CA: Secretary of state in hot seat as recall gains steam

Mercury News ^ | 7/7/03 | Phil Yost - Op/Ed

[NormsRevenge]

Secretaries of state, the ones who oversee elections, not foreign affairs, labored in blissful obscurity before Florida's Katherine Harris.

At the end of the 2000 presidential election, as Harris' rulings on ballots and deadlines improved the chances of fellow Republican George W. Bush, America learned the political importance of decisions on election law -- and how much partisan suspicion a secretary of state can engender.

[NormsRevenge]

Just Win, Baby!!!

errrrr.....

Asta La Vista, Baby!

[NormsRevenge]

The recall is being sustained by general anger about the state of affairs in California

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Ya think 8-? Ping

[SolidSupplySide]

At the end of the 2000 presidential election, as Harris' rulings on ballots and deadlines improved the chances of fellow Republican George W. Bush, America learned the political importance of decisions on election law -- and how much partisan suspicion a secretary of state can engender.

History is being changed here. Harris never made a ruling on ballots. That was left to county canvassing boards. Furthermore, Harris never made a ruling on a deadline. The deadlines were statutory, created by the legislature.

[TontoKowalski]

The anti-recall Web site urges recall opponents to stand in front of tables where recall proponents gather signatures, approach potential signers first or ``otherwise inhibit their activity.''

A smart campaign would be gathering footage of this for use in future TV Ads in favor of the recall...

"Just look what Davis' cronies will do to prevent fellow citizens from having a voice in state government. They know the lousy job he's done, and the last thing they want is for him to be held accountable to the taxpayer/voter."

[onyx]

Doofus already looks desperate.

[NormsRevenge]

Desperate ... ehhhh? LOL

[onyx]

That's perfect!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good Morning Norm!

I like that picture of Davis!

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[SierraWasp]

Here we go with the totally FALSE "moral equivalance" between Katherine the great and this turd of a Demonicrat S.O.S. in CA! It's enough to gag a maggot!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Amazing that this was an oped from the left wing Jercury:

The recall is being sustained by general anger about the state of affairs in California, and a widespread perception that Davis is a brother in ambition with Raiders' owner Al Davis, both playing by the same rule, ``Just win, baby.''

If the anti-recall tactics confirm that impression of the governor, he's going to just lose.

[NormsRevenge]

Yup.. Good old Yahoo News Photos comes thru again. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

Yeah, even the Murky Noise has to know which way the wind is a-blowin' these days. ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

On the 4th of July at a big annual picnic with many conservatives, I used Carry Okie's advice re our local election officials.

A conservative gal who works for another department on the same floor of the election officials ask what I felt about the upcoming elections. (Her actual words)

I asked her if she felt that there were enough signatures, she said that she had no doubt.

Then, I asked her to pass the word to the election people to thank them for their accurate and speedy certification of signatures for the recall.

She asked "Why would I want that message out?"

My reply, "I hope and assume that they will do their job properly and get this on the ballot this November. If not there might be a whole lot of Rico trials in 2004 from the SoS down to local county election personnel.!"

She loved it and said that she would relay both comments to every person involved in this certification process. I imagine before today is over, that message will be discussed a lot by the local county election officials.

[Grampa Dave]

I think that your unemployment rate down in that area is still sky high. That has to hurt the ad $ revenues for the Jercury. The longer Davis stays in, the longer that situation will continue to fester.

[Carry_Okie]

rotflmao

Your subtlety is most compelling.

[NormsRevenge]

In Santa Clara County , we are running at about anywhere from an 8 to 11 % unemployment rate depending on how you want to count the numbers. All I know, commuting in most areas has never been so good.

I have had a couple of interviews lately which is encouraging but I aint there yet. All we can do is keep plugging.

The market numbers look good today at least, and if the earnings reports coming out are positive this week, hopefully, some more hiring across the board will happen... and soon. (Fingers crossed)

[Grampa Dave]

Actually, both ideas were borrowed from you. The praise for doing a good job and the promise of a Rico action if they played games. You are the king of Rico re bringing it up.

This lady is a conservative and will have a lot of fun this week and until the recall election comes out.

[Grampa Dave]

Good luck on your job search!

The markets are hot today. Lets hope that trend continues.

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/markets/indexes.asp

The above great site, is one the Waspman's donation to better knowledge to Freepers.

[only1percent]

The markets are hot on no good fundamentals. I know we all want the job market back in shape, and the dollar back up would nice as well ... but bidding PEs back into the 30 and even 40 range is not doing anyone a favors.

This bull market is about retail investor sentiment. One piece of that is ecnomic confidence -- warranted, in my view. One piece of that is about pure frustration about CD and fixed income returns -- NOT a good reason to invest. One piece of that is about nostalgia for the '90s bull market and a sense that those kind of returns and long runs are the fundamental state of the market, to which the last 3 years were simply an unpleasant interruption. This last is ENTIRELY unwarranted.

Watch the insiders and the institutions. Aside from mutual funds which have to buy stocks when retail investors put more dough in, the institutions are on the sidelines, or strategically selling. Insiders are selling.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See this:

Energy stocks take cue from market

DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Strength in the broader market Monday helped boost most energy sectors, though oil service stocks dipped after rising in the previous session.

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And Allegheny Energy (AYE: news, chart, profile) rose 13 cents to $8.45 after naming a new chief financial officer. Allegheny Energy said that Jeffrey Serkes would be responsible for Allegheny's financial, accounting, treasury, and corporate development duties. He joins the Hagerstown, Md.-company from IBM (IBM: news, chart, profile), where he was treasurer.