Today we are pleased to present a Guest Commentary from Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association…
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by Jon Coupal
We are all familiar with those scary movies where the seemingly nice guy morphs into a threatening monster over a very short time. Excuse me if I now find myself thinking of Arnold Schwarzenegger in his real life role as California Governor.
With his announcing yesterday that he would oppose Proposition 98, which would protect property owners from eminent domain abuse and provide additional property rights protections, the governor’s transformation is complete.
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April 26th, 2008 at 12:00 am
When is the Republican Party going to stand up like a man and acknowledge they have a body snatcher within their midst’s? Or maybe a Manchurian candidate? Or a SPY, not from Hertz?
Initially throwing conservatives a few skinny bones after taking office, the governator now makes no pretense of throwing in with the liberals. He has allowed the state deficit to soar higher than Gov Davis, appointed a raft of liberal, Democrat judges, worked against family issues, become a shill for the homosexual agenda and indoctrination in our schools, become an enemy of private property rights, and tells Republicans we are wrong-headed and need to become little liberals like him. His agency and department appointees are simply get-along go-along clones of the civil servant corps. Nothing gets done, and economy killing regulations multiply exponentially. Investment is moving out of California to neighboring states at a brisk pace. Who can afford to take business risks when it takes 5 to 10 years to build a project in this state, then get soaked with taxes and contend with poor infrastructure? No one seems to care, or worse, correlate the stumbling economy with anti-business regulations and staffs that drag their decision making on for years on what should take a month. At what point does the Republican leadership reach a tipping point. Only after the guv formally switches party affiliation? How much is enough? I mean, really. What does he have to do for the party to say, “don’t come back, baby”?
April 26th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I voted for McClintock.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Jon Coupal needs to read Prop 98 before he tries to burn Governor Schwarzenegger in effigy for not supporting it. If you readers of this blog go to the Secretary of State and search on Prop 98, you will have a chance to read it. And if you read it, you will find that there is a little noticed clause stuck in there regarding natural resources that prevents a government agency from using eminent domain to take water. This is an outgrowth of the Conway Ranch battle here in Northern California over that ranch having abundant water rights and the cities of Davis and Woodland from taking that water for municipal uses. If that provision were not in Prop 98, I’d be the first to say “vote yes on 98” but it is in there and I don’t think any water district should be frozen out of being able to reach out and get the water the citizens of that district need. Do you? If you think the hands of water districts should be tied and have to engage in endless debate with water right owners over how much to pay, then you go right ahead and vote yes on Prop 98. But if you want your water district to have the ability to keep supplying you with clean water, then I suggest you vote No on Prop 98.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Ya know…public school educated voters grew up hugging trees, chewing sprouts, watched credit challenged parents spend their socks off, were brain washed by hippie teachers to believe government and government leaders solved all utopian problems….
Herr Arnold is the voter’s rock star who “eventually” will fulfill every promise he frequently esposes…like about four different promises per week.
The facination with Herr Arnold by FLASH REPORT groupies is that lots of them believe this stuff too!!!! They are called MODERATES.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Moderates? Lets see. The far right wing is so far right they are no longer on planet Earth. The far left wing is so far left they are no longer on planet Earth. That leaves the 70 percent of us in the middle. I guess that makes the 70 percent moderates. Fair enough.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Mr. Evans:
So I take it that you think Der Gropenfuhrer is part of the 70%?
Maybe it’s just my vantage point from a different planet, but you may be guilty of the very same intransigence that you so often ascribe to the “far right wing”.
You are letting your ideological purity dissuade you from supporting something that would protect property owners from the kind of big government that usually unites conservatives and republicans of all stripes.