[Sosfbay-discuss] NO TO SCHWARZENEGGER -- NOW, WILL GREENS GET A HEARING?

[Andrea Dorey]

HAD ENOUGH?
You bet!
Great idea for a button!
A.

On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:54 AM, alexcathy at aol.com wrote:

> Dear Green Friends,
>
> Just two years after the crazy recall election of 2003, the screaming
> headline on this morning's edition of the San Francisco Chronicle says
> it all:
>
> CALIFORNIANS SAY NO TO SCHWARZENEGGER
>
> Every single one of Arnold's bullshit "reforms" went down to defeat!
>
> A couple of them were not even close. For example, Proposition 76,
> which would have given this madman almost disctatorial powers over the
> state budget was voted down by 60%. Proposiition 77 on the
> redistricting of state legislative and congressional districts and
> advertised as a "reform" of the undeniable gerrymandering whereby not a
> single congressional or state legislative seat changed parties in the
> 2004 elections, was voted down by 57%.
>
> Personally, the frustrating thing for me, is that could make a case for
> reform in all of these areas, just as you could make a case for
> recalling Democratic Governor Fyar Davis in 2003, but voters, properly
> in my opinion, saw this as an expensive, gratuitous power grab by
> Schwarzenegger and that good-for-nothing, crazy, rightwing Republican
> Party.
>
> One of the arguments which I made against these propositions in a
> couple of letters-to-the-editor, (which the So-Called-Liberal-Media, of
> course, refused to print), was that anyone could tell the "reformers"
> were phony by the arguments they could have made but DID NOT MAKE for
> reform.
>
> The only thing the "reformers" gave us was the rightwing Republican
> "party line."
>
>
> PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS
>
> If public employee unions have too much power, then why not use the
> example of the POLICEMEN'S UNION right here in Milpitas? Since the
> policemen's union helped muscle in a 3-to-2 council majority last year,
> the puppet regime has purged boards and commissions of all who might
> disagree and even abolished the ethics board.
>
> And why not use the example of the California PRISON GUARDS UNION that
> successfully bought and paid for both Democrat Gray Davis and
> Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger?
>
> Alas, the "party line" for rightwing bully boys is always badmouth
> "liberal" teachers and nurses; never badmouth "tough guys" in the
> Pentagon, F.B.I., C.I.A., police, and prisons.
>
>
> GERRYMANDERED LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS
>
> If gerrymandered districts are bad why not use the example of San
> Jose's Asian-American community "where redistricting wiped out a
> potentially Asian seat" in the state assembly, according to the
> December 12, 2004 San Jose Mercury News?
>
> I would have bet real money that there was no way we'd ever get through
> a very long, expensive, and brusing campaign on Prop 77 without the
> disgraceful and possibly illegal manipulation of the "white" vote and
> the "minority group" vote even coming up, but by God, these phony
> "reformers" somehow managed to do it!
>
> Alas, the "party line" says dirty tricks for the sake of maintaining
> White Supremacy is okay.
>
> BIPARTISANSHIP
>
> Finally, if reform has bipartisan support why not use the example of
> independents and real Democrats?
>
> Alas, the "party line" says the only "good Democrat" is a DINO
> ("Democrat In Name Only"). Thus, the "reformers" trot out San Jose's
> ex-mayor Tom McEnery, a cranky, crazy guy who, among other things, is a
> well-known Mexican-hater. Proposition 77 was actually endorsed by
> Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause, an independent progressive
> group. Amazingly, the phony "reformers" never once actually quoted this
> person!  In fact, throughout this long, expensve, and bruising campaign
> we hardly ever heard from anybody who wasn't already a suck-up to the
> Bush-Schwarzenegger Republicans.
>
>
> NOW, WILL GREENS GET A HEARING?
>
> This was the fourth damned statewide election in California in four
> years (2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005). Folks around here are sick and
> tired of Democratic and Republican PARTY hacks shouting at each other.
>   Now that they've said NO to Arnold, what are California voters to do?
> Give the Gray Davis Democrats another chance to fuck up?
>
> Boy, if I were younger, richer, and better-looking I'd run for office
> in 2006 myself!
>
> Think about it.
>
> In California we've had:
>
> 8 Years of Republican Pete Wilson
> 8 Years of Democrat William Jefferson Clinton
> 5 Years of Republican George W. Bush
> 5 Years of Democrat Gray Davis, and now
> 2 Years of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger
>
> Oh!  And did I mention a Republican Congress in Washington and a
> Democratic legislature in Sacramento?
>
> In 2003 PETER CAMEJO said it very well on national television: "The
> two-party system is dysfunctiona.l"  As Peter painstakingly explained,
> unless something is done, among other things, the California State
> Budget will be *STRUCTURALLY* fucked-up ... well ...  forever!
>
> So, here we are two years later and for all his heat, noise, and smoke,
> Arnold Schwarzenegger has accomplished nothing.
>
> These facts would fit easily on a campaign button or palm card along
> with the Green Party logo and two words:
>
> HAD ENOUGH?
>
>
> Alex Walker
>
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Andrea Dorey
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