Voters Abandon California to the Unions

With millions of union dollars, and hour upon hour of misleading ads, you can apparently cause the voters of California to go insane and reject any form of common sense reforms. Thanks to the efforts of the unions and their Dem minions your 14 year old can get an abortion without your knowledge, bad teachers can continue to teach, your union dues can be used to support political causes which you oppose, and the state budget will continue to grow without any attempt at responsibility. Way to go Californians.

I look forward to the day when I can abandon this state to the idiots who think all of the above are good things. The wreckage that will be left after they get done will be their just reward. I just hope they don't ruin things so quickly that they destroy real estate values before I can cash out.

Dems also retained the governor's seats in New Jersey and Virginia. Although some on the left are trying to spin these as defeats for Bush, neither seat was a net loss for the GOP, so there's no significant change in the governing landscape. The mid-term elections are still a year away, so any attempt to draw 2006 inferences from these races is just plain silly.

Voters in other states showed a little more intelligence:

_Texas voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, voters rejected a conservative-backed proposal to repeal the state's new gay-rights law.

_Voters in the Texas community of White Settlement, named 160 years ago after white settlers moved into a mostly Indian area, emphatically rejected a proposal to change the town's name to West Settlement.

_In Ohio, where the 2004 presidential election was marked by complaints of unfair election practices, four election-overhaul measures backed by Democratic-leaning groups were on the ballot, but all were defeated. One of the failed items would have taken redistricting powers away from legislators.

RINO Michael Bloomberg also won reelection in New York City. That race didn't really matter.

In other good news, former police chief Jerry Sanders soundly defeated hippy-dippy surfer chick Donna Frye in the San Diego mayoral race. They have enough weirdness in their politics down there without turning over the city to a bunch of dopers.

Hold onto your wallet, Californians... it's going to get expensive.