Fear of Right Wing Talk Radio sends California into bankruptcy

[DBoon]

from : http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_11707051

SACRAMENTO — A sweeping plan to pull California government back from the brink of insolvency was falling a single vote short of approval early this morning.

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In one telling sign of the competing pressures, just before Steinberg approached him Maldonaldo was seen looking at the web page of conservative talk radio personalities who vowed to put the "head on a stick" of any Republican who voted to raise taxes.

on edit, some more gems from these neaderthals (from http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_11676735):

"This is war! War!" shouted influential conservative talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou over Los Angeles radio station KFI, which can be heard in most of California, when a few Republican legislators mentioned the possibility of a compromise including some sort of tax increase. "We're going to get these heads on a stick. Heads on a stick!"

Their Web site featured the same "heads on a stick" exhortation with names and pictures of four Republican lawmakers.

Do these words have power beyond mere rhetoric? Maybe. The strong signal of their station gives John and Ken a large audience that at times has swamped local governments with mail and other forms of protest.

Their call for "heads on a stick" tactics against Republicans who deviate from the party line evoked images of the medieval Transylvanian warlord known as Vlad the Impaler, who once lined a Balkan highway with the heads of hundreds of Turkish soldiers displayed on lances. This proud descendant of Attila the Hun and model for the literary Dracula was known for eating some of his opponents and drinking their blood.

The State budget is failing to pass becuase a third Republican cannot be found to vote for it in the state senate, despite "sweetners" like massive corporate tax cuts.

Republicans are more afraid of the right wing talking heads than they are of bankrupting the world's seventh largest economy

[steelmania75]

1. They keep shooting themselves in the foot.....

....which just makes it even better for the Dems in upcoming elections.

[annm4peace]

TAX THE GAS AND OIL COMPANIES

record profit by the gas, and oil companies.
Chevron
Oxy

also by all the war contractors.

Boeing
Lockheed Martin
GE
General Dynamics,
etc.



tax them.

[annm4peace]

2. TAX THE GAS AND OIL COMPANIES

record profit by the gas, and oil companies.
Chevron
Oxy

also by all the war contractors.

Boeing
Lockheed Martin
GE
General Dynamics,
etc.



tax them.

[Kablooie]

3. All the state workers that lose their jobs should protest in front of KFI AM!

KFI AM 640
3400 W Olive Ave Ste 550
Burbank CA 91505

Go to it!

[ronnykmarshall]

4. John and Ken are fucking pigs.

Republicans are chicken shits for fearing twerps like that.

[Kajsa]

5. The State Senate Repubs are idiots!

They would rather see our entire state go down the toilet
than

pay a little extra in taxes?!?

Are they out of their fucking minds?!?!?

:grr:

[Kajsa]

6. John and Ken can lose their jobs then,

since raising taxes is out of the question!
( according to their limited brains)


:(

[Kajsa]

7. PLEASE call Abel Maldonado's office ( see link)!

This, from Pinto's thread in our CA Forum,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=141&topic_id=33515&mesg_id=33515

Thanks so much.

:)

[Nikki Stone1]

8. These two are still at it today. (Listening in LA)

And why are corporate tax cuts a "sweetener"? It just gives us the burden of the corporations.

[Nikki Stone1]

9. Oh and now it is a political fatwa and "politican human sacrifice"

They have targeted 6 new assembly members from Southern California and have threatened to go after them in the next election if they don't overthrow their leader:


http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/johnandkenshow/

John and Ken Fatwa!

Here’s a list of the First-Term Assembly Republicans. Their districts are all in the vast KFI listening area. They must all step up to oust Mike Villines! They have 24 hours to tell us whether or not they will support replacing Mike Villines as Assembly Republican Leader!

-Nathan Fletcher-San Diego

-Curt Hagman-Diamond Bar

-Diane Harkey-San Juan Capistrano

-Steve Knight-Palmdale and Victorville

-Jeff Miller-Orange

-Brian Nestande-Riverside