Strickland and Smyth, better known as "Dumb and Dumber"!

Jackson and Nava. Better known as Pander Girl and Pander Bear. Unions love 'em, folks. SEIU is already calculating its members' wage increases, especially the "illegal alien" members.

Go ahead and attack unions in California while defending taking cash from tobacco companies.

That sounds like a great idea.

Even if illegal aliens are working for SEIU it isn't under the table without paying any taxes like some businesses would prefer.

Jackson takes tobacco money too, so don't get all self-righteous on us. She just gets it funneled through other campaigns, rather than receiving it directly. What a hypocrite.

So, you defend people who break into our country and continue to flout the law by getting high-paying union jobs and joining labor organizations? Wonderful...

Strickland was one of the Top 10 in the nation in accepting donations from makers of a carcinogenic product which is addicting and he then voted against bills which will make it harder for minors to buy cigarettes.

He takes money from horse racing interests and then sponsors numerous bills for them, including one which was vetoed by Davis for promoting an unacceptable expansion of gambling in California.

He takes money from energy companies like Enron and then voted against capping outrageous electrical bills during the energy crisis.

He's bought and paid for.

Let's not forget unions were formed to protect the right of workers. There are many honorable people who belong to the SEIU and other labor groups. Strickland himself has taken money from the California State Laborers PAC. How much money has he taken from companies who have hired illegal aliens?

JDTST: Please tell us how much Jackson may have received from Tobacco firms. When did this happen?

We have the evidence on Strickland. Please provide the evidence on Jackson, if you can.

Also, do you have any figures on how much Strickland received from gambling interests, alcohol interests and any other businesses that prey on society? I'd like to put together a side-by-side comparison on the two candidates and their sources of financing and your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Did she ask for or solicit in any form money from tobacco companies? Did she vote they way she wanted them to vote?

We aren't upset that tobacco companies want to influence our laws, we are upset when it works.

"Jackson's Demise" you are such a total loser like Tony Strickland that you cannot even come up with you own material! Get a life loser!

Yeah, right, Not Osborn. I think you've been copying me. I've been talking about the Pander Twins for quite some time now.

And you, my friend, are a wimpy loser!!!!

It's been well documented that Jackson took money from State Senator Ron Calderon's campaign fund, some of which was received from Altria Corp. (the same evil tobacco company that Strickland took the $50K from).

These are politicians, guys. They have no shame. Marie Lakin can't even deny this.

I'm the Democratic candidate running against Smyth. I think we've got Strickland and Smyth on the run. Else why would they be starting walking so soon? This is the year of the Democrat. Our Voter Registration figures are changing in the 38th AD. Two years ago Republicans were at 47% and Democrats at 35%. Now it's 41% and 36% with 18% Decline to States that are voting with Democrats this year. People want change. Republicans have brought this country to near collapse economically, socially, politically and environmentally. Smyth has signed onto a few green bills but he still is part of the Grover Norquist gang of nearly 1300 legislators all over the country who have signed "the pledge" never to vote for revenue increases. This is the way they are attempting to "starve government so small that they can drown it in the bathtub." This "born-again" fundamentalist Church of Milton Freeman economics has been the reason we are in such a terrible shape. It has been a disaster everywhere it has been tried all over the world yet these "true believers" still slavishly adhere to their doctrine of unbridled Capitalism. It didn't work during the Gilded Age or the Roaring 20's - look what happened then and look what's happening now. We need a MODERATE approach of restraint and regulation on corporations and a safety net for those who are the victims of the boom and bust cycles of Capitalism. Moderation in all things is what the Greeks taught us. We need Government to be the fulcrum between Corporate wants and the people's needs. People are waking up from the spell the Right has put them under for 28 years. We are going to bring about the change that people want.

