This whole situation is completely stupid. It was all propagated by Darrel Issa, who I think just wants to kick Davis out so he can swoop in, get himself elected, and "save the day." The problem is, this recall is coming at the worst possible time, since California is already
$38 billion in debt, and the election is going to cost
at least $30 million that could be going to better uses.
What was Issa thinking, anyway? He should be out there educating people on where the problems in California came from, like Governor Wilson, the guy before Davis, who put a number of practices into place that are now coming around to bite us in the ass. Like Enron and the other energy tyrants, who sucked the money out from under their stockholders' and customers' feet and jumped ship. Like, yes, even some of Davis' mismanagement. But he should not be gathering signatures to recall Davis (well, he shouldn't have, anyway). It's not like he'll be able to solve all of our problems overnight.
This just goes to show how corrupt government is becoming. The state legislature barely passed a budget, a month after it was due, and instead of addressing many of the issues, they chose to work around the problems. They're cutting programs left and right, yet this is not going to get us out of debt.
The real trouble with this recall is that it doesn't address the bigger picture. Do you know how many states are having financial difficulties? I do: a lot. I don't see any of
them recalling their governors. Do you know where these troubles
really came from? I do: the White House, with Bush's trickle-down economics and skyrocketing defense budget. I don't see anyone starting a petition to recall the president; why must we have a special election to recall our governor?
This is going to be one ridiculous election. I think the choices are "Keep Davis" and "Choose from one of these 300 candidates." 300 candidates! That's insane! Who are we to choose? Are we to choose one of the "brilliant" politicans? One of the famous actors? The head of
Hustler? A nobody with big breasts from L.A.? One of many, many average Joes off the street? I don't see why so many people are running, most of them will get no votes whatsoever.
I read about a web site that is encouraging
everyone to run:
www.run-for-governor.org. Basically, the premise is to get tons of names on the ballot in order to show how absurd the whole idea is. It will cost the state millions of dollars and wreck havoc on the polls, thereby showing people how we will not tolerate any more crap like this.
I sure hope that the people of California vote not to oust Davis. Then we can say we spent millions of dollars on a recall election for nothing, and show up Issa and anyone else who might imitate him. This whole thing is just absurd.
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