Re “One of the Three Stooges Survived. Who Knew?”
Why did the chicanery cross the road?
Probably to avoid being tricked for a third time in less than a month by he devious Gov. Flat Tire.
Just as the esteemed political manipulator sketched out his vulgar strategy in late spring, only to the surprise of the naive did Gov. Tire whack his hated rival – Molly Munger – in the proboscis yesterday afternoon in a greasy, stir-fried Sacramento courtroom.
To complete a three-step round-robin whose hubris would embarrass a convict, the dubiously qualified Judge Michael (Go, Guv, You’re My Boy) Kenny denied a complaint by Ms. Munger that the Secretary of State, an ally of the governor, finished counting the signatures on Mr. Tire’s petition before completing the same task for Ms. Munger even though she turned in her names fully a week before.
She or he who turned in signatures first was to be at the top of the ballot, every initiative’s preferred perch.
The judge’s verdict meant Gov. Tire’s desperately conceived tax hike initiative zoomed to the coveted first slot on the November ballot. Ms. Munger’s rival proposal, meanwhile, plummets all the way to eighth place, near the bottom of the 11 statewide initiatives, among the also-rans likeliest to be rejected by exhausted, confused voters.
Depends on Who Is Asking
Since timing is critical and Gov. Tire’s sloppy signature team turned in their petitions long after Ms. Munger, Judge (Ah Am So Impartial) Kenny said election officials were not obliged Ms. Munger’s petitions first. Judge Kenny said Ms. Munger’s team was asking him to “micromanage” the counting of names, and as a conscientious Democrat, that felt darned uncomfortable to him.
Since Ms. Munger is not the governor and is dangling alone from the end of a branch, make book that the journalistic cads at the Los Angeles Titanic and San Francisco Chronicle will see nothing amiss in Judge Kenny’s kangaroo court.
Gov. Tire has been crawling in slime over his tax hike initiative since he engineered the first round of funny business last month.
Sweating and conniving, the governor and the essentially one-party (and just as dishonest) Legislature plotted an elaborate piece of deception on inattentive voters last month. There is a reason the Democrat Party wildly appeals to millions of illegal aliens and other downscale types.
Telephoning 1-800-DUMMY in mid-June, Gov. Tire called on a favorite flunky to introduce a bogus bill that said bond measures and constitutional amendments deserved primacy on state ballots.
Yours for the Asking, Pal
Just like the old Soviet Union. I want it. I get it.
Whoosh, Gov. Tire’s pet snake roared through those deadly honest chambers. As the Titanic noted this morning, the sneak thieves in the Legislature made the bill part of the budget package so that the change in the law took immediate effect rather than having to wait until Jan. 1, when it would not have done Flat Tire any good.
The bond measure was a completely phony setup, an $11 billion water scheme that merely was a stalking horse, an excuse to get the lying bill passed.
Last week, the day before the dishonest legislators fled Sacramento to return to the comforting bosoms of their stupid, uninformed peasantry at home, both the Assembly and the Senate, by breathtaking margins, voted to drop the water bond measure from November consideration, as planned all along.
My golly, Murgatroyd.
That cleared the way for Flat Tire’s initiative to take over first place on the ballot, as soon as his defective cousin Judge Kenny cooperated and made his friendly ruling.
Welcome to Sacramento politics. Now go wash your hands, at least for an hour.
