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March 09, 2005

California for Democracy Against Democracy

The California arm of Howard Dean's Democracy for America organization is mobilizing against Governor Schwarzenegger's reform proposals:

California for Democracy...is planning a high-tech campaign targeting the Republican governor, who wraps up an out-of-state fund- raising tour in Washington today.

...volunteers from California for Democracy hope to frustrate [the Governor's] efforts. They plan to use the Web and mobile technology to keep roughly 9,000 supporters abreast of the whereabouts of signature-gatherers for Schwarzenegger ballot initiatives. Organizers say volunteers will then head to those locations to distribute the group's leaflets denouncing the planned special election, which opponents note will cost as much as $70 million.

So what we have here is an organization calling itself California for Democracy putting together a strategy to block a democratic election.

Is the irony thick enough for you? Let's try and make it thicker.

According to the linked article, these rapid response teams were dreamt up during a conference call with Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez (D-Los Angeles), who opposes the Governor's reforms. The simple fact of the matter is Speaker Núñez could stop the special elections single-handedly by simply putting together his own reform proposal and placing it on the governor's desk.

Gov. Schwarzenegger is not campaigning for a special election because he does not like the Democrat's proposals, but because they refuse to propose anything at all. He is willing to deal, negotiate, do what ever it takes to fix the recurring budget problems in this state but no one, neither Democrat nor Republican, will play ball.

So the reality we see here is Assembly-person Núñez is mobilizing Democracy advocates to prevent a democratic exercise he could stop on his own.

Now it's thick enough.

(Hat tip: Taranto)

Posted by bubba138 at March 9, 2005 01:31 PM