Reply #57: Born in downtown L.A.

[MurrayDelph]

and a lot of my anti-Brown feeling is based on what he did the last time he was governor, and fear he would do it again.

My anti-Villaraigosa feelings are based on crap he is doing right now, which includes having first attempted (illegally) to take over control of LAUSD (which is an independent organization. When that failed, he financed the campaign to put cronies on the board), his union-busting activities (small unions only; the big ones he is trying to court), the obviousness of turning the police into more of a revenue stream than they were before (by adding a "surcharge" for being given a citation), and trying to take things that have already been paid for, and adding a "revenue enhancement" to it (such as his attempts to turn the carpool lanes of the freeways into a toll lane).

And keep in mind, that in Los Angeles, the mayor is (supposedly) a non-partisan office, where the primary is held in February, and if no candidate gets more than 50.1% of the vote, a runoff is held. Well Tony V did win the election, but just barely: he outspent his opponent by more than 15:1, and got just over the 50% necessary. But the total number of votes, in a city with almost 4 million people, was less than 10,000 TOTAL.

And while I hear that Newsom has had the same kind of zipper trouble that little Tony has, I guess it's a matter of him not having pissed in MY backyard, so of the three of them, I guess he would be my preference.

Oh, and the fact that I believe I have good reasoning does not mean that I am not pissed off, too.