If you live in California you could do worse than vote for Gary Coleman in the upcoming recall election. The East Bay Express has the scoop:
If there's one class of people Gary Coleman despises, it's career politicians who play games with our tax dollars, while the little guy gets diddly-squat. If elected, he promises to give those Sacramento fat cats what for. "I'd kick in the ass every member of the House that had more than two secretaries," he snarls. "Because that's a waste of public funds. I believe that public service means just that: service. And I'd kick the ass of everyone who had their little pet projects and issues that had nothing to do with keeping California solvent and attracting corporations here." When this newspaper told him that during the recent budget deadlock, members of the state legislature were seen smoking cigars and drinking what appeared to be expensive Scotch on the capitol building balcony, Gary wigged out and vowed to "find them and put my size four-and-a-halfs so deep into their colon!"
Seriously, how many other candidates will do anything as productive as that?
(via Agoraphilia via Hit and Run)
Posted by Walter at August 8, 2003 06:45 PMWalter:
look forward to your instructions and comments on blogging... at the Dnver libertarian meeting.
I read that the commedian Gallager is running for governor.... he is a raging libertarian and a former customer of mine... in fact he was going to have me put in a huge miniature garden kind of like what yu have in mind, 'til his wife got wind of it.......
website on Ghallager's candidacy:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956824/posts
Posted by: Dave Meleney at August 9, 2003 02:12 PMI was getting interested in the prospects of Coleman based on the sheer novelty of it. Think about it. Wouldn't we all love to see Coleman as Governor address cali's congress... "what chew talkin' 'bout, legislators?"
But his idea of eminent domain are kind of troublesome to me.
In any case it may be a non-issue as I could have sworn I remember reading that when Arnold decided to run Coleman pulled out.
Posted by: Publicola at August 9, 2003 06:36 PMWhen it comes to eminent domain, and some other issues, Gary is whacked. But don't let that, or some other technicality like not actually running, stop me from making larger point.
Modern politicians are mostly bereft of useful ideas. It doesn't take much to stand out in a crowd like that.
Posted by: Walter in Denver at August 9, 2003 10:08 PM