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Opponents say there is no guarantee that Proposition 10 will help clean the air. They note that the measure does not require car or truck buyers who get rebates to destroy their older, dirtier vehicles or to keep the new cleaner-running vehicles in California.

If enough California drivers take advantage of the programs under Proposition 10, I would expect that market forces would come into play with regard to providing fueling facilities for cleaner, alternative-fuel vehicles. There does not appear to be any shortage of competitive gasoline stations; driving in any of our major cities, it is not at all unusual to see gasoline stations on two, three or even all four corners of a major intersection.

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We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.

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Arguments in favor of Prop. 9

Notable arguments that have been made in favor of Proposition 9 include:
- It is just and right for the government to put the rights of victims ahead of the rights of criminals.
- Proposition 9 would save money because under the current system, taxpayers are spending money to fund hearings for criminals who have little chance of release. For example, supporters of Prop 9 argue, "'Helter Skelter' inmates Bruce Davis and Leslie Van Houten, followers of Charles Manson, convicted of multiple brutal murders, have had 38 parole hearings in 30 years. That’s 38 times the families involved have been forced to relive the painful crime and pay their own expenses to attend the hearing, plus 38 hearings that taxpayers have had to subsidize."
- Parole judges could increase the number of years between parole hearings, saving money.

Arguments against Prop. 9

Notable arguments that have been made against Proposition 9 include:

- Voters already approved many components of Prop. 9 when they passed California Proposition 8 (1982), including the requirements that victims be notified of critical points in an offender’s legal process as well as the rights for victims to be heard throughout the legal process.
- Prop. 9 amounts to political grandstanding without really changing any significant problems in the criminal justice system.
- The provision in Prop. 9 to stop early release of criminals could end up costing the taxpayer in the "hundreds of millions"
- The annual parole rate for those convicted of second degree murder or manslaughter has been less than 1% of those eligible for parole for the last twenty years. Opponents of Prop. 9 say this means that the taxpayers would spend a lot of money with minimal resulting changes, since at most Prop. 9 would affect early parole of 1% of the most violent criminal population.
- Money spent enforcing the provisions of Prop. 9 won't be available for other important government programs.

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To date, it is unclear whether McClintock seeks to distance himself from Doolittle, the scandal-plagued long-time incumbent whose former aide, Kevin Ring, was recently indicted in a federal probe of corruption in Congress. Doolittle didn’t endorse any candidate in the June primary and "nobody's asked" for Doolittle’s endorsement in the current race, said Doolittle spokesman Dan Blankenberg.

Daniel Feliz was a Capitol Hill intern in Rep. Doolittle's office. Doolittle may also have nominated Feliz to attend the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Dan Feliz's father, John Feliz is a long-time political operative for Doolittle having managed Doolittle's first campaign for public office.

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More Shenanigans in NY-13

Just when you thought the race in NY-13 couldn't get any wackier, it did. Here is a brief recap for people who weren't visiting the last time this story came up. The Republican congressman from NY-13 (Staten Island), Vito Fosella, was caught by a cop going through a red light, drunk. Turns out he was going to visit his Virginia family, one his New York family didn't know about (family values). Other Republicans pressured him to not seek reelection. Republicans settled on a rich businessman named Frank Powers as candidate. Powers' son hates him so much that he ran for the Libertarian nomination solely for the purpose of defeating Dad (more family values) but lost. Powers, Sr. died of a heart attack in June. Republicans then picked Robert Straniere to run. The most powerful Republican politician on Staten Island, Guy Molinari, vowed to do everything he can to defeat Straniere (party unity). Now the Republicans are trying to get Straniere appointed to the state supreme court (which is not the highest court in NY) to get him off the ticket so they can run Mr. Family Values (Fossella) again. You couldn't make this stuff up. The bottom line is that New York City council member Mike McMahon (D) will be the new congressman from Staten Island.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) – Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she "put the government checkbook online" in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington.

"We're going to do a few new things also," she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. "For instance, as Alaska’s governor, I put the government’s checkbook online so that people can see where their money’s going. We’ll bring that kind of transparency, that responsibility, and accountability back. We’re going to bring that back to D.C."

There's just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody's already done it. His name is Barack Obama.

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"Tom McClintock has repeatedly voted against veterans - while accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax free perks, even though he knows these perks are meant for legislators who live far away, not politicians like himself who live 14 miles from the capitol".

A very broad term which includes such economic measures as interest rates, the government’s budget deficit, the country’s balance of trade account (relating to exports and imports), the level of domestic business confidence, the inflation rate, the state of (and confidence in) the banking and wider financial sector and consumer confidence.

Moreover, in their widely used textbook, "Economics," Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus titled their first chapter "The Fundamentals of Economics," and noted that "Every society must answer three fundamental questions: what, how, and for whom? What kinds and quantities are produced among the wide range of all possible goods and services? How are resources used in producing these goods? And for whom are the goods produced (that is, what is the distribution of income and consumption among different individuals and classes)?"

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Tom McClintock is a carpetbagger and an obstructionist on the currently stalled California State Budget. He had time to speak to the Minutemen, the self-appointed KKK for undocumented workers. With doublethink McClintock wants to bar undocumented workers who come to California to work illegally, cheaply, for Republican employers. People who discriminate against a race are usually called racists.

Why would a California state senator living in Thousand Oaks want to run for Doolittle's old job as congressman from the Fourth Congressional District since he has never lived in the district and knows nothing about its people? Is it the $169,500 salary with benefits and retirement or devotion to the people? Why would he open two campaign committees for 2010, one for lieutenant governor and one for state Board of Equalization?

He is obviously not devoted to the people of Ca-04, so he is trying to deceive people into voting for him just for the money.

Charlie Brown lives in Ca-04, is a retired, decorated military officer with a vision and desire to serve the people. Don't be as stupid as McClintock thinks you are. Vote for Charlie Brown for United States Congress; send an honest local to Washington.

Jack L. Sanchez

Auburn

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