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Contributor
John
Campbell
John
Campbell (R-Irvine) is an Assemblyman representing the 70th
District
in Orange County. Mr. Campbell is the Vice-Chairman of the Assembly
Budget Committee. He is the only CPA in the California State
legislature
and recently received a national award as Freshman Republican
Legislator of the Year. He represents the cities of Newport
Beach,
Laguna Beach, Irvine, Costa Mesa, Tustin, Aliso Viejo, Laguna
Woods and Lake Forest. He can be reached through his Assembly
website
and through the website
for his California Senate campaign. [go to Campbell index]
 Observations
on the Election pt. 2
State Senator-elect John Campbell…
[John Campbell] 11/15/04
More Election Thoughts: Here are some more miscellaneous
ruminations on the election just past:
1. CNN and the 3 "major" networks
all called Pennsylvania for Kerry within minutes of the polls
closing there. However,
none of them called Ohio for Bush until after Kerry conceded
the next day. As the votes have been counted, Bush won Ohio by
a greater margin than Kerry won Pennsylvania. Media bias again
or just bad exit polling?
2. London's Daily
Mirror proclaimed in a headline after the election "How can 59 million people be that stupid." The
Michael Moore, George Soros, Alec Baldwin crew love this stuff
because it plays into their belief that Bush is stupid and so
are people who live in red states or vote for him. So, the left
is now setting up websites and blogs all on the stupidity of
supporting Bush and any Republican. If I wanted somebody to vote
for me, calling them stupid is unlikely to achieve my goal. This
is more evidence of the hubris of the liberal elite as they seem
to believe that they must show us all how stupid we are so we
will recognize how smart they are and allow them to make all
of our decisions. But all it does is galvanize support of the
center-right and make red states redder.
3. In California,
13 of the 16 propositions on the ballot went the way I voted.
This is a pretty good ratio. But the 3 that
went the other way will have a significant negative budget impact.
Those 3 were the income tax increase for mental health spending
(Prop 63), and the bonds for Children's hospitals and stem cell
research (Props 61&71). Prop 63 will increase spending by
about $800 million per year while yielding no additional revenue
because taxpayers will take action to reduce their taxable incomes
or move income out of state to avoid the tax. The two bonds will
push California's total debt service to more than the investment
community thinks is prudent and will result in about $300 million
per year in new spending to pay off the bonds. So, an already
big continuing budget problem is now over $1 billion per year
worse. More about this in future e-mails. CRO
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