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To: Frohickey
I bet Simon won't sign a shall-issue CCW law if it crosses his desk, anytime soon

I bet you are wrong. But for starters, no such thing will get anywhere near the Governor's desk as long as the Senate has 26 Dems to 14 Reps, and the Assembly has 50 Dems to 30 Reps, and they are riding into the next election on a fresh gerrymander that will keep them safe for another 10 years.

A Republican governor's role in California for the near future will be to veto all the wacky social engineering and collectivist legislation that the Rats send his way, and more importantly to put the state's finances back in order through his job as leader of the budget process. It's going to be a long rough road for Californians for the next few years, even with a good Republican as governor.

Go Simon!!

17 posted on 06/17/2002 10:39:32 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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To: ElkGroveDan
Excellent points, and I'll add one. Another role of a REPUBLICAN governor will be to improve the image of the Republican Party through solid and sane leadership, so that local Republican candidates for Senate, Assembly and Congress can win in competitive districts. While there are few of these districts after the Democrat gerrymander, there are some (particularly in the Central Valley) that are trending Republican and a conservative in office will help bring those to the right side.

Go Simon!

19 posted on 06/17/2002 10:43:03 AM PDT by Gophack
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To: ElkGroveDan
Don't get me wrong. I still plan on voting for Simon.

Its just that you have police organization after police organization testifying against shall-issue CCW laws. Make that police chief after police chiefs.

I agree. That the endorsement takes some wind out of Davis' sails, and that is good for Simon. Davis is just plain bad for California. So are the liberal democrats that can't keep their hands off my wallet.

I'm actually feeling a little bit of shadenfreude at California's misfortunes, though, could it be called shadenfreude if I'm living in California too? I, so wanted businesses to start leaving California during last years electricity mess. I so wanted power outages after power outages, where companies like Cisco, HP and others decide that they have had enoguh and are going to move to Texas, Nevada or some other state. I, so liked the commercials other states were running in California trying to lure businesses away from here. Maybe, a collapse of the state would wake up the people about the mess the liberals have turned the state into. Then again, maybe not.

28 posted on 06/17/2002 11:09:06 AM PDT by Frohickey
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