Davis Panicking, Demands Bustamante Withdraw

A Weblog by
Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub

September 30, 2003

"They are against food"

Cruz has played the race card -- in an interview in Spanish on the Univision Television Network. The network has translated the interview and sent a transcript to reporters covering the campaign:

"No one is asking me how much money I get from the Latino community, or from African-Americans, or from people in the Jewish community, or any other group," said Bustamante. "No one else, just the indigenous tribal governments. Why is that?" When asked if he saw this as racial discrimination, Bustamante responded: "Well, that's how it is, I think, sometimes. And I believe we need leaders who can unite, not divide, people."

The lieutenant governor had strong words for his Republican opponents in the recall race. "People who are on the ballot - people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock - want Proposition 187 once again. They don't want driver's licenses for immigrants. They are against food. They are against access to colleges and access to schools. They are against the opportunity to organize labor unions. They are against so many of the values we have in our community. I think it's important to see who the enemy is... It's the Republican legislators, candidates, and officials who say that they don't want to solve our community's problems. That they don't want children to go to school. That they don't want driver's licenses. All of those are Republicans, they're not Democrats."

The gubernatorial candidate spoke out repeatedly on his support for immigrants, and expressed his hope that they would support him in the upcoming elections: "If every person in the immigrant communities went out and voted, I could succeed just with their votes."

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/000736.html

I'm not so sure support for the recall would drop if busty pulled out... if arnie played it right, he could make hay from the fact that davis wasn't willing to back a latino to the hilt, and sacrificed busty (who, after all, still has a mathematical possibility of winning w/ McClintock in the race) in order to save his own skin...

i also think latinos will support ahnold in fairly large numbers. think of this recall as a gladiator game, with a fairly impatient public that is giving the thumbs down to grayout... i think the latinos are just as impatient and angry at greyout as everybody else, particularly if the alternative is TERMINATOR as opposed to CONSERVATATOR.

Perhaps someone can furnish the Governor a copy of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy the cover of which has clearly printed on the cover "Don't Panic"

That reminds me of one of my favorite passages from that book, which I think applies well to our current situation:

The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather or who manages to get people to let them do it to them To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must WANT to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

roadcat writes:
Because I live and work here, I want someone to fix California. But I'm beginning to think it's going to take many years to fix and that's depressing.

A long, but interesting article, with many implications for California, that may be worth reading, can be found at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/991163/posts

Sorry, haven't mastered the art of making clickable URL's in HTML yet, so you'll have to cut and paste....

Cheers!
- John

A long, but interesting article, with many implications for California, that may be worth reading, can be found at:
(Civil War II "The Comming Breakup of America" A Checklist, by Thomas W. Chittum)

John - thanks so much for posting that, it's a lot to digest but lots of good info about impending Civil War II. I've often told my wife we're heading towards another civil war - what's going on in California now shows we're in the infancy of one. The disease of liberalism has spread beyond California.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.