EDITORIAL : LET IT RIDE; DAVIS HAS NO CREDIBILITY IN IMPLEMENTING ``THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE''.WE have a new shooter at the Proposition 5 craps craps: see dice. craps Gambling game in which each player in turn throws two dice, attempting to roll a winning combination. The term derives from a Louisiana French word, crabs, which means “losing throw. table - Gov. Gray Davis. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets. Caution: Is democracy on the line? Davis gambled away his credibility over Proposition 187, jumping in to short-circuit the process and engineer a political settlement to an issue that should have been decided by the courts. Now that the state Supreme Court has ruled Prop. 5, the Indian gaming initiative, unconstitutional, Davis wants to convince the 63 percent of voters who approved the measure that he miraculously has succumbed to their seductive se·duc·tive adj. Tending to seduce; alluring: "his sad and fastidious but ever seductive Irish voice" John Fowles. charms. Citing the overwhelming voter approval, Davis pledged to ``work diligently to find a constitutionally acceptable means of implementing the people's express
People's Express was the trading name of Salelink will'' on Prop. 5. Why should anyone believe Davis will be true to voters and diligently look after the best interests of the state as a whole? Especially when so much money is on the table? Nearly $100 million was spent last year on the Prop. 5 campaign, with a large portion of that money given by supporters directly to the Democratic Party and Democratic politicians. But Davis also owes his soul to unions. And the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union hates Indian gaming. Why? Because tribes bitterly fought unionizing casino employees. The union, in fact, was the plaintiff in the suit that the Supreme Court decided Monday. So who's going to trust a shooter playing with loaded dice dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest. See also: Load ? Apparently not the tribes, who anticipated Monday's court ruling on a ballot measure that was always legally suspect. They are planning a new initiative on the March ballot to change the constitution and allow Nevada-style gaming, including slot machines and blackjack blackjack, one of the world's most widely played gambling card games; also known as twenty-one or vingt-et-un. Despite contesting claims between the French and Italians, its origins are unknown. , and leave the unions out of the picture. So it appears the highly popular, hugely profitable initiative process - which the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association helped sponsor Proposition 13, the property tax-cutting initiative in California in 1978 which slashed property taxes by fifty-seven percent and initiated a national tax revolt. It was founded by California republican Howard Jarvis. and Ralph Nader  This page is currently protected from editing until (UTC) or until disputes have been resolved. agree allows the public to bypass ``bought and rented
politicians'' - is still going strong.
Democracy - let it ride. |
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