Common sense has prevailed. The recall election is on. South
Valley voters can once again tune in to the campaigns and believe
they can make an important contribution with their vote on Oct. 7.
The immediate future of California leadership is in our collective
hands.
Clearly, the three ultra-liberal judges who ruled to postpone
the recall election should not have taken such a narrow view of a
Supreme Court ruling and used that slight window for their own
devices.
Common sense has prevailed. The recall election is on. South Valley voters can once again tune in to the campaigns and believe they can make an important contribution with their vote on Oct. 7. The immediate future of California leadership is in our collective hands.
Clearly, the three ultra-liberal judges who ruled to postpone the recall election should not have taken such a narrow view of a Supreme Court ruling and used that slight window for their own devices.
They have rightfully been overruled and chastised for their overt judicial activism.
Unanimously, 11 members of the 9th Circuit Court – none of whom was on the original three-judge panel – recognized that if the election was postponed, “it is certain that the state of California and its citizens will suffer material hardship by virtue of the enormous resources already invested in reliance on the elections proceeding on the announced date.”
What part of that pure common sense position couldn’t the three judges understand? Can the American Civil Liberties Union simply waltz into court with a one-legged argument and get three judges to stand and salute?
Punch card ballots aren’t perfect. We all know that. Touch screen ballots could prove to be worse. We’ll see. But to postpone an election in hopes of getting the “perfect” voting system in place is ridiculous.
With the cartoonish ruling behind us, it’s full steam ahead before the vote: a 14-day sprint to the leadership of California.
We reiterate our choice: Republican State Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Northridge. Like punch card ballots, he’s not perfect. But what we said in our editorial on Sept. 16 bears repeating:
“What we need now is a fix for the major hemorrhage going on in California.
It’s about the money – the jobs that are fleeing the state, the long-term energy contracts that Davis signed which are pickpocketing every Californian, the skyrocketing costs of workman’s compensation and the shrinking tax revenues causing cutback after cutback throughout the public sector.
Sen. McClintock is the fiscal conservative California desperately needs. We recommend voters choose McClintock to replace Gray Davis.”
