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[velvetechos]

Recall Davis?
· Yes 54.2%
· No 45.9%

Replacement Candidates
· Bustamante 924,423
· McClintock 376,068
· Schwarzenegger 1,439,374

Comments

[patra.livejournal.com]

*pumps fist and pumps iron* Haha, silly joke. I'm so rooting for Arnold. XOXO

[frootijen.livejournal.com]

I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle...My kid loves Ahhnold, but is not old enough yet to understand politics. Haha.

what about gary????

[kleme.livejournal.com]

Gay Coleman-5

bullocks

[britlover.livejournal.com]

I can't believe Arnold won. People in CA. are so ignorant. Now we just have wilson back again. The recall is a dirty trick of the Republican Party. People in California should open the eyes. Wilson was the Republican governor of California in 1996 when he made utility deregulation the centerpiece of his doomed campaign for president. Competition in the electric power business, said Wilson, would usher in a new age of lower prices. The "miracle of the marketplace" would mean better, cheaper, more reliable electricity from a host of competing suppliers.
Deregulation is also the centerpiece of Schwarzenegger's campaign for Wilson's old job. The Terminator isn't allowed to say much. But the few short sentences he does utter seem to have something to do with policies that would mirror what Wilson did when he set the utilities free.
Unfortunately, what Wilson did led directly to the staged rolling blackouts of 2000-1. As we now know, those blackouts were actually a form of blackmail used by Texas gas companies to rob California of more than $60 billion
Wilson's big idea then was to cut the utilities loose from the 90 years of public supervision that had kept prices and supply reasonably stable in California and most of the rest of the US.
Arnold's sound bites continue to focus on the "miracle of the marketplace" that has already cost California at least $100 billion. The media should directly demand answers from Blackout Pete about his utility deregulation fiasco, instead of begging to get it all rehashed by Arnold.