From: davepat@flash.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Dave Patterson)
Newsgroups: ca.politics
Subject: Re: Recall GOV. WILSON...
Summary: "The Buck Passes Here!"
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:42:49 GMT

In article <92225.43198.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>, J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
> In <55671@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>, Darlene Weidman writes:

>> There seems to be a lack of leadership in Sacramento (witness the budget
>> fiasco), so I am considering starting a petition drive to recall Gov.
>> Pete Wilson.  I have called the Secretary of State and I will be receiving
>> all the info I need in a few days.

> Get some info for recalling the Assembly, too.  We'd be better served by
> removing Willie Brown.
 
Why? He's fighting for the schools, so that my kids, and even yours, will
not be so stupid when they grow up, (and they'll even learn to spell
"potato").

> >>What are your views on this matter.  Is it worth my time to try to get this
> >>initiative under way?

> Blaming Wilson for all of the problems is a cop-out. 

Oh?  And blaming Democrats isn't ?

> Wilson is *fighting* tax hikes.  

By cutting school budgets by Billions?  By letting the budget battle
go on, ad nauseum?  I hope he's successful, because we're already having
to pay a lot for what he's already done to us...

> Wilson is *fighting* tricky accounting which would result in a budget 
> deficit 

Yes, wasn't he the one who decreased the school's budget by the amount 
that the Lotto brought in at the time, to save money? (Which, 
incidentally, is against the terms of the Lottery bill/proposition, which 
stated that the money brought in from Lottery sales were to be "...to 
enhance, not replace..." the school's budget).  Not to mention the
fact that the Lottery was sold to Bally's of Reno 3 months after
it had started, but I guess that blame falls on Deukmejian...

> (the state Constitution requires a balanced budget, and Assembly 
> Dems are trying to circumvent that with crazy "roll-overs" to pay for 
> this year's goodies next year).  

You forgot to mention the fact that *everyone* is being paid tax-free
overtime, (that includes all of those "good guy" Republicans, too).  
(I don't always agree that the people in the Assembly represent me well
either, but blaming one political group is not the answer. Don't you
think that if there was BETTER LEADERSHIP in the Governor's chair, (and,
in the President's, as well), that we wouldn't *be* in this mess?).

> Pete Wilson has finally stood up to the Democrats and said "no more taxes."

Gee, George Bush said the *same thing* in '88!

Or, maybe he said, "No new Texas" ?

> The Assembly needs to be recalled (unless you want more taxes, of course...)
> >>If so, anyone interested in helping out?

Why is it that the Republicans have no blame here?  Well, I'm with Darlene.
I'm tired of Wilson blaming someone else for his shortcomings.  

Ronald Reagan started blaming Congress for all his problems, Bush made it
fashionable to trash Congress, and now Wilson is becoming Bush's prote'gee'
at it.  Most of all, I'm TIRED of listening to everyone blaming everyone
else for their own lack of leadership, (Bush, too!).  I'm doing something 
about it.

Please call the Secretary of State, (March Fong Eu), and ask
for Elections, and you can get a booklet on Recall:  

916-445-6371.

And, while you're at it, call your local television station's News
department, and ask them how to go about getting on one of those 
"Speak Out" commercials, so you can vent your spleen, too!

(This even goes for people who want to complain about the Democrats, too,
(Hey, I think *everyone* has a right to speak, even if I don't agree with 
them...).  If you don't like it, don't just talk about it, DO something 
about it!).

-Dave

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