By a landslide. I'm depressed.

Spinner - you have the right to be depressed - we all are.

But also remember my friend - you have the right to be DAMN PROUD the work you did and the amount of information you were able to disseminate to people who would have just been fed the lies paid for with their own money

Gabrielle

Spinner,

I will say that for this day ONLY I will allow myself to be sad.

Tomorrow I will get mad. And tomorrow I will consider starting a campaign for a Reiner surtax on Reiner films for Reiner's commission. After all, the commission will fall far short of its anticipated income. The money has to come from somewhere.

Secondly, I will consider putting a referendum to Prop 10 on the fall ballot to make the Reiner Commission accountable for the tax dollars it collects. Who could be against making sure the children are getting what they deserve? After all, it is "for the children" and would cost tax payers nothing.

How about proposing another tax--also
"for the children"? On fast food, or
beer, or gas, or cars or outdoor grills
or....; just keep proposing taxes with
the same rationalization (it's bad for
you and/or The Environment) till it
starts to sink in.

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Originally posted by TheCat:
How about proposing another tax--also
"for the children"? On fast food, or
beer, or gas, or cars or outdoor grills
or....; just keep proposing taxes with
the same rationalization (it's bad for
you and/or The Environment) till it
starts to sink in.

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A more direct "hit" would be on disposable diapers, Cat. Especially if the Prop 10 money Reiner is expecting isn't the windfall he expected. A surtax on Reiner films to pay for Reiner's commission would be another direct "hit"--and I'm more interested in hitting the bulls-eye than launching a nuclear weapon that would blow up everybody (including myself!!)

For what it's worth, I did get a positive response from the referendum suggestion. It wouldn't cost anything, and after all it IS the free ride that Reiner's getting that has us very "tweeked". The way Prop 10 is now, he doesn't have to be accountable for a dime of it and can use it against us. My proposal (the referendum idea, not the additional tax idea) read as follows in an email I sent out:

"What about a referendum to Prop 10 in the fall requiring the Reiner Commission to be accountable for the surtax they collect? After all, it would be "for the children". It would cost the tax payers nothing. Very simple. Very straight forward. But you will notice alot of nervous twitching from Reiner and his cronies.

I was a board member for FIVE years for a non-profit group that is contracted with the Dept of Corrections of the State of California. The group ran children's and families of inmates programs at prisons with 3,000 or more. Their income came from taxes. A referendum to make them accountable to the tax payers was added long after the program was started because monies had been diverted by this group for political gain in the state assembly. I, unfortunately was there to mop up the operation. I promise you, Reiner WILL develop a twitch, and it WILL pass and you might even see his commission go down in flames. And it won't cost the tax payers a dime."

Rebecca