ROFL!!
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Posted on 08/28/2002 7:29:37 AM PDT by gubamyster
There's a good chance that mushroom on your pizza came from a farm in Oxnard, and I don't mean to alarm you, but I might have touched it.
Curiosity got the best of me, but I only fingered a few nubs while touring the Pictsweet Mushroom Farm. I went up there because the mushroom finds itself at the epicenter of California politics these days.
Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Martin Sheen--the usual suspects--stand in unison behind the rights of California farm workers and a bill that would give them greater bargaining power with employers. The bill has cleared the Legislature and now sits before Gov. Gray Davis.
It's classic Gray's Anatomy.
On one hand, he's got a relatively pro-labor record, and happens to be the guy who officially designated the state holiday for Cesar Chavez.
On the other hand, he has an undiagnosed compulsive fund-raising disorder, and growers just forked over $100,000 to his campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
It is an opinion piece that's not too flattering to either Simon or Davis.
The main point:
"If the Republican candidate for governor weren't such a brick, farmers would have hopped aboard his wagon, and Davis would have signed this bill by now."
A pretty good ending:
"I had a cup of coffee recently with Peter Camejo, the Green Party candidate for governor, and he had a thought.
"Do you know how to get Gray Davis to change his position on an issue?" he asked.
No, how?
"Tell him the check bounced.""
There are a couple of other zingers at both candidates.
ROFL!!
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