HOWARD JARVIS RISES FROM THE DEAD!

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A Clockwork Orange

by MATT COKER

I'm baaaack!

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Posted Nov. 7, 2:57 p.m.

HOWARD JARVIS RISES FROM THE DEAD!
We opened the mailbox at Hacienda de Clockwork on Saturday and there on top of the usual bills, shut-off notices and monkey porn was a mailer with a cutout photo of Howard Jarvis shaking his fist at us. That's HOWARD JARVIS, the still-DEAD!!! co-author of Proposition 13, who eluded his final property tax bill way back in 1986.

A leftover Halloween prank? Sadly, no. It's just the usual vote yes on these (Props. 75, 76, 77, 78) and no on Prop. 79, the cap on prescription-drug costs. This very special issue of the Save Proposition 13 Newsletter also features "guest columnist" Jim Lacy, a Dana Point city councilman and chairman of the Save Prop 13 Committee. With the column is a photo of Lacy glancing rather smugly at Arnold Schwarzenegger, which is an odd choice given that the newsletter seems to support the same propositions as the Governator.

But the cover page is what's really odd, in a creepy uncle sorta way. You know ol' Schwarzy must be desperate when his minions have to resort to calling on long-dead politicos in a last-minute bid to save his flaming-out ballot propositions.

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But the most confusing of all was the flier addressed to Clockwork from Citizens for Good Government (not an official party organization). On the front, it has Old Glory in the background, the title "A Tradition of Leadership" and photos of George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan -- which, strangely, is also the answer to the Carnac question: "Name a president who was tragically assassinated and two presidents who should have ..." Well, we'd finish the question, but we don't want a surprise visit from the Secret Service.

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http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/06/09/web-coker.php

[Cleita]

1. Well, of course. Howard Jarvis invented Republican politics

in California and now Arnold is channeling him.

[nini]

2. I hope he's in hell

I've got a rant a mile long about how I'm paying 5 times the property taxes as my neighbor etc.. If I had bought recently it would be 10 times!!!!


It's so time to overturn that freaking law. At the very least make corporations exempt. That alone would solve many of the financial problems in this state.

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3. didn't howard die of aids? punishment from god? hmmm nt