The election results created a similar feeling in me as the one two years ago with Obama was elected into office.... a sick to my stomach feeling, and in addition... some bewilderment.
Back in 1971, California had Jerry Brown (or as I like to call him Moon Beam) as Governor for two terms, when he decided to run for President, and lost. In the beginning he was known as a fiscal conservative, which obviously is something California needed then, and something we need now (within reason-- cause we are cutting the wrong things). At the end of his second term, California knew he had done alot of damage from his time in office. And you fast forward to his time as Mayor in Oakland as they are filing Bankruptcy protection....
2010... he is running against Founder of Ebay, Meg Whitman. She has a lot of business savvy, but not alot of political experience. Granted, running a dot.com company doesn't make you a budgeting extraordinaire... but we have seen two actors as Governors... and one of them ended up also being the President of the United States (My favorite President in History: Ronald Reagan).
This election though.... determined one thing.... where California was going. Given the two top candidates it would either remain where it is... complacent, and needing some direction or down. And well, California voted last night that it was not in the toilet and they wanted it to be.... and Moon Beam now reclaims his throne he left almost 30 years ago in January.
It makes me wonder.... what the heck people are thinking? Because people complain about California having one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, the worst schools (number 49 or 50) in the nation, some of the highest taxes, over populated, our immigration and illegals tolerance is out of control.... but really.... let's vote for the man who did nothing his first two times around. A man who has a proven track record for these things continuing to not make us The Golden State anymore. He is the reason that Manson has yet to be executed, he is the reason why we have this environmental crap getting in the way for years of job creation. People first. And that is not what Moon Beam will do.
I was no fan of Whitman either, but she was the lesser of two evils. Did I vote for her? No. But I sure as heck did not vote for mini-Obama either.
If people aren't smart, they shouldn't vote. Can I get a prop on the ballot that if you are illiterate and/or your IQ is less than 120 you can not vote?!?! Would you approve it if I got it on there ;-)
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