Post by The Big Dog on Jun 4, 2008 2:12:25 GMT -5
At the moment, with 85% of the vote in San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno looks to be winning the Democrat nomination for State Senate over Carole "Do you know who I am" Migden and Joe Nation. Sonoma went pretty overwhelmingly for Nation, and Marin went for Nation as well, but the San Francisco vote in the district has overwhelmed. So come November we're going to be disenfranchised and unrepresented, yet again, by another socialist machine pol from the big city telling all us rubes what to think.
I actually got a little ticked off the other day following behind a GGT bus that had a Mark Leno ad on the back. It touted him as "The Best Choice For Change". Now the Democrats have controlled the legislature since Nixon was president, and have become progressively more socialist in outlook with each passing cycle. They have taxed and spent a trillion or more dollars over the years featherbedding the state payroll, establishing commissions and boards and authorities for their cronies (or themselves in "retirement") to sit on and all in all have pushed the state to the brink of insolvency more than one, up to and including right now.
Since he is an extremely socialistic, nay "progressive", Democrat I am really left to wonder just exactly what it is that Mark Leno would actually change by moving from the Assembly to the Senate, aside from his office. He has never met a tax he didn't like. He is anti-business, pro-green, anti-gun, pro-gay and pretty much everything else that most of the Democrats in the Legislature are. So again... what does he change, and why is he the right choice to do it. Seems to me he would simply be more of the same old stuff that has embedded itself like a tick in a hound's ear.
Prop 98 is losing big time, Prop 99 is winning. I'm not happy as 99 was put on the ballot by cities and counties trying to preserve at least some of their emminent domain power that 98 would have crushed. It's full of loopholes and probably solves very little.
And once again, statewide turnout is abysmal. 17% of voters, 2.7 million out of over 16 million registered, actually took the time to cast a ballot, myself included. All the more reassuring that is, when I think of Mark Leno being my state senator in a few months. It is an underwhelming minority that puts these schlemiels in office. Turnout in Los Angeles county was barely double digits, yet "the voters" there keep electing some of the hardest left chunkheads that have ever walked the halls of the capitol.
Maybe if more people actually participated in the process, things wouldn't be as thoroughly assed up as they are in the Golden State.
I actually got a little ticked off the other day following behind a GGT bus that had a Mark Leno ad on the back. It touted him as "The Best Choice For Change". Now the Democrats have controlled the legislature since Nixon was president, and have become progressively more socialist in outlook with each passing cycle. They have taxed and spent a trillion or more dollars over the years featherbedding the state payroll, establishing commissions and boards and authorities for their cronies (or themselves in "retirement") to sit on and all in all have pushed the state to the brink of insolvency more than one, up to and including right now.
Since he is an extremely socialistic, nay "progressive", Democrat I am really left to wonder just exactly what it is that Mark Leno would actually change by moving from the Assembly to the Senate, aside from his office. He has never met a tax he didn't like. He is anti-business, pro-green, anti-gun, pro-gay and pretty much everything else that most of the Democrats in the Legislature are. So again... what does he change, and why is he the right choice to do it. Seems to me he would simply be more of the same old stuff that has embedded itself like a tick in a hound's ear.
Prop 98 is losing big time, Prop 99 is winning. I'm not happy as 99 was put on the ballot by cities and counties trying to preserve at least some of their emminent domain power that 98 would have crushed. It's full of loopholes and probably solves very little.
And once again, statewide turnout is abysmal. 17% of voters, 2.7 million out of over 16 million registered, actually took the time to cast a ballot, myself included. All the more reassuring that is, when I think of Mark Leno being my state senator in a few months. It is an underwhelming minority that puts these schlemiels in office. Turnout in Los Angeles county was barely double digits, yet "the voters" there keep electing some of the hardest left chunkheads that have ever walked the halls of the capitol.
Maybe if more people actually participated in the process, things wouldn't be as thoroughly assed up as they are in the Golden State.
sounds about right, or should I say left...
