[Sosfbay-discuss] Speaker Karen Bass: 'Let's Talk Taxes'

[alexcathy at aol.com]

Posted on Green Commons, May 14, 2008

Speaker Karen Bass: 'Let's Talk Taxes'
By Alex Walker





Sacramento,
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 – Karen Bass was sworn in as speaker of the
California State Assembly. She is the first African-American woman to
hold such a legislative post anywhere in the United States. Speaker
Bass says ready to begin tackling the many challenges facing
California. Governor Schwarzenegger was scheduled to release his
revised budget proposal Wednesday afternoon.







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Ms.
Bass is a Democrat representing the 47th Assembly District in Los
Angeles. The impression of this Green reporter is that Karen is more
thoughtful, more honest, and more sincerely progressive than most Big
City California Democratic Party pols. The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by Ms. Bass, "
Let's Talk Taxes"
proposing an "independent" look at the "Third Rail" of California
politics: Taxes. Her op-ed includes a concise description of the
paradox of California: a state with wealth, resources, and a productive
work force that is somehow "a giant in crisis."








Peter Miguel Camejo, our Green Party
candidate for Governor spoke "Truth to Power" about the budget way back
in 2002, when Democratic Governor Gray Davis was lying through his
teeth. Greens have earned the right to a seat at the table and we must
seize this opportunity to engage in a little "triangulation" between
the better elements of the California legislature and do-nothing, ethically-challenged "Regular" Democrats and Republicans.

. . .

The
point is not that Camejo, Greens, or anybody else, has a "magic wand"
to make our budget problems go away. The point is that the Green Party was straight with the people of California
when Democrats, Republicans, including the phoney "post-partisan"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, were all shucking 'n jiving... We have the duty
to help save California and promote our key values to save the planet.





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