Well, hump day for the week and month I suppose. Teasers: Elections are just one more bizarre process in OC governance, we got no money, we got no voters, and we got no media. Well, that's a bummer.
There is a very real chance that we may come up short on cash, as we may be about to fall off a cliff on incoming revenue. Arnold, you have a plan? Oh of course not. $5 billion might be on the low end and we might be in for some Gray Davis type financial struggles.
Voting, who needs it? Apparently not a majority of Californians. We set a record low for turnout., at less than 50% of registered voters. Seriously folks, what are you doing? Go out there and vote. Some people think that the low turnout goes hand in hand with the increasing partisanship in elected officials and decreasing partisan registration. Probably true...DTSers have less at stake I suppose? C'mon folks, you have just as much as stake as me. Take a few minutes and figure out who you are voting for and why. It's really not that hard. But, I suppose I'm preaching to the choir here. Ahh...well, tell your friends the same thing.
Dan Walters said that Arnold's victory is a victory for what I like to call radical moderatism. This of course from the man that doesn't believe in global warming, but I digress. Arnold won on what is really a moderately liberal platform. And oh yeah...$113 million. But, Walters does have a point, that it's nice to play moderate on TV and in the campaign, but how are you really going to address the issues? A quick quote: "It's one thing to enact some sort of symbolic, feel-good, save-the-world measure, but when its provisions involve real money and bottom lines, other forces come into play."
Man is there some craziness going on in the OC. Check out The Liberal OC for all the details. As of last count, Correa trails Daucher by 300 votes. The final tally should be announced today by 5PM...maybe.
Prop 209 passed again , this time in Michigan. It's as if Michigan is totally blind to all the negative ramifications that we have felt here. Doesn't Ward Connerly have anything better to do with his life?
KGO and CBS5 local news programs in the Bay Area have been using corporate fluff pieces in their newscasts. Not cool folks, I don't need Allstate and Pfizer giving me my news.
