Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Sac Bee Slaps Perata Again
Media / Politics Chris Thompson — Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:40 AM
What could Don Perata have done to piss off the Sacto Bee so much? Last week, the paper published an editorial begging the lame-duck Senate president to leave town and let his successors get on with the business of governing. Today, the paper publishes another editorial smacking him around. The piece starts off with a startling statistic: we could eliminate all $19 billion we spend on prisons and higher education, and still face a multi-billion-dollar deficit. Then, after briefly mentioning Republican state legislators' infuriating obstinacy when it comes to raising taxes, the editorial reserves its fieriest ire for The Don.
"Probably the most pathetic response came from Don Perata," the editorial read. "On Friday, one day after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged legislators to adopt harsh but prudent cuts and tax increases in the current special session, Perata effectively undercut the governor. In an interview with KQED, he said 'the best compromise' that Californians could expect would be a tax measure that would go to the ballot. In other words, even before negotiations had started, Perata was ready to throw up his hands to avoid the hard work of pressuring Republicans to consider a tax increase. And he was willing to do so at grave peril to the state's solvency."
We've done our share of hatin' on The Don, and we don't lkie complicated budget decisions made at the ballot. But we hardly think he qualifies as the "most pathetic" actor in the state's budget woes. Governor Schwarzenegger ran on a promise to rescind a raise in the state's vehicle license fee, which cost California $4 billion. The Republican state legislature hasn't considered a tax in, what, decades? The correctional officers' union and determinate sentencing for drug offenses have created a gulag archipelago that bleeds billions from the treasury every year
But hey, maybe the Bee's editors know something about Perata we don't. It wouldn't be the first time.
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Ah getitrite...
Actually my trite little partisan douche...I agree with you. Do you see me anywhere in my post any defense of our worthless RINO governor? (I realize that reading comprehension is not a strength of the wild-eyed leftist loons but good god sweatheart a dyslexic hyperactive, seven-year-old would have at least grasped the concept of my post).
In any case, please go back down to the basement in mommy's house and continue bloviating.....the grown-ups will continue to discuss the issues.
Signed - An INFORMED Independent
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So let me get this straight, UN-informed Incontinent: You feel that the only guy with the balls to stand up to most impotent, full-of-shit governor this state has seen in 25 years, who accepted $300,000 from secret donors supposedly to attend a ONE DAY CONFERENCE, who lied about "I don't need to take dirty money", who backdoor dealt with the head of the AARP to pass dubious re-districting with the voters all the while he shafted seniors during the budget process, and by the way - your Republican boyfriends? They are MORE than willing to give tax breaks to yacht owners, those earning more than $300,000 a year and anyone with a business that is (boo-hoo) going to lose 50 cents because those nasty environmentalists demand less pollution from those rat bastards - but back to Governess Shwarzenothing: Who illegally tried to withhold workers pay during the budget mess HE created by refusing to negotiate for months, then LIED through the lifts in his shoes saying the LEGISLATORS were lazy & did nothing for months - you think this orange-faced, condom stuffed with walnuts pervert is MORE deserving of praise than Perata. You, madam, are a starfucking idiot.
So let me get this straight Chris - you feel that this bloated, corrupt mob boss of the legislature who is currently being investigated by the FBI and FPCC for corruption, who mounted a failed recall campaign on a seated state senator he disliked, who illegally demanded that state employess aid in said recall attempt, who is in the pocket of the prison guards union and teachers union, who sponsered misleading legislation to selfishly extend his term, who never saw a tax or special interest group he didn't like is somehow less pathetic than Republican Legislators who are trying to stave off increased taxes in the most taxed state in the union?
You sir are an uber-partisan Idiot.
Signed an INFORMED Independent
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