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Originally posted by widebody911
Tell us, oh wise one, how would it have been better with a Republican legislature?
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Well, I'm guessing that a Republican legis. or gov. would not have come into office with a $7 billion surplus and turned it into a $38 billion deficit. I understand CA has some pretty tough issues, but going on a spending spree just because revenues are up is asking for trouble when the dot.com bubble burst. And blaming a totally unnecessary energy crisis on a then new U.S. president is probably not gonna solve the problem either. Gray Davis is just a complete idiot and CA is too difficult a place for an idiot governor. Some states have such strict systems, limiting what their state and local governments can do, that no one person can screw it up too badly. But Davis has really shafted Californians. Anyway you cut it, 31 previous attempts to recall governors in CA and Davis is the first one that has a chance of getting tossed - he's an idiot. In VA we have a bs car tax too, but our governors are limited to one term only and our fiscal crisis is not as bad as it could have been because the last gov. built up a phat rainy day fund when the dot.com business was real good here - instead of pissing it away like a drunken sailor ala Gray Davis.