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Californians!



This is the day. This is the day you decide to stop an out of control state government.



Californians!



This is the day. This is the day to send a decisive message to the thieves who have esconced themselves in state government.



Californians!



This is the day. This is the day to end the Time of Gray. Our state once stood proudly at the forefront of damn near everything. You name it, California led it. The one statistic that is always most staggering is the size of our economy: 5th or 6th (depending on who is doing the counting) largest in the world. Most nations envy us our prosperity.



But we are dying. This state is shriveling. Florida, in 2000, tried desperately to take our title of Looniest Looney Bin in the US of A, but we are staunchly hanging onto that title. If after all this effort we allow The Big D to remain in the Statehouse, we will have nailed that looney crown permanently to our collective head.



Californians!



When you journey outside our fair state you see a different world. Shocking as it may seem, not everyone thinks the same as the LA Times or SF Chronicle proclaim. It is amazing.



Believe it or not, other states have interstate highway systems that are -- brace yourself -- clean! The roads are in good repair. Lord help us, even the buses run on time! There was a time, honest, I remember it, when the same could be said here.



I am a native of California. I was born and raised in San Francisco. My parents were straight-ticket Democrats. That party has betrayed the trust my parents placed with it and sullied its own history, as well as destroyed this state.



Stop them.



This is not a right-wing coup. This is the same anger that led to the passage of Prop 13. And that was a blow that the state legislature will never forgive us for. So, it is time to strike again, to hit them hard, to rock the very foundations of the California State Legislature and the entire sick, twisted crowd.



Californians!



This is the day! This is history. Rise. VOTE! Vote to continue the insanity, or cast a vote in an attempt to stop it. The slide has begun but does not have to continue.



One guess how I intend to vote. How you vote is between you and your conscience or your god or your goddess or your animal spirit...whatever, we have them all here and that is our glory. Bear in mind a simple statistical fact: If you total up the support for Arnie with the support for McClintock you get something like 60%.



And they say we're a Democrat looney bin! Ha!



Californians!



Rise, to your polling place. You're not as stupid as the ACLU and NAACP made you out to be. You can actually find it and you can damnwell use the same stupid voting machines you used not 11 months ago! (And thank god for them, because I know all too well how persistent computer hackers are.)



Rise, vote! Vote your conscience and let the strongest voice take the day. Personally, if Gray wins the day, I'm out of here in two years or so (wanna finish law school). Because then that strong voice will be crying, "No, we like government telling us what brand and how sheets of toilet paper to use. Oh, and how often we should go so we don't overload Mother Earth."



And that's not the state (or nation) I grew up in.



VOTE! This is the day.

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