Re: California Dreaming

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 8:04 AM -0700 10/8/03, Michael Perelman wrote:
> It's too early to tell if the recall will turn out badly.  For
> example, Proposition 54 -- the racial ignorance proposition --
> failed because it Bustamante got millions of dollars for his
> campaign, which the courts ruled to be illegal. He turned the money
> over to the anti-proposition 54 campaign, which probably turned the
> tide.
>
> California's budget last year avoided most of the pain by passing
> most of the budget cuts on to the following year.  The hard cuts
> come next year.  Schwarzenegger will have trouble pleasing many
> people with his choices, possibly discrediting Republicans even more.

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fundamental contradictions deepened on Election Day. More California
voters cast ballots against the so-called 'racial privacy' act
[Proposition 54] than in favor of the successful recall. Here we have
an activist electorate persuaded by the health and education-related
arguments that sank Prop. 54. The new governor promises to cut 'fat'
from a budget stretched tightly across these spending areas. Yet, the
prison budget has about a billion dollars that can be excised by
someone with the political will to stop construction of Delano II
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