Posted on 05/05/2011 8:09:38 AM PDT by SmithL
Now that the Capitol's frogs have been kissed, the impasse over the state budget jumps back under the dome.
Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan is coming under attack from peace activist Cindy Sheehan and others, who say they'll begin occupying the Capitol next Monday to protest what they're calling his "savage austerity measures."
Peace of the Action, United Progressives, the California Alliance for Retired Americans, the Peace and Freedom Party and several other organizations are backing what their news release bills as a "prolonged occupation" in support of a statewide push next week by the California Teachers Association and other unions to urge lawmakers to extend tax hikes to avoid deeper cuts.
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Hints of what they plan next Monday can be found at the protesters' website, strikemay2011ca.org, which says protesters will "set up tent city occupation of Capitol grounds, 'refuse to move,' " and conduct "teach-ins, die-ins, human be-ins, and more."
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Give me a break!
She used to have some media value, when they could use her to bash Bush, but now she's just a random nutjob, with no camera appeal.
Maybe she thinks Jerry Brown is advising Obama in the conduct of a war she disapproves of. ;-)
When you tie this together with the threat by the Democrat Legislative leaders to decrease public services to the remaining GOP localities in response to their failure to approve tax increases ... is California on a suicide death-watch? Jerry Brown and his cohorts keep moving the deck chairs but when you have the government union appeasement like the prison guards, you have to ask, what next?
De Tocqueville (I think) said that we would only have our federal democracy so long as the populace did not vote themselves the spoils but that is what we are now seeing and California is the poster child for it here. California is a beautiful state rich with resources (including the home of Free Republic, I believe), but when the balance between rights and responsibilities goes so apparently awry, it isn’t going to be a pretty sight. /sigh
One thing I will say is she is consitant. She didn’t drop her opinion and say it was all okay, because Obama is a Democrat. Which is what so many others have done.
You do have to admit she is consistant. She didn’t change her opinion just because Obama is a Democrat, like other did. While I do not necessarily agree, I am a bit more sympathetic.
This woman should be in a mental hospital.
Remember when this crazy woman used to camp out near the entrance to George W’s ranch in Crawford, Texas?
She’s moved to Sacramento and went from being the bitch in the ditch to the pill on the hill.
there is never any cut in spending that is warranted. ever. you must spend spend spend
Looks like Sheehan found out how to claw her way back into the spotlight
She must be very lonely...not that I care.
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