I thought I should put my $0.02 in on the recall:
IT IS A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY FOR A STATE THAT IS ALREADY IN FINANCIAL PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF STUPID GOVERNORS FOR THE 30 YEARS BEFORE DAVIS WAS ELECTED.
OK… let’s look at the situation: a disgruntled politician who lost his bid for Senate is funding the recall and is running himself. Yo! Issa wants to be king — like he’s going to settle for anyone else having the governorship? California had problems LOOOOOONG before Davis was elected. It’s a state of 32 million people speaking 200 different languages which really has two separate cultures (north and south) and grows most of the nation’s food even though it’s really just a well-irrigated desert. In other words, it’s a tough state to govern and believe me, the previous years of Republican tyranny before Davis were just as bad. I remember having a 5 period day in middle school with science alternating with PE so that my school could have its performing arts program. That was 1992-1994… BEFORE Davis.
Oh yes… the economy is crappy everywhere and Silicon Valley is one of the worst places hit because there was an overexpansion in productive capacity known as the Dot.Gone bust. Yes… power bills are high — y’all are the ones who voted for deregulation in 1996. Don’t say that PG&E didn’t warn us — I remember the TV ads. You made your beds — now lie in them! Do you really want a schmuck like Bill Simon, Darryl Issa, or Larry Flint governing y’all? I mean.. Davis isn’t perfect, but at least he isn’t a smut peddler, someone who alienated himself from his own party, or a disgruntled person with weapons violations.
Right on…its a shame that California’s do not understand this. Especially the part about degregulation…Davis had nothing to do with that…at all…and I’ve been told the media is liberal and all I hear on TV and radio is why Davis should be recalled.
the deregulation thing. good lord. so stupid!!! the same people who voted for davis voted for that deregulation.
i think davis is corrupt (typical politician). i mean yes, there were years of sucky sucky politics before this in california, and i don’t blame davis at ALL for our economic state (like the unemployment). but he has handled so much of it so poorly. particularly the energy crisis and the budget crisis. anyone who raises our taxes, cuts our programs to shreds, then wants to RAISE his personal sections of the budget pisses me off.
i’m sadly amused at just how very southern californian this entire recall election is though. all the movie stars and smut peddlers. *sighs*
i really think the biggest problem though is the same as the problem in the federal government: one party controlling everything. the people of california did that to themselves too, last november when they elected almost all davis cronies.
btw, on the above comment, i meant that the people were stupid to vote FOR deregulation…i wasn’t calling you stupid! lol