Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Angelides: What's The Motivation?

There's an old Hollywood saying on acting, "What's the motivation?". That's the dilemma in California--What's the motivation for getting excited about Angelides in the gubenatorial election, other than he's not Herr Goobernator.

I tackled this before the June 6th Primary election, and do so again today in a Post over at Rolling Stone:

Angelides got, early on during the primary, the support of a frightening assortment of hacks and interests groups. He has all the charisma of Bill Gates. If he's not smart enough to hire a decent image consultant, speechwriter, or speaking coach, is he smart enough to be Governor?

The Angelides ads during the primary were largely attack Westly. Now they're focused on attacking HerrGoobernator. He gives no reason to vote FOR Angelides.

Angelides thinks we need to raise more revenue for the government. That certainly needs to be done. But as far as I've heard, he just wants to raise the tax rates--complete silence on the inequities of the current tax system, silence on the regressive nature of the California system, and silence on what loopholes should be taken away from special interests.

TLC

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