Comments | red6count: Pretty much Thank God!

red6count

Pretty much Thank God!

Jun 09, 2010 09:03

Okay, on the good side, Prop J won so the 49ers will be coming to the South Bay. And Thank God the PG&E disingenuous Prop 16 lost, but it was close... Right to vote.. what a bunch of BS. Whitman vs Brown, and Carly vs Barbara.. should be interesting... I could see spliting my ticket. I am ticked that to beat Poisner, Whitman ran to the right, ( Read more... )

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ppfuf June 9 2010, 17:22:45 UTC

I would have changed my registration to vote for Tom Campbell. Carly is pretty crazy right, she's the one McCain pulled in to liaison with big business in his last run. It's going to be hold-nose-and-vote-for-Boxer again this year.

red6count June 9 2010, 17:53:56 UTC

You know I did the same thing the first time Boxer ran, but I am now inclined to do the opposite... hold my nose and vote for Carly...I don't mind conservative... but either way I guess

red6count June 9 2010, 17:54:55 UTC

You know I did the same thing the first time Boxer ran, but I am now inclined to do the opposite... hold my nose and vote for Carly...I don't mind conservative... but either way I guess we're holding our nose.

duchessletitia June 9 2010, 18:56:43 UTC

I think it would be fun watching Whitman realize how tightly the Governor's hands are tied. She has wonderful ideas but government does not work that way. Government is run as a committee. It really is not top down and, in my opinion, we have turned the Governor into a puppet.

But then I have always thought that the idea you can run government the same way you run a business is a total myth.

dame_cordelia June 9 2010, 19:14:19 UTC

I suspect it's been a shock to Arnold to learn that one.

acanthusleaf June 10 2010, 04:07:07 UTC

This is exactly what I was thinking! For a governor to get anything accomplished (like, say, a budget), they have to work *with* the legislature. The Governor can't just fire people who aren't doing what she wants.

Representative Democracy isn't designed to be efficient. It's designed to let people have their say.

And yes, poor Arnold did get a surprise. He fought it with those extra elections for a while, but recently I think he's been about as effective as anyone can be with a partisan and highly divided legislature. At least he has the charisma to talk people into going along with him.

It's an odd day when Jerry Brown's opponent is so far to the right that it makes him look like a moderate.