the state budget and Brown turned the surplus he inherited from Reagan in a rotten deficit.
Now of course if the local taxes were simply funneled to Sacramento, instead of staying in the municipality, I could definitely understand the revolt.
Conservative CA voters should do everything they can to vote in only one way...with their feet.
He also said that ALL young people deserved the chance to go to collage, documented or not. He says CA is such a great state that we can make this possible.
Considering that the number one issue of Hispanic voters is said to be education, this along with Gloria Allard's scam, won him the election.
More than 75% of this state IS Hispanic I don't care what the exit polls say.
Thanks.
The flyfishing is probably genetic.
I got the gene from my Dad, my older son got it from me, and our grandson got it from his Dad/my older son.
If it wasn’t for the injustice suffered by the innocent, it would be almost comical to watch the people of CA destroy themselves.
You are so right, the CO people are slow learners too, but they have a lot of company in other states.
He will TAX his way to TOTAL unpopularity of EPIC proportions.
Later, the state threatened to secede, and civil war broke out between Ma Chalmers' People's Party and the Back to God Party.
In the last chapter, farmers from the Imperial Valley fled California in horse-drawn covered wagons to avoid the civil war's land confiscators.
Looks like interesting times ahead.
Why do you say McMahon’s a RINO?
I know, but since we can’t seem to do anything about it, we need to come up with a new and improved Scream Name to replace “Governor Moonbeam,” don’tcha think??? We gotta find a way to have fun at these moron Dem’s expense in this God-forsaken state.
I understand. But since there was such a groundswell based on voters who were angry about “business as usual”, they couldn’t have reconsidered their very dopey vote for a true, knuckleheaded loser? Moonbeam is going to finish the job of destroying that state and the rest of us are going to be forced to pay for their stupidity.
One thing I’m pretty sure of- the uber-wealthy celebrities out there certainly aren’t going to bail them out.
Here you go: CBS CA exit polling data
Obama/Dem strategy will be to blame the Republican-lead House for everything in 2012 no matter how false or unreasonable the assertion.
Over 3 million of us voted GOP. The problem was 4 million, particularly in LA & SF, voted RAT.
As much as we'd like to "retake CA" I think we should each consider whether it's worth suffering what's to come. Even with GOP momentum having swept through the country in bad economic times, a majority of CA voters (4m vs 3m) see higher taxation and expanded gov't as the solution to high unemployment, chronic budget deficits and piled-high debt.
This isn't an empty claim about Brown voters, it's explicitly specified in CBS' exit polling data for Brown vs Whitman.
We each have a couple months to consider relocation to a state that isn't fiscally suicidal. Native born, I'm physically ill at the CA election result.
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