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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
I'm not arguing that what he's doing is illegal. I'm just saying that it's seems somewhat hypocritical when he criticized davis for his pay-to-play fundraising practices. I see no qualitative difference between the prison guard unions giving davis huge contributions as he was protecting their appropriation levels in his budgets and the business interests who are now giving AS >$21k donations as he drafts his worker's comp ballot measure.
On top of this I think a large part of California's problem is that too much governing is done by ballot initiatives, including the after-school spending mandated by AS's own prop 49 from 2002. I'm not thrilled that instead of working with the legislature to (for example) craft a solution to the worker's comp question AS is building a slush fund to push a take-it-or-leave-it referendum in November.
I also think AS is being remarkably disingenuous with his advocacy for the $15b ballot measure in March, but I'm not in the mood to type another six paragraphs that no one will read, so instead I'll just sit here and draw devil horns and stink lines on
the picture of AS from today's paper. Take THAT, Quaid.
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Seems to me there is a stark difference in raising money from interest groups for a governor's personal campaign for reelection and raising money from people to push IDEAS from people who back those ideas.
As for the bond measure, how is he being disingenuous?
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