California Voters Send Message, will Sacramento hear it?
Thursday, May 21st, 2009May 20th, 2009 Voters of California rejected measures 1A-1E, all of which would have allowed Sacramento to ignore the needed buget cuts in favor of higher taxes and raiding of voter secured programs. Given statements from the Governor and other elected officials, you would have thought that a formal letter had been sent saying California Voters don’t care about Democracy and would rather have the Legislature figure out how to do this on their own. If you listened the link (27:35 into the recording), you will hear that Arnold thinks people may not like exercising Democracy by voting. Really? You will also hear Arnold give the typical trope about cutting Education, Police, and Fire services – AS IF THOSE ARE THE ONLY PROGRAMS the State of California funds. If only.
One can only hope that sense will prevail in the State’s Legislature and they will stop playing to the Unions and Special Interests.