Position Statements
THE RECALL ELECTION
This Recall is about Gray Davis' corruption,
poor performance, and lack of leadership.
More than that, it's about a corrupt,
dysfunctional political system
which serves special interest groups.
The budget crisis triggered the recall,
and the people of California now see an opportunity
to restructure government and politics.
This Recall is a resounding vote of
NO CONFIDENCE in the elitist status quo.
YES ON RECALL
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DAVID SCULLY
1. Gray Davis was incompetent in handling
the energy crisis.
2. Gray Davis was incompetent and imprudent
and failed to exercise leadership
for letting the budget baloon
during the dot-com bubble.
3. Gray Davis is corrupt.
He sells legislation,
especially to the teachers'union
and other unions.
EDUCATION
High-quality, educational opportunity for ALL
is Governor Scully's top priority.
ALL schools MUST be SAFE places ALWAYS !
If this requires MUCH more security on campuses
and more sorting by behavior, So Be It.
Standardized testing will be
a core element
in this educational restructuring.
This will help make schools accountable
and enable meaningful assessment of learning.
Even more important elements
of this educational restructuring
are Choice and Flexibility.
All students must master fundamentals
(the 3 R's, Government, Computer Skills),
but beyond that, parents and students
must have the authority to choose
what to learn and how.
This means an
EDUCATIONAL VOUCHER SYSTEM,
not just for the luck few
in the most extremely horrible schools,
but for ALL students.
Governor Scully's Philosophy of Education
THE BUDGET
57.2 % of the General Fund
is spent on education.
That's more than half the budget problem.
Contrary to popular misconceptions,
NONE of the money goes to the children.
It ALL goes to teachers and other staff,
who adopt politically correct liberal positions
or get screened out of the system.
The AVERAGE teacher's salary
is $55,000 !
Some teachers make $80,000 !
One superintendent duped a small rural district
into a contract that netted him
a half a million dollars in one year !
A lot of this money is recycled
to the teachers' union
which pays MASSIVE BRIBES to Gray Davis.
Teachers are REQUIRED to pay union dues,
even if they decide not to join the union.
Their earnings can then be spent on causes
and candidates they don't believe in!
More than half the $100 budget
is misspent funding a huge liberal organization
that mass produces flakiness and incompetence,
producing rude, violent, poorly informed
and misinformed youngsters
who can't think clearly.
Fairield's Crop Circles
Education doesn't need new schools
or higher salaries. It needs choice,
flexibility, and accountability.
As Governor, I will completely cut off state funds
to all schools of education.
The ridiculous teacher education courses
are propagandistic in nature and are
counterproductive to quality education.
Credentialing programs in the colleges
are part of a VAST LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY
to spread liberal progaganda.
I will eliminate the credentialing department
as a state agency. It can be privitized
and handled by agencies analagous to
school accreditation agencies. They can
simply test teachers for competence
and let the schools decide whom to hire.
The crazy system of educational funding
that includes grants and categorical funding,
as exposed in the Sacramento Bee this year,
must be eliminated and replaced with a
simple, understandable, reasonable and
fair system. This system, where school districts
gouge the state budget for job-description
duties such as taking role, is just
another example of legalized theft
by the corrupt, greedy
liberal education network.
PRISON SYSTEM and LAW ENFORCEMENT
9 % of the General Fund is spent on the
Youth and Adult Correctional Agency.
Restructuring of this system will result in savings
and a more functional system.
Isolating prisoners from one another
as a standard operating procedure
will increase each individual prisoner's
opportunity to rehabilitate him/herself.
Associating with other prisoners
is a harmful influence.
It will also result in cost-saving economies,
as prisoners will require less supervision.
It will makes prisons safer for prisoners
and guards and make the state less liable
for violence-related litigation and
workers' compensation claims.
The Correctional Officers' Association
has paid massive bribes to Gray Davis.
All excessive and wasteful spending
attributable to this during Gray Davis
administration will be audited, exposed,
and rectified. Savings can be used
to fund more Security Officers in the schools,
where they are desperately needed.
Audit, Workers' Comp Reform,
Job Friendliness
I will have a blue ribbon think tank
audit the budget for other ways to cut
costs and stimulate the economy.
Some of my colleague candidates have
mentioned Workers' Comp Reform
in line with Arizona's program,
and tax breaks for job creation.
These are good starting points,
and I will invite my colleage candidates
to contribute their talents to my
administration when I am elected
Governor on October 7.
