Who will be CA governor in 2004(a 60 day question)?


  • Raising taxes may just be the solution here. Cutting costs could work, but your going to be cutting some major things unless you find some way to increase revenues. To do that you need to bring business back to California, but how do you do that? Do you attract big business or provide some way to encourage small business to grow? I vote small businesses, for they have more growth potential.

    Of course you’ll never get a politician to say what I just said. Theres only one that will talk straight, and he didn’t run for reelection.


  • Property taxes go to local governments here. Are they a state tax in CA?

    I thought maybe Ahnold was looking for a way to shoot himself in the foot when he picked Buffet. I think I was right.

    And Drudge had on his website that Ahnold now has liberal Democrat Rob Lowe collecting celebrity $ for Ahnold’s campaign. How long can this Circusfornia go on? Another 7 and 1/2 weeks.


  • Raising taxes may just be the solution here. Cutting costs could work, but your going to be cutting some major things unless you find some way to increase revenues. To do that you need to bring business back to California, but how do you do that? Do you attract big business or provide some way to encourage small business to grow? I vote small businesses, for they have more growth potential.

    California had the largest budget surplus in history before GD took over, now it’s 35 billion in debt. To raise taxes on the citizen (because of the new projects, special interest groups, and project overlays) is something I call irresponsible. :-? And what small bsiness do you want set up in a state with one of the highest income taxes and that you want to raise taxes again on?

    Property taxes go to local governments here. Are they a state tax in CA?

    Yes.

    Of course you’ll never get a politician to say what I just said. Theres only one that will talk straight, and he didn’t run for reelection.


  • Teej, leave a little kcrap under your last post?

    Schwarzennegger(22%) is second to Buster(25%) in what seems to be a second rate poll. The California Field Poll has a 5% margin of error…

    SOURCE :
    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/recall/20030816-9999_1n16field.html
    @Yanny:

    Raising taxes may just be the solution here. Cutting costs could work, but your going to be cutting some major things unless you find some way to increase revenues. To do that you need to bring business back to California, but how do you do that? Do you attract big business or provide some way to encourage small business to grow? I vote small businesses, for they have more growth potential.

    Of course you’ll never get a politician to say what I just said. Theres only one that will talk straight, and he didn’t run for reelection.

    What the H-E-double toothpicks!! Show me a civilization that taxed it’s way to prosperity and I’ll have you commited('cause there’s never been one!

    Yeah, cut health care to illegal immigrants. That’d save 1/2 billion a year. Cutting state covered benefits for union non-government employees(heard about that Grayout Davis payoff earlier this week) would save another 1/2 billion a year. Let’s see… since the California debt is figured at 38.2 billion for the next 2 years… multiply 1/2 billion + 1/2 billion(savings mentioned above) times(x) 2… and we’ve saved the people of the state of California 2 billion dollars(low estimate, because then illegal immigrants wouldn’t be coming to California so quickly[compounded annually…WOW!.])

    Yes, small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Big businesses(100 or more employees) employ less than 10% of American workers. Small businesses are what it takes to become big businesses(Wal-Mart, Mickey D’s, Ford, IBM…shall I go on?).


  • Schwarzennegger(22%) is second to Buster(25%) in what seems to be a second rate poll. The California Field Poll has a 5% margin of error…

    i dunno where this UNION-TRIBUNE gets its information from, but it sure runs counter to every other poll I’ve seen (most favoring Ah-nold by 50%). Ask yourself this, can you find any other sites that offer the same results?


  • Yeah, I caught that breeze and blew it this way to see what it stirred up.

    I read that Bustamante will have trouble keeping the black vote. Two years ago he was giving a speech before a black group when he used the “N” word!

    SOURCE:
    http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/8/17/122800

    It has a further source there, too.

    I once had a thought that we should let NY and CA do what they want and learn from their mistakes. They’ve both made some big mistakes!! Now I really believe it. The problem is that few learn from their own mistakes, not to mention mistakes made in another state 20 years ago for example.


  • Bustamante is mainly popular with the hispanic vote anyways.

    I once had a thought that we should let NY and CA do what they want and learn from their mistakes. They’ve both made some big mistakes!! Now I really believe it. The problem is that few learn from their own mistakes, not to mention mistakes made in another state 20 years ago for example.

