[dixie sass]

I thought that you guys and gals would like to see this letter that Senator Montjoy is sending.

[Roscoe]

Senator Mountjoy hasn't ever been shy about saying what's on his mind.

BTTT

[dixie sass]

Just passing it on.

[Jim Robinson]

There's only one word for this guy and his party: EVIL!

[buffyt]

Senator Dick Mountjoy .....
Surely this is not his REAL name? Sounds like a porn star.

[buffyt]

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CONSEQUENCES FOR ENABLERS
And I Buried The Lead...

Geoff Metcalf
January 12, 2003
NewsWithViews.com

California is facing a series of reality checks that could/would lead to catastrophic results.

Many in other parts of the country say, “So what?  The land of fruits and nuts deserves whatever they get.”  However, despite the regional immediacy, the success or failure of California WILL impact significantly on the rest of the country.

Faced with a $36-Billion budget deficit of it’s own making liberal California Democrats have positioned the state for a personification of “payback is a bitch”.  Unfortunately it will be Californians who will be paying and paying and paying….

If the two-year shortfall reaches Davis' new predictions, it will eclipse the largest ever experienced in California.  Davis started his first two years in office with multibillion-dollar surpluses…a distant memory that will remain an unrequited erotic dream.

Despite democratic denial, the imperative that has sparked a proposed $20.7 billion in budget cuts (including $4.5 billion to education) and an inevitable avalanche of new taxes shallowly disguised, as “fees and assessments” is a product of their own making.

Davis has pitched a 1-cent sales tax increase.  Hey, come on, it’s only a penny?  That penny would raise about $4.5 billion and would cost the typical family about $200 to $250 a year. But that isn’t nearly enough.  The governor also called for increasing income taxes for the state's top earners and a $1.10 per pack cigarette tax hike.

Tax and spend democrats (who control the governors office and the legislature) have been enabled by liberal left over flower children in Armani in the high population centers of the state.

All one needs to do is revisit the Election 2002 map of Red and Blue [http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/votemap_20001116.html].  Gore won California because of San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Bay area.

Those metroplexes have the highest population density in the state and they invariably lean way left.  The bulk of California’s land mass showed red on that election results map.

The reality is more gross numbers of Californians ARE liberal.  However those gross numbers come from high population density quagmires of goo-goo leftist liberalism.

So in once sense California deserves the government they have elected.  The only caveat might be that invariably the democrats who DO get elected in California are far more liberal (and rabid) than the constituencies that elect them.

I have too often noted that there are consequences to the things we do and don’t do.  California is about to realize a host of negative consequences to their penchant for enabling extreme liberal democrats.

Liberal democrats have literally been ‘enabled’ by four myopic special interest groups with lots of money.

1.    The Hollywood crowd with more money and media access than good sense.

2.    The middle-aged former flower children and Woodstock pilgrims who are now ruling fiefdoms in Sacramento.

3.    The unbridled immigration advocates who have successfully skewed the states demographics on the road to Azatlan.

4.    The homosexual activists who defy reason with noise and money.

As Davis (and his successors) attempt to staunch the hemorrhage of their own making it is both sadly just that the liberal enablers will reap what they have sown, and tragic that tens of millions of California’s will suffer the consequences of abuse of power.

Here’s the deal.  California needs to use a meat clever not a scalpel on the budget.  They won’t. 

*    The inevitable result will be a growing need for more and more money from taxpayers. 

*    Middle class Californians and small businesses that had resisted the obvious imperative WILL begin a migration to more friendly and reasonable states (Nevada, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, even Washington).

*    California will suffer a reduction in the tax base when they most need it.

*    California will become a marginalized state with two classes of citizens….the very rich, and the very poor.

*    California will continue to require massive amounts of money and guess what?  They won’t be able to extract it from the very poor so the Mandarin class will be expected to pick up the slack.

*    NOTE: This Mandarin class is the very same enablers who allowed California to tax and spend the state into fiscal insolvency.

*    HOWEVER, the very rich (in L.A., the Bay Area and San Diego) won’t subsidize the product of their own actions.  Rather, they too will move their prime residence (tax address) to Lake Tahoe, Oregon or Mexico.  They will continue to ‘live, work and play’ in California…they just won’t support the tax base.

Despite his abysmal job performance Governor Davis has the stones to include in his suggestions for the Legislature to restore the governor's power to make budget changes midyear without lawmakers' approval.

The budget process is just that…it is not an event….it IS a process.  The January proposed budget will be followed by a “May Revised Budget”.  Unless or until the legislature overcomes partisan dogma and makes the hard decisions you can anticipate things will get a lot worse in California and the consequences of Sacramento’s malfeasance will ripple across the country.

[DoctorMichael]

........he grossly mishandled the Electric Power Crisis..........

Just a FYI...........My understanding is that the Governor's man who designed CA's energy policies and is in charge of CA's energy commission is a former Nader accolyte.

[RightOnline]

"Gov. Davis also signed Assembly bill 2194 mandating that ALL obstetricians and gynecologists be trained to perform abortions -- with NO objections allowed for moral or religious grounds! So much for our inalienable rights of conscience!"

