Was I delusional in thinking Phil Angelides had a chance in winning? After all, all the polls showed him as being way way way behind –
I think I live in a bit of a bubble — Everyone I knew was voting for Angelides or Camejo, and saying yes to 87 to tax big oil — which also was sadly defeated.
In my defense, however — If LA County were its own state, Angelides would be governor, and 87 woulda passed. So would’ve prop 86, the cigarette tax.
Anyway. On the upside, the anti-choice Prop 85 was defeated — yay! I think my cocktail party did it :) Pombo’s outta there. And Dems have the house, and hopefully the senate too, soon –
Update: Wow! Rumsfeld resigned already! It’s getting exciting –
No, we didn’t win everything. But we won a lot more than I ever expected!
Pombo: gone. Santorum: gone. Prop 85: Defeated. Prop 90: Defeated. In fact most of the League of Conservation’s “Dirty Dozen” have been defeated.
Prop 87 was a good idea, but its defeat is not the end of alternative energy. In fact, I think Arnold is as likely to push alt energy as Angelides, if not more so.
The environment was a big winner throughout much of the nation. For those with an eye up north, a whole bunch of Bay Area counties and communities enacted growth control and open space measures, which will make a huge difference up there.
Comment by Rafi — November 8, 2006 @ 10:51 am
In case you underestimate the win of yesterday, here’s an article about the loss of Pombo:
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/
Comment by Rafi — November 8, 2006 @ 10:56 am
The real disappointment of the measures you mentioned above is the failure of Prop 87. Who doesn’t want cleaner air and less dependence on foreign oil?
Still, it makes sense that California voters didn’t want another bureaucracy.
What about something like the
nu-NRG Plan (at http://www.nu-nrg.org), that has all the same benefits but is more fiscally responsible?
Comment by Mr H — November 8, 2006 @ 11:10 am
So how about y’all turn the tumbscrews on our state legislature and newly re-elected guvernator to get off their duffs about alternative fuels?
A few million emails might get their attention….
Comment by Rafi — November 8, 2006 @ 2:04 pm
Yes, I think most of my “liberal” friends were also delusional about Angelides. I didn’t support him, and didn’t campaign for him, b/c he was not a candidate I felt passionate about. It was obvious long ago that he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of defeating Arnold.
With this reality in mind, Peter Camejo was the only choice. Being the “green LA girl”, didn’t you consider the Green Party candidate?
Did you receive ONE passionate email from a friend in support of Angelides? Now contrast that to the 2004 election, when progressives were blogging about Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich like there was no tomorrow. THAT was a passionate time, when Democratic Candidates for the Presidential Nomination inspired the grassroots to become activists.
I never once considered supporting Phil Angiledes, and that’s pathetic.
Comment by Zack — November 8, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
Did the pro-murdering criminals judges get in.
Comment by simon — November 8, 2006 @ 5:53 pm
Just read your other reply. Good to see no pro-death judges got in. Now if only America could get a few low tax liberals in to power it would be good.
Comment by simon — November 8, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
I just got an email from the California League of Conservation Voters, letting me know that 94% of the candidates the org endorsed won :) Feeling better now –
Zack — I have to agree that a vote for Phil really meant a vote AGAINST someone else. I mean, Phil was pro 87 and 89, while Arnie was agains both. I tend not to vote for greens when I think that a Dem who’s better than the Rep running has a chance of winning. Meaning — I’d like to mention that I voted for Todd, a Green, for senate cuz I knew the R candidate had no chance in hell of winning. But I guess I held out hope that Phil would win over Arnie, and cast my vote for Phil. (As a sidenote, I’d like to mention that I do heart many peeps in the green party, contributed to some Green party campaigns, and officially endorsed Byron DeLear, a Green candidate — My endorsement was sent out in a Green Party email :)
The sad thing is, I really liked a lot of Phil’s vision — but his message was so buried way down below the “tax the rich” message that no one heard it.
Comment by Siel — November 8, 2006 @ 6:50 pm
If Waukesha County (where I live) were its own state, Bill O’Reilly would be our governor. It’s really that ggggggooooonnnnnneeeeeee. But, thankfully, we have Milwaukee and Dane counties too. So, Doyle sailed into a second term yesterday. But, the confused electorate decided also to ban civil unions here. Sometimes I just have to chalk it up to people being mean and dumb. As Ronald Reagan once said: “For some things, there are simple answers.”
I think even an idiot like the President got the message yesterday.
Comment by Fletch — November 8, 2006 @ 7:15 pm
Rumsfeld certainly did –
Comment by Siel — December 6, 2006 @ 9:47 am