Reply #18: I think if you hang around here for a while, you'll see I'm anything but [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

"complacent".

What I'm not about to do is get worked up on October 18, 2004 about a hypothetical ballot measure for 2006. Let's see if it gets any traction, shall we, but right now I, for one, have much bigger fish to fry.

Yes, some ballot measures have passed that maybe you or I didn't like. But they don't have anything to do with the issue at hand. The Democratic Majority isn't going to want to dilute the state's power in that way.. It would take me 5 seconds to come up with a counter-argument to the one you raise, i.e. "Why have the powerhouse that is California treated like two smaller states?" You really believe that the big-time Dems in places like Hollywood and SF are going to let something like that fly without a major fight?

And give the voters a little more credit.
Voters have shown general good sense with ballot measures lately. We passed a few very sensible things with regards to the drug war, namely 215 and 36, even though that's an issue that so-called 'mainstream' candidates won't touch for fear of being labled "soft on crime"..

If people want their votes to count, and have California stop being "ignored" by Washington (which, I can't help but notice, is also the central and only argument in Bill Jones's campaign, by the way) the best way to do that is to get new leadership in Washington. Which is what I'm all about right now.

Is this something to be aware of and think about? Yes, and thanks for posting it. But I really, really, think there are bigger things to worry about right now. I'm going to Nevada next weekend for Kerry--- You can call me many things, but I'm not "complacent".