Roger Hedgecock Flashfax Excerpts 1-7-04!

(bout time for our interests to be heard, no?)

ROGER WATCHED AND LISTENED TO ARNOLD last evening as the new Governor set a new agenda for California. We suspect this may have been one of the most watched ever State of the State addresses. And good thing that!! Arnold was strong, set priorities and reached across the aisle. ROGER and his listeners thrilled to hear leadership talk for a change. We’ll chat about the address on the radio today (see above) but if we agree with the direction being set by our new Governor then we’re gonna have to do more than chat.

BECAUSE….the long knives are being pulled from their sheaths as we type. We’re real excited about making budget cuts. We know that we can’t spend more than we take in. We’re excited about farming out a lot of state work to private folks who are willing to bid a lower cost to get a job done. That’s not brain surgery. You put a new fence up around the house, you don’t hire the most expensive company unless there is a compelling reason. Our money is valuable. We spend frugally.

But gummint operates different. As ROGER notes continually, our lawmakers are addicted to spending money they have not earned. And thus when Arnold sez that we need to toss 2-billion dollars worth the ed spending into local districts, all the folks who were getting that (categorical) loot will start doing the Samari. Same with folks on payrolls that Arnold suggests we farm out to private sector. Swoosh is the sound of the sword.

What happens next is that these gummint folks have lobbyists and organizations and embedded niches in the bureaucracy which will work full time to thwart the Governor’s efforts. Never mind that we taxpayers want and support the Governor’s plan. Getting our house in order means that gummint will have to suffer. Gummint never suffers. We the taxpayers suffer. And thus begins the battle…and a battle it will be…

AND THIS IS WHERE ROGER…AND Y’ALL COME IN…we are a special interest. We have an organization and a network and a voice and vote box clout. We displayed such in the recall and the recall election. Pro-gummint lawmakers are going to be inundated with personal visits, campaign loot, phone calls etc from special interest groups that want to keep gummint big and expensive and spend more. Our task is to remind lawmakers of the RECALL!! As ROGER notes often, had the legislature been on the recall ballot with Gray Davis, they too would have been swept from office.

We need to hang together and remain a force to be reckoned with. Our recall brought new voters to the GOP ranks. We brought diversity to the ranks. Our recall vote reflected the will of democrats, Hispanics, women and a large percentage of Black voters. We must keep this coalition together.

You all know about ROGER’S Hold Their Feet To The Fire IX trip to Sacramento January 11-14th…but that is just the beginning. The start of our effort to confront the long knives of the education unions, the gummint job unions, the entrenched bureaucracy lobbyists and those who will shout of cruelty and taking crutches from cripples and forcing dog food upon the elderly and leaving all children behind.

WE ARE A SPECIAL INTEREST AND WE NEED TO KEEP ACTING LIKE ONE!!

**ROGER’S WEBSITE…a couple of changes that might make it easier for you to navigate. We’ve redone the ROGER’S Homework page to make it download faster. This is where you’ll find ROGER’S daily stack of stuff…homework for the broadcast for ROGER and his listeners. We’re changing the Recall page to Campaign 2004 and we’ll try to put a bunch of links and data on that page that will clue you as we get closer to the March 2nd ballot. And check out ROGER’S show photos. If you want some history on this radio programme that’s a great place to start. I was looking as I posted some pix recently and gosh 2003 was a remarkable year. The year in pix on the website.

** HAD TO POST THIS…came in the morning e-mail:

Survivor: Texas Style

Due to the popularity of the Survivor shows, Texas is planning to do its own, entitled "Survivor-Texas Style."

The contestants will start in Dallas, travel to Waco, Austin, San Antonio, over to Houston and down to Brownsville. They will then proceed up to Del Rio, on to El Paso, then to Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, and Amarillo. From there, they'll proceed to Abilene, Ft. Worth, and finally back to Dallas.

Each will be driving a pink Volvo plastered with bumper stickers that read:

"I'm gay"..."I love the Dixie Chicks"..."I'm a vegetarian"..."I voted for Al Gore".."George Strait Sucks"..."Hillary in 2004!.".."Support the ACLU" and "Confiscate Guns!"

The first one that makes it back to Dallas alive wins.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!