    Good idea. But I believe the Civil War shot any such example of that straight to hell, my dear.


  • The United States had the biggest budget Surplus is our history before Bush took over. Now we’re in the worst debt of our history. No one is asking to recall Bush?


  • Judging by the polls… that might not be that far off…

    At least for Bush, we knew the economy would be going down since late 98’ (or mid 99’ depending on how much Clinton was willing to show)


  • shut up yanny.
    now that thats out of the way, the recall should not take place. even though I am a republican, and would love nothing more than to stick it to a democrat (figure of speech, there are things i love more), this is a democratic system. much as i dislike and disagree with it, thats what we have. as such, since the man has not done anything other than be a crappy governor (possibly up for debate, i dont know much about the man, being from NJ), there is no reason to remove him from office. he should serve out his term, and the morons who elected him should have to deal with their shit. next time, elect a better governor.


  • I agree with you Janus, against this recall. I say, let the democrats feel the heat for putting an incompetant governor in office. Ride the last two years out know that the democrats will be in a bad position come the next election and stay away from the mess in Sacromento.

    But for better or for worse, what’s happened happened. It’s time to choose the candidate that can govern CA the best.


  • exactly, and further, its irresponsible to spend more taxpayer money on a special election. its ridiculous.


  • Oh well… the constitution must be followed


  • So Bustamante has come out saying he will raise taxes 8B$ and cut spending 4.5B$…

    SOURCE :
    http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/news/081903_nw_recall.html

    I bet the CA State Constipation :D is ammended after this election.

    Heard something a coupla days ago about Ahnold being accused of being homosexual. The evidence was his record of womanizing!

    If that’s the case then Wilt “The Stilt”, Magic Johnson and Kobe are gay.

    If that’s the case then all blacks are gay.

    Man, where can’t you go with thinking like that?!?


  • I agree. A Govener is going to be elected with 25% of the vote and 1,000,000 Signatures. Put Gray Davis on the ballot and he’ll get more votes.


  • So Bustamante has come out saying he will raise taxes 8B$ and cut spending 4.5B$…

    Yeah… not very smart, but very Gray Davis-ish. :-?

    I agree. A Govener is going to be elected with 25% of the vote and 1,000,000 Signatures. Put Gray Davis on the ballot and he’ll get more votes.

    Then there should also be a limit on the amount of candidates that can run… :-? You can’t change the rules in the middle of a game.


  • Yanny,
    CA law says he cannot run as his own recall replacement. His shot is the first recall question on the punch card…

    Davis(D)
    Si…0
    No…0

    Teej,
    the CA Constipation explains the proceedure, poorly as we can see, but it does explain it. Change the daggum thing, you twits!

    And we learn that Boostyermoney has ties to MEChA as well as another source referring to his use of the “N” woid. If a Republican did that…but, as we learned in Minnesota and New Jersey, Dems don’t have to play by the rules!

    SOURCE :
    http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=8/20


  • We’ve got a winner!

    SOURCE :
    http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm

    With Martin Sheen(lousy actor as President), Woody Harrelson(has-been, best roll was ‘Woody’ on “Cheers” because it wasn’t acting), Barbra Streisand(the Clinton/Democrat party advisor), Warren Beatty, !!Al Franken!!(who was escorted from the FOX studios for verbally and almost literally attacking Sean Hannity), Steven Spielberg(Director/Producer who deleted weapons from the second release of “ET”), Susan Sarandon(of whom I cannot think of acting in a great movie), Mike Farrell(who let 7 years of MASH brainwash him), Ed Asner(has-been) and Rob Reiner(Meathead/Director) campaigning against him Ahnold cannot lose!

    Now the important question…
    When did Ahnold boff Cybill Shepherd and then dump her? Was it before Maria Shriver or during the marriage? No wonder Cybill is so “pumped up!”


  • I can understand Woody Harrelson and Barbra Streisand, since they haven’t released or being in anything good for the past decade, but Tom Hanks? I mean, you have such good movies…


  • Simon’s out of the race!

    SOURCE :
    http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/23/california.recall/

    But the interest in the recall is waning.

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