Some Thoughts on the California Election

Who is the stronger candidate?


Greetings from California, where we have a famous weight-lifter and movie actor for a governor-with predictable results. Governor Arnold Katzenjammer calls himself a Republican, but governs as a Democrat. The state is on the brink of bankruptcy, but if you look at who the candidates are in the November election, you figure things can only get worse.

Let's look at the Senate race. Barbara Boxer is one of the biggest jokes in the Senate with a career distinguished only by partisan bickering-according to the liberal San Francisco Chronicle, which will not endorse her. This is the same woman who dressed down a top military officer testifying before her committee for not addressing her as "Senator". Of course, she is from San Francisco, and that is not a problem if you come from California.

Boxer is running against a billionaire former head of Hewlitt-Packard, Carli Fiorina, who used her billions to prevail over a much more qualified conservative, Chuck Devore. Of course, I will be voting for her, but at last count, she was about 6 points down in the polls.

In the governor's race, we have "Run-Down" Jerry Brown, who has spent his entire adult life in politics-with nothing to show for it in results. He is an ultra-liberal who will do what every other politician in California does-whatever the unions tell him to do. His previous stint as governor in the 1970s-80s was marked as the era of "Governor Moonbeam".

His opponent is Meg Whitman, another billionaire entrepreneur who headed E-Bay. She has poured over one hundred million dollars into her campaign. She figures to be another Schwarzenegger. One day she says one thing before one group, then the next day the complete opposite to another group. Of course, now the big issue is her relationship with a former nanny, an illegal alien who used a fake social security number and fake ID to work for Whitman for nine years before being fired when she admitted such to Whitman. If things aren't crazy enough in California, now we have ambulance chaser Gloria Allred prancing about-giving press conferences-and outing her client, the nanny for every offense she committed because-allegedly, Whitman knew about it.

Then we have the race for attorney general, which is between LA DA Steve Cooley (Republican) and SF DA Kamala Harris (D). Cooley did a credible job as DA in Los Angeles, while the ultra-liberal Harris refused to go after the death penalty for murderers-in any case-even the illegal alien gang member who killed a family of three (The Bologna family) for no reason-just after he had gotten out of jail without being turned over to ICE. (San Francisco is a sanctuary city under playboy Mayor Gavin Newsom.)

Who, by the way, is running for Lt Governor. His opponent? The current Lt Governor, a RINO named Abel Maldonado-appointed to the job by Gov. Katzenjammer.

Then there is the race for insurance commissioner, which is, believe it or not, an important job and one of the musical chairs posts that California politicians occupy as they jump from one post to another. Our choices here are David Jones (D), who is mired in controversies. His opponents claim that Jones paid Congresswoman Maxine Waters $25,000 for her endorsement. Jones is also hammered in campaign ads for voting to raise state taxes some 33 billion dollars. Problem is...so did his opponent, Mike Villines. What makes it worse is that Villines broke a no-tax pledge made by several Republicans-then sold his vote for the taxes for political considerations. That's a ballot spot I plan to leave blank in November.

This is the best we can do.

At a time the state is crumbling and sinking into bankruptcy, when the state budget is a mere three months overdue, it seems our choice of governor will hinge on what Meg Whitman knew about her nanny's legal status and when did she know it.

Hope is not on the way.