Comments on: Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign is over!

By: been here a while

been here a while — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:13:12 +0000

She has started out just like the Gubernator did, with sweeping generalizations about how she will change things in Sacto, such as her statement she will reduce the State work force by 30% – thereby ignoring the fact that the Governor cannot make changesl like that on his or her own. Also ignores that all 100,000 State General Fund employees could be eliminated and it still would not cover the $ 24 billion deficit. She is searching for a theme, but seems to be latching on to possible themes that she as Governor can neither do nor could she make a significant difference. Another person with a big ego in search of an elected office trophy who is extremely naieve when it comes to fisally managing California government. Note how reality has Arnold’s trophy tarnishing while still in office

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:15:42 +0000

While citizen initiatives are good, they have run amok in California, and made CA ungovernable.
The problem is that it is impossible to do any long-term planning, with citizen initiatives forcing the state to spend money on whatever the propositions mandate.
The Economist recently has called CA the “Ungovernable State”, and has called the current proposition system “Citizen-power gone mad”. In fact, the majority of the propositions are not citizen initiatives, but rather special interest groups who abuse the proposition system.

If Meg Whitman wants to get rid of the current implementation of the proposition system, she has my vote (and for an independent, that means a lot…)

By: Matt Munson

Matt Munson — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:59:24 +0000

Citizen initatives are vital, but they should not require 50%+1 to pass consitutional amendments. I think they should either pass in 2 consecutive elections by 50%+1 or by 60% in the first election.

Or 50%+1 to borrow billions of dollars to add to our very shrinking borrowing capacity too.

Why can prop 8 pass with 50%, but our state budget needs 66% to pass, its silly.

I dont think we need to silence the people, but we should toughen the standards to pass these initatives.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:50:42 +0000

Benson: Whether you like it or not, it’ll have to be Gavin.

By: Jim Benson

Jim Benson — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:04:46 +0000

OK. so I’m a Democrat that does not like Brown, what to do?