🚀 go-pugleaf

My friends and I beat the crap out of a recall petitioner behind a Vons
market last night. It was great.

"Ellay" <la@obtuseangles.com> wrote in message
news:t0d4y5N3W5t0MM0RW2oo3@obtuseangles.com...
> AP June 28,2003
>
> With Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and his allies raising money to
> fight a Republican-led campaign to recall him, wealthy donors
> are getting an unexpected chance at influence during an important
> time in California's budget and legislative calendar.
>
> The committee formed to fight the recall is headed by a
> firefighters union whose members could face job cuts in
> the budget Davis will sign in coming months. It has drawn
> donations from companies and unions affected by other issues
> being debated in Sacramento as lawmakers confront a $38.2
> BILLION {emp. added} budget deficit.  /snip/
>
> "There is no greater expression of loyalty than to come to the
> aid of a governor who is under siege and is fighting to avoid
> being removed from office outside the normal electoral process,"
> said University of Southern California political  scientist
> Sherry Bebitch Jeffe. [ note: I DID NOT MAKE THAT NAME UP!]
>
> /snip/
>
> The group also has drawn from Davis allies who have lobbied the
> state on various issues, including $50,000 from Sacramento-based
> Ameriquest Capital. . .Ameriquest filed a report with the state
> in April showing it lobbied during the first quarter of the year
> on bills related to consumer loans, credit reporting and other
> issues.
>
> /snip/
>
> "I don't think there's any question that this has added a new
> mechanism for donors to exert influence," said Jim Knox,
> executive director of California Common Cause, a nonprofit,
> nonpartisan group that advocates for government accountability.
>
> article in full can be fouund at:
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/06/28/national1450EDT0547.DTL
>
>   ===================================================
>     Get a petition to recall Gray Davis here:
>        http://www.rescuecalifornia.com/
>    Fill it out at home, mail it in, easy as that!
>   ===================================================
>