Californians Pay Attention!
May. 15th, 2010 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phynckeSo I have been pretty apathetic about the governor's race so far and I usually space out during the commercials but I actually sat and watched one of Meg Whitman's commercials tonight and I am telling all of you Californians out there...it is time to wake up, pay attention and keep this woman from office. She is running on an anti-immigration platform that rivals what is happening in Arizona; she seems intent on stripping benefits and retirement pensions from state workers and this is all from one first pass at her web site. I will delve more deeply. But she has my attention and not in a good way. I am alarmed as she has a huge campaign kitty and loads of resources.
Her background is as CEO of ebay and I have little faith that her experience there will translate into the savvy needed to run the state of California after the Governator leaves, especially given the mess of a budget he is going to leave behind (the one which strips any social welfare out of public funding).
I just looked at the wikipedia article on her and that seems a little flip and unreliable. I have not thrown my vote any way yet but this choice (ie Whitman) is the wrong choice. Destroying labor, eroding people's earning power and making the rich, richer are not the way to go. I also take exception to the fact that attacking state worker's pensions is one of the tenants of her platforms. State workers earn less money than those in private enterprise because of the pension benefit. I am sure she is not going to give us all a raise when she strips our retirement plan away. You can bet on that.
You can count on more posts on this subject. Apologies to those who don't want to read this stuff. Feel free to skip it.
I hope I have gotten your attention on these issues. Any and all comments are welcome. This is an open post and I welcome debate on the issues. Keep in mind that I am liberal minded.
Thanks for reading.
Her background is as CEO of ebay and I have little faith that her experience there will translate into the savvy needed to run the state of California after the Governator leaves, especially given the mess of a budget he is going to leave behind (the one which strips any social welfare out of public funding).
I just looked at the wikipedia article on her and that seems a little flip and unreliable. I have not thrown my vote any way yet but this choice (ie Whitman) is the wrong choice. Destroying labor, eroding people's earning power and making the rich, richer are not the way to go. I also take exception to the fact that attacking state worker's pensions is one of the tenants of her platforms. State workers earn less money than those in private enterprise because of the pension benefit. I am sure she is not going to give us all a raise when she strips our retirement plan away. You can bet on that.
You can count on more posts on this subject. Apologies to those who don't want to read this stuff. Feel free to skip it.
I hope I have gotten your attention on these issues. Any and all comments are welcome. This is an open post and I welcome debate on the issues. Keep in mind that I am liberal minded.
Thanks for reading.