Law Reform
Simplification and Understandability
Ignorance of the law is no excuse,
and there is no excuse for confusing laws.
As Governor, I will commission a blue-ribbon
task force to codify and simplify the law
in ordinary language, with simple, understandable
and well-organized summaries.
I will pass a law that makes it
harder to pass laws, perhaps as an
amendment to the Constitution.
Too many politicians pass laws
for personal career advancement
to brag on their resume how "busy"
and "productive" they have been, when
all they're doing is creating confusion,
and paying off special interest groups,
and buying votes.
Also, I will make it unconstitutional
to include "Rider" laws in legislation.
This is the horrible practice where legislators
sneak in laws with other laws
that are often totally unrelated,
hoping no one will see them, often at the last
minute, at 11:59 p.m. just before the
last votes to end an exhausting session.
Laws must clearly be on ONE specific
subject and must be available for careful
study for 90 days, and available for another
90 days for review if so much as a single
period or comma is changed. These strict
measures are required because of endless
abuse.
I will have a blue-ribbon panel make
recommendations for campaign reform
and campaign finance reform. Campaigning
will be limited to a reasonable time
before elections, to eliminate the
endless campaigning we now have. And,
without compromising the Free Speech
rights of the wealthy, Governor Scully
will enhance the free speech rights of
the non-wealthy, ensuring all a real
opportunity to be heard and to serve
in office. We want real debate and
discussion like we hear on a.m. radio,
not just the ads of the wealthy and unions.
Also, I would make it a law to prosecute
district attorneys who don't prosecute
fairly. Failure to prosecute liberal
white female teachers who have sex with
and conceive by 6th grade boy students,
failure to prosecute Mulholland for
threatening the life of Gubernatorial
Candidate Colleague Schwarzenegger - this
will be a crime and will be prosecuted.
THOSE ARE THE MAIN PLANKS OF
GOVERNOR SCULLY'S PLATFORM.
The following are his positions on
the other issues, which he refers to
as the "litmus issues"
ABORTION. Though Governor Scully finds
abortion personally repulsive, he believes
this is a moral issue with no simple answer.
Women have rights concerning their bodies
and their health and men and women have the
right to make decisions about parenthood.
Newborns have rights, too, and science, religion,
and custom have to be consulted to determine
what those rights are and when then begin.
These are issues for careful, concerned
debate and deliberation.
Science and technology and educational TV
are contributing to understanding the issue.
Governor Scully finds abortion as a means
of birth control to be repulsive, yet
he is aware of the responsibility for
the people of earth to manage the birth rate.
He would not legislate
to change current laws, and he respects
a woman's right to choose.
Governor Scully would vigorously prosecute
all violent activists.
ENVIRONMENT. Governor Scully is a strong
environmentalist and also an economic realist.
He believes the two must be given strong
consideration in all decisions. An admirer
of the "tree-hugging" tree-sitters, he
deplores the actions of eco-terrorists,
whom he would prosecute savagely. He would
have blue-ribbon environmental advisors, but
would shun extremist environmental
activists who lie or exaggerate.
GUN CONTROL. This is another complex issue
like abortion, and Governor Scully sees
both sides. Youth and criminals and angry
people with handguns or assault weapons
are a danger to society. Yet if all weapons
are outlawed, only outlaws will have weapons,
and good citizens will be unable to defend
themselves, their property and their loved
ones. Governor Scully has travelled to
remote areas frequently and is aware of the
necessity for one to be self-reliant. He
would not change current laws, and would have
blue-ribbon panels carefully study gun control
issues.
TERRORISM AND WMD. Safety is critical,
and, like the gun control issue, this is
a matter for engaged national debate,
and blue-ribbon expert counseling. Governor
Scully would fully support President Bush
in his efforts to keep the country safe
now and and in the future.
BORDER ISSUES. Governor Scully is fully
aware that we have a border problem that
runs from the Pacific Ocean eastward to
our neighboring state. He personally finds
the people on the other side of that border
to be ignorant, offensive, bad-smelling,
and undesirable in many ways. However,
under current federal law, Oregonians
are permitted to enter California without
restriction. His advice is just to watch
them and avoid them.
Our Mexican neighbors across our
southern border, by contrast, are a
delightful and lively people, who,
in general, are more friendly than
other Californians, and more excited
and happy and optimistic about life
in California. Governor Scully studies
Spanish and listens to Spanish-language
radio. He encourages all Californians
to get to know these good people.
He believes safe and friendly
border laws should be enacted and
respected. The reality is that 39%
of California's population is Hispanic,
and their birthrate and rate of immigration
ensures that they will dominate California's
government in the near future.
