On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, M Charles Swope wrote:
> My sense was that a majority favored Coleman, mostly because of a
> perception that he was more capable of raising the money required to
> beat Kelly.
This is very disquieting and discouraging. As a council member, Coleman
was a Chamber of Commerce mouthpiece. Lots of money there; the more like
the Chamber your views are, the more money you can get. The rich have the
money; the rich spend a tiny bit of their money to buy government; then
that government pays them back a thousand-fold with thefts from the public
property and welfare. Worse when the non-rich victims of the rich fall
into line for the patsy who has the most similarity to their exploiters,
just because he can get more of the stuff -money- they use to exploit
everyone with.
How about BETTER views? Better RECORD? Better for the city? Oh, no, let's
not ask those questions; let's ask just ONE question - the one where the
rich and the chamber win.
I find it also discouraging that Lantry and Helgen have endorsed Coleman.
There's be a honeymoon period where they would move right to help Coleman
ram thru Chamber of Commerce deals.
The Chamber got beat bad (huzzah!) this last 2004 election; they want to
get it all back, and then some! Ready for a stadium or two? Corporate
welfare? More/expanded freeways and big boxes? Huge TIF ripoff projects?
I don't know all Ortega's positions and record; I wonder if they could be
as bad as Coleman's.
At one point Ortega talked of a sales tax; they are always regressive =
bad, no matter what the "good" purpose.
Is there a candidate who stands on all issues with the bottom 98%? If not,
why not? If not, our democracy is fatally flawed by allowing a few
people to have too much money.
--David Shove
Roseville
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