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ctembreull · 07-26-2003, 04:23 PM

Phaenx:

For one thing, incompetence is in the eye of the beholder. I think that Gov. Davis has done a fine job, given what he's got to work with. But that's the point of elections in the first place: you elect a person to a specifically-defined term of service. The alternative is nothing better than anarchy.

You see, it took a majority of voters to elect Davis to a constitutionally-mandated four-year term. It took 900,000 signatures on a petition to bring him back down for recall. How is this the rule of the majority? The voters, if they thought Davis was incompetent, should have voted him down last October.

It's a bare fact that this recall makes a mockery of the democratic process. Davis won his election fairly and legally. Just because someone's bitter about it doesn't mean that they should be able to overturn it with the signatures of 1/35th of the state's population. Otherwise, what's the point of that election in the first place?

07-26-2003, 04:23 PM	#16 (permalink)
ctembreull Crazy Location: Silicon Valley, CA, USA, Earth	Phaenx: For one thing, incompetence is in the eye of the beholder. I think that Gov. Davis has done a fine job, given what he's got to work with. But that's the point of elections in the first place: you elect a person to a specifically-defined term of service. The alternative is nothing better than anarchy. You see, it took a majority of voters to elect Davis to a constitutionally-mandated four-year term. It took 900,000 signatures on a petition to bring him back down for recall. How is this the rule of the majority? The voters, if they thought Davis was incompetent, should have voted him down last October. It's a bare fact that this recall makes a mockery of the democratic process. Davis won his election fairly and legally. Just because someone's bitter about it doesn't mean that they should be able to overturn it with the signatures of 1/35th of the state's population. Otherwise, what's the point of that election in the first place? __________________ Mac "If it's nae Scottish, it's crap!