Is this race for California Governor dirty or what? There's so much mud slinging going on between the three Republican candidates and the lone Democrat incumbent that it makes George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words routine crystal clean by comparison! I haven't seen that much mudslinging since Reagan was Governor when I was a kid!
Many TV ads are slinging mud at even two candidates, but in an odd twist, the commitee that represents Governor Gray Davis is sponsoring a campaign to mudsling Richard Riordan and telling us what other Republican candidate to vote for, one whose first name is Bill. Now that is weird, given the fact that Riordan was rumored to be the top man to beat Davis for the Governor seat; now its one of the Bills coming into the home stretch. Which Bill, I just don't know.
I see Ronald Reagan giving an implied endorsement for Bill Jones for Governor, but I doubt it since Reagan is in stage two of Alzeheimer's disease, so we'll never know for sure.
I received flyers from four Republican organizations. They don't seem to agree on everything! Here's how they stack in reccomendations:
California Young Republicans Voter Guide (CYR)
California Voter Guide (addressing the Republicans) (CVG)
The Republican Report (TRR), which lists just one reccomendation
Republican Record (RR)
Republican Voter Checklist (RVC)
Governor of California: Riordan (CYR) (CVG), Simon (RR) (RVC)
Lt. Governor: Bruce McPherson (CYR) (CVG)
Secretary of State: Keith Olberg (CYR) (CVG)
Controller: Tom McClintock (CYR) (RVC); Dean Andal (CVG) (RR)
State Treasurer: Mary Toman (CYR) (CVG) (RVC)
Attorney General: Dick Ackerman (CYR) (CVG)
Insurance Commissioner: Gary Mendoza (CYR) (CVG)
52nd Congressional District (where I live): Duncan Hunter (CYR), Van De Weghe (RR)
36th State Senate District (where I live): Charlene Zettel (CYR) (CVG) (TRR) (RR)
78th Assembly District (where I live): Shirley Horton (CYR) (CVG) (RR)
3rd Board of Equalization: Claude Parrish (CYR) (CVG) (RVC)
No on 40: (CYR) (RVC)
Yes on 41: (CYR)
No on 41: (RVC)
Yes on 42: (CYR) (RVC)
No on 43: (CYR) (RVC)
Yes on 44: (CYR) (RVC)
No on 45: (CYR)
Yes on 45: (CVG) (RVC)
I see several flyers representing the Save Proposition 13 Committee and the Howard Jarvis Texpayers Association (wonder if its the same thing?) telling us how to vote and who to vote for. They both seem to agree on everything on what to vote for. Who's got that much time to read everything!
The ugliest mudslinging battle for State Senate? Charlene Zettel vs. Dennis Hollingsworth! Here's some dirt on what one is calling the other according to some of the dozen flyers I received from both committes to elect each of them, all on one page!
Hollingsworth: sued for sexual harrassment in 1999; forced to admit martial infidelity; failed to pay busines taxes; voted to lower the safety standards of milk (that's how it's written, so what's the full story here?) while influenced by the Milk Producers Council PAC; failed to pass one piece of legislation in the State Assembly; ranked 41 out of 80 in the State Assembly for his poor support of veterans;
Zettel: anti-tax group a "fraud" (Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association says that it's basically a faux organization); spends $63 million on illegal aliens (but another flyer says she voted against illegal aliens to attend California colleges at reduced tuition, so who's right?); votes to hike taxes (but another flyer says she voted for $5 billion in tax cuts and opposed last year's state budget that included a tax hike and extra spending, so where's the full story here?); supported a bill to use our money to fund education programs for convicted killers; gives preferential treatment to illegal immigrants over U.S. military veterans and reservists serving in California (the military are part of my pizza delivery customer base and they deserve and need more money to live here!); and in a very revealing flyer, told the North County Times (in northern San Diego county) that she supported the bill to help poor California immigrants pay for college, but told the Riverside Press-Enterprise she had some trouble with her voting button, then says it never happened at all, but the official Assembly voting records say she voted "aye" for the State Assembly bill 1197. I smell a rat here.
She voted to give transgender sex change patients special rights. Would somebody expand on that? What rights are we talking about and why is the fact aimed as in a negative context when we most people don't know all of the facts about the issue? I for one support rights for everyone in an equal manner, and many people can choose not to exercise your rights as you wish.
The race between Greg and Marcia Brady for a school office wasn't even this dirty!
Seems I gotten more flyers for Zettel than Hollingsworth. The fact is...I did!
D.T.'s reccomendation: Zettel's dirt is worse than Hollingsworth's, so I'm voting for Hollingsworth based on the dirt factor alone.
Other D.T. reccomendations (San Diego Outland residents only): Yes on A, E, No on F, G (penalizes against sane alcohol drinkers); undecided: B, C, D
D.T. reccomendations for Californastan residents only: No on 40, 41; Yes on 42, 45; undecided: 43, 44
D.T.'s reccomendations for the people running for various offices all over the place: no endorsement.
Good luck voting and get informed about the issues today!
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