Just call me a political geek girl
Aug. 21st, 2003 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakJust a quick comment about the CA election.
I was, and still am, all in favor of the recall. You don't get a state the size of CA into the fiscal condition it is currently in without displaying gross incompetence and needing to be held accountable. I was even tentatively in favor of Schwarzenegger's candicacy - despite him being a Republican and me being a Democrat. When I first heard that Davis' Lt. Gov. was running as a replacement to his boss, I hooted. I figured he couldn't possibly be any good.
But the stuff I've been reading lately seems to suggest Bustamante's got some good things to say, and he's got a more coherent economic plan than Schwarzenegger's. S. keeps saying he'll fix things without raising taxes or cutting education, but will have to wait til he appoints an audit *after election* to give specific details. Bah. Bah, I say.
B., as a good Democrat ought to, rather than one of the tepid Republocrats we seem to get these days, wants to put more of the state's revenue brunt on businesses and the wealthy. I like that. It makes a lot more sense than having the majority of taxes come from fees and income taxes asessed against the lower economic tiers. They may be more numerous than the rich, but they still have less overall to give, and they can afford it the least. Doing that may not be enough to get CA out of it's budget hole. He's probably going to have to cut services somewhere too, if elected. But at least he's got a plan formed and ready to hand out to voters.
I may try to do more reading on the other CA gubernatorial candidates - but for God's sake, there's just so damn *many* of them! o_o I think CA needs to toughen it's standards fopr becoming a candidate. Somewhere in one of these articles I read a would-be candidate needs less than a hundred signatures to be elegible. I forget the exact number. But that's just insane. This is CA, not Rhode Island.... You can find a hundred people to sign your petition by going to downtown LA during lunch hour.
I'm reading up on some of the Democratic candidates for President, too. Dean's got some darn good things to say about civil unions for gay couples. But that's not enough to run the country. I need to do more research and less fangirl-stuff online. The primaries aren't all that far away.
Somebody remind me why I didn't get that poli sci degree.... ^_^
I was, and still am, all in favor of the recall. You don't get a state the size of CA into the fiscal condition it is currently in without displaying gross incompetence and needing to be held accountable. I was even tentatively in favor of Schwarzenegger's candicacy - despite him being a Republican and me being a Democrat. When I first heard that Davis' Lt. Gov. was running as a replacement to his boss, I hooted. I figured he couldn't possibly be any good.
But the stuff I've been reading lately seems to suggest Bustamante's got some good things to say, and he's got a more coherent economic plan than Schwarzenegger's. S. keeps saying he'll fix things without raising taxes or cutting education, but will have to wait til he appoints an audit *after election* to give specific details. Bah. Bah, I say.
B., as a good Democrat ought to, rather than one of the tepid Republocrats we seem to get these days, wants to put more of the state's revenue brunt on businesses and the wealthy. I like that. It makes a lot more sense than having the majority of taxes come from fees and income taxes asessed against the lower economic tiers. They may be more numerous than the rich, but they still have less overall to give, and they can afford it the least. Doing that may not be enough to get CA out of it's budget hole. He's probably going to have to cut services somewhere too, if elected. But at least he's got a plan formed and ready to hand out to voters.
I may try to do more reading on the other CA gubernatorial candidates - but for God's sake, there's just so damn *many* of them! o_o I think CA needs to toughen it's standards fopr becoming a candidate. Somewhere in one of these articles I read a would-be candidate needs less than a hundred signatures to be elegible. I forget the exact number. But that's just insane. This is CA, not Rhode Island.... You can find a hundred people to sign your petition by going to downtown LA during lunch hour.
I'm reading up on some of the Democratic candidates for President, too. Dean's got some darn good things to say about civil unions for gay couples. But that's not enough to run the country. I need to do more research and less fangirl-stuff online. The primaries aren't all that far away.
Somebody remind me why I didn't get that poli sci degree.... ^_^