Carole Lutness
www.Lutness4Assembly.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYt-zQMw2VQ

JDTST: Are you saying that Calderon received money from Altria and later made a donation to Jackson's campaign, specifically earmarking a portion of the Altria monies? Did Jackson or someone involved in her campaign approach Calderon (as happened with Strickland's solicitation for tobacco funds)and ask specifically for a portion of the Altria monies? Or did Calderon simply write a check from co-mingled funds?

Also, I keep hearing phrases like "its well documented" yet I can't find any mention in election finance records of an Altria donation to Jackson, via Calderon. Could you point out where this documentation might be located?

Carole,

If I post an entry about your campaign will you answer questions from readers?

Sure, Carole, just what we need, a nanny government that knows our needs better than we do. Just the kind of thinking that has gotten the State budget in such and upside down position since the early '90s. No thanks!

The amount of time you Stricklandites waste trying in vain to connect the dots between tobacco and Hannah-Beth is now getting comical.

You must be really worried about this issue, I suppose because your guy has taken $85,000 directly and had $50,000 solicited for him.

Sure, I will be glad to talk to voters.

As for the "Nanny" Government. - I read a lot of history. I know when things are out of balance and what happens when one side has too much power. It is not a Republican or Democratic issue - it is an issue of Corporate wants vs. the people's needs.

I hope you can see how precariously close we are to collapse - banks, housing, the environment, jobs/declining wages - the loss of our middle class, the health care crisis, gas prices, peak oil, the debtor nation, etc. All of these problem have at their root the hijacking of our political system by corporate power.

Jefferson and many of our forefathers warned us that our democracy will fail if Big Money is allowed to control our system. That was one of the main disputes between him and Hamilton. Our forefathers didn't even want us to have corporations. They had just won a war against the largest corporation in the world, the East India Tea Company (owned by the Kind of England and his royalty), that wanted to force our merchants to accept a monopoly on tea. (remember the Boston Tea Party? If England had won we would be reading in our British history books that it was a terrorist act!) Our forefathers knew that if they were forced to accept that monopoly they would have to accept a monopoly on anything the East India Tea Company wanted to force on them.

In the beginning, they severely restricted corporations. They had to renew their charter every 25 years (10 years for banks), had to demonstrate they were serving the public good (as in digging canals, building roads, etc.) They were restricted to only one state and one function. Then during the Civil War - as always, a time of great corporate profiteering - with the development of the railroads, corporations began to really break out of their restraints. It culminated in 1886 in Santa Clara vs.the railroads, the corporations finally broke through when a clerk interjected a head note which said that "Corporations were persons entitled to 14th Amendment rights." The horse was out of the barn then and we have been waging this war against unbridled corporate power ever since (re: the Gilded Age and the Roaring 20's). The icing on the cake was in 1976 when the Supreme Court ruled that "money equals free speech." How can the people compete with the billions available to the corporations?

As I said before, government is necessary to act as the fulcrum between corporate wants and the people's needs; to restrain and regulate but not strangle business and to make sure we don't devolve back into a Feudal system which is very possible with the large corporations controlling everything (read NAFTA/CAFTA, etc), with their privatized armies (ie Blackwater) and police (rent-a-cops)controlling our lives. Civil liberties will be a thing of the past. Public education will disappear and we will be a world of beggars at the gate - the poor, the elderly and infirmed will have to fend for themselves. No safety net. A really barbaric vision. The have nots and the have yachts. It's quite a sad and disheartening thought that we are leaving this world to our children and the future in the state it is in.

But I am very hopeful - the people understand that things are out of balance. That is what this election is all about. We have wrestled power away from the corporations before and we will do it again. I want to work to restore that balance. The Golden Mean works for me. Nothing in excess.

"Jackson's Demise" for me to copy you I would have to cram my head up my butt the way you and Mango and Tony the PUSSYcat have. Go back to your goosestepping and leave the blogging to the adults.

Carole,

One simple question for you, that will require a very short response (I hope). Who is going to pay for all this additional government intervention that you're proposing? Last I checked, the State had a $15 billion budget deficit.

"Not Osborn", your simpleton, third grade comments are not worthy of a response.