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Hey, Jeannette, are you back? Hope everything's okay. I look forward to seeing more updates. Though this site concentrates on local politics, I'd appreciate hearing your take on the attempted Davis recall. E-mail me when you get a chance, okay?

The Davis recall attempt is to iniatives and petitions what Karl Rove is to push polling. (Rove, running Dubbya's camapign against John McClain, had pollsters ask, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for a candidate if you knew he had fathered a black child out of wedlock?") And with that one poll question arguably one of the best Senators in the US was out of the race, and certainly the only decent Republican in decades.

Sarah, all it takes is money, vindictiveness and a very few names to get a petition to recall someone on the ballot. That's all. Dog knows Davis is not my cup of tea, but this is an abuse of the petition process. It's chilling to think that pissed off voters could be goaded into dumping Davis while the architect of most of his and the state's miseries sits smugly in the White House, watching every single state bust its budget due to Homeland Security with scant help from the feds. And in CA's case, you better believe that the Texans sets us up to die over energy prices.
And yet only Democrat Martha Stewart is getting a
public hanging.

Jeannette, I'm glad to see that the doctors didn't remove your feistiness, and that you're still full of p*ss and vinegar as ever! :-)

Re: the recall petition, I couldn't agree with you more. It needs to be pointed out that the Rethuglicans can't win anything fair and square -- they always have to resort to lying, cheating, and other dirty tricks.

And, yes: Why is Martha Stewart under indictment, while Kenneth Lay parties it up in places unknown? Gee, do you think the fact that she's a big Democratic contributor, while Kenny's a Bush buddy, has anything to do with it?

Just for the record: I. hate. these. people.

Sorry to be O/T, but I just wanted to add an amusing tidbit I picked up from an online discussion thread re: the Davis recall petition:

"I would sign that recall petition as:

Norm N. Conquest
1066 Hastings Street
Normandie, CA 91066-1014

"Somehow I have a feeling that the name and address would go right over the heads of Issa and the Freepers supporting him."

Again, sorry for the diversion. Just know that Democrats all over the country are praying that Californians beat this back. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Oakland politics...

Jeannette, it's good to find you again! We're fighting for our neighborhood again and would love to speak with you. The 60-acres (Oak through Ninth) is being sold by the Port to Signature Properties (at least that's what Barbara Szudy at the Port announced at a meeting last Tuesday night). We won't go quietly!

IT IS A SHAME . WHILE G.DAVIS MAY NOT BE THE BEST GOVERNOR(DEMOCRAT) IN CA. HISTORY , HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE THROWN OUT BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC DOWNFALLS , ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE BIGGER REASONS (9-11,ENRON,ETC), AND SOME OPPORTUNINISTIC GREEDY , POWER HUNGRY , RUPUBICANS WITH SOUR , SOUR GRAPE(GET EVEN AT ALL COST) ADDITUDES WHO JUST WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE

I like the idea of politicians being held responsible... if you could easily fire politicians in which we have collectively lost faith (and da pollsters say Davis has achieved this distinction) they might collectively (Demos and Repubs) might act better. The CA Legistature has also had a great deal to do with assuming that STATE revenues would stay high. Silly assumption by any standard.