Boot Out California Governor!

[LittleLady23]

Out Governor in CA is a COMPLETE MORON!

California USED TO BE one of the richest states. Now we are billions of dollars in debt.

Our education system is the WEAKEST in the world. So what does our Governor do? Hmm. He cuts education funding. (Don't argue with me on this, I am an accountant for the school districts here, and he cut out little school system out of 15 million.) We had to cut 2000 teachers! Our class size now is 56 kids per classroom. What happened to the 20 per class? HE IS AN IDIOT!

We had major power outages last year, and why was that? Because our stupid Governor was SELLING OUR POWER TO OTHER STATES? While in the meantime we were without power.

Our gas prices are $1.90 per gallon, and our unemployment rate is VERY HIGH! WHY? Because he fired all the Teachers! And then GRANTED money to ALL of the prisons. A stupid prison guard now can make $70,000 a year with no degree, not even a high school diploma. All you have to do is go to a 6 week training camp! While hard working DEGREE holding citizens are paying the price!.

AND THIS IS THE KICKER:

Today he enforced that the DMV registration renewals are TRIPLE the price now. So not only to I have to pay outrageous insurance, my registration just to DRIVE MY DAMN TRUCK LEGALLY IN CALIFORNIA IS TRIPLED! I already pay $280 so that means next year I will have to fork over $840.

THIS IS MADNESS!!

He cut our education, raised our taxes, and makes stupid laws.

So basically in 5 years Californians will be even poorer and dumber!

[sunbear]

and I thought I was alone here! :(

I think there's less incentive for a company to be run out of California. and there are A LOT of teachers being laid off with these cuts. Tripling the price at the DMV isn't going to stimulate the economy, just trying to make up for the mess. Not what we need.

[jku]

Great - so let's turn over an election, let Darrel Issa spend $700,000 of his own money to get Californians up in a frenzy, and put The Terminator in office to "solve" everything.

Have you noticed that 49 other states are bankrupt too? The NATION'S economy is suffering, and that impacts us too.

All of a sudden the Republicans are worried about Education, when it has been their purpose on Earth to cut education funding and any "social program?"

If you don't want to pay such large DMV fees, why do you drive such a big car? Get a smaller car, get smaller fees. The DMV fees were at 2% prior to 1999 - they went down to .067% with a clause to remain there "unless a case of financial distress" - we're in a case of financial distress so they're going back to where they were in the first place.

I have no defense for Davis, but this current fiscal crisis is nothing new to people who have been keeping up with state and national politics - par for the course my friends.

Do you think a corrupt dope like Bill Simon could have improved this situation?

Are the Republicans in the state offering any alternatives to our fiscal crisis?

"Just get rid of the guy?"

Should we then set the precedent as a state to turnover ANY election in the future?

*Also bear in mind the previous Budget that boosted all this money was set under PETE WILSON in 1998 to go in effect in 1999 when we had a surplus. Wilson never anticipated that the economic boom would could eventually sour? Wilson ALSO deregulated the energy markets which gave us Enron, which gave us blackouts, which gave us awful contracts signed under distress.

[sunbear]

Um... I drive a economic car. It's costing me $35/year.
It doesn't matter what people are driving, we're putting up with the high gas price as is.
It's just the sudden change that's going to throw people off.
Oh by the way, isn't doing that somewhat illegal?


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20030620-1106-ca-statebudget.html

"Assemblyman John Campbell of Irvine, the ranking Republican on the Assembly's budget committee, said Thursday that a new opinion from the legislative counsel supports his contention that Gov. Gray Davis is wrong about state law and the car tax cannot legally be raised – either by the governor or at this point in time."

I'll keep posting when I can get more detail about this.

[jku]

So is your issue the registration fee or higher gas prices? Two totally different issues. Higher gas prices are obvious - after 9/11 Bush had the Energy Dept increase the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fuel against the advice of about every economist as well as internal governmental reports. Why? Create an artificial shortage which boosted the MONEY oil companies who support him were earning under the guise of 9/11.

Oil companies have no incentive to give us cheaper gas - they just need a STEADY supply to maintain artificially inflated prices. It's all about making more money each fiscal quarter. Executive careers hinge on this.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntn24007.htm

The ultra CONSERVATIVE OC REGISTER had a great Q&A about the increase in fees:

Q: Who is affected?
A: Nearly everybody. The increase applies to all private and commercial vehicles, including cars, trucks and motorcycles, or roughly 26 million vehicles. The state licenses about 2.5 million vehicles a month. The state says the average driver will wind up paying $158 more a year. Government vehicles are exempt.

Q: Why did the state do it?
A: It needs the cash. The money from the higher fees, about $4.2 billion a year, will go to local governments, mostly for law enforcement. The state has been sending funds to the local governments. Now it will be able to hang on to that money to help balance its books, which have a $38.2 billion hole.

Q: How did they do it?
A: The Legislature approved a bill, and former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson signed it in 1998, to cut the fees. The economy was strong, and the fee cut was immensely popular with the public. The law went into effect in 1999. But it contained a section that said the fees could be raised if the state faced a cash crisis. Gov. Gray Davis' administration says that crisis has arrived, the state is broke and fees must be raised to where they were before 1999.


http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=44746&section=NEWS&subsection=FOCUS_IN_DEPTH&year=2003&month=6&day=21

[Citizen]

But come on you all, he has class here is proof

http://www.devilducky.com/media/38195/ LINK (http://www.devilducky.com/media/38195/ )

[Deadend]

dude, considering the last post on this thread before yours was two and a half years ago, I highly doubt any of them are going to read that link.

isn't it funny seeing them complain about 1.90 gas though? Reading this thread is like a time machine.

[HereComes30]

Our gas prices are $1.90 per gallon,

That's it? It was $2.09 here and just jumped to $2.16. Guess it is because of the holidays approaching.

[and1grad]

Note to posters...check the date before responding to a thread. :googly:

[meatwad]

No kidding. I think the OP is talking about Gov. Davis. LOL.