Is this really true???

[NormsRevenge]

Rally Monday May 5th in Sacramento: RecallDavis.com .. over 100,000 Recall signatures to be turned in. Any and All Folks who want a Regime Change, Please Be There, Be Heard and Help Make a Difference! :-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Please spell correctly!!

[Husker8877]

"...AND THE WORST OF IT IS, HE MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT. And please don't say "he could never get elected." That's what people said about Bill Clinton! And Gray Davis is the same kind of politician as Bill Clinton. Gray Davis has no morality, and he's totally owned -- lock, stock, and barrel -- by the radical left.

Recall that in January 2002, Davis met with Bll Clinton several times for re-election advice--what a perfect guy to overcome staggering incompetence (not to mention first-rate criminality).

Clinton advised him to forget the dem primary, he'd win that with no effort from the California liberal kool-aiders. He advised Davis to destroy Riordan in preemptive strikes--and that's exactly what they did. Clinton knew Riordan (a miserable leftist RINO) was the only real danger to Davis.

Davis soul is owned by Clinton, who has his own wrap-around mortgage payable to the devil!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good one!

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[Joe Hadenuf]

Most in California government should be jailed. Plain and simple. Jail them for 30 days in the Sacramento County Jail and then send Gray Davis back to New York where he came from. On a GD trailways bus.

And to think some politicos were going to run this, weak, pink, SOB for president. LOL! Only thing good about what he did financially to Cal, is that it destroyed any chances of him running for political office anywhere.....

If these politicians can't even balance a simple, stupid ass budget, they should resign immediately!! Stupid f-ing AHs, shouldn't be allowed within 100 miles of anyone's budget.

If we ran our home budgets like this, we would all be pushing shopping carts down Wilshire Blvd.

[FITZ]

Doesn't recalling Davis let the Democrats off too easily? They'll then turn around and attack Republicans for making cruel spending cuts that hurt the poor and the little children. Voters forget so easily that the democrats would probably recover before the next election.

[CyberAnt]

But ... it's not just the Gov - it's also the free-spending dem state house. We must have more repubs in the state house. There are some elections in 2003, and more in 2004. Time to take CA back from the idiots.

[supercat]

Davis et al. probably figure that if they can drive all the conservatives out of California while inviting illegals in, they won't ever have to worry about getting reelected. At this point, I don't see any way to stop the demographic trends.

[arielb]

financial disaster for California? Davis created a financial disaster for the entire United States! California is the largest economy in the US. Whatever California does affects the rest of the country. Gray Davis has to be responsible for the bad national economic numbers that we're seeing.

[Matty7Guns]

Since I live way out in Boston, I have no idea who this Senator is. However, I felt bad for people in California before I read that letter. Now, I must admit that I fear for them.

My favorite line was the "lying liberal media." Mr. Senator, you're soooooo behind. Don't you know that the conservatives claimed the media about a year ago, and reign high on the shoulders of fox news, msnbc and the suddenly right wing, CNN.

Additionally, the entire world knows how much the Republicans love impeachment these days. The stability of democracy requires that the elected office be respected, or powerless leaders will necessarily emerge. How much executive authority could an elected representative or executive have, if he or she can get thrown out simply for voting their conscience, being suddenly disliked or presiding over bad times?

I would also like to remind the Senator that the former President Bush also lied about raising taxes. He did so, however, out of necessity. While he may have made some awful decisions while in office, the man at least had the brains to realize and balls to admit that the "Reaganomics" fiscal system failed and had to be undone. It then cost him the following election, but not the remainder of his time in office and rightfully so. Ironically, those tax increases raised the revenue the feds recieved, allowed for spending packages to inspire the economy, specifically towards the tech industry, which lead to the largest boom in our nations history. Funny how that works.

Also, since the Senator asks for money and associates himself with Alan Keyes, the most perpetually failed political candidate since Adalai Stephenson, I'm surprised that Calafornia didn't resist the recall out of principle. Everyone knows that when Alan Keyes asks you for money, something bad must be happening and some poor baby seal must be getting clubbed somewhere.

Lastly, why do the people of California insist on voting for Arnold? Is it because it's funny? I feel like Jesse Ventura won in Minesota because the plethora of candidate split the real vote, and the "joke" vote ended up meaning something. Of course, Jesse Ventura, while obviously a joke, also had some sense of political independence and intelligence. Arnold, like the last actor to govern California, is just a pawn of the frightenly corrupt Republican party.

Also, the democrats are cowards and liars. None of this would happen if the WEAK democratic party worked up some nerve to take a stand, distance itself from corruption, run a few decent people and insist on being called "liberal" because somehow, liberal is a bad word. Instead, the democrats should proudly defend their liberal tendencies and show the people all the positives liberal policy creates. Maybe even make Conservative a bad word.

Alas, I digress. I appologize for my rant, but that post made me very angry. I think my friend is crying because of the baby seal getting clubbed. I told her I would take the skin of the seal and use it to line the interior of my new Escalade, which runs on whale oil and is lined on the outside by the furs of minks and devils.

right.