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Fighting Like a "Bengal Tiger"

July 31, 2003

On July 27, 2003, in an article by its associate editor, Frank del Olmo, the L.A. Times pronounced that "Now Latinos Are in the Driver's Seat". This was after Gov. Davis had announced before a group of cheering "Latinos", an event aired on Spanish-language TV network Univision, that he would sign the illegal aliens drivers license bill, the notorious SB60 that would make it easier for millions of Mexicans living illegally in California to avoid being caught for breaking of the immigration law, to buy a gun, and to claim public benefits only legal residents are eligible for, "as soon as it reaches [his] desk". Mr. del Olmo had this advice to the governor: "To fight the recall, Davis will have to pay more respect to this constituency". And, unfortunately, that is exactly what Gov. Davis is doing.

To his credit, Governor Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis has warned us that he will use all means possible to prevent his separation from power. But despite what he said, it doesn't seem like he is fighting like a tiger, never mind a "Bengal" one. His fight looks more like the struggle of Boris Yeltsin and Slobodan Milosevic, two archtypical apparatchiks of the former Left who always went to extremes in order to maintain their stools against the will of those who once elected them. It's interesting that both Yeltsin and Milosevic, well known for their "progressive" socialist orientation, blamed those who wanted to oust them with conspiracy attempts to undo the "progress" that their countries "enjoyed" under their "leadership".

And this seems to be the pattern here, indeed. It becomes more and more obvious that the main political objective of Governor Davis (and the same may be said of his many Democratic colleagues from the California legislature) is to stay at power no matter what as if the mere fact that a non-Democrat may replace him is the worst thing (second only to electing a Republican president) that may happen to California. All of the sudden, we are not supposed to care about the $10 billion surplus turned in $38 billion deficit. Dysfunctional (and falling) public schools, insolvent public health-care, skyrocketing housing and living costs that this "sixth largest world economy" with the highest state income tax rates gave its citizens are not a campaign issue anymore. What this recall is all about is - according to Governor Davis'es backers - an alleged "right-wing" conspiracy to remove a gifted and accomplished governor and to reverse all the progress that he and his administration had bestowed on us.

Well, if we made any "progress" under Governor Davis'es leadership then it was the "progress" towards becoming poverty-driven Mexifornia. Middle class residents, penalized for their above average productivity by the excessive taxation are fleeing the Golden State in hundreds of thousands a year. And so are entrepreneurs that also find California rules and laws hostile to their businesses. Per Carolyn Said of S.F. Chronicle ["Exodus worries: High taxes and lots of rules prompt some firms to leave state", Sunday, July 27, 2003] "One-fifth of business leaders surveyed by the California Business Roundtable and California Chamber of Commerce in April said they planned to expand or relocate outside the state to escape the pressures of California's costs and regulations". The empty space they leave behind is being instantaneously filled by an interrupted flood of Mexican "migrants" who in millions pour this state, some of them to take the "jobs Americans will not do", but most of them to claim social services and public benefits that were once reserved for the domestic poor. Under these circumstances, the current gigantic budgetary fiasco should surprise no one.

Should Governor Davis be that good and uncompromising in fighting for the interest of this country and Americans living in California as he is in his attempts to save his political career, he might have been a pretty good governor, indeed. Now, he may well become the worst one the State of California ever had. And that's the price we pay for electing a lackluster but power-hungry politician for purely political reasons (to keep a non-Democrat out of the job, that is); he won't hesitate to sell out his country if he thinks he can save his back that way. As a result, millions of illegal aliens from Mexico may be put in the "driver's seat" and remake California's political structures according to their liking. Mr. del Olmo of L.A. Times called these illegal aliens a Davis'es "constituency", and he was probably right. All those who are in this state legally may wish to remember all that while casting the recall vote October 7 later this year.

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