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Frightening (URL) like to call my beautiful home state of California the great Democrat experiment. Every top government office in the state is held by a Democrat, and the legislature is overwhelmingly Democrat. Gray Davis took office in 1998 to a (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Much better to have far-Right conservative clowns at the Federal helm. Bush, as you are for some reason overlooking, has destroyed a far larger budget surplus in far less time than Davis, and Bush has no plans, concrete or abstract, to correct (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (assuming your a demo branch demopublican speaking, else it's "the President doesn't control the economy, unless 1) it's strong and he's a Democrat or 2) it's weak and he's a Republican." Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Bush and Davis (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This should be a non-partisan issue. If s/he wastes taxpayer money, throw the bum out -- doesn't matter which side s/he claims to be on. My favorite CA politician is Jerry Brown -- he's a little spooky, but he rides BART and I think he (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Addendum (for clarification)-- "No matter which party." And on that I completely agree. Dave K (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We had Republicans George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson before Gray Davis so I wouldn't call it that much of a Democrat state (Let's toss in Nixon and Reagan, though I suppose one can counter that both of our senators are currently fairly liberal (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Governor Moonbeam! Jerry is probably the very definition of flakey, but I always liked him. Despite coming from a political family (California Governor Pat Brown was his father, for those who don't know) he doesn't seem like the usual (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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