BILINGUAL EDUCATION. Governor Scully
understands that, by far, most Spanish-
speaking immigrants want their children
to be fluent in English, the primary language
of this country and, indeed, the de facto
international business language.
Bilingual education, like most special
school programs, is primarily a jobs program,
feeding the school union empire.
While he practices Spanish himself,
Governor Scully, like most California Hispanics,
is against wasteful bilingual education,
and knows that children are much better off
learning English as quickly as possible.
GAY ISSUES. The government has no place
in the bedroom, regulating people's personal
sexual behavior. No one should be discriminated
against, or deprived of the right to live
and work and enjoy life as good citizens.
However, special interest groups do not deserve
special treatment that others don't get.
Governor Scully values our cultural traditions,
and believes they should not be trifled with
lightly, for the sake of fashion.
Marriage is a tradition deeply rooted
in all societies, and they all define
marriage to be a special bond between
a man and a woman. The laws do not need
to be changed.
DEATH PENALTY. Some people's crimes are
so heinous, they should be executed quickly.
But, there has been much media exposure
lately of mistakes made. No position.
No changes. Evaluate carefully.
DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR UNDOCUMENTED. Give them
a foreign permit to drive, but not a California
Driver's License. Too much possibility of
voter fraud and terrorist infiltration.
LOWERING THRESHOLD TO 55 PERCENT FOR PASSING
A BUDGET AND RAISING TAXES. No.
OVERTIME FOR MORE THAN 8-HOUR WORKDAY. Yes.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Against. It is divisive.
It is unnecessary. Campuses can be made diverse
and multiracial and multicultural by having
partner universities within universities.
In other words, targeted minorities can be
included on campus and in classes while being
enrolled in a separate college, and admitted
to the university when qualified.
Read and Dinesh D'Souza's
"Illiberal Education" for the best explanation of
the negative effects of affirmative action
on minorities and society in general.
RACIAL PRIVACY INITIATIVE. I support it
because I support Ward Connerly who has bravely
been fighting the good fight. In theory, there
is nothing wrong with collecting racial data, but
Ward is fully aware that this information has been
and will continue to be abused by liberals
and those invested in racial divisiveness.
They are like naughty children and we have to
take away the toys that they can't play with
responsibly.
LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION. Supports. Today's
internet and media world is very different
from the biblical days of nomadic desert
tribes. Today's society perversely equates
immorality with enjoying sexual activity,
while glossing over mortal sins such as white-collar
corporate theft of billions of dollars,
violent crimes (considered frightful, but not
immoral), abuse of the justice system
(including perjury by a president),
and cynical government contemptuous
of the welfare of the people.
Consensual, contractual sex by
mutual agreement for monetary compensation
is the only safeguard men have
against malicious and arbitrary
claims of rape. (It is the current
fashion in Davis, Ca for American
college girls to report imaginary rape
claims, for which they are not even
prosecuted).
Also, as professional working girls
are medically evaluated, the public
health is enhanced by the reduction
of disease transmission throughout
the general population resulting
in reduced health care costs
with concomitant reduction of harmful
budget impaction.
Budget will be enhanced from
taxed earnings and increased tourism.
Studies have shown that clients can
find extraordinary stress reduction with
professional women with a positive
impact on their relationships with
significant others, whereas extra-
relationship affairs can be quite harmful,
thus benefitting the positive effects
on society of stable personal relationships.
As Governor, Mr. Scully pledges to respect
the dignity of the State Capitol by not
engaging in sexual activity there
(certainly not during office hours),
with fat, unattractive, shallow interns.
As Governor, he will certainly
consort with only first-rate beauties,
befitting the prestige of the Office.
LEGALIZED GAMBLING. Supports.
The liberal education system
has the lottery for funding,
so the state actively participates
in gambling for funding already.
State will benefit from stimulated
entertainment industry and taxed
profits.
HOMELESS VETERANS. Governor Scully
believes that veterans should always
have a safe and comfortable place
to sleep and shower, and sufficient
nutritious food. They have already
earned it. Therefore, the
first day in office, he will clear out
all buildings of the department of
education and the teacher credentialing
buildings and refurbish them as free
housing for veterans. Two meals a day
will be provided throughout the state
for all veterans whenever they wish.
AIRLINE SAFETY. Will introduce
a bill requiring all flights to
have two planes: one for passengers,
one for luggage, no carry-ons for
passengers. This will enhance security
exponentially.