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CA: Assembly Speaker Karen Bass thinks voters were just "confused" and "fatigued" by voting NO
YouTube ^ | May 20, 2009 | Karen Bass

Posted on 05/20/2009 9:07:22 PM PDT by calcowgirl

Here are some partial quotes:

"Voters were very confused on what we were asking them to do"

"Voters were saying:

"It was quite complex"

"This is too complicated"

"We don't want to vote on it"

"We are fatigued with the number of elections we have had, especially Special Elections"

"We realize that there are going to be cuts but whatever needs to be done, you do it, and we don not want to participate in it."

What an arrogant condescending twit. And she still doesn't get it. I sent her a "nice" message.

http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/Speaker/


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: ca2009; calinitiatives; callegislature; karenbass; prop1abcdef
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1 posted on 05/20/2009 9:07:22 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl

Hey Karen Bass, WE’RE JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU.


2 posted on 05/20/2009 9:09:38 PM PDT by exist
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To: calcowgirl

From bad to worse. California remains bass-ackwards in its direction.


3 posted on 05/20/2009 9:09:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: calcowgirl

I think Californians need to make sacrifices. Specificially, we need to set up an altar in Capitol Park and sacrifice our state lege one at a time until the budgets improve.


4 posted on 05/20/2009 9:11:29 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: calcowgirl

To a certain extent she is right. We all voted to hand the problem back to our elected representatives. It has really been up to them to raise taxes or cut spending. They now have to S=== or get off the pot. They will have to cut spending in a big way. They simply cannot cover the problem by further tax increases. End of story.


5 posted on 05/20/2009 9:12:08 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: calcowgirl

Actually... I was quite surprised... pleasantly surprised to see the intelligence of the Californian voters when they overwhelmingly rejected all those propositions...


6 posted on 05/20/2009 9:14:54 PM PDT by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To a certain extent she is right.

Maybe partially, but in the beginning of the video, she very clearly thinks that if she just could have explained it personally to everybody that it was necessary ya-da-ya-da-ya-da ... National recession.... not enough time to reach out....

She clearly thinks people didn't understand what they were voting to do. I contend they did.

7 posted on 05/20/2009 9:15:06 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado!)
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To: calcowgirl
Adding comments has been disabled for this video.

Apparently "Assembly Access" doesn't want to allow for any access to the viewers. Maybe they're afraid of comments regarding the stupidity of speaker Bass.

8 posted on 05/20/2009 9:16:33 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: calcowgirl

No confusion, just anger at our idiotic state government.


9 posted on 05/20/2009 9:18:16 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: calcowgirl

Karen you are the one that is confused. You have no idea about budgets. You do know how to spend though.


10 posted on 05/20/2009 9:18:43 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: calcowgirl

Typical elitist arrogance. The political elites know what’s good for you. You’re too stupid. In the case of Democrats,unfortunately it’s true. They are too stupid, thinking that taxing and demonizing productive people and rewarding degenerate behavior and laziness is good for society.


11 posted on 05/20/2009 9:22:18 PM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Log Cabin Metrosexual Hairless RINOs for Bipartisan-ness)
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To: calcowgirl
The issues were so uncomplicated I spent a total of maybe 15 seconds to anaylize and make the decision to vote no on all of them!

I still think that F was a scam because they can raise their per diem, car allowance travel expense office expenses and actually give themselves a pay raise while crying about being imposed upon.

12 posted on 05/20/2009 9:23:42 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: calcowgirl
1A is too confusing. I'll vote no.
1B is way too confusing. I'll vote no.
I'm too tired to figure out 1C and 1D too. I'll just vote no.
Do they ever stop? 1E? No, no, no. I don't care what it says.
1F? Good think I just had a triple espresso to perk me up to read it and vote yes.

The voters in California knew exactly what they were doing. Ahhhhnold and gang told them the world would end if they didn't vote for 1A-1E and the voters didn't believe them.

13 posted on 05/20/2009 9:26:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: calcowgirl

Heh...it’s funny how the elite think that the voters are wrong when they vote against their ideals...hehe... Seems that the voters are way smarter that these idiots understand... Yep, us dumb voters will outfox you every time...heh...


14 posted on 05/20/2009 9:33:07 PM PDT by Deagle
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Hey Bass - You go girl. Y’all just keep pretending and deluding yersef.


15 posted on 05/20/2009 9:33:53 PM PDT by Enterprise (The Porkulus brought us economic swine flu.)
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Actually... I was quite surprised... pleasantly surprised to see the intelligence of the Californian voters when they overwhelmingly rejected all those propositions...

Actually, only 23 percent of Californians who were registered voted-- the real taxpayers. We're sick of being held up every time one of those so called legislators has a pet project.

16 posted on 05/20/2009 9:34:16 PM PDT by notaliberal (Right-wing extremist)
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To: calcowgirl

The best quote of all was “When I walked into the room, the people would understand [what we are up to].” Sounds like another Messiah complex to me.


17 posted on 05/20/2009 9:35:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: calcowgirl
No means no!!

Now, stop fondling my wallet.

18 posted on 05/20/2009 9:36:24 PM PDT by dead
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To: NormsRevenge

A pretty well done video by Reason.TV
Featuring Arnold, the Terminator, Tom McClintock...

Hasta La Vista, Arnold!: What California’s Budget Mess Means for America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzhbBbZJVN4


19 posted on 05/20/2009 9:37:32 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado!)
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I heard on radio that she and Arnold were down in LA talking to the folks in the black churches, encouraging them to vote yes. How’d that work out for ya Karen and Arnold??????


20 posted on 05/20/2009 9:37:55 PM PDT by notaliberal (Right-wing extremist)
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