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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
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Originally posted by johnny:
I'll be back. 
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Thats exactly what he said at the end of his news conference announcing he was running!!!!!!! I hope he wins so he can tell Gray Davis "Hasta La Vista, Baby". [/QUOTE]Yeah, I saw this too. Good stuff.
My reservation is that he's toeing the Republican party line with anti-Gray speech, but not addressing the real issue of the referendum in California. I am no Gray supporter, but CA's system hamstrings the legislature. After referendums requiring certain percentages of all state monies each year go to education (40% IIRC) and other such referendum measures, the legislature in CA has its hands tied in dealing with the budget problem. I read that only 10% of spending in CA is discretionary -- meaning only 10% could possibly be used to go toward fixing the budget in any given year, assuming ALL discretionary spending went to ONLY fix the budget. Given the 20+% economic downturn in CA in recent years, NO ONE would really be able to fix it.
CA's system is an example of democracy run amok. It is exactly why we normally have representative republics rather than pure democracies. Any CA governor must deal with re-working the referendum system, or CA will never see the light at the end of the tunnel.
FYI -- if anyone knows recent Gray history, the situation is deplorable. In the most recent election, Gray broke the political "gentleman's code" and spent million launching a muck campaign on TV against the strongest Republican opponent in the Republican PRIMARY. Once the best opponent was defeated in the primary, he had secured victory. Shortly after being elected, he reported the $48 billion deficet. Hmmm.... totally deplorable, even for a politician.
Note: nearly all info in this post comes from the most recent Time Magazine article regarding Gray Davis.
[ 08-07-2003, 02:53 AM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]