Dear Readers: It is hard to express the joy I felt when hearing the news that Gov. Scott Walker rocked the recall election, blowing-out his challenger and sending a strong message about how taxpaying Americans feel about union thuggery. At times, the written word just doesn’t suffice. So, here’s an image that represents how I felt last night:
I was delighted to see that Carl DeMaio will be in contention for Mayor this November, opposing the odious Bob Filner. Fiscal sanity made a big return in the Golden State, as pension reform won not only in San Diego but it much bluer San Jose as well. It seems our politically connected union-leader-lead-opponents, as in Wisconsin, are going to use the courts to challenge the voter-passed reform measures. Current San Diego Mayor, Jerry Sanders, predicts that DeMaio will get the Walker-recall-treatment if he wins in November.
In fact, Californians are so unmoved by calls for tax hikes, they rejected the usually easy-to-pass “sin tax” on cigarettes to fund another behemoth bureaucracy. It seems the vote was quite close, and the advocates are not conceding defeat. I would like to think the California Tea Party Ballot recommendations put out by the San-Diego Local Order of Bloggers (SLOBs) were helpful in ensuring this tax-hike got spiked. I can’t but think that the tax increases Brown intents to thrust on the ballot in November will get a similar treatment. Interestingly, a pay panel is slashing the Governor’s salary, along with state lawmakers, by 5% starting this December.
Here are some related thoughts from my fellow SLOBs:
- W.C. Varones: OMG it’s a f’n blowout! This is a Waterloo of epic proportions for the unions. As a great TelePrompTer reader once said, “This was the moment when the rise of the [unions] began to slow, and our [country] began to heal.”
- Beers with Demo: Walker appeared to have outperformed many of the polling projections we saw. Could he have possibly been the beneficiary of a reverse Bradley effect?
- B-Daddy: DeMaio vs Filner in the Fall with an appropriate beer reference.
Also, Charles Caesar has a nice round-up of other California June 5th election highlights:
In San Diego, during a conversation with a young establishment Republican, we commented, “we are tea partiers here to make sure the good guys win.” The look of alarm was on his face was disarmed by my friendly smile.
The election results were terrific with one major exception. First, the good news:
- Carl DeMaio, a San Diego mayoral Republican candidate and fiscal reformer won, but will be in a clearly defined run off against establishment Democrat Bob Filner.
- State Proposition 29. Increased cigarette taxes failed with 51% voting against.
- San Diego Proposition A. Bars the city from requiring Project Labor Agreements on municipal construction contracts passed decisively (58%)
- San Diego Proposition B. Reformation of San Diego City Employee Retirement Benefits passed overwhelmingly (66%).
- El Cajon Proposition D. Proposed Charter City passed (57%). Grants the city of El Cajon increased flexibility in it’s budget.
The bad: State Proposition 28. The deceptively worded expansion of term limits was passed.
Getting back to the video highlights:
- If you love SCHADENFREUDE, check out Legal Insurrection’s MSNBC video. I love watching Rachel Maddow eat crow for dinner instead of chocolate.
- For even more SCHADENFREUDE joy, check out Left Coast Rebel’s coverage of not just one, but two, lefty meltdowns.
And, if all of this awesomely awesome news weren’t enough, there seems to have been a major defection in the Democratic Party: BILL CLINTON HAS GONE ROGUE. Hillary is 44 has the absolute best analysis on this subject:
Bill Clinton’s candidates badly beat up Obama’s candidates last night in the primaries. Bill Clinton in the past week declared he “liked” Donald Trump (you know the guy who beats up on Obama and regularly calls Obama a Kenyan), trumpeted Mitt Romney’s “sterling” business record, demanded the election discourse be a Bain-free zone, and put down a marker for Obama to state specifically what he has done and what he will do if reelected.
Bill Clinton is no dope and Bill Clinton has been running campaigns since the George McGovern days. Bill Clinton knows more than anyone about campaign messaging and Bill Clinton knows that what he has done is take an ax to the Obama campaign message.
Finally, no celebration is complete without the HITLER PARODY VIDEO. Word Warrior has the Youtube, with a fabulous take on last night’s events: Civil Servants are supposed to serve the public; not lord it over them. But over time, the roles have become reversed; with the public seen by Unions and their hand-picked politicians as a cash-cow to be milked to dry. Well, in most states the cow is running dry!
Yes, the Tea Party scored major victories yesterday — even in this sapphire blue state. Truly, this is the first day of November 2012.
Thanks for the links! What an exciting night it was…
When I retired from active military duty, I took a Federal job with the Department of the Navy (after the mandatory 18 months wait to insure I didn’t feather my own nest on the way out and almost a year’s hiring freeze). My choice for a retirement system was FERS (Federal Employee’s Retirement System). FERS is similar to a 401K system. The old CSRS (Civil Service Retirement System) was closed to all new hires (sound familiar). You know what, I contributed the maximum amount of my salary allowed by law, I paid my social security taxs. I lived with years of pay freezes manadated by congress. I lost almost a thousand dollars a month from my active duty retirement for the benefit of being a public servent. Surprise, surprise, I’m still able to live. Come on public employees. Make hay, not whine.
Thanks for the link Goddess! Keep up the good work!
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We had a small victory here in the East Bay in a form of rejection of a local tax hike that would obviously pocketed by the unions.
Leslie, thanks for the link. A link forthcoming.
Well, in Riverside the cig tax lost by 60 percent and Orange County by 58 percent, San Diego is a lttle more left than the other two counties. The population in Riverside, OC, and SD growing at a faster rate than La. La County which is big while the bay area counties are smaller than those mention aboce swing things to the left. LA also defeated the Cig state by 50 pecent.