"Got Milk?"
It's the political season and it's time to put on our raincoats as we will be showered with parfum and cake for the coming months...well except for certain candidates who play a different sort of game: they are naughty.
Pictured here is Ken Mettler, the bad boy of this year's Kern County election.
Once a Kern Valley High School District board member who gave the public a good schooling on not to talk when he's giving a class on who is in charge, is not my kind of candidate.
Types like Mettler are elected only because of name recognition, not because they are endowed with wisdom and experience which will help them "serve" the public, but because the press can't get enough of them.
From the time he came out swinging at a private citizen after a meeting, to the article in the Bakersfield Californian today, which explains that Mr. Mettler, (whose hubris may make you think he's running for Governor and not just a local assembly seat) used funds from the Kern County Republican coffer to actually trace the heckler from the meeting, along with other somewhat scandalous operations.
Considering Ashburn just...
After a local Senator, Roy Ashburn, turned his station from country western to show tunes recently, it's odd that Mettler would come out so defensively about having a "Harvey Milk" day.
If it weren't for a recent movie, not many people would know who Harvey Milk was, and why some people want to celebrate his life.
Milk was shot and killed by someone who didn't agree with his politics but most especially that he was openly gay way before openly gay became a very rich demographic.
Ashburn spent years bashing gay agendas and then took that next leap from homophobia to "I'm too gay for my shirt."
With Mettler acting awfully homophobic and his politics or personal problems are sliding off the right wing, I'm afraid he may end up a candidate or even a winner in this assembly race.
Yes, Kern County is conservative, but it's not a haven for extremists, I think anyway. Or could I be wrong?
Republicans are not necessarily against abortion and they are not necessarily a member of a Christian church.
They are also just people who prefer a little less government and more or less continued privatization of the economic market.
However, when the press eats at the dish of an extremist just because that is all he has got to go with, they are helping to elect him.
Where's Jean Fuller? Does she have to chase someone out of a meeting and key their car to get a good story in the paper?
Would Fuller be more interesting if she recently checked out of the Betty ford Clinic?
Could we blame the press for these perverse curiosities? ABSOLUTELY!
Recently the media has become defensive and weepy, "the President doesn't want to talk to us" "we're victims" "we don't write fluff."
Oh yes they do. The media controls the elections right up to polling before everyone has voted. That is ridiculous.
If a television station or newspaper hasn't learned that you can elect idiots because they are "news worthy" (yeah, it's called news of the weird), then they don't know how "most" people vote.
Sarah Palin even has a chance...I say fire the media and the current politicians and let's start over.
And regarding Mettler, let's not talk about him anymore, let's get down to the real business of what we are going to do to set the course for success here in California.
He's not interested in what I have to say or people attending public meetings, so I say, there must be nothing to say about him.
Who is worthy of your vote?
I've listened to a few people this year who are running for one office or another. I found one candidate interesting, but only in a funny way. He wants to fix the government by doing something about the problem with gerrymandering.
Yes, there are districts which are drawn in a prejudice manner, to serve one party or the other, or to preserve power over an area, and it makes no sense in the real world, but that is how it has been done.
We could straighten out the problem rather quickly with a map, marker and calculator, but that would be too easy.
One candidate has an interesting solution to this problem: Split the state in half.
Okay. Now wouldn't that be gerrymandering too?
And this is why, we need to research before we vote...Stay with me, and we will find some good people to vote for in this election.
If you're 18 and over it's time to take responsibility for the people who work for you: Elections 2010.
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