[dalereed]

"people who have to be paid start gathering signatures because all the volunteers are down in the city shopping at Nordstrom's instead"

Everything in your post is right on except the above. The volunteers would have gotten all the necessary sigantures since they did turn in over 600,000 even after slacking off because of Issa's funding of paid volunteers.

When Issa came in with the money he assured the July deadline would be easilly met. Without him the volunteers might have made the deadline but it would have been tough.

I'll be voting for Tom in the election no matter what the supporters here say and push for the empty suit liberal Arnold. He's already said that he wants to bring back business so the state will have more taxes to fund social programs. What we need is less taxes, less social programs, and 100,000+ fewer state employees.

[SierraWasp]

You are absolutely correct, Sir!!! I took a little liberty with the whole truth in the interest of keep my rant short, not distracting everyone with too many details due to my theatrical training. See how it works until the few, such as you, come along and restore the whole truth to it's proper perspective. Thank you!

I got my HISTORIC sample ballot today and my vote is so precious that I too will not "waste" it on someone who may enjoy chasing cars, but will have too many advisors to rapidly determine which wheels need peeing on!!!