This Tuesday DeSaulnier and I will debate the issues that are important to the 7th senatorial district. Here are some questions that the moderator should consider asking Mr. DeSaulnier about his voting record:
- How can the people of California trust you to reform public pensions when you raised public pension benefits to unsustainable levels in Contra Costa County while serving as its county supervisor?
- How do you explain that according to the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association you have the worst voting record of raising Californian’s taxes?
- How do you explain, according to the California Chamber of Commerce, that you have the second worst voting record on business issues in this state, including numerous votes that are specified as job killing votes?
- Why did you decide to drive up California’s budget deficit by voting to create wasteful and unnecessary boards and commissions like the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority?
- What have you done to reverse your self-admitted “mistake” of making it harder for cities to declare bankruptcy?
The DeSaulnier/Meuser debate will be held at Scott's in Walnut Creek, 1333 N. California Blvd. Debate starts at 7:00 am and will be over at 8:30 am. Cost for this event will be $15 and will include a buffet breakfast.
Mark Meuser is a candidate for State Senate District 7. You can follow him on Facebook.
Why? Because he was not a Democrat running for a national seat and that there were too many Democrats sitting up there in Sacratormento as it was. One of the biggest problems we seem to have is when we have lopsided majorities of one party or the other to the point that we have bad legislation (such as the "(D)ream" Act and High-Speed Rail) getting ram-rodded through with very little oversight. I hope that if more of the opposition candidates from any party are elected, it would counter the "rubber-stamp" approach that a party with a super-majority seems to bring with it. We can't have a party dictatorship any more than we can have a strongman-type dictatorship in any level of government. So that's why I voted the way I did, here. It doesn't mean I support Mr. Meuser in any way, just that if he is elected, he really needs to work on countering the actions of whatever a "rubber-stamp assemblage" wants to do. For state offices, I wound up voting in GOP Candidates out of spite, whereas in previous elections I used to vote for Democrats out of spite. But until we have more parties in that government both diluting and sharing the power and representing the true and diverse beliefs of the people, we will always have this problem, no matter which party has a super-majority.
I have seen your type coming and going before. If you don't like what others have posted, it doesn't mean that you should attack and repel. Instead, contribute to why you don't like their opinions in the first place, not why you hate the poster and perhaps you might get a little further in your arguments.
Instead of trying to attack the poster themself on the grounds that you seem to not like the poster, go after their positions and arguments and point out the flaws in those. All you get when you attack the poster is just an attack right back.
Unless you have something other than personal attacks and accusations to level at me, you really should move on and pester somebody else. Perhaps they would find your rantings about their personality more appealing, where I find them very vapid. Just because I post does it mean that it is an open invitation to launch accusations and attacks. Sometimes it means that I am saying something and that is about it. So instead of bickering with me on your petty issues, perhaps you should go to an art gallery, especially one that has Chagall's work on display and go admire them. Perhaps you may meet a like-minded soul there and discover that the two of you have more in common than your appreciation for Chagall and spend more time with them than here in these pages looking for somebody to pick on because you did not like what they had to say and made it into a personal attack. Now unless you want to comment further about how "bossy" and "arrogant" I seem to be, or that I spend way too much time, effort, energy and even photons at this point to give you such a response, you really need to move on beyond this petty dispute you seem to have, here. It's your choice. Because I can always disengage, just as you can, Mr. Chagall, but I prefer to disengage on positive notes and on high ground and from what I have seen in your posts not only to me but to others thus far, you seem to go a different course.
So why don't you disengage from this thread and go on with the rest of your life? It may make you happy or perhaps even happier if you did so. Otherwise you may find yourself flooded with text and because neither one of us seem to want to disengage from this spiral, it may make for a bad experience for the rest of the posters on this page. And considering the beatings I have received thus far in these pages and on these forums, and that I am still here and still posting, you might want to know from what I have written so far that I stand up to bullies and call them out on their bullying, just like I'm doing here, Mr. Chagall. If all you have are personal attacks, then perhaps what the moderator of this thread needs to do next is shut it down and let the posters engaged in such petty bickering "cool their heels" and consider how their actions got this thread shut down in the first place. "It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions." --Mark Twain
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As a result, political power in this state is lop-sided because one party does control everything. And until the current regime is done away with, we need to work on diluting the power base, not only with Republicans, but also other parties so that political power is shared, not monopolized or duopolized. And that is why I voted for Meuser on my Livermore ballot. And I voted for other Republicans, too, even though I normally don't vote for Republicans these days. I still threw my vote for President away on Roseanne and Cindy, and wrote in my candidate for US Congress because there were only "democrats" on my ballot and to make matters worse, the registrar didn't even both to put in a section on my ballot for a write-in candidate, so "a pox on everybody's house" who made that decision. I even voted for a Republican instead of Feinstein, who like Stark in his seat, has probably been in her Senate seat way too long. In addition, I voted my standard "no" on every ballot initiative, because you can never tell what else is in the "small print" on the wording of those measures. Sorry, Tom, I was pulling for you for the last word, but Mr. Mockery up there had other ideas.
The voice of dessent should always be valued in a free country dont you think? Or should we only allow democrats to even run for office here?