McClintock Ping List.
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Posted on 10/24/2006 1:52:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
McClintock Ping List.
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BTTT
..yeah, he's our guy too...
I love Tom's closing statement in his Chronicle debate with Garamendi,
where he passionately affirms that CA is only an election away from restoring the beautiful state that can be.
I love how he says that only GOVERNMENT can cause such a migration from CA to the deserts of Arizona and Nevada where they do nuclear testing ~ away from our beautiful state. Only government can make good folks move away.
He's much more eloquent, of course.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724726/posts
In other words, if there ever was an honest politician, Tom McClintock is him.
Well...McClintock is an honest person. Finally someone has pointed it out ! The only bad thing I've personally ever heard about the CA state senator is his eyes were partly cross-eyed. Go figure!
Oh, there's more. He has stood in the way of passing new taxes and increasing spending! The horrors!
Watch the video in the link I posted in #5 ~
McClintock's eyes look just FINE, despite the cameraman's effort to zoom in close up.
The debate was filmed in favor of Garamendi, but no matter what camera tricks they tried, Tom's straightforward responses make him SHINE.
Just found the exact excerpt I so clumsily paraphrased!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724726/posts?page=30#30
This one?
. . . I think that this debate has brought into sharp focus the difference between our approaches to these basic fundamental questions of how much we are putting into Government and how little we are getting back from it. I believe that government is taxing too much and is spending what it taxes unwisely. I also believe we could be producing the California that once was if we make these basic and fundamental changes in the way the state is doing business. . . .To all, link to debate:A generation ago, this really was the land of opportunity; the golden state where families could come looking for a better future. What has changed is a massive increase in spending, bureaucracy and regulations that has choked off our economy and is now producing for the second time in the state's history a net out-migration of Californians. The population continues to grow, but that is all either indigenous population growth or foreign immigration growth, most of that illegal. More Californians are leaving California than are coming in and they are finding better futures out in the middle of the Nevada and Arizona deserts than they found here in this beautiful garden of our continent. Now, I can conceive of no act of god possible that could wreak such havoc upon California to make it less desirable than the middle of the Nevada nuclear test range. Only acts of government could do that and we have. The good news is, that's something we can fix. We are always one election away from being able to change those policies. I believe that this is that election. . . .
Lt. Governor candidates: Tom McClintock (R) and John Garamendi (D). October 23, 2006 (Archived Video)
Yes ~ thank you. Wonderful.
There is no sharper contrast than these two in our election.
Attorney General candidates: Chuck Poochigian, Jerry Brown. October 5, 2006 (Archived Video)
Exactly so.
Thank you for the link.
I can't tell if Garamendi's slimy quotes are put there to expose him, or endorse him.
Seeing him actually SAY those words, I can only remember his smarmy tone and vain demeanor.
The fact that they ended the piece with Tom's vision for the office, is encouraging. Maybe. Unless they don't like his comparison to life in the 50's.
When the SF Chronicle has a flat out, unequivocal endorsement of Tom,
then I'll be impressed. When the shock wears off!
ROFL. Me too!
That's it in a nutshell. Kick tuchus, Tom.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/25/EDGD9LUMOT1.DTL
EDITORIAL
THE CHRONICLE RECOMMENDS
Top lieutenant
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
THE OFFICE of lieutenant governor carries relatively light day-to-day duties. It's no surprise that Democrat John Garamendi and Republican Tom McClintock, the major-party nominees for the post, frequently invoke the term "bully pulpit" when talking about how they would write their job descriptions, if elected.
But it's important to note that the lieutenant governor does possess a few significant responsibilities that make it critical for the job to be held by someone with a respect for the environment and the laws that protect it, an appreciation of the role of higher education in producing opportunity and economic wealth, a dedication to scientific advancement and an ability to reach beyond ideological and partisan divides to get things done.
(snip)
Garamendi sometimes wears his ambition on his sleeve, but there is no doubt about his knowledge of the issues and commitment to the values of education and environmental protection. Those are critical attributes for a lieutenant governor, who will be serving on the UC Board of Regents, CSU board of trustees and the State Lands Commission.
McClintock has tried to characterize himself as a teammate of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, but those coattails won't stick. As Garamendi pointed out in their debate before The Chronicle editorial board, McClintock opposed many of Schwarzenegger's most important legislative achievements: on trying to curb global warming, on raising the minimum wage, on creating prescription-drug discounts for the uninsured and on investing in transportation, education and housing in a bipartisan-crafted bond package.
Garamendi gets our endorsement.
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