Gray Davis is Getting Desperate

[Kodiak]

Read the entire article here.


From the article:

"The bill, signed into law last Friday in a pathetic act of desperation by soon-to-be-ex-Governor Gray Davis, directs the California Department of Motor Vehicles to accept Mexican government documents as valid forms of identification from driver's license applicants, and repeals the requirement that applicants present proof to the DMV of their legal presence in the United States.

Strangely, Davis vetoed a similar bill less than a year ago, saying at the time that the bill contained insufficient safeguards against the possibility that terrorists would obtain licenses to drive. He would support an amended bill, he said, if it contained "certain common-sense protections" such as a provision for background checks. But even those few protections that were in the earlier bill were stripped from the one he signed Friday, demonstrating just how malleable the governor's convictions can be with his political hide on the line..."

 

[Silicon]

I blame republicans for making him desperate.

12% of the number of people voting in the last election caused this fiasco.

HMMMM.... I wonder if we could recall Bush! I'm sure we can find 12% of the American public who are worse off than they were 3 years ago!


Power crisis, enormous budget shortfalls, huge issuing of bonds, gargantuan kickbacks to big campaign contributors....

Recall BUSH/DAVIS!

 

[Brown]

Technically speaking, the cited material is not an "article," but a "column." In other words, it is an opinion piece rather than a news report.

 

[Kodiak]

Technically speaking, the cited material is not an "article," but a "column." In other words, it is an opinion piece rather than a news report.

Thank you for posting the distinction, though anyone clicking onto the link would have seen that plainly. You are indeed correct.

Disregarding the author's opinion(s), do you have any comment regarding Davis' reversal?

 

[Silicon]

Disregarding the author's opinion(s), do you have any comment regarding Davis' reversal?

Davis is a shameless political operator. Which is how he won the last election.

And it's how he'll win this one.

 

[Kodiak]

I blame republicans for making him desperate.

Ah...I get it!

"The republicans made me do it!"

12% of the number of people voting in the last election caused this fiasco.

As called for in the California State Constitution. The citizens and legislature of that state have specific recourse if they wish to further amend their state constitution.

HMMMM.... I wonder if we could recall Bush! I'm sure we can find 12% of the American public who are worse off than they were 3 years ago!

Sorry, but the U.S. Constitution also has specific instructions for that. 12% is insufficient. Again, feel free to try and amend the Constitution though...

Article V of the US Constitution:

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

 

[Brown]

Thank you for posting the distinction, though anyone clicking onto the link would have seen that plainly. You are indeed correct.

No problemo. The first sentence of the quoted language was sufficient to suggest that it was an opinion piece. (No matter how pathetic a politician's actions may be, a valid news article never characterizes them as "pathetic." Only a column would be written in such a way.)

I point out the distinction between "articles" and "columns" because I have a journalist in my family, and journalists often become dismayed when people confuse the two.

As for the subject matter, I have no opinion about any of the details of California politics.