3x’s the charm? I hope not
May 20, 2009
Photo Courtesy of the LA Times
Didn’t we learn that these things don’t get any traction. Remember the millions of taxpayer’s money funneled into the special elections of 2005? The bills to require parental notification for abortion and a bunch of other nonsense…
Well again, I guess the Governor’s staffers didn’t get the memo. We are in a budget deficit of grand proportions, yet the public is targeted as the cause and the one’s who can fix most of it ‘with their vote.’ The Governor’s people wanted us to think that if we couldn’t vote with him then our teachers would suffer. Those thousands of pick slips would transgress into bright talent lined up at the unemployment office.
The public received no transparency throughout this budget deficit, just to be ware and to be the ones to blame. President Obama came through in the clutch with $30 billion dollars. This is great, this is needed, but how long will this last with the incompetence that is leading our state in Sacramento? Our UC and CSU and community college systems are in dire straits, public education has been on a downward spiral ( I mean we are ranked right next to Mississippi), health care is out of reach and out of touch, and jobs are nowhere to be seen.
Now the Governor playing on our fears made voters feel responsible for this mess and that if we didn’t vote his way our social services would dry up like the Los Angeles River. Well it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to decipher the main policies that underline President Obama’s stimulus package: community health care centers, public education, green jobs, the list goes on. So Gubernator, who were you trying to save? Because it didn’t work and we are still paying.
So can we get some consensus and say no more special elections from the Governor? Or is three the charm?
